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38,768,542 | 38,767,321 | 1 | 3 | 38,765,525 | train | <story><title>A closer look at the Tabula Peutingeriana</title><url>https://blog.datawrapper.de/roman-roads-tabula-peutingeriana/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinator</author><text>Was the question, &quot;Do all roads lead to Rome?&quot; answered? The blog&#x27;s thesis seemed more to be, &quot;roads that lead to Rome were on this map&quot; like an old tourist map for Route 66 (mixed in with an NYC subway map), but surely there were other roads that Rome didn&#x27;t care about when it came to logistics.<p>Very interesting, none the less.</text></comment> | <story><title>A closer look at the Tabula Peutingeriana</title><url>https://blog.datawrapper.de/roman-roads-tabula-peutingeriana/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>The incredible part of this, is how things we take for granted in today&#x27;s maps, can be traced back to Roman maps.<p>Like other things from their technology.</text></comment> |
22,031,399 | 22,030,437 | 1 | 2 | 22,029,833 | train | <story><title>iPod Product Timeline</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1216477318434050048</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Amazing to think that the original iPod could have gone from pitch to shipping in under a year. Today, the next iPhone is almost certainly in the late stages of engineering validation in January – and while there are many differences between the iPod and the iPhone, the biggest is definitely scale.<p>Apple shipped 125,000 iPods in 2001. Today, they ship that many iPhones <i>every six hours,</i> or about 200 million per year. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;263401&#x2F;global-apple-iphone-sales-since-3rd-quarter-2007&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;263401&#x2F;global-apple-ipho...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>iPod Product Timeline</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1216477318434050048</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>I miss the 6-month iPod release cycle: every September there would be a new full size iPod, and every February there&#x27;d be a new Mini or Nano.<p>Is there anyone else from the old iPodLinux community here? I was actively moderating the forums in 2005, and fixing countless iPods for friends at school&#x2F;church. These days it seems like everybody&#x27;s moved to Rockbox. I&#x27;m still using a 5.5G with a Kingspec SSD, and lots more gadgets fitted into the space where the HDD used to be.<p>My favourite story from the iPodLinux days was cracking the 4G firmware. leachbj could only make the piezo work, but nilss then used that to dump the binary by making click noises in a soundproof box, and successfully reverse-engineered the rest of the firmware from that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140810083116&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn7085#.XhuoMuIzb6c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140810083116&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsci...</a></text></comment> |
21,857,175 | 21,857,145 | 1 | 2 | 21,850,236 | train | <story><title>Citymapper</title><url>https://citymapper.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>City mapper is used extensively in London, it’s really really good. They are&#x2F;where expanding into some form of Citymapper busses which is really interesting.<p>I had the chance to interview there, but I was put off by the absolutely terrible Glassdoor reviews[1] including consistent reports about the CEO and the internal culture.<p>Given that, I’m not too hopeful about the future of Citymapper. Right now they have a head start on others, but I don’t see anything to justify the 300 million pound valuation.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.co.uk&#x2F;Reviews&#x2F;Citymapper-Reviews-E1030688.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.co.uk&#x2F;Reviews&#x2F;Citymapper-Reviews-E1030...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasoncartwright</author><text>Gosh, do people rely on Glassdoor? To turn down an interview? From my experience it&#x27;s an outlet for people with a personal gripe and far from a good source of internal information about a company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Citymapper</title><url>https://citymapper.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>City mapper is used extensively in London, it’s really really good. They are&#x2F;where expanding into some form of Citymapper busses which is really interesting.<p>I had the chance to interview there, but I was put off by the absolutely terrible Glassdoor reviews[1] including consistent reports about the CEO and the internal culture.<p>Given that, I’m not too hopeful about the future of Citymapper. Right now they have a head start on others, but I don’t see anything to justify the 300 million pound valuation.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.co.uk&#x2F;Reviews&#x2F;Citymapper-Reviews-E1030688.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.co.uk&#x2F;Reviews&#x2F;Citymapper-Reviews-E1030...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>&gt; I was put off by the absolutely terrible Glassdoor reviews[1] including consistent reports about the CEO and the internal culture<p>I&#x27;m genuinely surprised by that. I knew a couple of people who worked there, and both said they loved working there.</text></comment> |
29,766,552 | 29,764,432 | 1 | 3 | 29,763,343 | train | <story><title>EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-drafts-plan-label-gas-nuclear-investments-green-2022-01-01/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathan_phoenix</author><text>For anyone wondering why gas, it&#x27;s gas only in specific cases.<p>&gt; Investments in natural gas power plants would also be deemed green if they produce emissions below 270g of CO2 equivalent per kilowatt hour (kWh), replace a more polluting fossil fuel plant, receive a construction permit by Dec. 31 2030 and plan to switch to low-carbon gases by the end of 2035.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>When did &quot;green&quot; get co-opted to mean low CO2 emissions?<p>It wasn&#x27;t that long ago we used to worry about whether fuel was renewable or not, and about particulate pollution, acid rain, habitat destruction and other environmental externalities in general, not just CO2.<p>This global warming-driven definition of &quot;green&quot; ignores all of that.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-drafts-plan-label-gas-nuclear-investments-green-2022-01-01/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathan_phoenix</author><text>For anyone wondering why gas, it&#x27;s gas only in specific cases.<p>&gt; Investments in natural gas power plants would also be deemed green if they produce emissions below 270g of CO2 equivalent per kilowatt hour (kWh), replace a more polluting fossil fuel plant, receive a construction permit by Dec. 31 2030 and plan to switch to low-carbon gases by the end of 2035.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s oddly specific but apparently intended to allow countries to classify energy from such plants as &quot;green&quot; and treat it as such when buying&#x2F;selling or taxing it. That is important because a lot of companies that are interested in buying green energy in order to reduce their carbon emissions would care about their energy being labeled as green. There is a lot of book keeping that is happening related to this and some big financial interests across the EU. Demand for non green energy is going to be dropping as companies shoot for being carbon neutral and are incentivized to switch to green energy.<p>The Germans are going to have to build a lot of new capacity until 2030 because their new government just committed to closing all their coal plants by then. Inevitably, that&#x27;s going to involve building some new gas plants. And those won&#x27;t be green unless they meet those criteria. So, that construction permit end date is interesting here. This clearly is a stop gap solution so Germany can get rid of coal and build some &quot;greener&quot; replacement plants without creating a demand problem for energy produced by those new plants. If they weren&#x27;t green, lots of companies would end up buying their energy from other suppliers.<p>After 2030, the attention will shift to getting rid of natural gas completely; hence the further restriction of having a plan for switching to something else. Natural gas is already a bit on the expensive side and lowering the carbon output won&#x27;t help with that. But it&#x27;s going to take a bit longer.<p>Nuclear is in there because lots of countries in the EU are still building new nuclear plants and they don&#x27;t actually emit carbon. So, calling that green is a lot less controversial.<p>So, odd but I can see the logic. I don&#x27;t necessarily agree with it though. If it emits carbon, it&#x27;s a problem and as a consumer I would not want to be tricked into buying &quot;green&quot; energy like that. People are going to notice this and call bullshit on that.</text></comment> |
18,403,531 | 18,403,660 | 1 | 2 | 18,403,497 | train | <story><title>Google Plans Large New York City Expansion</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-large-new-york-city-expansion-1541636579</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taurath</author><text>This coupled with the Amazon news is starting to get distressing. With the amount of companies that copycat them it’s like the rich are getting richer and the economic benefits are still going to be concentrated only in the most affluent cities. The rest of the country desperately needs real industry and good paying jobs - and will go to huge lengths to try to get them but it appears nobody can come up with a business plan. We’re truly heading for Elysium.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Plans Large New York City Expansion</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-large-new-york-city-expansion-1541636579</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ArtWomb</author><text>It&#x27;s exciting. Google has been talking about expanding its presence forever. At least since purchasing the Chelsea Market complex. The Youtube studio is an amazing space. As is the AWS Loft downtown. Cornell Tech will have a new campus on Roosevelt Island. And Brooklyn has its New Lab &#x2F; Navy Yards that is almost a tech city unto itself. It feels like there&#x27;s community. And a multitude of events every day and night. With rents stabilizing, and burgeoning FinTech and AI momentum, I just think everyone at some point in their lives should consider a stint in the city ;)</text></comment> |
24,215,487 | 24,215,072 | 1 | 3 | 24,213,867 | train | <story><title>Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/with-ultralight-lithiumsulfur-batteries-electric-airplanes-could-finally-take-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phonon</author><text>Electric motors are simpler, more reliable, smaller, lighter, almost perfectly efficient, and have better torque characteristics than ICE.<p>You can&#x27;t compare the energy storage density in isolation. Engines are heavy...Model S&#x27;s motor generates 362 horsepower (according to the official specs), and only weighs 70 pounds...the equivalent ICE would be 500+ :-)<p>(Yes, the inverter weighs something, but the transmission is much simpler as well for electric...overall you save a few hundred pounds easily...A Model 3 battery pack is between 600 and 1000 pounds--so pretty close to the crossover point.)</text></item><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>&gt; Oxis recently developed a prototype lithium-sulfur pouch cell that proved capable of 470 Wh&#x2F;kg, and we expect to reach 500 Wh&#x2F;kg within a year.<p>Meanwhile, gasoline &#x2F; petrol &#x2F; benzin (wherever you are in the world) has an energy density of 12200 Wh&#x2F;kg.<p>In other words, even in a world where all petroleum is perfectly depleted, we would still be producing synthetic gasoline for high-demand applications and capturing 100% of the emissions for recycling — essentially using gasoline as a battery. It’s just too good an energy storage to ignore.<p>I’ve been looking at cars and geeking out on internal combustion engines for the past few weeks since I had to buy a car, and for the usual Silicon Valley guy such as yours truly whose standpoint on cars hadn’t been much more than ‘I want a Tesla’, it was an outright revelation.<p>ICEs are real technology — and for a software guy it is easy to understand because the complexity is bounded by physical dimensions of parts (i.e they don’t work past a certain small size) so you literally see human-size machinery with human size movements. It’s been a refreshing change from potentially unbounded complexity of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway189262</author><text>We&#x27;re still not at the point where weight savings from motor offsets battery. Tesla cars are all extremely heavy for their size</text></comment> | <story><title>Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/with-ultralight-lithiumsulfur-batteries-electric-airplanes-could-finally-take-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phonon</author><text>Electric motors are simpler, more reliable, smaller, lighter, almost perfectly efficient, and have better torque characteristics than ICE.<p>You can&#x27;t compare the energy storage density in isolation. Engines are heavy...Model S&#x27;s motor generates 362 horsepower (according to the official specs), and only weighs 70 pounds...the equivalent ICE would be 500+ :-)<p>(Yes, the inverter weighs something, but the transmission is much simpler as well for electric...overall you save a few hundred pounds easily...A Model 3 battery pack is between 600 and 1000 pounds--so pretty close to the crossover point.)</text></item><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>&gt; Oxis recently developed a prototype lithium-sulfur pouch cell that proved capable of 470 Wh&#x2F;kg, and we expect to reach 500 Wh&#x2F;kg within a year.<p>Meanwhile, gasoline &#x2F; petrol &#x2F; benzin (wherever you are in the world) has an energy density of 12200 Wh&#x2F;kg.<p>In other words, even in a world where all petroleum is perfectly depleted, we would still be producing synthetic gasoline for high-demand applications and capturing 100% of the emissions for recycling — essentially using gasoline as a battery. It’s just too good an energy storage to ignore.<p>I’ve been looking at cars and geeking out on internal combustion engines for the past few weeks since I had to buy a car, and for the usual Silicon Valley guy such as yours truly whose standpoint on cars hadn’t been much more than ‘I want a Tesla’, it was an outright revelation.<p>ICEs are real technology — and for a software guy it is easy to understand because the complexity is bounded by physical dimensions of parts (i.e they don’t work past a certain small size) so you literally see human-size machinery with human size movements. It’s been a refreshing change from potentially unbounded complexity of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>Forgot about that on my longer reply. EV engines are _tiny_ and incredibly efficient.</text></comment> |
18,524,764 | 18,524,848 | 1 | 2 | 18,524,298 | train | <story><title>The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”</title><url>https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alan_wade</author><text>On the other hand, I&#x27;ve just watched a behind the scenes video [1] about Mission Impossible: Fallout, and was absolutely shocked by how much of it was shot in real life.<p>Basically, most of it. When I saw the movie, I would&#x27;ve bet my left kidney that 90% of the effects were green screen, I definitely would never have guessed that the skydivig scene, helicopter chase, and the canyon fight are for real. I could barely believe such canyon existed! Absolutely stunning.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lCv59-y123g&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lCv59-y123g&amp;t=0s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crummy</author><text>Here&#x27;s some great unedited footage from Mad Max: Fury Road, too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dfm4gvxNW_o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dfm4gvxNW_o</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”</title><url>https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alan_wade</author><text>On the other hand, I&#x27;ve just watched a behind the scenes video [1] about Mission Impossible: Fallout, and was absolutely shocked by how much of it was shot in real life.<p>Basically, most of it. When I saw the movie, I would&#x27;ve bet my left kidney that 90% of the effects were green screen, I definitely would never have guessed that the skydivig scene, helicopter chase, and the canyon fight are for real. I could barely believe such canyon existed! Absolutely stunning.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lCv59-y123g&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lCv59-y123g&amp;t=0s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>Agreed, that&#x27;s incredible. As I watch that it strikes me that one of the underrated uses of CGI is to make practical effects possible that wouldn&#x27;t have been before. An actor can safely fall out of a helicopter or jump between rooftops, knowing that rigging can easily be painted out.</text></comment> |
16,215,689 | 16,215,585 | 1 | 2 | 16,214,770 | train | <story><title>Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-clayton-012218</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yohann305</author><text>i was a bit too young to observe but has anyone here seen something similar when the internet craze came out?<p>1) Were public companies changing their names to reflect the &quot;e&quot;&#x2F;&quot;i&quot;? If so which ones?<p>2) Isn&#x27;t the &quot;i&quot; from iPhone&#x2F;iMac taken from the word &quot;internet&quot;? Okay it&#x27;s a product and not a company name, but where does the distinction starts&#x2F;ends?<p>Could we expect an incoming &quot;bPhone&quot; (blockchain) or cPhone(crypto), dPhone(decentralized) .. it actually sounds cool, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>Yes, during the dotcom boom you could see a spectrum of behaviour, including at one edge companies that were almost purely a scam, basically &quot;We&#x27;re going to do this perfectly ordinary business, but _Internet_ so give us piles of cash&quot; and at the other conventional businesses that really were heavily Internet related and only tweaked how they described their existing Internet work or moved that to the top of a document, such as Microsoft or Google.<p>In the middle somewhere a good example is Be Incorporated. During the 1990s Jean-Louis Gassee had founded this startup with VC money to pursue a new operating system and basically prove Apple (who he&#x27;d previously worked for) wrong. By the end of the century JLG&#x27;s funding was running out, the VCs didn&#x27;t want any more risk, Apple had chosen to take back Steve Jobs instead of him, and it looked as though Be would go out of business shortly, but the dotcom book offered a &quot;Hail Mary&quot; play.<p>Be re-wrote its history and produced IPO paperwork that emphasised this as an Internet technology offering in the heart of the dotcom boom. Be&#x27;s future was now in the promising (but it turns out in the end, totally irrelevant and now forgotten) Internet Appliance market, they pivoted from their previous work (developing a personal computer operating system nobody was using), they went from talking about TCP&#x2F;IP as a specialist corner case few users would care about to prioritising it as the main focus of their system, and so on.<p>It didn&#x27;t work, Be Inc. ceased business after burning all the IPO cash and laid off all its employees without shipping any significant new products. But without the dotcom boom, that would all have happened much earlier, when the VC money ran out. Ordinary people who foolishly purchased Be Inc. shares in the IPO or shortly afterwards lost their shirts, and the VCs got their money back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-clayton-012218</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yohann305</author><text>i was a bit too young to observe but has anyone here seen something similar when the internet craze came out?<p>1) Were public companies changing their names to reflect the &quot;e&quot;&#x2F;&quot;i&quot;? If so which ones?<p>2) Isn&#x27;t the &quot;i&quot; from iPhone&#x2F;iMac taken from the word &quot;internet&quot;? Okay it&#x27;s a product and not a company name, but where does the distinction starts&#x2F;ends?<p>Could we expect an incoming &quot;bPhone&quot; (blockchain) or cPhone(crypto), dPhone(decentralized) .. it actually sounds cool, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsune_</author><text>During the dot-com bubble you had a lot of companies that adopted &#x27;digital super highway&#x27; company names.<p>Some examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;E.Digital_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;E.Digital_Corporation</a>
Norris Communications &gt; E.Digital_Corporation<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Broadcast.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Broadcast.com</a>
Cameron Audio Networks &gt; Broadcast.com<p>On top of that everyone and their mother founded companies that did &#x27;something with the internet&#x27; and all those companies had a &#x27;.com&#x27;, &#x27;e&#x27; or something similar in their names.<p>Personally, I feel like the &#x27;i&#x27; was mainly popularised with the iPod.</text></comment> |
10,334,225 | 10,333,092 | 1 | 3 | 10,332,851 | train | <story><title>Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34444233</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text>Everybody talks about the OS, buy nearly everyone forgets about the base band, the hidden OS on every phone that you have almost no control over.<p>Whilst the media is worrying about Apple iCloud and phone encryption, GCHQ are quietly delving into your base band and enjoying the smoke and mirrors.<p>To use analogy, we are worrying about the government looking under our clothes, whilst in fact they are peeling back or skin and skulls and peering into our humanity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34444233</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rm_-rf_slash</author><text>None of this should be a surprise. We should expect that any device with Internet access can be hacked by someone, regardless of their intentions. If it isn&#x27;t the NSA it&#x27;s Chinese &quot;patriot hackers&quot; or Russian cyber-criminals operating with the consent of their governments. Or many others. Instead of seeing this security state as a binary, we should always consider two questions:<p>1: How much do we value our privacy and security versus the needs of society (in the case of backdoors and so on), and,<p>2: How much do we trust the people whose business is having the ability to break into our phones? I don&#x27;t like how invasive our security agencies are but if they end up preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks I can&#x27;t say what they do is wrong.<p>At the end of the day, I want the people defending me to be more powerful than the people attacking me, but I don&#x27;t want my defenders to use their same tools against me.</text></comment> |
11,297,168 | 11,297,358 | 1 | 3 | 11,296,868 | train | <story><title>How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unclesaamm</author><text>With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>To me, media is an obvious one. Turner Broadcasting is a major corporate donor to Clinton, and the NYT is all but falling over themselves to build connections with a Clinton administration.<p>Another similarity is neither Clinton or Trump care that much about consistency, which makes them much shinier objects to cover. See this article for a rare example of the NYT even being unable to notice Hillary&#x27;s flip flopping: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>libertymcateer</author><text>&gt; With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>Specious assumption. My conclusion is that the favorability ratings are bullshit.<p>To posit that a huge media conspiracy has caused millions of voters to vote huge, huge landslides in favor of these two people is just ridiculous compared with the probability that measuring very complex and ineffable metrics like &quot;favorability&quot; is a total crapshoot, especially in a world where voters like myself (and many HNers, I suspect) do not have landlines, use ad-blockers, do not click on advertising online and do not fill out surveys.<p>Tl;dr the likelihood of media influence controlling this election to such huge, huge landslide outcomes is overwhelmingly improbable compared to the high likelihood that favorability metrics are junk-science.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unclesaamm</author><text>With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>To me, media is an obvious one. Turner Broadcasting is a major corporate donor to Clinton, and the NYT is all but falling over themselves to build connections with a Clinton administration.<p>Another similarity is neither Clinton or Trump care that much about consistency, which makes them much shinier objects to cover. See this article for a rare example of the NYT even being unable to notice Hillary&#x27;s flip flopping: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Or, it&#x27;s because people like their platforms. Hilary skews right within the democratic party, and Trump skews left on a lot of key issues. Trump isn&#x27;t out there calling to get rid of the IRS, and Clinton isn&#x27;t out there saying she will make college free.</text></comment> |
13,961,659 | 13,960,926 | 1 | 2 | 13,958,491 | train | <story><title>Haskell Concepts in One Sentence</title><url>https://torchhound.github.io/posts/haskellOneSentence.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>I&#x27;m still kind of having problems with monads. Funnily enough, I recently found an article explaining what monoids are: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharpforfunandprofit.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;monoids-without-tears&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharpforfunandprofit.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;monoids-without-tear...</a><p><pre><code> You start with a bunch of things, and some way of combining them two at a time.
Rule 1 (Closure): The result of combining two things is always another one of the things.
Rule 2 (Associativity): When combining more than two things, which pairwise combination you do first doesn&#x27;t matter.
Rule 3 (Identity element): There is a special thing called &quot;zero&quot; such that when you combine any thing with &quot;zero&quot; you get the original thing back.
With these rules in place, we can come back to the definition of a monoid. A &quot;monoid&quot; is just a system that obeys all three rules. Simple!
</code></pre>
Long explanation overall in the article, but based on 6th grade math. I understood it, and it stuck. Could someone extend the monad explanation from here? Maybe I&#x27;ll finally get it :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmit</author><text>This was way more difficult than I thought and still doesn&#x27;t look right. But at least I get to strike <i>write a monad tutorial</i> off of the bucket list.<p><pre><code> You start with a bunch of transformations that either turn a thing into a (different) *useful* thing or into a *dead end*.
Rule 1 (Left Identity): Applying a transformation to a useful thing is the same as simply transforming a plain thing.
Rule 2 (Right Identity): A transformation that merely makes a thing useful has no effect when applied. Useful things stay the same, dead ends stay dead.
Rule 3 (Associativity): You can merge any two transformations into one, which behaves the same as if you applied the first transformation to something and then applied the second transformation to the result.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Haskell Concepts in One Sentence</title><url>https://torchhound.github.io/posts/haskellOneSentence.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>I&#x27;m still kind of having problems with monads. Funnily enough, I recently found an article explaining what monoids are: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharpforfunandprofit.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;monoids-without-tears&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharpforfunandprofit.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;monoids-without-tear...</a><p><pre><code> You start with a bunch of things, and some way of combining them two at a time.
Rule 1 (Closure): The result of combining two things is always another one of the things.
Rule 2 (Associativity): When combining more than two things, which pairwise combination you do first doesn&#x27;t matter.
Rule 3 (Identity element): There is a special thing called &quot;zero&quot; such that when you combine any thing with &quot;zero&quot; you get the original thing back.
With these rules in place, we can come back to the definition of a monoid. A &quot;monoid&quot; is just a system that obeys all three rules. Simple!
</code></pre>
Long explanation overall in the article, but based on 6th grade math. I understood it, and it stuck. Could someone extend the monad explanation from here? Maybe I&#x27;ll finally get it :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cynicalkane</author><text>Start with a functor--a parameterized type with fmap. Maybe t, Either e t, [t], IO t, State s t, and so on.<p>Consider a monad m and a function, a -&gt; m b. Frequently you want to feed another monadic value, m a, into that function.<p>A monad gives you a function, &gt;&gt;=, that lets you take m a and feed it into a -&gt; m b.<p>So any function that does IO, that looks like a -&gt; IO b, you can take an IO a and plug it into a -&gt; IO b. Any function that manipulates a state, you can take State a and plug it into a -&gt; State b. This is the heart of a monad: gluing monadic functions together.<p>The meaning of &gt;&gt;= depends on the monad you&#x27;re in. You also need return :: a -&gt; m a, which can take a thing and put it in a monadic value.<p>There are monad laws also. A lot of times there&#x27;s several ways to manipulate monads to do something, and the laws are needed to make sure they&#x27;re all equivalent. For everyday monad use the laws aren&#x27;t terribly important to remember, and GHC&#x27;s linter will helpfully point out when you can use them.<p>That&#x27;s my attempt at a short explanation. The &quot;monad tutorial problem&quot; has been weighing on my mind. The only way I ever understood monads was by reading and rereading the definition and examples. Tutorials never taught me anything.</text></comment> |
32,821,506 | 32,819,615 | 1 | 2 | 32,806,968 | train | <story><title>Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system</title><url>https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/cds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taviso</author><text>A few years ago I extracted the CDS logic and got it working in Linux so I could experiment with it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;taviso&#x2F;status&#x2F;902997594460135424" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;taviso&#x2F;status&#x2F;902997594460135424</a><p>I had planned to see if I could come up with an image that would still be detected even with significant distortion, and then print it on a t-shirt... The idea being you couldn&#x27;t open a photograph of me in PhotoShop! :)<p>I got sidetracked, but I should get back to that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Liquix</author><text>Awesome idea! For anyone interested in the concept of adverserial clothing..<p>Medium size patch defeats&#x2F;confuses person recognition: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;avoiding-detection-with-adversarial-t-shirts-bb620df2f7e6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;avoiding-detection-with-adver...</a><p>Anti-facial recognition mask: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;fooling-facial-detection-with-fashion-d668ed919eb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;fooling-facial-detection-with...</a><p>Reflective anti-paparazzi scarf which washes out the wearer&#x27;s face: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theishu.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frequently-asked-questions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theishu.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frequently-asked-questions</a><p>Clothing intended to trigger and pollute license plate detection systems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adversarialfashion.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adversarialfashion.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system</title><url>https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/cds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taviso</author><text>A few years ago I extracted the CDS logic and got it working in Linux so I could experiment with it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;taviso&#x2F;status&#x2F;902997594460135424" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;taviso&#x2F;status&#x2F;902997594460135424</a><p>I had planned to see if I could come up with an image that would still be detected even with significant distortion, and then print it on a t-shirt... The idea being you couldn&#x27;t open a photograph of me in PhotoShop! :)<p>I got sidetracked, but I should get back to that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_jal</author><text>I had the same thought. I made a T-shirt with the EURion constellation on it. It did work, kind of, but not as well as I liked - distance and angle mattered a lot.<p>My original goal was to wear it for official documentation, but that went less well. It was cut off in my drivers license photo, and I forget why, but I never ended up wearing it for passport photos.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EURion_constellation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EURion_constellation</a></text></comment> |
32,253,471 | 32,253,296 | 1 | 2 | 32,252,831 | train | <story><title>Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/27/developer-tools/programming-languages-endorsed-for-server-side-use-at-meta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>&gt; Meta’s primary supported server-side languages are Hack, C++, Rust, and Python.<p>&gt; For specific use cases, we support other languages, including Java, Erlang, Haskell, and Go<p>Makes sense.
Python because ML.<p>Rust because of performance.<p>C++ and Java because all-the-things.<p>Go because 75% of all cncf.io projects are Go.<p>Haskell because elitism.<p>Erlang because stability.<p>&#x2F;s<p>I think the real story is that migrating off PHP was too hard, so Hack was started which required a substantial C++ employee pool which meant that Rust was the ideal replacement to all of this skipping the Java&#x2F;Kotlin and Go ecosystems altogether.<p>So not just scale at play here, a cause-and-effect of past hiring decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Hack has an interest pivot though.<p>It started with their PHP to C++ compiler, then someone started a JIT compiler, and eventually the JIT proved to be a better outcome in tooling and performance, that they scraped the compiler and kept the JIT instead.<p>It had the side effect that proper PHP now enjoys a JIT as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/27/developer-tools/programming-languages-endorsed-for-server-side-use-at-meta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>&gt; Meta’s primary supported server-side languages are Hack, C++, Rust, and Python.<p>&gt; For specific use cases, we support other languages, including Java, Erlang, Haskell, and Go<p>Makes sense.
Python because ML.<p>Rust because of performance.<p>C++ and Java because all-the-things.<p>Go because 75% of all cncf.io projects are Go.<p>Haskell because elitism.<p>Erlang because stability.<p>&#x2F;s<p>I think the real story is that migrating off PHP was too hard, so Hack was started which required a substantial C++ employee pool which meant that Rust was the ideal replacement to all of this skipping the Java&#x2F;Kotlin and Go ecosystems altogether.<p>So not just scale at play here, a cause-and-effect of past hiring decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>01acheru</author><text>Probably Erlang because of Whatsapp, IIRC it&#x27;s backend was written in Erlang.</text></comment> |
24,859,503 | 24,857,606 | 1 | 2 | 24,855,183 | train | <story><title>Debian donation for Peertube development</title><url>https://bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian-donation-peertube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dewey</author><text>&gt; Someone doing something to stop the book burning (comment deletion in the billions) and censorship at youtube.<p>What kind of content is getting &quot;censored&quot; on YouTube?</text></item><item><author>feralimal</author><text>This is so heart warming.<p>Thanks to Debian and wow - Framasoft (who I&#x27;d never heard of) has a page that is so on point!! Amazing.<p>Someone doing something to stop the book burning (comment deletion in the billions) and censorship at youtube.<p>I wish there was more of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olau</author><text>Several years old example: a local forum for mothers were discussing an acute breast feeding problem one of them had (stuck milk), and one of them uploaded a video showing how to massage the milk out of a breast.<p>That was quickly banned as inappropriate. Probably because you could see a nipple. I think she uploaded it to Vimeo instead when they found out.<p>That example certainly taught me to think of Youtube more as a cache than as a storage, if that makes any sense.<p>It also came across as oppressive. The fear of the nipple winning over basic human issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian donation for Peertube development</title><url>https://bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian-donation-peertube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dewey</author><text>&gt; Someone doing something to stop the book burning (comment deletion in the billions) and censorship at youtube.<p>What kind of content is getting &quot;censored&quot; on YouTube?</text></item><item><author>feralimal</author><text>This is so heart warming.<p>Thanks to Debian and wow - Framasoft (who I&#x27;d never heard of) has a page that is so on point!! Amazing.<p>Someone doing something to stop the book burning (comment deletion in the billions) and censorship at youtube.<p>I wish there was more of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reportingsjr</author><text>It&#x27;s not strict censorship per say, but more repression, but there are a lot of oddball youtube channels that are very popular that constantly get demonetized based on a somewhat arbitrary definitions of what is and isn&#x27;t appropriate.<p>This is important, because a lot of these people are trying to make their livings creating videos on youtube, and start trying to avoid otherwise interesting topics so they don&#x27;t get demonitized.<p>Some examples: StyroPyro (almost got banned for going replicating stuff from a turn of the century chemistry book), Cody&#x27;s Lab, William Osman, the list goes on and on and on.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;crabsandscience&#x2F;status&#x2F;1042136447187279872?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;crabsandscience&#x2F;status&#x2F;10421364471872798...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tubefilter.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;codys-lab-content-strike&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tubefilter.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;codys-lab-content-stri...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;sad-day-for-my-15167435" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;sad-day-for-my-15167435</a></text></comment> |
20,959,387 | 20,957,463 | 1 | 2 | 20,956,774 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare S-1/Amendment</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519242455/d735023ds1a.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bardworx</author><text>I asked my wife (audit, big 4, alternative investments) why there would be an amendment to an S1 and while she doesn’t deal with companies going public directly, she said that amendments are pretty common for funds that go public. The reason being is that a company can file for S1 (or Form 10) before the initial seed audit is complete and SEC or audit firm may have some additional requirements&#x2F;disclosures to be added.<p>Perhaps someone for Finance world can chime in with additional info.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bt848</author><text>S-1&#x2F;A are extremely common. I can&#x27;t recall an IPO without one. There were 8 of them filed today alone.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;browse-edgar?company=&amp;CIK=&amp;type=S-1%2FA&amp;owner=include&amp;count=40&amp;action=getcurrent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;browse-edgar?company=&amp;CIK=&amp;type=...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare S-1/Amendment</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519242455/d735023ds1a.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bardworx</author><text>I asked my wife (audit, big 4, alternative investments) why there would be an amendment to an S1 and while she doesn’t deal with companies going public directly, she said that amendments are pretty common for funds that go public. The reason being is that a company can file for S1 (or Form 10) before the initial seed audit is complete and SEC or audit firm may have some additional requirements&#x2F;disclosures to be added.<p>Perhaps someone for Finance world can chime in with additional info.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ping_pong</author><text>My wife is also in Finance. She said an amended S1 is nothing special whatsoever, it&#x27;s common.</text></comment> |
18,388,290 | 18,386,907 | 1 | 3 | 18,385,438 | train | <story><title>A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2018-11-faster-cheaper-path-fusion-energy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noetic_techy</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen the MIT lecture that presented this. Here are the main hurdles:<p>1) Estimated $40 billion USD need to build a test reactor.<p>2) Not enough FLiBe fluid (Low-Z fluid) on the planet for the reaction chamber. Would need large scale manufacturing.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baking</author><text>The large scale project using low temperature superconductors is ITER, initially proposed at $5 billion and currently estimated at $20 billion for a scientific test reactor.<p>The MIT ARC design is half the size using high temperature superconductors and should be in the $1-2 billion range for a full-scale 500MW pilot production fusion reactor.<p>What is currently being proposed (the subject of the papers being delivered tomorrow) and funded with private money is a $200-250 million SPARC (Smallest Possible ARC) that is half the size again of the full-size ARC.<p>So yeah, you are off by a factor of 160.</text></comment> | <story><title>A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2018-11-faster-cheaper-path-fusion-energy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noetic_techy</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen the MIT lecture that presented this. Here are the main hurdles:<p>1) Estimated $40 billion USD need to build a test reactor.<p>2) Not enough FLiBe fluid (Low-Z fluid) on the planet for the reaction chamber. Would need large scale manufacturing.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesCoyne</author><text>Tossing in two cents to say the video you linked is a very good overview of the different experimental approaches to fusion. Presented by Dennis Whyte of MIT, it obviously extols the virtues of SPARC device.</text></comment> |
24,989,268 | 24,989,364 | 1 | 3 | 24,987,169 | train | <story><title>California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-voters-exempt-uber-lyft-doordash-from-having-to-reclassify-drivers-11604476276</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wolfenstein98k</author><text>Good. The users and the drivers both wanted this.<p>You may dislike hearing this, but it takes a lot to inject yourself into that arrangement and massively increase the cost because you want it done differently.<p>I recognise that it appears to create &quot;rules for thee but not for me&quot; for these companies, but when they are so thoroughly satisfying both their customers and their workers, you should ask yourself if forcing them into the existing regulatory framework is the right equilibrium to shoot for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkural</author><text>Another &quot;user&quot; is the taxpayer - who ultimately ends up paying for the social security, healthcare, and other unmet needs (lack of paid sick leave, lack of paid maternity&#x2F;paternity leave etc.) of these contractors. So in a way, by exempting Uber from these rules, but not others, society is handing out a subsidy for both the passengers and drivers.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-voters-exempt-uber-lyft-doordash-from-having-to-reclassify-drivers-11604476276</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wolfenstein98k</author><text>Good. The users and the drivers both wanted this.<p>You may dislike hearing this, but it takes a lot to inject yourself into that arrangement and massively increase the cost because you want it done differently.<p>I recognise that it appears to create &quot;rules for thee but not for me&quot; for these companies, but when they are so thoroughly satisfying both their customers and their workers, you should ask yourself if forcing them into the existing regulatory framework is the right equilibrium to shoot for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snorrah</author><text>Apparently some drivers did not want this.<p>“Drivers and labor groups opposed Prop 22, saying it would allow companies to sidestep their obligations to provide benefits and standard minimum wages to their workers even as they make billions.” From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;nov&#x2F;04&#x2F;california-election-voters-prop-22-uber-lyft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;nov&#x2F;04&#x2F;california-e...</a></text></comment> |
20,716,384 | 20,716,229 | 1 | 2 | 20,715,188 | train | <story><title>US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In</title><url>https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/1162048579654963200</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcmoney</author><text>It is interesting that the comments on the Twitter thread are &quot;Just use WhatsApp&quot;. Which is basically iMessage but from Facebook. Comparing two, the vendor lock-in from Apple seems much preferable to the one with Facebook in light of the data scandals Facebook has and their ongoing effort to backdoor WhatsApp and integrate it with FB messenger etc. Also a group message is only as secure as its most weakly encrypted member and sms definitely loses there vs iMessage.<p>I would rather have Apple win the network effect here vs another data pimp like Google (who, ads aside, can&#x27;t be trusted to maintain any communication platform).<p>I would much rather this all be standardized with end to end encryption protocols. (C&#x27;mon Signal!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joekrill</author><text>The most significant difference is that WhatsApp is at least platform independent. iMessage simply is not an option on Android - it&#x27;s limited to iPhone users only and it doesn&#x27;t seem like Apple has any intention of changing that. WhatsApp, on the other hand, can be used by whoever wants to download it.<p>It&#x27;s still vendor lock-in. Just not to the same extent.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In</title><url>https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/1162048579654963200</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcmoney</author><text>It is interesting that the comments on the Twitter thread are &quot;Just use WhatsApp&quot;. Which is basically iMessage but from Facebook. Comparing two, the vendor lock-in from Apple seems much preferable to the one with Facebook in light of the data scandals Facebook has and their ongoing effort to backdoor WhatsApp and integrate it with FB messenger etc. Also a group message is only as secure as its most weakly encrypted member and sms definitely loses there vs iMessage.<p>I would rather have Apple win the network effect here vs another data pimp like Google (who, ads aside, can&#x27;t be trusted to maintain any communication platform).<p>I would much rather this all be standardized with end to end encryption protocols. (C&#x27;mon Signal!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>In Europe WhatsApp was huge well before Facebook purchased them. From my own experience, the product has barely changed since then, so I don&#x27;t really feel like it&#x27;s a Facebook product (yet), and so while I dislike using Facebook services WhatApp is basically fine for now.<p>Almost everyone I know uses WhatsApp. Funnily enough my family are the only ones who don&#x27;t, and use iMessage instead. This isn&#x27;t an active choice though, it&#x27;s that they are on an iPhone and using SMS, so they get iMessage by default.<p>This is a long way of saying that for many Europeans, &quot;Just use WhatsApp&quot; feels like an obvious response, why wouldn&#x27;t you?</text></comment> |
33,740,836 | 33,738,374 | 1 | 2 | 33,736,076 | train | <story><title>Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/11/24/why-its-hard-to-buy-deodorant-in-manhattan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>This is such a big nationwide problem that Target actually mentioned it during their earnings report (this is stated in the article.) Some states&#x2F;cities have made it near impossible to prosecute these people, so the risk&#x2F;reward is very favorable to stealing and reselling. Some stores have even closed down in certain areas because of it. When we talk about &quot;food deserts&quot; in some cities, it could one day be we have massive deserts of no retailers at all, and it will largely be a government policy failure.<p>The videos of organized ransacking of stores are honestly insane. The stores are somewhat powerless because of liability, and the new laws that have raised the level in which the law even cares. I don&#x27;t think the &quot;broken window&quot; policy is the end-all, it has some problems but allowing &quot;small&quot; theft rings does not generally put areas on a good trajectory. These goods are almost always getting 3rd party listed, be it Amazon, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fosk</author><text>This is mostly a function of policies that explicitly allow and tolerate this sort of behavior as a sort of “pay back” and “release valve” for the poor, addicts or generally speaking under represented social classes.<p>As the wage gap and opportunity gap widens in the US, allowing shoplifting is actually an intentional release valve that is being tolerated and even outright legally permitted (California Prop 47), because - without it - we would see more home break-ins, kidnappings of wealthy people and more severe offenses. Instead, shoplifting is relatively harmless and prevents this type of escalation of crime.<p>“Panem et circenses” said the Romans, shoplifting is a form of “panem”. I think many don’t understand the incredible pressure pot that is the US at the moment with vast negative social pressures and inequality. If it explodes, all bets are off: the US could look a lot like South Africa and Brazil than what it is now.<p>This plus some political survivorship too: votes are all equal, and when most people are disadvantaged or about to become disadvantaged, politicians cater more and more to them (populism) in order to survive and dominate in the political arena.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/11/24/why-its-hard-to-buy-deodorant-in-manhattan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>This is such a big nationwide problem that Target actually mentioned it during their earnings report (this is stated in the article.) Some states&#x2F;cities have made it near impossible to prosecute these people, so the risk&#x2F;reward is very favorable to stealing and reselling. Some stores have even closed down in certain areas because of it. When we talk about &quot;food deserts&quot; in some cities, it could one day be we have massive deserts of no retailers at all, and it will largely be a government policy failure.<p>The videos of organized ransacking of stores are honestly insane. The stores are somewhat powerless because of liability, and the new laws that have raised the level in which the law even cares. I don&#x27;t think the &quot;broken window&quot; policy is the end-all, it has some problems but allowing &quot;small&quot; theft rings does not generally put areas on a good trajectory. These goods are almost always getting 3rd party listed, be it Amazon, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ransom1538</author><text>I have no idea how a prosecutor can take down these organized rings. The entire method prosecutors use for say exotic drugs, guns, etc: &quot;Ok we have you for 5 years here, who do you work for, make these phone calls, we can get your sentence down to parole&quot;. This allows prosecutors to work their way up. But if a prosecutor is sitting in front of a low level shop lifter - who gets out <i>that day</i> - i don&#x27;t see any prosecutor leverage.</text></comment> |
13,404,894 | 13,404,442 | 1 | 2 | 13,403,991 | train | <story><title>And that, kids, is why we call it a “Patch”</title><url>https://twitter.com/Codealike/status/819990490774904833</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt; To determine the speed, you count how many knots pass through your hand in a certain time.<p>But how did they count &quot;a certain time&quot;? (Before stopwatches).</text></item><item><author>arnarbi</author><text>My favorite is &quot;log&quot;, named after logbooks. Logbooks have maritime origins, where the ships speed is recorded. Even today, speedometer on ships are in many languages called &quot;a log&quot; since the original method consists of throwing an actual log overboard with a string attached to it. The string would have knots with regular intervals. To determine the speed, you count how many knots pass through your hand in a certain time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazyant</author><text>The origins of precise clocks is because ships needed to calculate how far they had travelled in terms of longitude (eastwast&#x2F;westward. How far you&#x27;ve travel north&#x2F;south is easy to calculate by how high the sun goes).<p>The British crown established an award for whoever could come up with a precise clock of this reason, it&#x27;s a fascinating story, I recommend the book &quot;Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time&quot; by Dava Sobel.</text></comment> | <story><title>And that, kids, is why we call it a “Patch”</title><url>https://twitter.com/Codealike/status/819990490774904833</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt; To determine the speed, you count how many knots pass through your hand in a certain time.<p>But how did they count &quot;a certain time&quot;? (Before stopwatches).</text></item><item><author>arnarbi</author><text>My favorite is &quot;log&quot;, named after logbooks. Logbooks have maritime origins, where the ships speed is recorded. Even today, speedometer on ships are in many languages called &quot;a log&quot; since the original method consists of throwing an actual log overboard with a string attached to it. The string would have knots with regular intervals. To determine the speed, you count how many knots pass through your hand in a certain time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitroll</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marine_sandglass" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marine_sandglass</a></text></comment> |
15,204,252 | 15,201,693 | 1 | 2 | 15,201,160 | train | <story><title>BerkShares</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerkShares</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>outsidetheparty</author><text>Greetings from Berkshire County! BerkShares don&#x27;t actually exist, as far as I can tell. I occasionally run across news stories about them, but I&#x27;ve never seen one and have never met anyone who&#x27;s ever seen one (and I&#x27;ve asked around, because it&#x27;s weird seeing news stories about things in your hometown that as far as you can tell don&#x27;t actually exist.)</text></comment> | <story><title>BerkShares</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerkShares</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigdubs</author><text>Grew up in a town that used these (a town in berkshire county, ma); I thought they were a novelty and didn&#x27;t really buy or use any (or see anyone use them). Just a single datapoint.</text></comment> |
34,006,075 | 34,006,056 | 1 | 2 | 34,005,889 | train | <story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></comment> | <story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rooster61</author><text>Why are software companies still grappling with the mythical man month? You&#x27;d think by now we&#x27;d have learned our lesson.<p>More hands &#x2F;= more productivity, at least on a linear scale</text></comment> |
24,060,626 | 24,060,619 | 1 | 3 | 24,059,335 | train | <story><title>Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads</title><url>https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/08/05/gc-tuning-for-jet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget scanning. Yes, moving blocks of memory around is expensive, but it can also be done concurrently. Scanning, AFAIK, cannot be done concurrently, and thus remains the primary blocker to lower latency. And scanning is something that is entirely eliminated with static memory management.</text></item><item><author>dan-robertson</author><text>The part of GC which causes the most latency issues is compaction rather than merely collection. Using a language like rust won’t help if you have memory fragmentation and indeed allocation tends to be much faster with a GC than with malloc. I think the advantages of rust are more to do with often avoiding heap allocation entirely (and predictably) or value semantics leading to fewer small allocations or the language’s semantics not forcing you to choose between more reliable allocation-heavy immutable-everything code and faster harder-to-think-about mutation-heavy code.</text></item><item><author>jakewins</author><text>For years of my life, all I thought about was stuff like this. If you&#x27;ve ever ran latency sensitive systems on the JVM.. man is it ever a pain.<p>Who was it that turned GC off entirely, minimized allocation and just restarted their VMs when they ran out of RAM every couple of hours, was that Netflix?<p>Either way. It makes me excited for Rust and the languages it&#x27;ll inspire, all this labor gone away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pron</author><text>Scanning is most certainly done concurrently with ZGC. Even root scanning is on its way to become fully concurrent, which is why we&#x27;re nearing the goal of &lt;1ms latency.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads</title><url>https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/08/05/gc-tuning-for-jet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget scanning. Yes, moving blocks of memory around is expensive, but it can also be done concurrently. Scanning, AFAIK, cannot be done concurrently, and thus remains the primary blocker to lower latency. And scanning is something that is entirely eliminated with static memory management.</text></item><item><author>dan-robertson</author><text>The part of GC which causes the most latency issues is compaction rather than merely collection. Using a language like rust won’t help if you have memory fragmentation and indeed allocation tends to be much faster with a GC than with malloc. I think the advantages of rust are more to do with often avoiding heap allocation entirely (and predictably) or value semantics leading to fewer small allocations or the language’s semantics not forcing you to choose between more reliable allocation-heavy immutable-everything code and faster harder-to-think-about mutation-heavy code.</text></item><item><author>jakewins</author><text>For years of my life, all I thought about was stuff like this. If you&#x27;ve ever ran latency sensitive systems on the JVM.. man is it ever a pain.<p>Who was it that turned GC off entirely, minimized allocation and just restarted their VMs when they ran out of RAM every couple of hours, was that Netflix?<p>Either way. It makes me excited for Rust and the languages it&#x27;ll inspire, all this labor gone away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wokkel</author><text>Yes it can. Stop the world collection is a thing of the past. See for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.redhat.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;shenandoah-gc-in-jdk-13-part-1-load-reference-barriers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.redhat.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;shenandoah-gc-...</a></text></comment> |
10,940,271 | 10,939,074 | 1 | 2 | 10,938,103 | train | <story><title>TorFlow</title><url>https://torflow.uncharted.software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pierrec</author><text>Very classy visualization! Have a look at the code that determines the visual flow of data between relays: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unchartedsoftware&#x2F;torflow&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;public&#x2F;javascripts&#x2F;particles&#x2F;particlesystem.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unchartedsoftware&#x2F;torflow&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;pub...</a><p>I think it doesn&#x27;t <i>exactly</i> reflect how paths are chosen based on relay bandwidth scores, if we compare to the actual path selection algorithm: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tor.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;114" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tor.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;114</a><p>I might be missing something, but it seems that relay same-family and same-&#x2F;16-subnet exclusions are ignored. This might bias the visualization to increase the apparent traffic between popular nodes, while in reality, the traffic should be slightly more evened out with less popular nodes. Hard to tell if this effect makes any visible difference without analyzing the data, though. Either way, because of the way the code is structured, it shouldn&#x27;t be too hard to fix: just simulate full paths instead of single connections between nodes.</text></comment> | <story><title>TorFlow</title><url>https://torflow.uncharted.software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>khgvljhkb</author><text>Clear proof TOR is used by the evil one, and that cryptography should be banned: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;NXT0OOJ.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;NXT0OOJ.png</a></text></comment> |
21,183,922 | 21,183,221 | 1 | 2 | 21,182,627 | train | <story><title>A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster</title><url>https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/10/07/blog-post/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erulabs</author><text>Any time these &quot;much faster than Redis&quot; databases come up, the sysadmin in me wonders how many people have had actual performance limitation issues with Redis. I&#x27;ve seen Redis servers handle hundreds of GB of traffic per hour. I&#x27;ve worked at companies where Aerospike and others are proposed as replacements for Redis because &quot;they&#x27;re faster&quot; - and I point out the 98% idle CPUs on the Redis server, and the near-100%-usage CPUs on the app server fleet and mouth &quot;But... why?&quot;<p>Replacing Redis with &quot;something faster&quot; is a bit like removing the doors on a car because &quot;lighter means faster!&quot;. It might look good on a racetrack, but it&#x27;s about as pragmatic as climbing through a window every morning before setting off for work.</text></comment> | <story><title>A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster</title><url>https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/10/07/blog-post/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>Two HN threads from around when the project started:<p>Show HN: KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19257987" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19257987</a><p>KeyDB: A Multithreaded Redis Fork, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19368955" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19368955</a></text></comment> |
34,574,246 | 34,573,965 | 1 | 2 | 34,572,263 | train | <story><title>The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed</title><url>https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230127_byor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcarmo</author><text>I actually build minimal Redis clones in every new language or runtime, or when I want to explore threading models.<p>It all started with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;miniredis">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;miniredis</a> (which I forked to add and experiment with pub&#x2F;sub), and I just found myself doing it again and again because Redis is the quintessential network service:<p>By implementing it, you learn about socket handling, event loop for a specific runtime, threading models, data representation, concurrency (if you want to do a multi-threaded version), etc. None of my &quot;ports&quot; are fully functional, but they all helped me sort out some of the above plus build tools, packaging, dependencies, etc.<p>It&#x27;s &quot;hello world&quot; for core cloud native microservices, if you will (and without having to do REST or JSON stuff).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helge5</author><text>I once built one in Swift 4, in part to see how multithreading via SwiftNIO and using copy-on-write datastructures would compare. It held up well against the C implementation, would be worth trying again against Swift 5.x.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NozeIO&#x2F;redi-s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NozeIO&#x2F;redi-s</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed</title><url>https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230127_byor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcarmo</author><text>I actually build minimal Redis clones in every new language or runtime, or when I want to explore threading models.<p>It all started with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;miniredis">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;miniredis</a> (which I forked to add and experiment with pub&#x2F;sub), and I just found myself doing it again and again because Redis is the quintessential network service:<p>By implementing it, you learn about socket handling, event loop for a specific runtime, threading models, data representation, concurrency (if you want to do a multi-threaded version), etc. None of my &quot;ports&quot; are fully functional, but they all helped me sort out some of the above plus build tools, packaging, dependencies, etc.<p>It&#x27;s &quot;hello world&quot; for core cloud native microservices, if you will (and without having to do REST or JSON stuff).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>I&#x27;m curious if you re-use the same tests across different languages? And is it actually on a network or are you pretending?</text></comment> |
25,078,195 | 25,078,219 | 1 | 2 | 25,074,959 | train | <story><title>macOS unable to open any non-Apple application</title><url>https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/1326990296412991489</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightowl_games</author><text>Yeah so basically in the windows world, a lot of the good laptops are under the &quot;business class&quot; of the various manufacturers:<p>Dell Precision, HP Elite Book, MSI Prestige<p>In the consumer world the Dell XPS, Asus Zenbook, Asus Pro Art are the way to go for a designer.<p>Dell Precision is probably the overall best laptop. MSI Prestige is targetted right at you though, with color accuracy and a good display. The only brand I can personally vouch for is Dell. I and my partner use XPS&#x27;s, and a good friend of mine has a super nice Precision that I am jealous of (specifically the ports! I&#x27;m so over USB-C)</text></item><item><author>areoform</author><text>So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It&#x27;s fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25058952" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25058952</a><p>And this is why I won&#x27;t be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to &quot;no unsigned binaries&quot;), and congrats! Apple is the sole decider of what we get to use on our computers.<p>Of course Apple&#x27;s Craig Federighi assures us that the people making such assertions are &quot;tools&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Hg9F1Qjv3iU?t=3177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Hg9F1Qjv3iU?t=3177</a> , timestamp 53:33) and they have no intention whatsoever of taking away our ability to do general compute on the machines we buy and own.<p>Except...<p>Apple can already decide what binaries you can execute. Should they choose to.<p>Apple is now restricting what other OSes you can boot into. As they&#x27;ve chosen to.<p>Apple can now make their machine reject a new, third-party repair part like a bad transplant. Should they choose to.<p>It&#x27;s clear where they&#x27;re going. And I&#x27;m jumping ship. It&#x27;s painful to do so, given how invested I am in the ecosystem, but we&#x27;re already beyond the threshold that many of us would have left earlier in the decade.<p>---<p>edit - It&#x27;s also really hard as a designer + developer + would-be researcher in the making to find a good computer. Most non-Apple laptops don&#x27;t have very good color accuracy. They also don&#x27;t have good trackpads, and their keyboard + trackpad alignment is wonky (it&#x27;s off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that???)<p>I&#x27;m trying to find a laptop with good build quality, long battery life, a good display that I can design on, a good trackpad so that I don&#x27;t have to carry around a mouse, good speakers would be a plus, and light enough that I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m lifting weights while working on my laptop. And this package should ideally come with 512GB of SSD storage and, at least, 16GB to 32GB of RAM.<p>Oh and it shouldn&#x27;t be <i>more</i> expensive than a Mac as many of these laptops are!<p>Any suggestions?</text></item><item><author>submeta</author><text>Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago.<p>Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;llanga&#x2F;status&#x2F;1326989724704268289" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;llanga&#x2F;status&#x2F;1326989724704268289</a><p>&gt; I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so, the entire operating system grinds to a halt.<p>EDIT:<p>As others pointed out, I put this to my `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts` file and refreshed it like so:<p><pre><code> sudo emacs &#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts # add `0.0.0.0 ocsp.apple.com`
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder # refresh hosts</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>Lenovo Thinkpad is another popular line, seems conspicuously absent from your list. They&#x27;re known to have good resale value, and to work well with Linux. If you&#x27;re getting up to the Precision line, the Lenovo P series workstations are also worth considering, though given they&#x27;re actually professional-grade machines with Xeon and Quadro parts they&#x27;ll be more expensive than a Macbook Pro.<p>There are also boutiques like System76, that white label, upgrade, and manage driver compatibility for Clevo laptops which may be worth considering, they just came out with a new Lemur Pro like yesterday.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS unable to open any non-Apple application</title><url>https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/1326990296412991489</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightowl_games</author><text>Yeah so basically in the windows world, a lot of the good laptops are under the &quot;business class&quot; of the various manufacturers:<p>Dell Precision, HP Elite Book, MSI Prestige<p>In the consumer world the Dell XPS, Asus Zenbook, Asus Pro Art are the way to go for a designer.<p>Dell Precision is probably the overall best laptop. MSI Prestige is targetted right at you though, with color accuracy and a good display. The only brand I can personally vouch for is Dell. I and my partner use XPS&#x27;s, and a good friend of mine has a super nice Precision that I am jealous of (specifically the ports! I&#x27;m so over USB-C)</text></item><item><author>areoform</author><text>So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It&#x27;s fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25058952" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25058952</a><p>And this is why I won&#x27;t be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to &quot;no unsigned binaries&quot;), and congrats! Apple is the sole decider of what we get to use on our computers.<p>Of course Apple&#x27;s Craig Federighi assures us that the people making such assertions are &quot;tools&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Hg9F1Qjv3iU?t=3177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Hg9F1Qjv3iU?t=3177</a> , timestamp 53:33) and they have no intention whatsoever of taking away our ability to do general compute on the machines we buy and own.<p>Except...<p>Apple can already decide what binaries you can execute. Should they choose to.<p>Apple is now restricting what other OSes you can boot into. As they&#x27;ve chosen to.<p>Apple can now make their machine reject a new, third-party repair part like a bad transplant. Should they choose to.<p>It&#x27;s clear where they&#x27;re going. And I&#x27;m jumping ship. It&#x27;s painful to do so, given how invested I am in the ecosystem, but we&#x27;re already beyond the threshold that many of us would have left earlier in the decade.<p>---<p>edit - It&#x27;s also really hard as a designer + developer + would-be researcher in the making to find a good computer. Most non-Apple laptops don&#x27;t have very good color accuracy. They also don&#x27;t have good trackpads, and their keyboard + trackpad alignment is wonky (it&#x27;s off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that???)<p>I&#x27;m trying to find a laptop with good build quality, long battery life, a good display that I can design on, a good trackpad so that I don&#x27;t have to carry around a mouse, good speakers would be a plus, and light enough that I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m lifting weights while working on my laptop. And this package should ideally come with 512GB of SSD storage and, at least, 16GB to 32GB of RAM.<p>Oh and it shouldn&#x27;t be <i>more</i> expensive than a Mac as many of these laptops are!<p>Any suggestions?</text></item><item><author>submeta</author><text>Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago.<p>Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;llanga&#x2F;status&#x2F;1326989724704268289" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;llanga&#x2F;status&#x2F;1326989724704268289</a><p>&gt; I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so, the entire operating system grinds to a halt.<p>EDIT:<p>As others pointed out, I put this to my `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts` file and refreshed it like so:<p><pre><code> sudo emacs &#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts # add `0.0.0.0 ocsp.apple.com`
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder # refresh hosts</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>areoform</author><text>Interestingly, Apple covers <i>more</i> than sRGB, their panels are now being set to the broader DCI-P3 gamut. Whereas these laptops (at least in 2019) were slightly <i>less</i> than the sRGB gamut on testing. Except for the surface book,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;6dGz3LO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;6dGz3LO</a><p>I got these results from, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;MSI-Prestige-15-A10SC-Laptop-Review-One-of-the-Best-Dell-XPS-15-Alternatives.441280.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;MSI-Prestige-15-A10SC-Laptop-R...</a></text></comment> |
9,852,555 | 9,852,420 | 1 | 2 | 9,852,200 | train | <story><title>Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/why-we-shut-down-reddits-ask-me-anything-forum.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imjk</author><text>&quot;We feel strongly that this incident is more part of a reckless disregard for the company’s own business and for the work the moderators and users put into the site. Dismissing Victoria Taylor was part of a long pattern of insisting the community and the moderators do more with less.&quot;<p>I think this really gets to the heart of it. The moderators of the site only learned of the termination after a celebrity flew out to NY to meet with Victoria and was told that the meeting was cancelled. As expected, panic ensued among the subreddit&#x27;s moderators. Whether the firing was justified or not, the fact that Reddit&#x27;s leadership didn&#x27;t immediately see the consequences of their action on one of their most popular communities just shows their disregard. Or even worse, they realized the consequences and just didn&#x27;t bother to help facilitate them. I mean these are real people with real meetings spending real dollars for the community, which is all run but volunteers, and Reddit&#x27;s leadership didn&#x27;t feel it was important enough to communicate with them to help avoid unnecessary consequences. I understand the frustration.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/why-we-shut-down-reddits-ask-me-anything-forum.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zedpm</author><text>Maybe this will be enough to silence the folks on here who insist that nothing is wrong with Reddit management and that it&#x27;s just a bunch of angry children complaining without cause. The mods in question are adults and professionals, and they&#x27;ve clearly and succinctly explained their grievances with Reddit management.<p>This piece doesn&#x27;t touch on some of the other issues that have angered users, particularly the matter of heavy-handed censorship that appears to be applied inconsistently. That too is a legitimate complaint, one that shouldn&#x27;t be shouted down or conflated with shameful behavior on the part of relatively few individuals in the community.</text></comment> |
5,341,011 | 5,340,899 | 1 | 2 | 5,340,717 | train | <story><title>List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0L266uiy59kJ:www.ea.com/1/service-updates+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larrydavid</author><text>Note that most (if not all, as I only scanned the list) of these games do not depend on an online connection to play the game like Sim City V. They have an offline single-player component and it is the multiplayer functionality that has been shut down.<p>There are also a good amount of mobile/Facebook apps in the list.<p>If you are being critical of EA then the worst examples are games that were only released 2-3 years ago, such as many of the sports games like FIFA and Madden. Although these have had at least a couple of new iterations since then because of the yearly release schedule for their sports franchises. The majority of the player base tends to move over to the new version very promptly, much like the COD series.<p>On the whole this list looks far worse than it actually is. I don't think it is entirely unreasonable to shut down the multiplayer component of games that were released 8 years ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0L266uiy59kJ:www.ea.com/1/service-updates+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mindstab</author><text>So there's a weird gap. I can still pay games I bought in the 90s... but apparently EA games I bought &#62;5 years ago I can no longer play...</text></comment> |
27,463,802 | 27,464,087 | 1 | 2 | 27,462,263 | train | <story><title>Software is eating the car</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/software-eating-car</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temporallobe</author><text>Car guy here. Yeah, I’m with you. My favorite car was a ‘96 Tercel with mechanical steering and a 4-speed manual. It even had manual roll-up windows. It had less than 100 HP, but it was simple as hell to operate, very fun to drive, cheap to maintain, and extremely reliable up until I sold it with nearly 400k miles on the odo. I put an aftermarket stereo and speakers in it and I was set. Only reason I sold it was because my wife hated it and a friend needed a cheap reliable car for his idiot son who proceeded to neglect and destroy it quickly after taking possession.<p>Modern cars are absolutely terrible in the UX department, but they are a hell of a lot safer, so there’s that.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Short answer to the lede: no, the industry cannot cope. Or rather, it will limp along with bloatware, bugs, and malware exactly the same way we see desktop OSes bloat, or the way we see routers and set-top boxes hacked to become botnets.<p>In my 40+ years in the industry I&#x27;ve yet to see code get SMALLER. With the exception of Linux kernel 1.0 in the 90&#x27;s which was a step backwards into smaller, more compact code, code has always bloated.<p>Damn. I just want a car with as FEW knobs&#x2F;buttons&#x2F;levers as necessary. Literally: make it as simple as possible. Like an golf cart! Is anyone else out there with me? I feel like Walter from The Big Lebowski regarding this: has everyone just gone crazy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrwoodruff</author><text>Those mid 90s Japanese sedans were awesome. Relatively compact overall, zippy little 4 cylinders engines and manual transmissions. I had an Accord from that era, and loved driving my dads nerdy-as-hell Nissan Sentra. That car was shockingly fun to drive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software is eating the car</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/software-eating-car</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temporallobe</author><text>Car guy here. Yeah, I’m with you. My favorite car was a ‘96 Tercel with mechanical steering and a 4-speed manual. It even had manual roll-up windows. It had less than 100 HP, but it was simple as hell to operate, very fun to drive, cheap to maintain, and extremely reliable up until I sold it with nearly 400k miles on the odo. I put an aftermarket stereo and speakers in it and I was set. Only reason I sold it was because my wife hated it and a friend needed a cheap reliable car for his idiot son who proceeded to neglect and destroy it quickly after taking possession.<p>Modern cars are absolutely terrible in the UX department, but they are a hell of a lot safer, so there’s that.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Short answer to the lede: no, the industry cannot cope. Or rather, it will limp along with bloatware, bugs, and malware exactly the same way we see desktop OSes bloat, or the way we see routers and set-top boxes hacked to become botnets.<p>In my 40+ years in the industry I&#x27;ve yet to see code get SMALLER. With the exception of Linux kernel 1.0 in the 90&#x27;s which was a step backwards into smaller, more compact code, code has always bloated.<p>Damn. I just want a car with as FEW knobs&#x2F;buttons&#x2F;levers as necessary. Literally: make it as simple as possible. Like an golf cart! Is anyone else out there with me? I feel like Walter from The Big Lebowski regarding this: has everyone just gone crazy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clairity</author><text>&gt; &quot;Modern cars are absolutely terrible in the UX department, but they are a hell of a lot safer, so there’s that.&quot;<p>tangentially, &quot;safety&quot; is highly cargo-culted. things that seem so obviously safer are taken without question as better, but in many cases, such features really only provide a false sense of security along with substantive unintended consequences.<p>most safety features in cars (e.g., lane-keeping) allow people to be less skilled and less attentive at driving, rather than lowering crash&#x2F;injury&#x2F;death rates. the better solution is to make people better and more attentive at driving through more rigorous training&#x2F;testing, more thoughtful design, and importantly, culture, rather than just technology for its own sake.</text></comment> |
8,742,286 | 8,741,077 | 1 | 2 | 8,740,673 | train | <story><title>Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid</title><url>http://kreldjarn.github.io/TRON/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know quite what the headline meant - there was at least one TRON <i>arcade</i> game - as in, a coin-operated game - that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten:<p><a href="http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/discs-of-tron" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobygames.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;arcade&#x2F;discs-of-tron</a><p>There was also a TRON arcade game that was a mismash of mini-games, one of which was the light-cycles:<p><a href="http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10204" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arcade-museum.com&#x2F;game_detail.php?game_id=10204</a><p>I see from Google that indeed many, many people refer to this &quot;use moving wall to make the other guy crash&quot; style of game as &quot;TRON&quot; now, but TRON actually just put a brand name on a game genre that had been around:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snake_%28video_game%29</a><p>A home game circa 1977, years before TRON:<p><a href="http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/surround" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobygames.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;atari-2600&#x2F;surround</a><p>&quot;Snake&quot; to TRON could actually be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, example of a big-budget studio movie adapting a video game concept. Doing so surprisingly directly.<p>Now, of course, half the movies that come out of Hollywood seem to have action bits that are vaguely video-game inspired.</text></comment> | <story><title>Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid</title><url>http://kreldjarn.github.io/TRON/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doodpants</author><text>I wish it supported arrow keys. WASD is <i>really</i> awkward on a Dvorak keyboard.</text></comment> |
11,699,190 | 11,698,511 | 1 | 2 | 11,698,414 | train | <story><title>Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it (2007)</title><url>http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2352</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxpert</author><text> I don&#x27;t get it. If LISP is such an EPIC language why are there no major pushes from LISP community, or just showcase a piece of software that proves it.
I have been looking on internet about what makes LISP cool it&#x27;s ideas about code is data, powerful macros and hell lot of bragging about being able to define your own syntactic sugar but can&#x27;t find a single MUST HAVE piece of code that makes me say &quot;I have to learn this&quot;. It&#x27;s a ML age now and developers around the world are looking for such gems, but I don&#x27;t see LISP picking up momentum (I did notice Erlang picking up momentum upto the point people feeling crappy about syntax invented Elixir).</text></comment> | <story><title>Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it (2007)</title><url>http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2352</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>(2007)<p>lisp (imho) pushed the limits of what it was possible for a language to do. It pushed in many directions. eval, macros, gc, the comments suggest many things. As computers got faster, it became worthwhile to incorporate more and more of those expensive ideas. Heck, go is billed as a systems language and it&#x27;s GC&#x27;ed! That would be crazy 20 years ago. Perhaps still a little crazy today, but far more feasible.<p>Lisp is like the Simpsons. Lisp did it. (maybe not first, but lisp did it) Of course later languages are going to pull some of that wonderful functionality. Other stuff, like reader macros gets left behind. it&#x27;s even possible to do pretty explicit typing in lisp, but it never felt as natural as an ML&#x2F;Miranda&#x2F;Haskell kind of typing.<p>The C# observation is amusing, the original garbage collector was written in lisp. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;patrick_dussud&#x2F;2006&#x2F;11&#x2F;21&#x2F;how-it-all-startedaka-the-birth-of-the-clr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;patrick_dussud&#x2F;2006&#x2F;11&#x2F;21&#x2F;h...</a></text></comment> |
13,626,218 | 13,626,272 | 1 | 2 | 13,625,013 | train | <story><title>Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/upshot/popping-the-housing-bubbles-in-the-american-mind.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>At the risk of sounding brusque, don&#x27;t just read the headline of this article and then comment because the headline doesn&#x27;t mean what it reads like on the surface. It&#x27;s not &quot;house prices are falling and this could be awesome.&quot; Instead, the article&#x27;s thesis is:<p>&gt; So instead of looking at homes as investments, what if we regarded them like a TV or a car or any other consumer good? People might expect home prices to go down instead of up. Homebuilders would probably spend more time talking about technology and design than financing options. Politicians might start talking about their plans to lower home prices further, as they often do with fuel prices.<p>The article is going over a paper[0] that asks what would happen to house prices if houses were treated as disposable consumer goods instead of a means of storing wealth. It also points out, correctly in my opinion, that such a shift would be monumental (if only because everyone would have to do it at the same time).<p>0 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;realestate.wharton.upenn.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;papers&#x2F;full&#x2F;802.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;realestate.wharton.upenn.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;papers&#x2F;full&#x2F;802...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>Incidentally, this is what has happened in Japan, but with one big difference.<p>In Japan, people expect houses to be worthless after a decade, and they rebuild their houses frequently. This is partly because the poor quality of houses built in the first decades after WWII has created a bias against older homes that is probably no longer justified. Many buyers tear down homes and replace them -- this happens everywhere, but it is more common in Japan. People who have owned their home for a few decades will have it torn down and rebuilt every 20-30 years, and they will continue to live in the new one without any intention of selling the land.<p>On the other hand, while homes are worthless after a decade, land is extremely expensive. This leads to 40-year mortgages or to people building homes on land they lease for decades, and having them torn down when the lease ends.<p>I don&#x27;t expect that kind of situation to develop in the US, nor do I want it to, but it&#x27;s always good to learn about other approaches to home ownership, because it demonstrates that considering a home as an investment is not natural or inevitable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/upshot/popping-the-housing-bubbles-in-the-american-mind.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>At the risk of sounding brusque, don&#x27;t just read the headline of this article and then comment because the headline doesn&#x27;t mean what it reads like on the surface. It&#x27;s not &quot;house prices are falling and this could be awesome.&quot; Instead, the article&#x27;s thesis is:<p>&gt; So instead of looking at homes as investments, what if we regarded them like a TV or a car or any other consumer good? People might expect home prices to go down instead of up. Homebuilders would probably spend more time talking about technology and design than financing options. Politicians might start talking about their plans to lower home prices further, as they often do with fuel prices.<p>The article is going over a paper[0] that asks what would happen to house prices if houses were treated as disposable consumer goods instead of a means of storing wealth. It also points out, correctly in my opinion, that such a shift would be monumental (if only because everyone would have to do it at the same time).<p>0 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;realestate.wharton.upenn.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;papers&#x2F;full&#x2F;802.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;realestate.wharton.upenn.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;papers&#x2F;full&#x2F;802...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bloaf</author><text>Isn&#x27;t Japan a case study in treating homes as disposable? They frequently rebuild homes rather than renovate for a variety of reasons [1]. Some people believe that this attitude has contributed to Japan&#x27;s slow economic growth: replacing all the homes every few decades is essentially wasteful.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freakonomics.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;why-are-japanese-homes-disposable-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freakonomics.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...</a></text></comment> |
10,287,314 | 10,287,374 | 1 | 3 | 10,287,038 | train | <story><title>A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness</title><url>http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danjc</author><text>For some reason this reminds me of the Eternity II puzzle[1]. The creator of the puzzle had mathematicians confirm how difficult it would be to solve due to the number of permutations and yet a vast number of people bought it thinking they would be the ones to solve it (usually by hand)! There was a $2 million prize and it was never solved.<p>1.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternity_II_puzzle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternity_II_puzzle</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness</title><url>http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Theodores</author><text>Kit Williams is highly collectable in darkest Gloucestershire. The thing is that you have to know him, have his work already and know him to be allowed to buy his work.<p>Some documentaries made by the BBC:<p>From back in the day:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-iU-qoG9Upg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-iU-qoG9Upg</a><p>Retrospective, recent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vEIFm0UHtoo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vEIFm0UHtoo</a></text></comment> |
17,072,365 | 17,071,666 | 1 | 2 | 17,066,846 | train | <story><title>John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories</title><url>https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825593223&id=100006735798590</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mylons</author><text>i just finished masters of doom&#x27;s audiobook a week or so ago. it was the most addicting story i&#x27;ve heard in some time, and elevated carmack even more in my mind.<p>the book was also strangely motivating.<p>have you (or anyone else) read anything else like masters of doom recently?</text></item><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>John mentioning his NeXT computer in this post reminded me of his NeXT computer purchase story from <i>Masters of Doom</i>:<p>&quot;On a cold winter day, Carmack laced up his shoes, slipped on his jacket, and headed out into the Madison snow. The town was blanketed in the stuff, cars caked in frost, trees dangling ice. Carmack endured the chill because he had no car; he&#x27;d sold the MGB long before. It was easy enough for him to shut out the weather, just like he could, when necessary, shut Tom and Romero&#x27;s antics out of his mind. He was on a mission.<p>Carmack stepped into the local bank and requested a cashier&#x27;s check for $11,000. The money was for a NeXT computer, the latest machine from Steve Jobs, cocreator of Apple. The NeXT, a stealth black cube, surpassed the promise of Jobs&#x27;s earlier machines by incorporating NeXTSTEP, a powerful system tailor-made for custom software development. The market for PCs and games was exploding, and this was the perfect tool to create more dynamic titles for the increasingly viable gaming platform. It was the ultimate Christmas present for the ultimate in young graphics programmers, Carmack.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doomlaser</author><text>I&#x27;m a huge fan of the biography Jean Renoir (the acclaimed film director) wrote about his father, Auguste Renoir (the acclaimed Impressionist painter), <i>Renoir, My Father</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Renoir-My-Father-Jean&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B001MPDDME" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Renoir-My-Father-Jean&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B001MPDDME</a><p>For a gripping tale of technology and hacking, The Cuckoo&#x27;s Egg never fails: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1416507787&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...</a><p>And, as someone reminded me in the thread about Xerox and Fujifilm, Dealers of Lightning tells the story of Xerox PARC, the Alto, Steve Jobs&#x27; visit, etc: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0887309895&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories</title><url>https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825593223&id=100006735798590</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mylons</author><text>i just finished masters of doom&#x27;s audiobook a week or so ago. it was the most addicting story i&#x27;ve heard in some time, and elevated carmack even more in my mind.<p>the book was also strangely motivating.<p>have you (or anyone else) read anything else like masters of doom recently?</text></item><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>John mentioning his NeXT computer in this post reminded me of his NeXT computer purchase story from <i>Masters of Doom</i>:<p>&quot;On a cold winter day, Carmack laced up his shoes, slipped on his jacket, and headed out into the Madison snow. The town was blanketed in the stuff, cars caked in frost, trees dangling ice. Carmack endured the chill because he had no car; he&#x27;d sold the MGB long before. It was easy enough for him to shut out the weather, just like he could, when necessary, shut Tom and Romero&#x27;s antics out of his mind. He was on a mission.<p>Carmack stepped into the local bank and requested a cashier&#x27;s check for $11,000. The money was for a NeXT computer, the latest machine from Steve Jobs, cocreator of Apple. The NeXT, a stealth black cube, surpassed the promise of Jobs&#x27;s earlier machines by incorporating NeXTSTEP, a powerful system tailor-made for custom software development. The market for PCs and games was exploding, and this was the perfect tool to create more dynamic titles for the increasingly viable gaming platform. It was the ultimate Christmas present for the ultimate in young graphics programmers, Carmack.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdickason</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of the book and got a similar feeling from watching Indie Game: The Movie. Good documentary about a few small indie game studios that makes you feel like you can start something amazing.<p>trailer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GhaT78i1x2M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GhaT78i1x2M</a></text></comment> |
32,642,075 | 32,638,095 | 1 | 2 | 32,633,382 | train | <story><title>Derinkuyu, the extraordinary underground city of Turkey</title><url>https://www.mybestplace.com/en/article/derinkuyu-the-extraordinary-underground-city-of-turkey</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kubi07</author><text>There are tons of abondened places like this in Turkey and no one cares about them. They are used as barns these days.
Turkish government probably doesn&#x27;t even know most of these places but treasure hunters loves them.<p>If you are interested with this stuff check this youtube channels.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UC9f3EQl1eTWrLpS5o1fQMYQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UC9f3EQl1eTWrLpS5o1fQMYQ</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCN1b69YfMmuX6gOoWQaHI-Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCN1b69YfMmuX6gOoWQaHI-Q</a><p>This Turkish guy is a treasure hunter which is illegal. There are many treasure hunter youtubers in Turkey but this guy is the best because he is not faking it.
I enjoy it alot, highly recommended.
No English subtitles but you can understand what&#x27;s going on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Derinkuyu, the extraordinary underground city of Turkey</title><url>https://www.mybestplace.com/en/article/derinkuyu-the-extraordinary-underground-city-of-turkey</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yoran</author><text>I remember visiting this underground city a couple of years back, and thinking, what were these people so scared off in the outside world that led them to build this? It&#x27;s an incredible feat, I think even with today&#x27;s tools, let alone back in the day. Very intriguing.</text></comment> |
26,674,085 | 26,673,032 | 1 | 2 | 26,671,914 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Coffee</title><url>https://www.microsoftcoffee.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brundolf</author><text>The news footage is pretty convincing</text></item><item><author>Geeflow</author><text>Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools&#x27; prank. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neom</author><text>I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Coffee</title><url>https://www.microsoftcoffee.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brundolf</author><text>The news footage is pretty convincing</text></item><item><author>Geeflow</author><text>Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools&#x27; prank. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text>It ought to be possible to find another clip of the same anchors in the 90s, which would settle the issue. I spent a few minutes on Youtube and found a lot of KOMO news clips from 1995 but none with those anchors. I still think it&#x27;s authentic because it would be so hard to fake. If anyone really cared they could probably get someone at the TV station, which still exists (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;komonews.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;komonews.com&#x2F;</a>), to confirm that the clip is real.</text></comment> |
17,049,122 | 17,048,092 | 1 | 2 | 17,045,790 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?</title><text>Hi all,
Nearly an year ago, I faced a life-shattering crisis that completely wrecked my world view. Since then I have rebuilt up from scratch, and I have found that a lot of the things that I used to believe were false. Books such as Man&#x27;s Search for Meaning have been very pivotal in that regard. What books could you recommend for the same?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zuzuleinen</author><text>I highly recommend 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.<p>This book gave me the courage to take responsibility in my life and start working towards things which are important for myself. As the author once said, you don&#x27;t get not to pay a price, you only get what price to pay.<p>It actually gave me the courage to leave Berlin and go back to my country(Romania) which even though is more poor and low in quality of public services, my friends and family are there and they are a priority for me right now.<p>It also thought me to make small changes in my every day life even though is something as small as cleaning my room. And these small changes give me enough confidence to pursue bigger ones like quitting smoking for good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sarabande</author><text>This book was not worth the hype for me; I read the whole thing, but regret purchasing it.<p>- It sorely needed an editor. Echoing other&#x27;s sentiments, it could have been &lt; 1&#x2F;3 of its length. The writing style was rambling, overly emphatic, and arguments were often not coherent.<p>- It used a gratuitous amount of Bible quotes, which<p><pre><code> 1. weren&#x27;t necessary to make his point,
2. were often referenced as if they were data, and how people actually behave, rather than anecdotes&#x2F;fiction
</code></pre>
I got suckered into to buying the book because the author is a compelling public speaker. I enjoy his lectures.<p>In retrospect, though, part of what makes him a compelling public speaker are his highly emotional arguments, which don&#x27;t seem to be founded on great reasoning, and therefore make for a bad book, since we have more time to be critical about arguments when reading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?</title><text>Hi all,
Nearly an year ago, I faced a life-shattering crisis that completely wrecked my world view. Since then I have rebuilt up from scratch, and I have found that a lot of the things that I used to believe were false. Books such as Man&#x27;s Search for Meaning have been very pivotal in that regard. What books could you recommend for the same?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zuzuleinen</author><text>I highly recommend 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.<p>This book gave me the courage to take responsibility in my life and start working towards things which are important for myself. As the author once said, you don&#x27;t get not to pay a price, you only get what price to pay.<p>It actually gave me the courage to leave Berlin and go back to my country(Romania) which even though is more poor and low in quality of public services, my friends and family are there and they are a priority for me right now.<p>It also thought me to make small changes in my every day life even though is something as small as cleaning my room. And these small changes give me enough confidence to pursue bigger ones like quitting smoking for good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pulkitsh1234</author><text>For some reason I am repulsive towards &#x27;self-help&#x27; books.
I always have a feeling that you just cannot sum up all the things to be &quot;happy&quot; or &quot;content&quot; or whatever in one book.
I have seen numerous people who read inspirational quotes&#x2F;books but the act the opposite way.
I feel it is very difficult to change how the internals of a person work, reading a book will definitely push you in the right direction, motivate you, elate you, change your mental models[0]. But to bring those changes in your actual life, seems quite difficult and time consuming. Can your &quot;mental model&quot; be modified just by reading 1-2 books ?<p>I am interested to know, how often when you face a situation, you stop and think, oh I read this and that in a book, I should act this way instead of my natural intuition to do the other way.<p>Given the limited experience with life I have and the fact that I haven&#x27;t read any of the self-help books, I am willing to change my perspective regarding this. Will give a shot to &#x27;12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.&#x27;<p>[0] =&gt; &quot;It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-polymath-project&#x2F;its-okay-to-forget-what-you-read-f4ef1c34cc01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-polymath-project&#x2F;its-okay-to-forget-w...</a></text></comment> |
37,092,281 | 37,089,638 | 1 | 2 | 37,088,591 | train | <story><title>OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change</title><url>https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>I know most HN commentators are thinking about Terraform, but I think this change was done with Consul and Vault in mind.<p>Plenty of companies (including my employer) have been building fully monetized software using Consul and Vault under the hood and not paying them a dime. We&#x27;re a company that&#x27;s valued&#x2F;market capped in the Billions btw and I know plenty of other large software companies doing the same thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nilithus</author><text>I&#x27;m also surprised no one is really mentioning Nomad in this discussion either, I know for a fact circleci used nomad at some point to schedule CI tasks on worker machines. If I create a SaaS product that runs programs which get scheduled with nomad under the hood is that a breach of the license?</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change</title><url>https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>I know most HN commentators are thinking about Terraform, but I think this change was done with Consul and Vault in mind.<p>Plenty of companies (including my employer) have been building fully monetized software using Consul and Vault under the hood and not paying them a dime. We&#x27;re a company that&#x27;s valued&#x2F;market capped in the Billions btw and I know plenty of other large software companies doing the same thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubiquity</author><text>Do you resell services that would be competing with Vault and Consul? If not I don’t see how this applies to your company’s product.<p>Side note: I’m not defending the license change and generally think most of HashiCorp’s products are not that great.</text></comment> |
40,659,649 | 40,659,917 | 1 | 3 | 40,635,989 | train | <story><title>Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24171315/apple-messages-rcs-ios-18-imessage-green-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buildbot</author><text>It really degrades the experience and often does really wonky things, like delivery 3&#x2F;4 the messages to 3&#x2F;4 of the people. Happens nearly every time in a decently sized group text for my friend group.<p>I don’t know if that’s Google’s, Apple’s, RCS’s, or SMS’s fault.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s always a pain to figure out why a group chat is showing up green all of a sudden; you can&#x27;t tell who brought the Android to the party.<p>Genuinely curious -- why do you feel it&#x27;s necessary to figure that out at all?</text></item><item><author>andrewla</author><text>&gt; Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats, and chaos ensues.<p>This is not true -- messages from Android users show up as grey, the same as messages from iMessage. Messages from you *TO* Android users show up as green. I don&#x27;t know why people keep getting this wrong.<p>That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s always a pain to figure out why a group chat is showing up green all of a sudden; you can&#x27;t tell who brought the Android to the party.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>Is it not an option to use one of the many free OTT messengers such as Signal or WhatsApp that offer the same user experience as iMessage, but work for both major mobile OSes, and as an additional bonus don&#x27;t depend on 30 year old brittle protocols (looking at MMS here) and don&#x27;t hand over your entire conversation history to your carrier?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24171315/apple-messages-rcs-ios-18-imessage-green-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buildbot</author><text>It really degrades the experience and often does really wonky things, like delivery 3&#x2F;4 the messages to 3&#x2F;4 of the people. Happens nearly every time in a decently sized group text for my friend group.<p>I don’t know if that’s Google’s, Apple’s, RCS’s, or SMS’s fault.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s always a pain to figure out why a group chat is showing up green all of a sudden; you can&#x27;t tell who brought the Android to the party.<p>Genuinely curious -- why do you feel it&#x27;s necessary to figure that out at all?</text></item><item><author>andrewla</author><text>&gt; Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats, and chaos ensues.<p>This is not true -- messages from Android users show up as grey, the same as messages from iMessage. Messages from you *TO* Android users show up as green. I don&#x27;t know why people keep getting this wrong.<p>That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s always a pain to figure out why a group chat is showing up green all of a sudden; you can&#x27;t tell who brought the Android to the party.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>That is mostly SMS fault. It doesn&#x27;t guarantee reliable delivery either in theory or practice, and the carrier will happily drop messages if a resource limit is exceeded. Essentially all of the IP-based chat protocols are reliable, whether that is WhatsApp or iMessage.</text></comment> |
39,801,666 | 39,801,762 | 1 | 3 | 39,801,088 | train | <story><title>A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates</title><url>https://www.audioholics.com/news/a-return-to-blu-ray-as-streaming-value-evaporates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r0ze-at-hn</author><text>For those that have not visited your local library lately. Along with books, I regularly borrow audiobooks, whole tv series, movies, switch and ps5 games. And they give me access to yet another movie and music streaming service that they pay for. Once I add in the library system and requesting stuff from other libraries it is rarely that I can&#x27;t get access to something I am interested in.<p>This isn&#x27;t the library I went to as kids that had a tiny rack of VHS tapes in the back. They seem to have fully embraced the digital era.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>Some have, but this is far far from universal and it’s a bit annoying when people insist that it is all libraries.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates</title><url>https://www.audioholics.com/news/a-return-to-blu-ray-as-streaming-value-evaporates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r0ze-at-hn</author><text>For those that have not visited your local library lately. Along with books, I regularly borrow audiobooks, whole tv series, movies, switch and ps5 games. And they give me access to yet another movie and music streaming service that they pay for. Once I add in the library system and requesting stuff from other libraries it is rarely that I can&#x27;t get access to something I am interested in.<p>This isn&#x27;t the library I went to as kids that had a tiny rack of VHS tapes in the back. They seem to have fully embraced the digital era.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bibliotekka</author><text>Add on: ask your local library if they have: Libby, Kanopy or Hoopla</text></comment> |
19,046,744 | 19,046,911 | 1 | 2 | 19,046,108 | train | <story><title>UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019</title><url>https://www.myuv.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>This is why I only buy disks and rip them. My Plex server will never close down or tell me I can&#x27;t watch a movie anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>While my eBook library is pretty something, the storage costs to rip my movie library onto hard drives would be cost prohibitive. I do keep physical discs of the movies I really enjoy, and generally only buy digital during sales. Most of the &quot;value&quot; in my digital movie collection comes from digital copy redeems.<p>Vudu does $5 sales all the time, and the way I see it, that&#x27;s less than a movie ticket. So if I see it once, it was like going to see a movie, but with the theoretical hope of long-term persistence. The fact that MA insulates the risk of losing your titles across every major tech company adds to the comfort level now too, and as noted, nobody is losing their UV library when UV shuts down.</text></comment> | <story><title>UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019</title><url>https://www.myuv.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>This is why I only buy disks and rip them. My Plex server will never close down or tell me I can&#x27;t watch a movie anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>I used to buy apple videos and remove the DRM. But the tools that did that seem to have lost in there arms-race with apple.<p>I&#x27;m in the same boat. Disks it is, though they are such a pain.<p>Why can I buy music without DRM but video hasn&#x27;t followed that path?</text></comment> |
20,288,586 | 20,286,942 | 1 | 3 | 20,284,298 | train | <story><title>Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge</title><url>https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seieste</author><text>Yesterday I went to book a hotel and Priceline had a room for $129, which was $20 cheaper than Expedia or any other site.<p>Curious, I clicked on it and went to the Priceline site, and watched as a JavaScript animation “rolled” the price from $129 to $149 and alerted me that someone <i>just</i> got the last room. Obviously the whole thing was fake. (Why would they implement such an animation, and how likely is it that someone got the room in those two seconds?)<p>At this point, it’s not even nudging or dark patterns but just straight out fraud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjdemers</author><text>The fraud is the $129 room was gone hours, maybe days ago. It didn&#x27;t just sell, the web site simply quoted a price they though was low enough to keep you from looking elsewhere, within reason. Once you looked serious about booking, they actually checked the hotel&#x27;s inventory. You can really tell this happens when you try to book a room&#x2F;flight&#x2F;car that is sold out. They quote you a price, if you actually try to book, then, they tell you there is no space. Consolidator travel sites do not check the inventory of every room, flight, or car they quote you. They can&#x27;t possibly do that. They are all estimates until they see your credit card number. One other thing about travel booking: I don&#x27;t want the last or even second to last room at a hotel or seat on a plane. The chances of being bumped are too high. So telling me &quot;only 1 seat left&quot;, isn&#x27;t going to close the deal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge</title><url>https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seieste</author><text>Yesterday I went to book a hotel and Priceline had a room for $129, which was $20 cheaper than Expedia or any other site.<p>Curious, I clicked on it and went to the Priceline site, and watched as a JavaScript animation “rolled” the price from $129 to $149 and alerted me that someone <i>just</i> got the last room. Obviously the whole thing was fake. (Why would they implement such an animation, and how likely is it that someone got the room in those two seconds?)<p>At this point, it’s not even nudging or dark patterns but just straight out fraud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>el_benhameen</author><text>Had the same thing happen with Priceline just a few weeks ago, except instead of $20, the price was double the advertised price and only changed when I entered my payment info and tried to pay. I finally called and booked over the phone after having three different rooms double in price when I hit the confirmation button. The person on the other end must have really wanted to make the sale at that price, because they booked me for a month later than my request as the advertised price for my days seems to have just straight up not existed.<p>It was a pretty hellish experience trying to get them to change the dates, but in the end, they knew that I had a confirmation with my dates and I had paid, so it really would be fraud to not give me the room. Priceline: only once.</text></comment> |
20,604,193 | 20,603,522 | 1 | 2 | 20,602,960 | train | <story><title>Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996)</title><url>http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Earlier in dotcoms, I dug up his old email address this way, for a reason that seemed important at the time...<p>Some Google megacorp faceless bureaucracy combat drones (that was their initial approach) were trying to force me to give up a domain name, and implying they would take legal action and &quot;prevail&quot;. I couldn&#x27;t afford a lawyer, and I had better things to do with my time, but...<p>I wasn&#x27;t yet using the domain name, and probably would&#x27;ve let it expire if they&#x27;d never contacted me, but their heavy-handedness raised a moral concern. At the time, Google was considered good, and clearly it was very important to humanity at the time that Google be good and stay good.<p>The whole &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; seemed to come from recognizing that Google would likely be very powerful (this was pretty clear earlier, as soon as you used their prototype, and realized it was not only better than everything else, but that they were more competent than almost all other dotcommers). They were declaring upfront that they took the responsibility seriously, and wouldn&#x27;t abuse their position. And there was some early evidence that they believed in that (such as in objectivity of rankings, and being very clear about what was sponsored messages and not).<p>The domain name in question had been intended for a social commentary parody, of some social media manipulation behavior that had just started to emerge on a lesser Google property. I told the threatening lawyer-types that. I also pointed out that the domain name obviously would never be mistaken for a Google brand, and that I&#x27;m pretty sure that the bit of intentional similarity to one of their brands would be considered protected use in the US.<p>When they still wouldn&#x27;t back off -- and since I couldn&#x27;t afford a lawyer to argue the points, but I was concerned -- I looked for the founders&#x27; old email addresses, and used Brin&#x27;s (IIRC) to initiate a domain name transfer to him. Then I told the lawyer-types (and a PR contact there) something like, if they wanted the domain name, they&#x27;d have to talk to him about it, and maybe have a &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; discussion. IIRC, they said they&#x27;d wait for the domain to expire.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996)</title><url>http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pitchups</author><text>The most interesting part of this resume is hidden though. Click view source to see it..<p><pre><code> &lt;!--&lt;H4&gt;Objective:&lt;&#x2F;H4&gt;
A large office, good pay, and very little work.
Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.--&gt;</code></pre></text></comment> |
19,577,958 | 19,578,081 | 1 | 2 | 19,577,602 | train | <story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.&#x27;&#x27;<p>Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>781</author><text>Well, then I&#x27;m irrational too, because I won&#x27;t set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But Boeing has zero excuses for not immediately grounding the whole fleet after, and for putting out that useless recovery procedure which didn&#x27;t work in this case. They let a deadly plane fly for 5 months after they were aware of it, and after the second crash they were phoning Trump to keep it in the air.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.&#x27;&#x27;<p>Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>The main thing for me is that <i>NOW</i> pilots will be aware that there is a piece of software running in the background that might fight them. The first thing they will all learn is how to disable it so they can actually fly the airplane. That&#x27;s even without a software fix.<p>To me, it all comes down to to Boeing being able to self-certify their aircraft, and they knew they were sneaking the &quot;fix&quot; known as MCAS as a way to prevent loss of sales to A320. Super shady in my opinion.</text></comment> |
13,416,659 | 13,416,209 | 1 | 3 | 13,415,791 | train | <story><title>Yes, organic farming will kill us all</title><url>https://shift.newco.co/yes-organic-farming-will-kill-us-all-12d900979cf2#.gojjvvvs6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>The thing with conventional farming is that a lot of the costs (in terms of environmental damage which needs to be repaired) are currently externalized, i.e. payed for by the society, which indeed makes industrial farming more cost-effective than organic farming, at least for the farmer (though in many countries you can charge a good premium for organic food, which will often outweigh your additional cost). The same is true for the current industrialized way of raising livestock.<p>The real problem is properly accounting for all costs incurred by a given farming technique, which is difficult as the farming lobby seems to be one of the most effective ones in the world (at least judging from a European perspective).<p>In addition, the argument that industrial farming consistently produces higher yields than any organic farming technique seems at least a bit dubious to me, as there is a plethora of techniques that have been investigated over the years, and again the outcome of any study depends heavily on the timescale that you look at: Sure, heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides will increase yield in the short run, it might actually decrease yields in the long term by degrading soil quality and triggering a biological arms race that makes it impossible to do farming without the use of heavy pesticides in the long run. Also, the external cost in terms of health effects on the population is still poorly researched and not accounted for in most cost calculations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>The criticisms of conventional farming are valid, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that organic farming is any better.<p>I believe that organic farming is much more likely to cause soil degradation and environmental harm than conventional farming for several different reasons:<p>- organic farming&#x27;s main tool to combat weeds and regrowth is tillage, which causes immense amounts of damage to the soil directly and allowing the soil to blow away or wash away. Conventional farmers know how damaging tillage is and are increasingly moving away from it as pesticide alternatives become available. It was tillage that turned the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia into the deserts of Iraq.<p>- Organic farmers still use pesticides and herbicides, but they are limited to those that are certified organic. Organic pesticides and herbicides aren&#x27;t necessarily any safer for human consumption or for the environment, they&#x27;re just &quot;organic&quot;. For example, some organic farmers literally salt their soil. When the only thing you have in your toolbox is a hammer, that&#x27;s what you use, even when the situation calls for a scalpel.<p>- Conventional farmers care far more about the value of their land than organic farmers do. Farmers don&#x27;t have retirement funds, they&#x27;ve just got land on which they&#x27;ve spent the last 40 years paying off the mortgage. A conventional farmer with healthy soil can sell his land for a lot more than one with unhealthy soil. An farmer with land that&#x27;s &quot;certified organic&quot; doesn&#x27;t care, it&#x27;s that &quot;certified organic&quot; stamp that he&#x27;s getting paid for.<p>- Organic herbicides and pesticides are much less efficient than conventional ones. So they have to use much larger quantities. Which means more runoff. For instance, they sometimes spread massive amounts of manure on their fields, cause massive algal blooms in the waterways and destroying them.<p>- Conventional farmers are constrained by economics. They&#x27;re selling a commodity, where price == marginal cost. So the only way to make a profit is to have lower costs per unit of output than your competitors. Their major costs are diesel, herbicides &amp; pesticides -- minimizing those is both good for the farmer&#x27;s pocketbook and the environment. An organic farmer&#x27;s price is not set at the marginal cost, so it&#x27;s often better for them to increase inputs to increase yields, even when it&#x27;s not as efficient.<p>P.S. I gave 5 arguments. They are not equal. The first one (tillage) is orders of magnitude more significant than the other 4. Tillage destroys the soil, and is far more &quot;unnatural&quot; than any sort of herbicide or pesticide organic or conventional.</text></comment> | <story><title>Yes, organic farming will kill us all</title><url>https://shift.newco.co/yes-organic-farming-will-kill-us-all-12d900979cf2#.gojjvvvs6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>The thing with conventional farming is that a lot of the costs (in terms of environmental damage which needs to be repaired) are currently externalized, i.e. payed for by the society, which indeed makes industrial farming more cost-effective than organic farming, at least for the farmer (though in many countries you can charge a good premium for organic food, which will often outweigh your additional cost). The same is true for the current industrialized way of raising livestock.<p>The real problem is properly accounting for all costs incurred by a given farming technique, which is difficult as the farming lobby seems to be one of the most effective ones in the world (at least judging from a European perspective).<p>In addition, the argument that industrial farming consistently produces higher yields than any organic farming technique seems at least a bit dubious to me, as there is a plethora of techniques that have been investigated over the years, and again the outcome of any study depends heavily on the timescale that you look at: Sure, heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides will increase yield in the short run, it might actually decrease yields in the long term by degrading soil quality and triggering a biological arms race that makes it impossible to do farming without the use of heavy pesticides in the long run. Also, the external cost in terms of health effects on the population is still poorly researched and not accounted for in most cost calculations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuschku</author><text>And there is a huge unspoken problem yet.<p>In many areas of northern Germany, even with the extremely strict limits on fertilizer and pesticides that Germany has, the drinking water, rivers and oceans are getting so massively polluted that we’re seeing massive algae blooms and drinking water slowly becoming undrinkable.<p>It’s a massive problem, and there’s no way to solve these without massively reducing fertilizer and pesticide use.<p>If the choice is between being able to feed less humans, and having no drinking water, I’m sure which one I’ll pick.<p>EDIT: Because I’m getting downvoted, here are some sources:<p>&gt; EU sues Germany over water tainted by nitrate fertilizer<p>&gt; The European Commission has lost patience with Germany over the high concentration of nitrate fertilizer in its ground water. Taxpayers could now end up paying hundreds of millions of euros in fines.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;rapid&#x2F;press-release_IP-16-1453_en.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;rapid&#x2F;press-release_IP-16-1453_en.htm</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;eu-sues-germany-over-water-tainted-by-nitrate-fertilizer&#x2F;a-19225653" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;eu-sues-germany-over-water-tainted-by-n...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.de&#x2F;20161107&#x2F;eu-sues-germany-over-water-polluting-farming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.de&#x2F;20161107&#x2F;eu-sues-germany-over-water-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.euractiv.com&#x2F;section&#x2F;agriculture-food&#x2F;news&#x2F;eu-takes-germany-to-court-over-high-nitrate-levels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.euractiv.com&#x2F;section&#x2F;agriculture-food&#x2F;news&#x2F;eu-ta...</a></text></comment> |
20,387,926 | 20,386,782 | 1 | 3 | 20,383,336 | train | <story><title>Being Bored Is Good</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-being-bored-is-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokoon</author><text>I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure.<p>Meanwhile I&#x27;m able to write about game ideas, code them, create some characters and story and background, even though it doesn&#x27;t lead to anything since it&#x27;s more of a hobby, but I fail to make it into a job. I love to think, create, try to design little things, and honestly that&#x27;s the best pleasure I have.<p>In the end, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m really unhappy. Nihilism is a good way to cope with my own reality. I don&#x27;t think people who fill their time with a job to kill the boredom are doing themselves a favor. The philosophy of contributing to society to gain money, quality holidays and entertainment seems weird to me.<p>I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don&#x27;t understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you&#x27;re just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don&#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brokenmachine</author><text>&gt;I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don&#x27;t understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you&#x27;re just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don&#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.<p>Everyone reading this will be dead in 90 years. We are stranded on a giant rock spinning through frozen space.<p>At the end of it all there will be nothing but the heat death of the universe. Nothing and nobody will survive.<p>There is no larger purpose. There will be nobody alive to remember any good or bad deeds you may do.<p>Fortunately, you have the choice to either be depressed about it, or try to enjoy as much of it as you can while you can.<p>I enjoy listening to and producing music and playing sport. Also enjoying nature and peace and quiet. I like nice food and spending time with my partner.<p>I love my life, except work which to me is an unfortunate necessity. I just try to maximize my enjoyment and that makes me feel alive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Being Bored Is Good</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-being-bored-is-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokoon</author><text>I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure.<p>Meanwhile I&#x27;m able to write about game ideas, code them, create some characters and story and background, even though it doesn&#x27;t lead to anything since it&#x27;s more of a hobby, but I fail to make it into a job. I love to think, create, try to design little things, and honestly that&#x27;s the best pleasure I have.<p>In the end, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m really unhappy. Nihilism is a good way to cope with my own reality. I don&#x27;t think people who fill their time with a job to kill the boredom are doing themselves a favor. The philosophy of contributing to society to gain money, quality holidays and entertainment seems weird to me.<p>I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don&#x27;t understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you&#x27;re just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don&#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ne01</author><text>&gt; In my own conception of life, I just don&#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.<p>Then you must ask why those who have accomplished their dreams (doing what they want) still feel lost. I know many.<p>The real question is: what can complete the emptiness that I feel?<p>The answer is simple: Nothing! There is no emptiness -- stop imagining one.<p>Do what your heart desires, experience life, create stuff, change the world as you wish, but remember, oh my friend, you are not just this!</text></comment> |
36,396,060 | 36,395,985 | 1 | 2 | 36,394,569 | train | <story><title>AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wbobeirne</author><text>&gt; With this new UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, the user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished.<p>This doesn&#x27;t seem like a whole new paradigm, we already do that. When I hit the &quot;add comment&quot; button below, I&#x27;m not specifically instructing the web server how I want my comment inserted into a database (if it even is a database at all.) This is just another abstraction on top of an already very tall layer of abstractions. Whether it&#x27;s AI under the hood, or a million monkeys with a million typewriters, it doesn&#x27;t change my interaction at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timon3</author><text>I think the important part from the article that establishes the difference is this:<p>&gt; As I mentioned, in command-based interactions, the user issues commands to the computer one at a time, gradually producing the desired result (if the design has sufficient usability to allow people to understand what commands to issue at each step). The computer is fully obedient and does exactly what it’s told. The downside is that low usability often causes users to issue commands that do something different than what the users really want.<p>Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re creating a new picture from nothing in Photoshop. You will have to build up your image layer by layer, piece by piece, command by command. Generative AI does the same in one stroke.<p>Something similar holds for your comment: you had to navigate your browser (or app) to the comment section of this article, enter your comment, and click &quot;add comment&quot;. With an AI system with good usability you could presumably enter &quot;write the following comment under this article on HN: ...&quot;, and have your comment be posted.<p>The difference lies on the axis of &quot;power of individual commands&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wbobeirne</author><text>&gt; With this new UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, the user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished.<p>This doesn&#x27;t seem like a whole new paradigm, we already do that. When I hit the &quot;add comment&quot; button below, I&#x27;m not specifically instructing the web server how I want my comment inserted into a database (if it even is a database at all.) This is just another abstraction on top of an already very tall layer of abstractions. Whether it&#x27;s AI under the hood, or a million monkeys with a million typewriters, it doesn&#x27;t change my interaction at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>If I had a spectrum of purely imperative on one side and purely declarative on the other, these new AIs are much closer to the latter than anything that has come before them.<p>SQL errors if you don’t write in very specific language. These new AIs will accept anything and give it their best shot.</text></comment> |
13,822,782 | 13,820,972 | 1 | 3 | 13,819,604 | train | <story><title>Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code</title><url>https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/03/07/attitudes-maintainable-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>I think you can write any program using only advanced concepts from the problem domain, not advanced concepts from programming itself. For example, I&#x27;ll happily implement a difficult numerical algorithm for inverting a matrix, but I won&#x27;t write a monad framework in C++ for that. IMO there are almost no projects that call for programming cleverness (as opposed to problem domain cleverness). You can get very far with boring imperative code that any beginner can read, with powerful algorithms introduced only locally and documented clearly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manmal</author><text>With some caveats. Execute 10 network requests in parallel on background threads, then reconcile their results, after that fire off another 3 requests in parallel (again, on a background thread), reconcile all the values you got so far, and return to the main thread. Oh and repeat the whole thing every time the user session&#x27;s token changes, or the user requests a manual refresh. Also don&#x27;t forget to cancel all running requests when the process is interrupted before it is finished. One more thing: If one request fails, bubble the error to the main thread and skip all subsequently planned requests.<p>You CAN solve this with counters and locks (be careful about deadlocks though), but you will save yourself a lot of pain if you just use a FRP framework. You will also be able to easily react to the things you forgot (&quot;Oh the requests should also be halted and retried after connectivity is lost&quot;).<p>So where do you draw the line? Do you spare your coworkers the agony of learning FRP or do you implement something where you suspect it will horribly crash and burn in production?</text></comment> | <story><title>Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code</title><url>https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/03/07/attitudes-maintainable-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>I think you can write any program using only advanced concepts from the problem domain, not advanced concepts from programming itself. For example, I&#x27;ll happily implement a difficult numerical algorithm for inverting a matrix, but I won&#x27;t write a monad framework in C++ for that. IMO there are almost no projects that call for programming cleverness (as opposed to problem domain cleverness). You can get very far with boring imperative code that any beginner can read, with powerful algorithms introduced only locally and documented clearly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasim</author><text>Give me my procedures, conditionals, and loops, and I shall move mountains.<p>Assembler (Prince of Persia): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmechner&#x2F;Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmechner&#x2F;Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II</a><p>BASIC: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;149457&#x2F;was-classical-basic-ever-used-for-commercial-software-development-and-if-so-ho" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14945...</a></text></comment> |
26,315,857 | 26,312,189 | 1 | 2 | 26,309,367 | train | <story><title>Low Earth Orbit Visualization</title><url>https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveslash</author><text>This is bit of an off-topic question, and I realize that it might sound a bit <i>&quot;out there&quot;</i>, but I&#x27;m compelled to ask and I&#x27;ll take the down-votes that I deserve:<p>Twice in my life I have seen what I believed to be a satellite make a sudden and abrupt (near instantaneous) 90-degree turn. I realize this is impossible [probably?], which is why I ask. Once was in 1992 - and I spent nearly 30 years telling myself I mis-remembered. And the second time was in 2018 while backpacking with my wife - she was a second witness and confirmed that we saw the same thing. Both times the turn occurred when directly over-head.<p>When casually stargazing, I don&#x27;t spot the satellites when they first pop up on the horizon. I usually spot them around 30-45 degrees above the horizon. One way to differentiate between an aircraft and a satellite is the blinking, but that&#x27;s not always reliable - so a more reliable way is to note how quickly the &quot;perceived&quot; speed changes as it moves from 30-degrees towards the azimuth. The larger the change in perceived speed, the lower the altitude, while constant speed indicates orbit.<p>In both cases, I was casually looking at the sky - I had no measurement or recording tools. In both cases I took mental note of the speed when I first spotted it and how it changed (or didn&#x27;t) as it moved. I mentally noted that that both appeared to be a satellite. Obviously, a 90 degree turn is impossible (?), which leads me to guess that I may have seen an extremely high altitude, high speed, aircraft make a near 90 degree turn while reflecting sunlight shortly after sunset. This also seems to be a stretch.<p>I hate to ask such far-fetched &quot;I saw...&quot; questions here, but it&#x27;s been driving me nuts since 1992. All attempts at research have been fruitless. I thought maybe someone here could help?</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>Many people don&#x27;t know that you can actually see some of these satellites in the sky as they pass overhead, without a telescope or anything. I made a site to help catch them, which has been on HN before: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cnity</author><text>An object moving through the sky at a far distance from you is moving through 3D space. It appears to you to move in 2D space because of the fact that the image is being projected onto the back of your eyes, and our eyes aren&#x27;t far enough apart to discern depth beyond a certain distance.<p>That object could appear to turn &quot;90 degrees&quot; in _two dimensions_ when actually it changes course by a smaller angle in 3D space.<p>Imagine a satellite is heading straight for you. It would appear to not be moving at all. Now imagine it is moving toward but slightly below you. It will now appear to be moving slowly &quot;straight down&quot; from your perspective, but actually, it could be moving towards you at high speed.<p>Now imagine there is a small impact with the satellite that causes it to bump up and right slightly from its current trajectory. It might now suddenly look like it&#x27;s moving entirely rightwards, from your perspective, but it is still moving towards you.<p>This is hard to explain without visualisation, but completely explains all of these anecdotes about sudden direction changes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Low Earth Orbit Visualization</title><url>https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveslash</author><text>This is bit of an off-topic question, and I realize that it might sound a bit <i>&quot;out there&quot;</i>, but I&#x27;m compelled to ask and I&#x27;ll take the down-votes that I deserve:<p>Twice in my life I have seen what I believed to be a satellite make a sudden and abrupt (near instantaneous) 90-degree turn. I realize this is impossible [probably?], which is why I ask. Once was in 1992 - and I spent nearly 30 years telling myself I mis-remembered. And the second time was in 2018 while backpacking with my wife - she was a second witness and confirmed that we saw the same thing. Both times the turn occurred when directly over-head.<p>When casually stargazing, I don&#x27;t spot the satellites when they first pop up on the horizon. I usually spot them around 30-45 degrees above the horizon. One way to differentiate between an aircraft and a satellite is the blinking, but that&#x27;s not always reliable - so a more reliable way is to note how quickly the &quot;perceived&quot; speed changes as it moves from 30-degrees towards the azimuth. The larger the change in perceived speed, the lower the altitude, while constant speed indicates orbit.<p>In both cases, I was casually looking at the sky - I had no measurement or recording tools. In both cases I took mental note of the speed when I first spotted it and how it changed (or didn&#x27;t) as it moved. I mentally noted that that both appeared to be a satellite. Obviously, a 90 degree turn is impossible (?), which leads me to guess that I may have seen an extremely high altitude, high speed, aircraft make a near 90 degree turn while reflecting sunlight shortly after sunset. This also seems to be a stretch.<p>I hate to ask such far-fetched &quot;I saw...&quot; questions here, but it&#x27;s been driving me nuts since 1992. All attempts at research have been fruitless. I thought maybe someone here could help?</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>Many people don&#x27;t know that you can actually see some of these satellites in the sky as they pass overhead, without a telescope or anything. I made a site to help catch them, which has been on HN before: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andbberger</author><text>First thought is two separate satellites whose orbits appeared to intersect at the same time they faded&#x2F;became visible respectively.<p>Any abrupt change in heading is indeed pretty much impossible. A 90 degree plane change would require a staggering amount of delta-v.</text></comment> |
4,206,615 | 4,206,010 | 1 | 3 | 4,205,553 | train | <story><title>Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-judge-posner-us-patent-system-out-of-sync-20120705,0,4814825.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Posner's right. It seems that there needs to be some new notion of what constitutes patentability.<p>Drugs are an interesting case as they have these factors going for it:<p>1) Expensive to bring IP to market. Lots of testing and clinical trials for drugs. For SW it is pretty cheap now.<p>2) Easy and cheap to copy. Generic versions can be reverse-engineered quickly. Probably just as easy to copy software, but I still feel like this is probably a useful pillar.<p>3) The IP by itself constitutes the majority of the value of the product. In medicine there isn't typically tons of other IP around that come together to form the product. In SW there is rarely a single piece of IP that is more than a small fraction of the value of the product.<p>4) The IP has longevity as a standalone product. Viagra can be sold for decades. Aspirin still probably does hundreds of millions in revenue. There is little SW IP that, by itself, has longevity. The nature of SW is to continuously improve it.<p>5) Time to market isn't a huge advantage. Since most medicine is just sold as effectively a commodity, being 6m ahead of your competition usually just means you have 6 extra months of revenue. Whereas in SW it also means that gives you 6 months to build on your current IP. In medicine you don't typically do Viagra 2.0, with a boatload of new IP that makes the original obsolete (and hence any competitors shipping the old version scrambling).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>People love to cite drugs as being a case where patents work well. But patents are far from a perfect fit for this problem.<p>Among other reasons, in an industry that is entirely dependent upon patent protection to defray the costs of getting FDA approval, it is impossible to get treatments through the approval process when they are not covered by patent.<p>For example somewhere on the order of half a million people in North America have Crohn's disease. This is a rather nasty sickness that destroys quality of life, and requires lots of rounds of only marginally effective medication. Research indicates that hookworm infection is an effective treatment. The FDA has decided that this treatment requires their approval. But you can't patent hookworms, and therefore nobody will pay for the necessary tests to get FDA approval. And so a half-million people continue to suffer.<p>If the rules were changed to grant a temporary monopoly to the company that got FDA approval for a treatment, this problem would vanish. A number of known treatments would go through trials and get approved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-judge-posner-us-patent-system-out-of-sync-20120705,0,4814825.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Posner's right. It seems that there needs to be some new notion of what constitutes patentability.<p>Drugs are an interesting case as they have these factors going for it:<p>1) Expensive to bring IP to market. Lots of testing and clinical trials for drugs. For SW it is pretty cheap now.<p>2) Easy and cheap to copy. Generic versions can be reverse-engineered quickly. Probably just as easy to copy software, but I still feel like this is probably a useful pillar.<p>3) The IP by itself constitutes the majority of the value of the product. In medicine there isn't typically tons of other IP around that come together to form the product. In SW there is rarely a single piece of IP that is more than a small fraction of the value of the product.<p>4) The IP has longevity as a standalone product. Viagra can be sold for decades. Aspirin still probably does hundreds of millions in revenue. There is little SW IP that, by itself, has longevity. The nature of SW is to continuously improve it.<p>5) Time to market isn't a huge advantage. Since most medicine is just sold as effectively a commodity, being 6m ahead of your competition usually just means you have 6 extra months of revenue. Whereas in SW it also means that gives you 6 months to build on your current IP. In medicine you don't typically do Viagra 2.0, with a boatload of new IP that makes the original obsolete (and hence any competitors shipping the old version scrambling).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cushman</author><text>&#62; In medicine you don't typically do Viagra 2.0, with a boatload of new IP that makes the original obsolete (and hence any competitors shipping the old version scrambling).<p>Actually, there is an entire class of drugs known in medicine as "patent extenders". Take your expiring patented drug, alter the formulation, or attach an unnecessary chemical group that doesn't affect the mechanism of action, et voila! Twenty more years of monopoly.<p>As a result of this, there are drugs which were prescribed twenty years ago that are no longer available-- since the original developer has moved on to an "improved" version which may be less effective, while the generic version is not profitable enough to be widely available.<p>What this means for intellectual property, I'm not sure. It's a tricky issue.</text></comment> |
22,354,105 | 22,354,113 | 1 | 3 | 22,349,677 | train | <story><title>DisplayPort and 4K</title><url>https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/02/16/displayport-4k/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>You forgot to mention that besides royalties, the main reason HDMI is used in consumers electronics is that it also streams audio with CEC as apposed to Display Port that only does video.<p>For most consumers, plugging in just one cable that does <i>everything</i> is a lot more convenient.<p>Edit: sorry, didn&#x27;t know DP can also stream audio, my bad</text></item><item><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>HDMI exists because the corporations behind the HDMI group are the ones that make most of the TVs and dvd boxes. So by pushing HDMI they get to use it for free while the competitors have to pay extra and are at a disadvantage. Nvidia and AMD are not on the HDMI group which is why on pro and enthusiast hardware displayport is pushed much more. My current gpu has 3 displayport and 1 hdmi.<p>On the tv side, the benefits of displayport are less important since most users are not watching 4k 144hz content and hdmi is now capable of playing 4k at 60hz. So hdmi is not only pushed by the corporations but is also the most convenient option the users want since all of their other hardware uses hdmi and it works fine.<p>Honestly I think GPUs should drop the hdmi port entirely and ship with a displayport to hdmi cable which works fine because displayport gpus also support hdmi and dvi over the dp port.</text></item><item><author>proverbialbunny</author><text>I&#x27;m an early adopter of 4k60. If you write code and you&#x27;re not on 4k, you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re missing. 4k is great.<p>Back then display port ran at 60fps, and hdmi ran at 30fps. My hardware has changed and moved on, but I still default to using a display port cable. It&#x27;s rare to not find a graphics card without display port, and it&#x27;s rare to find a monitor without one, so I&#x27;ve never had a reason to try HDMI. As far as I can tell it&#x27;s a stubborn format that continue to fight to live on. Frankly, I don&#x27;t really get why we still have HDMI today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmiserez</author><text>DisplayPort does audio. The main reason for HDMI is DRM.</text></comment> | <story><title>DisplayPort and 4K</title><url>https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/02/16/displayport-4k/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>You forgot to mention that besides royalties, the main reason HDMI is used in consumers electronics is that it also streams audio with CEC as apposed to Display Port that only does video.<p>For most consumers, plugging in just one cable that does <i>everything</i> is a lot more convenient.<p>Edit: sorry, didn&#x27;t know DP can also stream audio, my bad</text></item><item><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>HDMI exists because the corporations behind the HDMI group are the ones that make most of the TVs and dvd boxes. So by pushing HDMI they get to use it for free while the competitors have to pay extra and are at a disadvantage. Nvidia and AMD are not on the HDMI group which is why on pro and enthusiast hardware displayport is pushed much more. My current gpu has 3 displayport and 1 hdmi.<p>On the tv side, the benefits of displayport are less important since most users are not watching 4k 144hz content and hdmi is now capable of playing 4k at 60hz. So hdmi is not only pushed by the corporations but is also the most convenient option the users want since all of their other hardware uses hdmi and it works fine.<p>Honestly I think GPUs should drop the hdmi port entirely and ship with a displayport to hdmi cable which works fine because displayport gpus also support hdmi and dvi over the dp port.</text></item><item><author>proverbialbunny</author><text>I&#x27;m an early adopter of 4k60. If you write code and you&#x27;re not on 4k, you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re missing. 4k is great.<p>Back then display port ran at 60fps, and hdmi ran at 30fps. My hardware has changed and moved on, but I still default to using a display port cable. It&#x27;s rare to not find a graphics card without display port, and it&#x27;s rare to find a monitor without one, so I&#x27;ve never had a reason to try HDMI. As far as I can tell it&#x27;s a stubborn format that continue to fight to live on. Frankly, I don&#x27;t really get why we still have HDMI today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bgorman</author><text>This is a common misconception. However DisplayPort transmits audio as well.</text></comment> |
28,563,697 | 28,563,252 | 1 | 3 | 28,562,512 | train | <story><title>A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1002894521</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>One problem with the article is they again claim trees take away carbon from atmosphere.<p>This is only true if you look at short term. In long term trees do nothing to CO2 because they only participate in a <i>CYCLE</i>.<p>For carbon to be permanently removed the tree would have to be somehow buried forever. For these sequoias the future is either they burn or they fall down and rot. In both cases the carbon is released.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1002894521</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wedesoft</author><text>According to [1] there were more fires during the medieval warm period. &quot;The scientists found the years from 800 to 1300, known as the Medieval Warm Period, had the most frequent fires in the 3,000 years studied.&quot;<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2010-03-giant-sequoias-yield-longest-history.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2010-03-giant-sequoias-yield-longest-h...</a></text></comment> |
18,383,531 | 18,382,212 | 1 | 2 | 18,381,640 | train | <story><title>Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charlysl</author><text>I have read CTM, the author&#x27;s book. He did in fact dislike the word &quot;paradigm&quot; and prefered &quot;computation model&quot; instead.<p>A model is a set of concepts. A concept is an orthogonal language feature, like closures, concurrency, explicit state (which he now calls named state), exceptions, etc.<p>His approach is not so much that you should select one language that supports a paradigm that seems the most suitable for a given project. Rather, what he advocates is that you should use a language that supports multiple cleanly separated concepts (close to what is called multiparadigm), and then you select the simplest set of concepts for each program component.<p>This is the principle of least expresiveness, you should choose the simplest model (simple meaning that it is easy to reason about and to get right) that keeps the code natural (meaning there is little code unrelated to the problem at hand, little plumbing).<p>Each model has an associated set of programming techniques, like accumulators for FP or transactions for stateful concurrency.<p>It is possible to mix and match components that are written in different models by using impedance matching, which consists of creating an abstraction in the more expressive model that wraps the other component. An example would be a serializer, which allows you to plug a non concurrent component in concurrent program.<p>Basically, you should use FP as much as you can, but you can&#x27;t if your program needs, say, visible non-determinism, like a server in a client-server application. But then you can add just one concept, ports, to the declarative concurrent model, and you have a new model that allows a whole constellation of new programming techniques, the concurrent message passing model, Erlang-like. The non-determinism in this model is restricted to the ports, the only place where it&#x27;s required, the rest of the program can still be functional.<p>Other situations where FP might get stretched are when modularity or performance are a priority.<p>This book helped me realize the whole FP vs OO debate is sterile, the ideal is to have a language that allows you to use FP in a natural way, and switch to, say, OO, in a natural way in some cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randcraw</author><text>Relevant references...<p>A 2004 textbook by the OP:<p>Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Programming&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0262220695" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-P...</a><p>And his 6 week edX course:<p>Paradigms of Computer Programming – Fundamentals<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;paradigms-of-computer-programming-fundamentals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;paradigms-of-computer-programming...</a></text></comment> |
34,913,937 | 34,914,157 | 1 | 2 | 34,911,824 | train | <story><title>Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-startup-surge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Good. Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It&#x27;s never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product. These are the companies that will end up ultimately challenging them down the road for talent and potentially even hitting at their core business models of search and commerce (we&#x27;ve already seen hints of start ups rising to do this, like OpenAI challenging search and Shopify testing the waters of it&#x27;s own fulfillment network).<p>It&#x27;s going to be interesting to watch Google and Amazon become so dependent on their infrastructure revenue that they essentially turn into the Oracle&#x2F;IBM of today. Hope all those layoffs were worth it for the bottom line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arbuge</author><text>&gt; Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It&#x27;s never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product.<p>The second statement does not follow from the first.<p>What is true (partly because of the first statement) is that building is now easier than ever. Precisely because of that, however, rising above all the noise and reaching millions of users is now arguably harder than it was previously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-startup-surge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Good. Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It&#x27;s never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product. These are the companies that will end up ultimately challenging them down the road for talent and potentially even hitting at their core business models of search and commerce (we&#x27;ve already seen hints of start ups rising to do this, like OpenAI challenging search and Shopify testing the waters of it&#x27;s own fulfillment network).<p>It&#x27;s going to be interesting to watch Google and Amazon become so dependent on their infrastructure revenue that they essentially turn into the Oracle&#x2F;IBM of today. Hope all those layoffs were worth it for the bottom line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Salgat</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why Google and Amazon would invest all this money in these employees building up their tech and tribal knowledge just to lay them off. Do these companies not expect to grow in the future? Seems like just freezing hiring for a year or two would save you more money in the long run rather than having to rehire and rebuild all this expertise.</text></comment> |
30,604,051 | 30,601,555 | 1 | 2 | 30,600,525 | train | <story><title>WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas</title><url>https://surma.dev/things/webgpu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>I&#x27;ve busted my ass on webgl a few times, and I am not really seeing how WebGPU is a substantially better API looking at the samples in the wild:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;demos&#x2F;webgpu&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;hello-triangle.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;demos&#x2F;webgpu&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;hello-triangle.js</a><p>The advantages of WebGPU vs WebGL probably make sense to experts in this area, but I still find most of it to be completely impenetrable at first glance as a relative novice.</text></comment> | <story><title>WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas</title><url>https://surma.dev/things/webgpu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eole666</author><text>For those looking for a complete 3D engine already supporting WebGPU and with a WebGL fallback if needed, there is BabylonJs (you&#x27;ll need the 5.0 version still in the release candidate state) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.babylonjs.com&#x2F;advanced_topics&#x2F;webGPU&#x2F;webGPUStatus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.babylonjs.com&#x2F;advanced_topics&#x2F;webGPU&#x2F;webGPUStatu...</a><p>ThreeJs is alwo working on its WebGPU renderer</text></comment> |
16,573,805 | 16,573,323 | 1 | 2 | 16,569,653 | train | <story><title>Modeling Redux with TLA+</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-redux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>His main site he mentions at the end is learntla.com. That&#x27;s a good tutorial for using a subset of it that will get stuff done without trying to read a bunch of books on heavier stuff. He and I both also recommend Alloy for a taste in formal methods or blueprints like fouc said since it&#x27;s designed for beginners with good guides and tutorials. TLA+&#x2F;PlusCal with its model-checker is better at modeling order of execution (esp concurrency&#x2F;distributed) whereas Alloy&#x27;s is focused on structure of your program. Finally, Design-by-Contract combined with property-based testing or AFL-style testing with properties&#x2F;contracts as runtime checks is probably combo most applicable to most programming languages and situations. If you know conditionals, you can use DbC in a lots of situations.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alloytools.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alloytools.org</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;~wstomv&#x2F;edu&#x2F;2ip30&#x2F;references&#x2F;design-by-contract&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;~wstomv&#x2F;edu&#x2F;2ip30&#x2F;references&#x2F;design-b...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hillelwayne.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;pbt-contracts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hillelwayne.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;pbt-contracts&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Modeling Redux with TLA+</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-redux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mettamage</author><text>Sidenote: I remember that my teacher Maarten van Steen (who taught distributed systems at my university) talked about Leslie Lamport and I remember that he started TLA+. If you don&#x27;t know about any of this, I invite you to take a look.<p>Background info on Lamport [1]. Maarten van Steen offers his book for free on distributed systems. See [2].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Leslie_Lamport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Leslie_Lamport</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.distributed-systems.net&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;books&#x2F;distributed-systems-3rd-edition-2017&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.distributed-systems.net&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;books&#x2F;distribu...</a></text></comment> |
13,489,542 | 13,489,012 | 1 | 2 | 13,488,096 | train | <story><title>New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-spacesuit-unveiled-for-starliner-astronauts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbenjaminsmith</author><text>I think it&#x27;s generally agreed upon that the Space Shuttle program was needlessly wasteful and more PR- than science-driven. A heavy space plane has zero advantages over a capsule for most work done in LEO. It&#x27;s good to see this renewed focus on more practical designs.<p>(If that&#x27;s incorrect and you&#x27;re qualified to correct me please do.)<p><i>Having said that</i>, the name Starliner writes a check that a manned capsule won&#x27;t ever be able to cash. This is the first time I&#x27;ve heard of Boeing&#x27;s Starliner and it got me really, really excited until I pulled up a picture of it. They really should have picked a less grandiose name.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-spacesuit-unveiled-for-starliner-astronauts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>The_Magistrate</author><text>These are just suits meant for in-vehicle use and not meant for EVAs, correct?</text></comment> |
7,210,251 | 7,210,305 | 1 | 3 | 7,210,064 | train | <story><title>Broken by design: systemd</title><url>http://ewontfix.com/14</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>Nice article, but at this point it&#x27;s game, set, match -- systemd has won. The Linux community overwhelmingly supports it, and its advantages clearly outweigh its perceived disadvantages.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not Unix&quot; is no longer a valid critique. The old Unix design philosophy is dead. People want systems of components that function as an integrated whole. They do NOT want pieces that are generally unaware of each other (this is touted as the virtue of &quot;loose coupling&quot;).<p>Yes, pid 1 does a lot. That&#x27;s by necessity. It&#x27;s not your grandpap&#x27;s Unix anymore. Do you want to control all the system services, including the &quot;badly behaved&quot; ones? That functionality needs to be in pid 1. Do you want to bring the system up safely and sanely, accounting for things like hotplugged disks in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;fstab? That functionality needs to be in pid 1. Systemd is the correct design for modern Linux. It also brings the advantage of better integration and greater commonality across distros.</text></comment> | <story><title>Broken by design: systemd</title><url>http://ewontfix.com/14</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oofabz</author><text>&gt; PID 1 brings down the whole system when it crashes. This matters because systemd is complex.<p>The Linux kernel is much more complex and also brings down the whole system when it crashes.<p>&gt; Attack Surface<p>Sysvinit runs shell scripts and has known race conditions. A system like that is not secure by design. It is as secure as it is because exploits were fixed one by one over the years.<p>&gt; Reboot to Upgrade<p>You must also reboot to upgrade sysvinit.</text></comment> |
41,239,711 | 41,236,832 | 1 | 2 | 41,234,713 | train | <story><title>Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI</title><url>https://github.com/jianchang512/pyvideotrans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vouaobrasil</author><text>Unlike other methods of automation, AI is replacing human beings too fast. And before you say, &quot;new jobs will be created&quot; -- look at history. After the computer, new jobs have been created, but what kind of jobs? Every year, we are becoming more entwined in wage slavery as the wealth accumulates at the top and jobs become more meaningless.<p>So, no, new jobs will not be created, except the kind of jobs that crush the human spirit into oblivion so that the rich tech oligarchs can play God.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza234</author><text>This is a fallacy called &quot;Lump of labour fallacy&quot; (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lump_of_labour_fallacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lump_of_labour_fallacy</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI</title><url>https://github.com/jianchang512/pyvideotrans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vouaobrasil</author><text>Unlike other methods of automation, AI is replacing human beings too fast. And before you say, &quot;new jobs will be created&quot; -- look at history. After the computer, new jobs have been created, but what kind of jobs? Every year, we are becoming more entwined in wage slavery as the wealth accumulates at the top and jobs become more meaningless.<p>So, no, new jobs will not be created, except the kind of jobs that crush the human spirit into oblivion so that the rich tech oligarchs can play God.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>insane_dreamer</author><text>The problem is that we are hurtling towards the unknown without a plan, driven by the “need” to make higher returns for shareholders and to capture the new market.
It may be that some new types of employment magically appear that soak up the jobs lost, but you can be sure there is no one working on solving that problem since the goal is to eliminate labor not create it.</text></comment> |
19,457,835 | 19,456,081 | 1 | 3 | 19,455,762 | train | <story><title>US Army applying new areas of math</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/03/21/us-army-math/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>To be very honest, count me in as one of these. I am someone who works for a gov&#x27;t lab, but I do &quot;very pure&quot; scientific research. It&#x27;s not that our research doesn&#x27;t have &quot;defense applications,&quot; it might eventually, but we are definitely a few steps removed from say CFD modeling of airplane wings.<p>The thing is traditional sources of funding suck, and gov&#x27;t labs give researchers a much better environment than the endlessly political academia. Moreover, while the contractor we work with has something like a 30% odd markup for grants, the nearest university (that I got my PhD from) takes a whopping 56% of grant money as &quot;overhead,&quot; I imagine to pay the salaries of the President, coaches, and superstar medical faculty salaries, as well as the new development all along the nearby street.<p>I&#x27;m happy for my job, I just am embarrassed when I tell people I work for the military because they think I make bombs or something.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Army applying new areas of math</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/03/21/us-army-math/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>I wonder if there&#x27;s anyone here working on Homotopy Type Theory that can explain what it is, and how it is used in modeling?<p>I skimmed the PDF of the book but am drawing blank as to its connection to an application. Perhaps it&#x27;s used for verification of concepts, similar to how formal methods in CS (e.g. TLA+) are used to conceptually check algorithms?</text></comment> |
22,167,806 | 22,166,691 | 1 | 2 | 22,156,292 | train | <story><title>Disk Prices on Amazon</title><url>https://diskprices.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cnst</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon. Their Fulfilled-by-Amazon (FBA) idea was quite a game changer, but the implementation with the inventory co-mingling is something that I&#x27;d much rather stay away from as a consumer.<p>There&#x27;s been oh-so-many reports that even if you&#x27;re buying from the official store of any known brand, with FBA, then you might as well still receive a knock-off, due to the inventory co-mingling issue. Have they ever resolved this for good, or is noone really bothers to even pay any attention to this anymore?</text></item><item><author>sn</author><text>We stopped buying drives from Amazon when we got drives for &quot;the wrong region&quot; and couldn&#x27;t RMA them.<p>NewEgg is a bit better, but don&#x27;t buy refurbished drives. Provantage is another reputable vendor that usually has decent prices.<p>If you&#x27;re local to the SF bay area, check out Central Computers. King Star USA also works if you&#x27;re a business customer making a large purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;I don&#x27;t understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon. Their Fulfilled-by-Amazon (FBA) idea was quite a game changer, but the implementation with the inventory co-mingling is something that I&#x27;d much rather stay away from as a consumer.<p>As far as I know it doesn&#x27;t happen in the UK at all. I have placed 200+ orders with Amazon in last year alone and haven&#x27;t had any issues except for a couple deliveries which were a day late(Amazon extended my prime by a month each time). 99% of my deliveries arrive in 1 day as promised. They have exemplary customer service as well. In a way, I don&#x27;t understand why you&#x27;d buy from anyone else but amazon :P</text></comment> | <story><title>Disk Prices on Amazon</title><url>https://diskprices.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cnst</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon. Their Fulfilled-by-Amazon (FBA) idea was quite a game changer, but the implementation with the inventory co-mingling is something that I&#x27;d much rather stay away from as a consumer.<p>There&#x27;s been oh-so-many reports that even if you&#x27;re buying from the official store of any known brand, with FBA, then you might as well still receive a knock-off, due to the inventory co-mingling issue. Have they ever resolved this for good, or is noone really bothers to even pay any attention to this anymore?</text></item><item><author>sn</author><text>We stopped buying drives from Amazon when we got drives for &quot;the wrong region&quot; and couldn&#x27;t RMA them.<p>NewEgg is a bit better, but don&#x27;t buy refurbished drives. Provantage is another reputable vendor that usually has decent prices.<p>If you&#x27;re local to the SF bay area, check out Central Computers. King Star USA also works if you&#x27;re a business customer making a large purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uncle_j</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon.<p>It is cheaper than almost every other computer store in the UK for the same parts, deliver next day and they don&#x27;t tend to shaft you on delivery cost (if it costs anything at all).<p>Unless you are near one of the large online shops and need something delivered next day there is no other option than Amazon.</text></comment> |
12,143,059 | 12,142,547 | 1 | 2 | 12,140,603 | train | <story><title>Reddit is still in turmoil</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/21/reddit-is-still-in-turmoil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CM30</author><text>Twitter&#x27;s problem isn&#x27;t quite the same as Reddit&#x27;s. It&#x27;s because the site is incredibly inconsistent with its moderation.<p>If you run a community, you need consistency. Members need to know where the boundaries are in regards to how you can act and what is&#x2F;isn&#x27;t acceptable.<p>Twitter doesn&#x27;t really do this well. If you agree with the staff political stances, you can basically get away with anything. If you&#x27;re popular enough (or a large company), you can often get away with things that would get a less popular user banned.<p>For example, contrast what happens when a left wing user breaks the rules and attacks people and what happens when a right wing one does it. It seems like the former will get punished a lot less harshly for the same offence.<p>Twitter needs to stop this, and enforce the rules for everyone in every situation.</text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>I think much of Reddit&#x27;s problems with its userbase boil down to an early failure to manage expectations.<p>It&#x27;s pretty clear that the Reddit corporation doesn&#x27;t want Reddit to be an anything-goes, absolute free speech zone with no moderation or anti-harassment policies -- but that&#x27;s what the site actually was for many years. Now, when the company cracks down, users think their freedoms are being curtailed. The mistake was ever allowing that kind of freedom in the first place, because people developed an expectation that it would persist.<p>Compounding that problem, the fact that the site was unregulated for so long caused it to attract the kind of people who need to be regulated the most. In other words, it&#x27;s no surprise that the most tolerant communities attract people who are difficult to tolerate.<p>I suspect Twitter is having similar issues dealing with harassment, after letting it happen for so long. If there is a lesson in this, it is that online communities which plan to implement anti-harassment policies ought to do so from the beginning, and develop the expectation among the users that such policies exist, and will continue to exist. Don&#x27;t just tack them on after several years, and don&#x27;t enforce them inconsistently and arbitrarily as Reddit has done.<p>It will be difficult for Condé Nast to get its money&#x27;s worth out of Reddit now. I doubt it will ever shake its negative reputation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skj</author><text>If you ask us to compare between two examples, you are required to provide two actual examples instead of having us just imagine a scenario that fits your claim.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit is still in turmoil</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/21/reddit-is-still-in-turmoil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CM30</author><text>Twitter&#x27;s problem isn&#x27;t quite the same as Reddit&#x27;s. It&#x27;s because the site is incredibly inconsistent with its moderation.<p>If you run a community, you need consistency. Members need to know where the boundaries are in regards to how you can act and what is&#x2F;isn&#x27;t acceptable.<p>Twitter doesn&#x27;t really do this well. If you agree with the staff political stances, you can basically get away with anything. If you&#x27;re popular enough (or a large company), you can often get away with things that would get a less popular user banned.<p>For example, contrast what happens when a left wing user breaks the rules and attacks people and what happens when a right wing one does it. It seems like the former will get punished a lot less harshly for the same offence.<p>Twitter needs to stop this, and enforce the rules for everyone in every situation.</text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>I think much of Reddit&#x27;s problems with its userbase boil down to an early failure to manage expectations.<p>It&#x27;s pretty clear that the Reddit corporation doesn&#x27;t want Reddit to be an anything-goes, absolute free speech zone with no moderation or anti-harassment policies -- but that&#x27;s what the site actually was for many years. Now, when the company cracks down, users think their freedoms are being curtailed. The mistake was ever allowing that kind of freedom in the first place, because people developed an expectation that it would persist.<p>Compounding that problem, the fact that the site was unregulated for so long caused it to attract the kind of people who need to be regulated the most. In other words, it&#x27;s no surprise that the most tolerant communities attract people who are difficult to tolerate.<p>I suspect Twitter is having similar issues dealing with harassment, after letting it happen for so long. If there is a lesson in this, it is that online communities which plan to implement anti-harassment policies ought to do so from the beginning, and develop the expectation among the users that such policies exist, and will continue to exist. Don&#x27;t just tack them on after several years, and don&#x27;t enforce them inconsistently and arbitrarily as Reddit has done.<p>It will be difficult for Condé Nast to get its money&#x27;s worth out of Reddit now. I doubt it will ever shake its negative reputation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makomk</author><text>Twitter&#x27;s other problem is that they cannot be consistent in their moderation, because when they ban someone threatening violence against celebrities in the name of, say, feminism the campaign to reinstate them comes from people in the tech industry and press that they can&#x27;t ignore.</text></comment> |
7,198,018 | 7,198,087 | 1 | 3 | 7,197,669 | train | <story><title>Drone and Docker, Open Source CI</title><url>http://blog.drone.io/2014/2/5/open-source-ci-docker.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rubiquity</author><text>Wow just yesterday I was visualizing and dreaming about what a containerized CI system might look like after realizing:<p>1) I don&#x27;t want to pay for hosted CI<p>2) Setting up your own CI is a pain in the butt currently<p>Well done. I&#x27;m gonna have a look through this!</text></comment> | <story><title>Drone and Docker, Open Source CI</title><url>http://blog.drone.io/2014/2/5/open-source-ci-docker.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmior</author><text>I haven&#x27;t really looked closely at Drone yet, but you might also be interested in Strider. <a href="http://stridercd.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stridercd.com&#x2F;</a><p>One of the things I like is that it&#x27;s dead simple to get running on Heroku. Language support is a little weak (Python, Ruby, node.js), but we&#x27;re working on that.<p>Another nice feature that&#x27;s currently lacking which it looks like Drone does well is the ability to provision external services (e.g. DB servers) for tests.</text></comment> |
29,921,447 | 29,921,394 | 1 | 2 | 29,892,932 | train | <story><title>Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?</title><url>https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>323</author><text>Just another fad.<p>Visual artists are very fashion driven. As technology creates new possibilities, they get abused.<p>In the 80&#x2F;90s music videos had fade&#x2F;dissolve effects. Then in early 2000s a lot of them played with the aspect ratio &quot;black bands&quot; (like when you play 4:3 on 16:10), making them white, pink, or textured, with border lines and other effects.<p>In 2010s slow-motion (high FPS played back at regular speed) was the thing. So every other video had the slow motion &quot;water&#x2F;colored dust hitting something&quot; scene.<p>Since 2015, color grading is the new fad. Also unnatural weird (LED) lighting, like the left half of the frame in strong red light and the right half in strong blue light.<p>Color grading is also infecting instagram. For example in city photography, there is quite a trend of grading them orange&#x2F;teal.<p>There is also a lot of social pressure to color grade. If you don&#x27;t, fellow artists will say something like &quot;look at that peasant, he didn&#x27;t grade his stuff, what a noob, putting out real colors, he probably doesn&#x27;t even know what a LUT is&quot;.<p>And then you have the honest noob who tries to improve his skill, and he sees all the pros doing it, so he concludes that he should too, since all the pros can&#x27;t be wrong, even if to his eyes the strongly color graded video kind of looks like shit, but he&#x27;s just probably wrong and just needs to educate his aesthetics.<p>There will come a point when color grading will fell out of fashion, just like you rarely see a fade&#x2F;dissolve or slow-motion effect today, and when they are used it&#x27;s because they make sense, not because you must do it no matter what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lloeki</author><text>&gt; there is quite a trend of grading them orange&#x2F;teal<p>I could swear I read in essence the same article about movies being all orange&#x2F;teal a couple or three years ago.<p>EDIT: oh, that was 2013 actually. Ironically O&#x27;Brother gets the blame for that too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shootandcut.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop-the-madness&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shootandcut.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;teal-and-orange...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?</title><url>https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>323</author><text>Just another fad.<p>Visual artists are very fashion driven. As technology creates new possibilities, they get abused.<p>In the 80&#x2F;90s music videos had fade&#x2F;dissolve effects. Then in early 2000s a lot of them played with the aspect ratio &quot;black bands&quot; (like when you play 4:3 on 16:10), making them white, pink, or textured, with border lines and other effects.<p>In 2010s slow-motion (high FPS played back at regular speed) was the thing. So every other video had the slow motion &quot;water&#x2F;colored dust hitting something&quot; scene.<p>Since 2015, color grading is the new fad. Also unnatural weird (LED) lighting, like the left half of the frame in strong red light and the right half in strong blue light.<p>Color grading is also infecting instagram. For example in city photography, there is quite a trend of grading them orange&#x2F;teal.<p>There is also a lot of social pressure to color grade. If you don&#x27;t, fellow artists will say something like &quot;look at that peasant, he didn&#x27;t grade his stuff, what a noob, putting out real colors, he probably doesn&#x27;t even know what a LUT is&quot;.<p>And then you have the honest noob who tries to improve his skill, and he sees all the pros doing it, so he concludes that he should too, since all the pros can&#x27;t be wrong, even if to his eyes the strongly color graded video kind of looks like shit, but he&#x27;s just probably wrong and just needs to educate his aesthetics.<p>There will come a point when color grading will fell out of fashion, just like you rarely see a fade&#x2F;dissolve or slow-motion effect today, and when they are used it&#x27;s because they make sense, not because you must do it no matter what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkxijlewlf</author><text>Sounds very much like what happens in other industries (such as software development). &quot;Look at that peasant, he didn&#x27;t use Rust, ...&quot;</text></comment> |
22,164,717 | 22,163,546 | 1 | 2 | 22,163,244 | train | <story><title>The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200116/08134343743/race-to-5g-is-giant-pile-lobbyist-nonsense.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>The article is on point. 5G has an advantage in only a few situations:<p>- Very crowded areas, where you need lots of microcells so everyone can watch streaming video at once. Like stadiums. Verizon is making a lot of noise about 5G in NFL stadiums. Amusingly, latency for sports video is a big deal, because, in sports bars, not all the screens have the same amount of buffering in the path. So some people are cheering while others are waiting for their feed to catch up, and they feel left out and alone.<p>- Moderately remote areas where the capability to drop to the VHF bands will provide some service far from towers. That&#x27;s actually useful.<p>Claims involving public safety and remote surgery are fantasy.<p>Besides, once it&#x27;s going, it will probably be overloaded, and there will be rate caps and data caps. But the capped service will be called &quot;unlimited&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200116/08134343743/race-to-5g-is-giant-pile-lobbyist-nonsense.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soylentcola</author><text>Just think if this level of marketing, lobbying, and energy was channeled into something like a national fiber broadband utility available to everyone.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may ask, &quot;why would industry groups ever push something like that? Such a thing would cost loads of money and put market dominance at risk!&quot;<p>And then maybe you start to wonder why they&#x27;re in such a rush to fight for the subsidies, investment, and contracts for &quot;more wireless, but faster and more G&#x27;s!&quot;</text></comment> |
11,814,795 | 11,812,080 | 1 | 2 | 11,808,914 | train | <story><title>Alpine Linux 3.4.0 Released</title><url>http://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.4.0-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>How exactly are they doing this without either violating the GPL or failing to keep their patches secret?</text></item><item><author>gbrown_</author><text>Anyone know how things are panning out after the grsecurity stopped making their stable patch series freely available? There was a fourm post and message on the mailing list a while but I&#x27;ve not been able to find anything more recent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyx123zyx</author><text>RMS has weighed in (responded to my email (the email I sent is the same text as the current originating post at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sys.8ch.net&#x2F;tech&#x2F;res&#x2F;605120.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sys.8ch.net&#x2F;tech&#x2F;res&#x2F;605120.html</a> ))<p>Re: GRsecurity is preventing others from employing their rights under version 2 the GPL to redistribute source code
Richard Stallman (May 31 2016 10:27 PM)<p>[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden&#x27;s example. ]]]<p>If I understand right, this is a matter of GPL 2 on the Linux patches.
Is that right? If so, I think GRsecurity is violating the GPL on
Linux.<p>--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org&#x2F;skype.html.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alpine Linux 3.4.0 Released</title><url>http://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.4.0-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>How exactly are they doing this without either violating the GPL or failing to keep their patches secret?</text></item><item><author>gbrown_</author><text>Anyone know how things are panning out after the grsecurity stopped making their stable patch series freely available? There was a fourm post and message on the mailing list a while but I&#x27;ve not been able to find anything more recent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyz123xyz</author><text>Additionally:
-----------------<p>&gt;54843968
The GPLv2 is a text that outlines by what ways a licensee may use a copyrighted work provided by the licensor. In the case that the agreement is not followed standard copyright law applies (all rights reserved).<p>Contracts are often known as &quot;private law&quot;, it allows parties to make their own agreement.<p>So yes, the agreement here is controlling &quot;law&quot;, while the public law that allows such agreements to alienate rights to copyrighted works to be enforceable by the licensee so as to protect him against the licensor is the 1973 us copyright act.<p>However when the licensee violates the agreement he cannot find refuge in that agreement any longer.<p>Go attend law school.<p>And YES, I have both graduated law school and passed the bar.<p>Have you? No.<p>Might be a reason why you don&#x27;t know what your talking about and can only cite the GPL itself (a small 1 page document) and nothing that surrounds it (you don&#x27;t even know what it hangs on).<p>Please people, do not listen to that fool</text></comment> |
8,694,600 | 8,694,622 | 1 | 2 | 8,693,954 | train | <story><title>Tax crackdown on banks and multinationals 'to raise £5bn'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30310832</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>Or if they just made taxes low enough that it&#x27;s not profitable to do crazy things like the double-Irish. If we had a permanent lowish tax rate on corporations, they wouldn&#x27;t save money doing the weird stuff, the money would move to the USA, it would be more liquid (not being tied up in the Cayman islands etc), and the government would get more tax revenue.</text></item><item><author>crdoconnor</author><text>&gt;So all this money accumulates offshore and can&#x27;t come back to the US unless some taxes are paid, which is why Tim Cook meets with Congress to try and lobby for a tax repatriation holiday.<p>Ironically a lot of this money would probably be repatriated tomorrow (with taxes fully paid) if Congress ruled out a tax holiday and committed itself to gradually raising rates.<p>It&#x27;s just the tantalizing hope of a tax holiday that keeps it abroad.</text></item><item><author>notjackma</author><text>Exactly. In the case of Apple:<p>The Irish company licenses intellectual property from an Apple registered company in the Cayman Islands, and of course the Royalties are so high that the Irish company makes no profit.<p>So all this money accumulates offshore and can&#x27;t come back to the US unless some taxes are paid, which is why Tim Cook meets with Congress to try and lobby for a tax repatriation holiday.<p>Which is also why Tim Cook is raising money in the debt markets to pay shareholders dividends - it&#x27;s cheaper to pay a tiny bit of interest than pay tax. Absurd that such a rich company is doing this.<p>Ironically, the money is already back in US - the Caymans entity invests the money in the US stock market via Braeburn Capital, a hedge fund based in Nevada and owned by Apple Inc!</text></item><item><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>Some of the arrangements can get pretty complex.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement</a><p>Basically, sending the money from Germany (or wherever) -&gt; Ireland -&gt; Netherlands -&gt; Ireland -&gt; Cayman Islands results in no taxes being paid (or legally due).</text></item><item><author>timje1</author><text>As far as I can tell, they shift profits overseas by shifting extra, semi-fictional &#x27;costs&#x27; to the UK subsidiary - for example, if the UK subsidiary of Starbucks makes $100m profit, but has to pay the Canary Isles subsidiary $100m in licensing costs, suddenly the UK subsidiary owes no tax.<p>Given this structure, how does the HMRC plan on distinguishing between legitimate costs and semi-fictional ones? I imagine as soon as the law is changed, the companies will alter their books so that they shift all their &#x27;legitimate costs&#x27; to the UK subsidiary.<p>I suspect that this shift will end up benefitting tax accountants and lawyers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>It&#x27;s a race to the bottom. Corporate tax in Ireland is a mere 10% which is what you&#x27;d pay if you did a &quot;single Irish&quot;, but these companies still find it worthwhile to avoid even that much tax through a more complicated scheme. I&#x27;ll wager the only &quot;low enough&quot; would be zero.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tax crackdown on banks and multinationals 'to raise £5bn'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30310832</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>Or if they just made taxes low enough that it&#x27;s not profitable to do crazy things like the double-Irish. If we had a permanent lowish tax rate on corporations, they wouldn&#x27;t save money doing the weird stuff, the money would move to the USA, it would be more liquid (not being tied up in the Cayman islands etc), and the government would get more tax revenue.</text></item><item><author>crdoconnor</author><text>&gt;So all this money accumulates offshore and can&#x27;t come back to the US unless some taxes are paid, which is why Tim Cook meets with Congress to try and lobby for a tax repatriation holiday.<p>Ironically a lot of this money would probably be repatriated tomorrow (with taxes fully paid) if Congress ruled out a tax holiday and committed itself to gradually raising rates.<p>It&#x27;s just the tantalizing hope of a tax holiday that keeps it abroad.</text></item><item><author>notjackma</author><text>Exactly. In the case of Apple:<p>The Irish company licenses intellectual property from an Apple registered company in the Cayman Islands, and of course the Royalties are so high that the Irish company makes no profit.<p>So all this money accumulates offshore and can&#x27;t come back to the US unless some taxes are paid, which is why Tim Cook meets with Congress to try and lobby for a tax repatriation holiday.<p>Which is also why Tim Cook is raising money in the debt markets to pay shareholders dividends - it&#x27;s cheaper to pay a tiny bit of interest than pay tax. Absurd that such a rich company is doing this.<p>Ironically, the money is already back in US - the Caymans entity invests the money in the US stock market via Braeburn Capital, a hedge fund based in Nevada and owned by Apple Inc!</text></item><item><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>Some of the arrangements can get pretty complex.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement</a><p>Basically, sending the money from Germany (or wherever) -&gt; Ireland -&gt; Netherlands -&gt; Ireland -&gt; Cayman Islands results in no taxes being paid (or legally due).</text></item><item><author>timje1</author><text>As far as I can tell, they shift profits overseas by shifting extra, semi-fictional &#x27;costs&#x27; to the UK subsidiary - for example, if the UK subsidiary of Starbucks makes $100m profit, but has to pay the Canary Isles subsidiary $100m in licensing costs, suddenly the UK subsidiary owes no tax.<p>Given this structure, how does the HMRC plan on distinguishing between legitimate costs and semi-fictional ones? I imagine as soon as the law is changed, the companies will alter their books so that they shift all their &#x27;legitimate costs&#x27; to the UK subsidiary.<p>I suspect that this shift will end up benefitting tax accountants and lawyers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>How exactly do you plan on the US staying solvent charging companies a corporate tax rate of 0%? Because that&#x27;s what their cost is doing the double-irish.</text></comment> |
37,817,818 | 37,817,473 | 1 | 2 | 37,815,674 | train | <story><title>My personal C coding style as of late 2023</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uptrenda</author><text>IMO, defining your own types is one step too far. Now everyone who is already familiar with C types has to learn your own quirky system to understand one program. I think it does probably make sense to be specific about the sizes though e.g. using uint32_t over just uint (and expecting to receive some architecture-dependent size you might not get with uint.) These types should be defined in the right header (I think it depends on compiler?) It&#x27;s been a while since I wrote any amount of C so my apologizes if this isn&#x27;t correct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>The reality is that C `int` is 32 bits in size.<p>Sure, that&#x27;s not true for 16 bit targets. But are you really going to port a 5Mb program to 16 bits? It&#x27;s not worth worrying about. Your code is highly unlikely to be portable to 16 bits anyway.<p>The problem is with `long`, which is 32 bits on some machines and 64 bits on others. This is just madness. Fortunately, `long long` is always 64 bits, so it makes sense to just abandon `long`.<p>So there it is:<p><pre><code> char - 8 bits
short - 16 bits
int - 32 bits
long long - 64 bits
</code></pre>
Done!<p>(Sheesh, all the endless hours wasted on the size of an `int` in C.)</text></comment> | <story><title>My personal C coding style as of late 2023</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uptrenda</author><text>IMO, defining your own types is one step too far. Now everyone who is already familiar with C types has to learn your own quirky system to understand one program. I think it does probably make sense to be specific about the sizes though e.g. using uint32_t over just uint (and expecting to receive some architecture-dependent size you might not get with uint.) These types should be defined in the right header (I think it depends on compiler?) It&#x27;s been a while since I wrote any amount of C so my apologizes if this isn&#x27;t correct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkagerer</author><text>The author <i>did</i> qualify it with <i>personal</i> coding style. Frankly the standard types are too verbose and I wish this guy&#x27;s elegant and clear list had been the one that was adopted way back when.</text></comment> |
7,487,767 | 7,487,755 | 1 | 2 | 7,486,678 | train | <story><title>Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zimpenfish</author><text>My main issue with him is that he didn&#x27;t spend 5 minutes researching this on the internet because it&#x27;s come up many times previously and doesn&#x27;t count as a nice hack worthy of any praise. Sorry kiddo.<p>As an example, these links are all 2010 or earlier.<p><a href="http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/the-right-font-can-save-you-money/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-right-font-can-save-you-mone...</a>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125639616" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=1256396...</a>
<a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/cut-costs-by-saving-ink-with-ecofont/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitepoint.com&#x2F;cut-costs-by-saving-ink-with-ecofon...</a><p>etc.etc.</text></item><item><author>6cxs2hd6</author><text>As I type this comment, most other comments are pointing out how a 6th grader got this wrong, by failing to suggest the &quot;correct&quot; solution of abandoning printing.<p>I don&#x27;t... how do I put this nicely.<p>This is a kid. He is smart. He looked at the problem from a new angle. He came up with a nice hack. Presumably we want more kids with more of a hacking spirit.<p>I hope he doesn&#x27;t read Hacker News.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>This is why I think the Internet might actually be stifling innovation and creativity.<p>I find that more and more often I think of something, then search on the internet, and if I see that someone somewhere has done anything similar, I abandon the project immediately. After all, it&#x27;s been done, so what&#x27;s the point?<p>Net result if we push this to an extreme: instead of pursuing interesting ideas people end up wasting time in useless discussions on Hacker News, thus adding exactly zero value and failing to move humanity forward.<p>At a first approximation, <i>everything</i> has been tried by someone. It is very, very rare to have a truly groundbreaking idea. But that&#x27;s not a problem! Humanity advances mostly through incremental improvements, not just by giant leaps.<p>So stop criticizing and start <i>doing</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zimpenfish</author><text>My main issue with him is that he didn&#x27;t spend 5 minutes researching this on the internet because it&#x27;s come up many times previously and doesn&#x27;t count as a nice hack worthy of any praise. Sorry kiddo.<p>As an example, these links are all 2010 or earlier.<p><a href="http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/the-right-font-can-save-you-money/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-right-font-can-save-you-mone...</a>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125639616" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=1256396...</a>
<a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/cut-costs-by-saving-ink-with-ecofont/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitepoint.com&#x2F;cut-costs-by-saving-ink-with-ecofon...</a><p>etc.etc.</text></item><item><author>6cxs2hd6</author><text>As I type this comment, most other comments are pointing out how a 6th grader got this wrong, by failing to suggest the &quot;correct&quot; solution of abandoning printing.<p>I don&#x27;t... how do I put this nicely.<p>This is a kid. He is smart. He looked at the problem from a new angle. He came up with a nice hack. Presumably we want more kids with more of a hacking spirit.<p>I hope he doesn&#x27;t read Hacker News.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>As others have pointed out: It wasn&#x27;t the first time the idea had come up, but he came up with it and looked into it independently. That, at the age of 14, is the kind of thinking science fairs should be encouraging. As a Ph.D project? Not so much.</text></comment> |
8,958,217 | 8,958,063 | 1 | 3 | 8,955,426 | train | <story><title>YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video</title><url>http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>If you&#x27;re referring to Encrypted Media Extensions it&#x27;s not a DRM mechanism that requires proprietary software. It&#x27;s a specification for a communication channel between a browser and Digital Rights Management agent software on the local machine. While it&#x27;s not ideal, it&#x27;s just some javascript functions that interact with the DRM on the computer. The DRM software itself is completely optional.<p>It&#x27;s much better than having plugins that do the same thing (if you use firefox you&#x27;re used to Flash asking for trial Norton to be installed every time a security exploit is found in Flash). In the perfect world we wouldn&#x27;t need it, but it leaves no excuse for media companies not to use HTML5.</text></item><item><author>schoen</author><text>Unfortunately (though it&#x27;s considerably more compartmentalized and constrained than prior iterations), Google is trying to replace Flash with a DRM mechanism that also requires proprietary software. So while you might think that the advent of HTML5 video means you no longer need proprietary software to interoperate with the services that use it, Google and its partners are working to ensure that that&#x27;s not true.</text></item><item><author>shutupalready</author><text>What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer.<p>For those that don&#x27;t know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company&#x27;s stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it&#x27;s now worth $6.<p>The only explanation for RealPlayer&#x27;s popularity was its DRM I think; lots of commercial users wanted the DRM.<p>But it got more bloated with every release, and I had to go through its countless option settings every time I updated it to disable all the sneaky ways they came up with to violate user privacy. I&#x27;m relieved that we no longer need either Flash or RealPlayer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bzbarsky</author><text>Sorry, but there&#x27;s an important distinction between what you said and what EME is.<p>EME is a spec for a communication channel between script in a web page and a browser, with the idea that the browser then talks to a DRM module. It&#x27;s not a spec for a communication channel between the browser and a DRM module.<p>This is important, because it means that you end up with DRM modules that are tied to a particular browser.<p>The NPAPI plugin situation is unfortunate in all sorts of ways, but the one good thing it had going for it was that there _was_ an API that multiple browsers all implemented, such that a single plugin binary woudl work in all of them (modulo the usual bugs and incompatibilities you have when there are multiple implementors of an API).<p>Unfortunately, 3 of the 4 main browser vendors also happen to be DRM vendors, and were rather united in their opposition to the W3C creating a specification for the communication channel between the browser and the DRM module.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video</title><url>http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>If you&#x27;re referring to Encrypted Media Extensions it&#x27;s not a DRM mechanism that requires proprietary software. It&#x27;s a specification for a communication channel between a browser and Digital Rights Management agent software on the local machine. While it&#x27;s not ideal, it&#x27;s just some javascript functions that interact with the DRM on the computer. The DRM software itself is completely optional.<p>It&#x27;s much better than having plugins that do the same thing (if you use firefox you&#x27;re used to Flash asking for trial Norton to be installed every time a security exploit is found in Flash). In the perfect world we wouldn&#x27;t need it, but it leaves no excuse for media companies not to use HTML5.</text></item><item><author>schoen</author><text>Unfortunately (though it&#x27;s considerably more compartmentalized and constrained than prior iterations), Google is trying to replace Flash with a DRM mechanism that also requires proprietary software. So while you might think that the advent of HTML5 video means you no longer need proprietary software to interoperate with the services that use it, Google and its partners are working to ensure that that&#x27;s not true.</text></item><item><author>shutupalready</author><text>What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer.<p>For those that don&#x27;t know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company&#x27;s stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it&#x27;s now worth $6.<p>The only explanation for RealPlayer&#x27;s popularity was its DRM I think; lots of commercial users wanted the DRM.<p>But it got more bloated with every release, and I had to go through its countless option settings every time I updated it to disable all the sneaky ways they came up with to violate user privacy. I&#x27;m relieved that we no longer need either Flash or RealPlayer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schoen</author><text>I agree that HTML5 is much better than Flash in every way, so in this sense I&#x27;d just like to encourage our community to continue applying pressure at all levels and in all channels to ensure that Encrypted Media Extensions doesn&#x27;t continue to be a part of HTML5 standards, UAs, or websites.</text></comment> |
9,772,506 | 9,770,358 | 1 | 2 | 9,770,046 | train | <story><title>Losing 80% of mobile users is normal</title><url>http://andrewchen.co/new-data-shows-why-losing-80-of-your-mobile-users-is-normal-and-that-the-best-apps-do-much-better/?utm_source=andrewchen&utm_campaign=3ae54ccc4f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1fae7e415-3ae54ccc4f-85701681</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjoernbu</author><text>As a user that probably contributes a lot to the trends observed in the article, I think I can explain my user-behavior pretty well.<p>I really need about ~5 apps on my phone (browser, mail, alarm, somehow whatsapp managed to become one of those, and maybe few others I don&#x27;t recall now).<p>All other apps I download for a very specific use case:<p>- Rent a bike a foreign city that I&#x27;ll leave again pretty soon<p>- Navigate during that one trip where I don&#x27;t expect to be connected to the internet<p>- Play a game during the single train ride where my Kindle has no more battery<p>- Check scores during that one playday of soccer where I have no access to my usual channels (TV, Friends, Browser)<p>- etc<p>At the moment of downloading I often know for how long I will be using that app. Most of the time it is only on that single day, otherwise for the duration of a trip.
I&#x27;m not sure there&#x27;s too much App makers could do to keep me as a user (aside from sending me a brand-new phone). I don&#x27;t really like my phone and I really prefer using my laptop or even desktop, whenever possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Losing 80% of mobile users is normal</title><url>http://andrewchen.co/new-data-shows-why-losing-80-of-your-mobile-users-is-normal-and-that-the-best-apps-do-much-better/?utm_source=andrewchen&utm_campaign=3ae54ccc4f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1fae7e415-3ae54ccc4f-85701681</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tragic</author><text>&gt; Each of the scenarios above can have both a qualitative activation goal, as well as quantitive results to make sure it’s really happening. Whatever you do, sending a shitload of spammy email notifications with the subject line “We Miss You” is unlikely to bend the curve significantly.<p>&gt; I hate those, and you should too.<p>For this reason, I hope he&#x27;s right and Android developers pay attention. Sometimes one upvote is not enough.<p>Alas, I expect that by the time you&#x27;re in the long-tail of that curve, you have simply nothing to lose by going the vexatious notification route.</text></comment> |
30,059,357 | 30,059,518 | 1 | 3 | 30,058,807 | train | <story><title>Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen</title><url>https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/web3-crypto-skepticism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Crypto has only existed during the greatest and longest bull market of all time. Jury is still out on whether it can survive a prolonged bear market.<p>Web3 consequently is also bound by this. If people are still interested in Web3 when crypto goes down 10% YoY forever then maybe there’s some inherent value there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>in theory, web3 has nothing to do with cryptocurrency per se, and only relies on some blockchain technology, which is itself not bound to the value of the currency it is used by.<p>however, the fact that too many people seem to think that there is in fact a connection between web3 and crypto<i>currency</i> just adds to the smell.</text></comment> | <story><title>Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen</title><url>https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/web3-crypto-skepticism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Crypto has only existed during the greatest and longest bull market of all time. Jury is still out on whether it can survive a prolonged bear market.<p>Web3 consequently is also bound by this. If people are still interested in Web3 when crypto goes down 10% YoY forever then maybe there’s some inherent value there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steelstraw</author><text>Crypto has famously gone through several bear markets though and a bunch of 80% corrections.</text></comment> |
14,884,081 | 14,883,677 | 1 | 2 | 14,883,551 | train | <story><title>Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime</title><url>https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/15/introducing-qbrt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carussell</author><text>&gt; Also, qbrt doesn’t yet support runtime version management (i.e. being able to specify which version of Gecko to use, and to switch between them). At the time you install it, it downloads the latest nightly build of Firefox.<p>This doesn&#x27;t sound so good, and is the opposite of what I think people have come to expect. It&#x27;s seems like the most straightforward solution is to hardcode a specific version of the runtime into the package, so that installing qbrt XX.0.0 gets you the runtime that corresponds to Firefox version XX.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime</title><url>https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/15/introducing-qbrt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>What&#x27;s the benefit of using this instead of Electron? Genuinely curious about the benefit.<p>Is Gecko better than Chromium in certain cases?</text></comment> |
21,815,160 | 21,813,587 | 1 | 2 | 21,812,581 | train | <story><title>Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics</title><url>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/kurt-godel-incompleteness-theorems/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>libraryofbabel</author><text>One of the most interesting things about Gödel&#x27;s Incompleteness theorem must surely be how _little_ effect it has had on the day to day practice of mathematical research. It&#x27;s one of the most profound mathematical results in the last 100 years, and yet outside foundational fields like axiomatic set theory (Cohen&#x27;s work on the Continuum Hypothesis comes to mind) it&#x27;s quite possible to completely ignore the existence of undecideable statements. Gödel&#x27;s work had a deep impact on mathematicians&#x27; _philosophical_ views of what they do, but that didn&#x27;t carry down into the actual day to day business of proving theorems.<p>Isn&#x27;t that strange? Wouldn&#x27;t you think that undecidable propositions would be scattered through mathematics and turn up at curious and interesting moments in different fields? But apparently that&#x27;s not generally the case. The Goldbach conjecture (Knuth) and of course the Riemann Hypothesis have been mentioned as possible candidates (but you might have said the same thing about Fermat&#x27;s last theorem 30 years ago). If we did find a first-rank conjecture in number theory or some other area that&#x27;s undecidable in ZFC (or whatever system) then we would at last be stepping through the door that Gödel opened for us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics</title><url>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/kurt-godel-incompleteness-theorems/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rocqua</author><text>&gt; The First Incompleteness Theorem tells us that assuming PA is consistent, one can formulate propositions that cannot be proved (nor disproved) on the basis of PA, but which are nevertheless true.<p>As far as I know, that last clause was never a claim made by Godel. Specifically the claim that these propositions are <i>nevertheless true</i>. This follows quite simply from the assumption that either a proposition is true, or its negation is true (i.e. the law of the excluded middle).
But I recall reading that Godel, in his proofs, went to great lengths to avoid the law of the excluded middle over infinite sets.<p>Indeed, (again AFAIK) godel&#x27;s first incompleteness theory still holds in constructive mathematics (roughly where the law of the excluded middle cannot be used). As such, I think the addition that these propositions are &#x27;nevertheless true&#x27; actually hides a lot of complexity.
Because there are philosophical positions in which these independent propositions are neither true not false.<p>And really, this is why we call them independent. The truthiness of these propositions is not determined by their axiom systems. It&#x27;s a rather big philosophical stance to say that the &#x27;truth&#x27; of these propositions can be determined outside of the axiomatic systems. It seems to me like that claims there is an objective (as in, not dependent on an axiomatic system) definition of what is true.</text></comment> |
15,404,529 | 15,404,188 | 1 | 3 | 15,402,483 | train | <story><title>Google Pixel Buds are wireless earbuds that translate conversations in real-time</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/google-pixel-buds-are-wireless-earbuds-that-translate-conversations-in-real-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>If you&#x27;re a technologist looking for ways to save the world, enabling communication between people of different countries is about as important a task as you can find. The web was a good first step, but language is still a barrier. Being unable to communicate with someone dehumanizes them. Automatic translation isn&#x27;t going to automatically bring about world peace (and it isn&#x27;t going to automatically enable us to transcend cultural barriers), but it&#x27;s an enormously important next step.<p>I criticize Google and Microsoft a lot, and I will continue to do so when necessary, but I applaud their efforts toward this goal, especially since there&#x27;s so little financial incentive to do so. Even if this product is as limited in practice as I suspect, it&#x27;s heartening to see such crucial technology mature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FractalNerve</author><text>Is all voice in a room with a person wearing Google Buds transmitted to the cloud??<p>Isn&#x27;t that prohibited and eavesdropping onto unsuspecting citizens?<p>I mean it&#x27;s not just temporarily processed and immediately deleted afterwards. That&#x27;s Google trying to get WiFi SSIDs, (Satellite, Street, Indoor, Face, Object) Pictures, Voices, real-time Geo-Location of consumers and whatnot.. it&#x27;s getting off the hand..<p>I was shocked when I first discovered that my &quot;ok, Google&quot; conversations were stored in the cloud indefinitely with a badly designed and hidden Web-UI that allows &quot;deletion&quot; (whatever that legally means with Google-speak).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Pixel Buds are wireless earbuds that translate conversations in real-time</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/google-pixel-buds-are-wireless-earbuds-that-translate-conversations-in-real-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>If you&#x27;re a technologist looking for ways to save the world, enabling communication between people of different countries is about as important a task as you can find. The web was a good first step, but language is still a barrier. Being unable to communicate with someone dehumanizes them. Automatic translation isn&#x27;t going to automatically bring about world peace (and it isn&#x27;t going to automatically enable us to transcend cultural barriers), but it&#x27;s an enormously important next step.<p>I criticize Google and Microsoft a lot, and I will continue to do so when necessary, but I applaud their efforts toward this goal, especially since there&#x27;s so little financial incentive to do so. Even if this product is as limited in practice as I suspect, it&#x27;s heartening to see such crucial technology mature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>In practice, it&#x27;s doubtful that this feature of the product will be that useful.<p>Google Translate still fails at very basic grammatical constructs, despite all the deep learning machinery they recently upgraded to (one of my favorite examples being the extremely simplistic &quot;my cousin and her wife&quot;, which a 5 year old would properly parse, and yet gets erroneously translated to e.g. &quot;mon cousin et sa femme&quot; in French, when it should be &quot;ma cousine et sa femme&quot; (inferred from the her)). For corpuses in languages that are closely related (e.g. Swedish and English which they showed on stage), you generally get fairly usable results, which are acceptable for getting the general meaning of a news article but would get frustrating quickly for a real life conversation. For languages that are not closely related, the tech is just plain unusable.<p>People who need to work with multiple languages professionally will never use this - too many nuances would be lost, and too many mistakes would be made. The UN is not getting rid of its army of translators any time soon.<p>On the other end of the spectrum, people who punctually need to use a foreign language (e.g. because they are visiting a country for a few weeks) don&#x27;t have that much of a pain point. When my French parents visit foreign countries, they communicate with the locals in broken English and by pointing and gesturing. Sure, there might be a bit of friction there, but there&#x27;s nothing that this approach doesn&#x27;t get them that this product would. Not to mention that speaking to someone while wearing earbuds looks plain rude, and that you can only really have a 2 way conversation if they also are wearing these earbuds, which 99.9% of the world won&#x27;t.<p>It certainly makes for a very cool demo, but as a product it doesn&#x27;t really have much of a place.</text></comment> |
30,116,859 | 30,116,851 | 1 | 2 | 30,115,214 | train | <story><title>Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_3-release-notes#Python</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; the python community’s bizarre behavior during the 2.X -&gt; 3.X move honestly made me think less of the language.<p>There weren&#x27;t that many people who were outright against Python 3, other than Zed Shaw for a few years. It just took until Python 3.4 for the language to really be usable in production, and after that it took a couple more years for every library to be updated. But the community has been pretty unified for 5+ years at this point.</text></item><item><author>zionic</author><text>It’s also about (damn) time.<p>I know it shouldn’t, but the python community’s bizarre behavior during the 2.X -&gt; 3.X move honestly made me think less of the language.<p>Tech is supposed to just be tech, but when the community behaves this badly about adopting improvements how can that not influence your decision to invest in that tech? If 2.X -&gt; 3.X was such a drama fest what’s gonna happen next time they need to upgrade? Etc</text></item><item><author>Rygian</author><text>Not much of a choice anyway. Choosing to keep an unsupported piece of software in the system is a security liability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lanstin</author><text>If by unified you mean no longer arguing, sure I switched from Python 2 to Go lang. (I will concede if I am doing exploratory stuff, I will start new repos in Python 3, e.g. for boto quick exploration.) I am still bitter about the fine Python 2 code I supported and extended that is now all go or Java.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_3-release-notes#Python</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; the python community’s bizarre behavior during the 2.X -&gt; 3.X move honestly made me think less of the language.<p>There weren&#x27;t that many people who were outright against Python 3, other than Zed Shaw for a few years. It just took until Python 3.4 for the language to really be usable in production, and after that it took a couple more years for every library to be updated. But the community has been pretty unified for 5+ years at this point.</text></item><item><author>zionic</author><text>It’s also about (damn) time.<p>I know it shouldn’t, but the python community’s bizarre behavior during the 2.X -&gt; 3.X move honestly made me think less of the language.<p>Tech is supposed to just be tech, but when the community behaves this badly about adopting improvements how can that not influence your decision to invest in that tech? If 2.X -&gt; 3.X was such a drama fest what’s gonna happen next time they need to upgrade? Etc</text></item><item><author>Rygian</author><text>Not much of a choice anyway. Choosing to keep an unsupported piece of software in the system is a security liability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssully</author><text>This is my experience as well. There were plenty of people online vocally against Python3, but once we hit 3.4 I never worked with anyone IRL that was against it. The mindset was almost always &quot;this is the way forward&quot;, so that&#x27;s how we moved with our projects.</text></comment> |
15,938,835 | 15,923,818 | 1 | 2 | 15,912,929 | train | <story><title>An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apenwarr</author><text>I’m the author of the article. I apologize for its massive length but wasn’t able to make it shorter without losing my favourite bits :) I’m happy to answer any questions people have here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>I thought this was very insightful and spot on for the most part, but I had one remark.<p>I object to the notion that it’s ok for bug ingress rate to be higher than bug egress. For me that’s symptomatic of underlying problems. Either (A) those bugs are on important features, and the team is favoring novelty over functionality by prioritizing new feature dev over feature maintenance, or (B) the broken features are unimportant and the team is failing to weed out irrelevant functionality from their codebase (it is important to remove features while you add them to not get in a zero-progress situation, unless you grow the team along with the codebase), or (C) the team has bad engineering practices causing a high ingress rate, or (D) many bugs are based on misunderstandings, which points to documentation or UX issues. No matter how you slice it, I see it as never acceptable to let a bug pile grow indefinitely.<p>Do you see this as a sort of compromise, as in it indeed pointing to deeper problems but needing a workaround in the real world, or do you disagree that a growing bug pile is symptomatic of deeper problems?</text></comment> | <story><title>An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apenwarr</author><text>I’m the author of the article. I apologize for its massive length but wasn’t able to make it shorter without losing my favourite bits :) I’m happy to answer any questions people have here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voxl</author><text>I disagree strongly with your take on story points:<p>First, if story points are an indirect measure of time, then the &quot;psychological game&quot; you&#x27;re playing will be immediately revealed if your engineers are as smart as claimed. There is no reason for me to point something a 2 over a 3 unless you&#x27;re measuring the time it takes to deliver software based off those measurements. On the opposite end of the spectrum, my confidence in whether a story is an 8 or a 13 becomes significantly weaker as the numbers get bigger.<p>Using numbers, specifically, is a hint that whomever is handling process just wants to predict when the project will be done. Numbers trick you into thinking they can be added, margins of error are not additive. My go-to question in these situations is why don&#x27;t we just estimate with abstract sizes? (Small, Medium, Large, etc) Surprisingly I&#x27;m often met with resistance.<p>Second, if story points are not an indirect measure of time, then why are you pointing stories? What does the pointing gain your team other than fluff? If you say it&#x27;s for prioritization then you&#x27;re just invalidating the premise and we&#x27;re back to an indirect measure of time.<p>Finally, I have not seen, and you have not presented, evidence that engineers are good at estimating. In fact all that I have read seems to indicate the exact opposite, that engineers are very bad at estimating (in fact that they are largely too optimistic). One could argue that this can be trained, or that you&#x27;ll get better at estimating as you gain more experience. Which I will concede that you will get faster and better at estimating and implementing the same exact feature, but that is not what we do. We implement new features, things we likely haven&#x27;t done before.</text></comment> |
26,687,577 | 26,685,576 | 1 | 3 | 26,684,601 | train | <story><title>How much Polish is there in Yiddish and how much Yiddish is there in Polish?</title><url>https://culture.pl/en/article/how-much-polish-is-there-in-yiddish-and-how-much-yiddish-is-there-in-polish</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hanslub42</author><text>I wonder how big the influence of Yiddish has been on German itself. Given the closeness of Yiddish and German, it would be the words of Hebrew origin that would stand out.<p>Dutch has quite a number of Yiddish loan-words, many of them in (very) common use. Almost all of them have Hebrew roots (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nl.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jiddisch#Jiddische_invloeden_in_het_Nederlands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nl.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jiddisch#Jiddische_invloeden_i...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>How much Polish is there in Yiddish and how much Yiddish is there in Polish?</title><url>https://culture.pl/en/article/how-much-polish-is-there-in-yiddish-and-how-much-yiddish-is-there-in-polish</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>A4ET8a8uTh0</author><text>It is interesting to me. I think the first time I stumbled upon this when I realized that Martin Indyk is not automatically a Polish last name ( despite Martin&#x27;s family having immigrated from Poland ). Indik is very much Yiddish. And when you think of it, it should not be a surprise, Poland used to have a vibrant Jewish community before the war.</text></comment> |
3,041,745 | 3,041,689 | 1 | 3 | 3,041,439 | train | <story><title>Zynga's Profits Down by 95%</title><url>http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/223371/zyngas-profits-down-by-95/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EponymousCoward</author><text>Good. Suck it. This company is pure slime. I pity their acquirees. And it's totally worth my karma hit to just get this off my chest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zynga's Profits Down by 95%</title><url>http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/223371/zyngas-profits-down-by-95/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teej</author><text>Disclaimer: I was previously a Zynga employee and I am presently a holder of Zynga stock. I have no knowledge of Zynga's current internal state - the following is entirely speculation.<p>=================================<p>There are many forces at work here that need to be brought to light.<p>* Macro Trend #1 - Facebook's web traffic is in decline[1]. These users are shifting to mobile as their primary consumption channel for Facebook. No facebook app developer has presence on the mobile app.<p>* Macro Trend #2 - Zynga's game launches are smaller than ever. For many reasons, it's getting harder to launch a 5M+ DAU game.<p>Zynga is responding to these trends in several ways.<p>* Leverage their warchest[2] to make acquisitions. This lets them launch a higher volume of games and help them get a foothold in mobile. Zynga has made a LOT of acquisitions this year[3].<p>* Further monetize their existing base. They've been pushing partner deals really hard recently, doing deals with Lady Gaga[4], Amex[5], and Capital One[6]<p>Zynga's games are more high quality than ever. Gone are the days of "fuck innovation", two of Zynga's most recent releases are the best they've ever built. The issue is that the market for FB games is in decline - the next big wave is mobile. If Zynga can become a player by launching a hit or acquiring a large chunk of the space, they'll be doing better than ever. But so far, Zynga's mobile releases have flopped.<p>TL;DR - Zynga's profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile. Their future prospects lie in their ability to generate hits on the iPhone.<p>=====<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-traffic-drops-in-us-and-canada-as-it-nears-700-million-users-worldwide/" rel="nofollow">http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-t...</a><p>[2] - <a href="http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-billion-acquisitions/" rel="nofollow">http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-bi...</a><p>[3] - <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/</a><p>[4] - <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/</a><p>[5] - <a href="http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130" rel="nofollow">http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130</a><p>[6] - <a href="http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer-trail-capital-one/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer...</a></text></comment> |
19,898,191 | 19,898,274 | 1 | 3 | 19,897,868 | train | <story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&gt; “His attitude is that he is happy to cooperate with Sweden and that he wants to be interviewed and that he wants to clear his name,” Samuelson told Reuters.<p>He spent how many years on both UK soil and then the Ecuadorean embassy to fight these Swedish allegations and now he&#x27;s &quot;happy to cooperate&quot;. He&#x27;s imprisoned himself all these years for nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>As I understood it, he fled to the embassy because he was afraid the Swedish allegations would be used as an excuse to extradite him to the US. Now that his UK charges can be used for that, that&#x27;s no longer an objection.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&gt; “His attitude is that he is happy to cooperate with Sweden and that he wants to be interviewed and that he wants to clear his name,” Samuelson told Reuters.<p>He spent how many years on both UK soil and then the Ecuadorean embassy to fight these Swedish allegations and now he&#x27;s &quot;happy to cooperate&quot;. He&#x27;s imprisoned himself all these years for nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trollied</author><text>Hindsight is a wonderful thing.<p>He could probably have been leading a quiet life in Sweden by now, having served his sentence in a nice Swedish prison.</text></comment> |
4,230,402 | 4,230,387 | 1 | 2 | 4,229,926 | train | <story><title>Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/ouyas-big-day</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>I was one of the earlier folks to put down a pledge for this thing, because it seems like something I'd like to develop for. However, I pulled it back today because of the lack of a dev story for it. I was told by the Ouya official twitter account to just "develop on another Android device", which is a very shallow answer given the huge differences in gameplay between a touchscreen device and a gamepad device (and that gamepad-api isn't really viable yet). That suggests that they don't take the craft of game development seriously, and to me that doesn't bode well for the platform.<p>When they have development resources that show me that they're taking developers seriously, I'll revisit it (and doing so is fairly cheap for me; I'm using the always-awesome libgdx, which has Android support already). But my initial experience has been pretty bad, and I'm questioning their competency right now to the point where I can't give them money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/ouyas-big-day</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nicpottier</author><text>I hate to be a hater, but can we start taking odds on how big a disappointment this will be?<p>I am just going to come out and say that the vast majority of the backers are going to be really disappointed, this is far too ambitious a project for that budget, even three times that budget.<p>If I was Kickstarter I would actually be worrying about this type of project actually damaging the brand itself.</text></comment> |
41,080,025 | 41,080,045 | 1 | 2 | 41,079,901 | train | <story><title>There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pachouli-please</author><text>GamersNexus has had great coverage throughout this problem, even before Intel disclosure<p>- Intel&#x27;s CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oAE4NWoyMZk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oAE4NWoyMZk</a><p>- Intel Needs to Say Something: Oxidation Claims, New Microcode, &amp; Benchmark Challenges: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;gTeubeCIwRw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;gTeubeCIwRw</a><p>- Intel&#x27;s Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation &amp; Excessive Voltage: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;OVdmK1UGzGs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;OVdmK1UGzGs</a></text></comment> | <story><title>There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shrubble</author><text>MicroCenter, a USA-based gamer&#x2F;enthusiast focused computer retailer, sends me emails with motherboard&#x2F;CPU&#x2F;RAM bundles - they always have at least 1 AMD and 1 Intel option featured.<p>The most recent one I got featured the Intel 12th gen CPU; no mention in the ad of 13th&#x2F;14th gen CPUs, which is what they have been featuring for months, up to now.</text></comment> |
15,217,731 | 15,217,803 | 1 | 2 | 15,215,531 | train | <story><title>With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/apple-iphone-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil421</author><text>Why are you bringing up healthcare on an iPhone discussion? Trying to figure out how it is relevant to the pricing of an iPhone in Sweden.</text></item><item><author>wutwutwutwut</author><text>Yep the base price for a Iphone 7 Plus in Sweden is 1100$. Not sure it makes sense comparing prices like this though. In Sweden the cost of an iphone does not compete with your ability to get access to health care or education for example.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>If we take a look from a Global Perspective, US has the cheapest iPhone ( All prices excluding sales Tax ), and everywhere else had it more expensive. i.e The $1K Prices may be making a big waves in US, but elsewhere in the world they have been paying that much for an iPhone already.<p>And in terms of iPhones &#x2F; Population &#x2F; Apple Store, the US has it most. While in Japan 60% of the Smartphone are iPhone ( i.e Higher the US usage ) they have less then 10 Apple Stores. And it is the same everywhere else, which means any mark up in a certain countries has nothing to do with its Operation with in, and more to do with a Sales Tax, Global Pricing structure.<p>For Example, HongKong used to have the cheapest iPhone around the world, it was priced the same as US and because there are no Sales tax, it was 10-15% cheaper. Making HK the trading ground for all of SEA region or mainly China. ( Hence Tim Cook continue to blame HK market is more of a delusion rather then fact. ) Around iPhone 5 Apple started to put up additional $100 USD to ALL iPhone price in HK, as a way to combat the black market trading, and if everyone else where making money of it, why not keep the profits itself?<p>What has all these got to do with $1K iPhone. Well Apple already knew certain people are buying at those prices, again why not make a product that fit those segment? And to re balance the prices across the Globe?<p>And we have known for long there is no way to make the cutting edge devices every 12 months and ship 200M+ of it. They will need a product that only 10-20% of those 200M will buy, and have the best technology in it.<p>And mind you, shipping cutting edge technology to 20-40M user a year isn&#x27;t any easier then the 200M+ iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jdam</author><text>As a European, I noticed that discussions held here about X in the US _always_ converge against their healthcare.<p>&quot;Salary in the US is higher&quot;
- but heir healthcare sucks<p>&quot;Weather in California is nicer than in Oslo&quot;
- But you don&#x27;t have healtcare<p>&quot;New York is such a great city to live in&quot;
- But you&#x27;re left for dead</text></comment> | <story><title>With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/apple-iphone-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil421</author><text>Why are you bringing up healthcare on an iPhone discussion? Trying to figure out how it is relevant to the pricing of an iPhone in Sweden.</text></item><item><author>wutwutwutwut</author><text>Yep the base price for a Iphone 7 Plus in Sweden is 1100$. Not sure it makes sense comparing prices like this though. In Sweden the cost of an iphone does not compete with your ability to get access to health care or education for example.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>If we take a look from a Global Perspective, US has the cheapest iPhone ( All prices excluding sales Tax ), and everywhere else had it more expensive. i.e The $1K Prices may be making a big waves in US, but elsewhere in the world they have been paying that much for an iPhone already.<p>And in terms of iPhones &#x2F; Population &#x2F; Apple Store, the US has it most. While in Japan 60% of the Smartphone are iPhone ( i.e Higher the US usage ) they have less then 10 Apple Stores. And it is the same everywhere else, which means any mark up in a certain countries has nothing to do with its Operation with in, and more to do with a Sales Tax, Global Pricing structure.<p>For Example, HongKong used to have the cheapest iPhone around the world, it was priced the same as US and because there are no Sales tax, it was 10-15% cheaper. Making HK the trading ground for all of SEA region or mainly China. ( Hence Tim Cook continue to blame HK market is more of a delusion rather then fact. ) Around iPhone 5 Apple started to put up additional $100 USD to ALL iPhone price in HK, as a way to combat the black market trading, and if everyone else where making money of it, why not keep the profits itself?<p>What has all these got to do with $1K iPhone. Well Apple already knew certain people are buying at those prices, again why not make a product that fit those segment? And to re balance the prices across the Globe?<p>And we have known for long there is no way to make the cutting edge devices every 12 months and ship 200M+ of it. They will need a product that only 10-20% of those 200M will buy, and have the best technology in it.<p>And mind you, shipping cutting edge technology to 20-40M user a year isn&#x27;t any easier then the 200M+ iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>A discussion about pricing is a discussion that includes purchasing power in its scope. Cost of living is relevant to that discussion.</text></comment> |
20,916,643 | 20,916,618 | 1 | 2 | 20,914,236 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList</title><text>Sharing something that I wrote for my use but I think can be useful to others (I am an engineer with the title of Senior Software Engineer)<p>Visit [1] for a full list (table view gives a lot of options. See &quot;Controls&quot;).
Visit [2] for a summary.
The source of the list is at [3]<p>1. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleblah.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist&#x2F;<p>2. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@littleblah&#x2F;my-top-25-items-in-a-senior-engineers-checklist-c8e9f9f6e3c2<p>3. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;littleblah&#x2F;senior-engineer-checklist<p>Feedbacks&#x2F;Pull requests solicited :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxpor</author><text>I wonder where people work where they can become a senior engineer in the first place without getting involved in hiring.</text></item><item><author>notTyler</author><text>&#x27;Get involved with hiring for your team and company, and maintain a high bar for hiring quality candidates.&#x27;<p>Posts derailing this &#x27;high bar&#x27; are posted semi-daily to Hacker News, no? It&#x27;s a really big dilemma (extensive hiring process that weeds out good candidates due to time and frustration or take risks) and it makes it sound like it&#x27;s just something, you can, you know, do on a Tuesday in your spare time, and then on Wednesday you can solve the architecture problem.<p>And that&#x27;s pretty much this list summed up. It&#x27;s nice on paper, and maybe it will make a difference if someone consults it when making tough decisions. Thanks for your effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EnderMB</author><text>This is probably far more common than we&#x27;d like to admit.<p>I&#x27;ve certainly worked in places where they&#x27;d rather I didn&#x27;t get involved in the hiring process. These kind of places often heavily relied on external recruitment, and would rather that I spend my time working on projects than potentially rejecting candidates that could do the job, but weren&#x27;t up to my standard.<p>These aren&#x27;t non-tech companies either - these are companies that deal in&#x2F;sell tech as a project and&#x2F;or service. Even in companies that live and die by their development team, non-technical management can run the show and dictate hiring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList</title><text>Sharing something that I wrote for my use but I think can be useful to others (I am an engineer with the title of Senior Software Engineer)<p>Visit [1] for a full list (table view gives a lot of options. See &quot;Controls&quot;).
Visit [2] for a summary.
The source of the list is at [3]<p>1. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleblah.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist&#x2F;<p>2. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@littleblah&#x2F;my-top-25-items-in-a-senior-engineers-checklist-c8e9f9f6e3c2<p>3. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;littleblah&#x2F;senior-engineer-checklist<p>Feedbacks&#x2F;Pull requests solicited :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxpor</author><text>I wonder where people work where they can become a senior engineer in the first place without getting involved in hiring.</text></item><item><author>notTyler</author><text>&#x27;Get involved with hiring for your team and company, and maintain a high bar for hiring quality candidates.&#x27;<p>Posts derailing this &#x27;high bar&#x27; are posted semi-daily to Hacker News, no? It&#x27;s a really big dilemma (extensive hiring process that weeds out good candidates due to time and frustration or take risks) and it makes it sound like it&#x27;s just something, you can, you know, do on a Tuesday in your spare time, and then on Wednesday you can solve the architecture problem.<p>And that&#x27;s pretty much this list summed up. It&#x27;s nice on paper, and maybe it will make a difference if someone consults it when making tough decisions. Thanks for your effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a &quot;senior&quot; engineer for years, in that time I&#x27;ve read through a few dozen CVs, sat in on 2 interviews, and had final say in hiring of exactly zero people. I suspect the same is true for at least half the senior people here, unless they also happen to managers.</text></comment> |
17,964,864 | 17,962,735 | 1 | 3 | 17,962,136 | train | <story><title>A Template for Understanding How the Economic Machine Works (2011) [pdf]</title><url>https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/A_Template_for_Understanding_-_Ray_Dalio__Bridgewater.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>The &quot;Business Cycle&quot; section on page 17 is basically a blueprint for money and finance in decade-sized chunks.<p>1. Early Cycle. Low interest rates and lots of credit increase sales of big-ticket items.<p>2. Mid-Cycle. Slowing economy, low inflation and interest rates, consumption falls.<p>3. Late-Cycle. Capacity constraints surface and interest rates rise. &quot;The stock market stages its last advance.&quot;<p>4. Tightening Phase. Central bank raises interest rates in anticipation of rising inflation.<p>5. Early recession. GDP, inflation, stocks, and hedge assets fall as central bank keeps money tight.<p>6. Late recession. Central bank lowers rates, stocks rise. Cycle complete.<p>According to this roadmap, step (4) began about one year ago. In addition to increasing interest rates the Fed has committed to unwinding its QE assets from the 2009 aftermath.<p>The take-home message is that the Fed causes recessions according to a very predicable pattern. This came as quite a shock when I first read about it in the book &quot;Secrets of the Temple.&quot;<p>Also, there are a lot of gems tucked away into various corners of this essay, including this one:<p><i>... a big part of the deleveraging process is people discovering that much of what they
thought was their wealth isn’t really there. </i></text></comment> | <story><title>A Template for Understanding How the Economic Machine Works (2011) [pdf]</title><url>https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/A_Template_for_Understanding_-_Ray_Dalio__Bridgewater.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptozeus</author><text>I find this very useful, every now and then i make it a point to watch his video to remind myself of the macro view on things <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0</a></text></comment> |
12,215,810 | 12,215,700 | 1 | 3 | 12,213,487 | train | <story><title>.NET Framework 4.6.2</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/02/announcing-net-framework-4-6-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentgt</author><text>As a Java developer I am always so envious of how attentive Microsoft is with .NET. Maybe it is the grass is greener but it feels like oracle just sits on its ass and ignores most of the Java community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Java always suffered from Sun not being serious about it for OS development.<p>While .NET was pushed by Microsoft for everything else that didn&#x27;t necessarily require the features of C++ and as such got a good focus in the whole stack and OS integration.<p>Sun like any other UNIX company, never understood the desktop, and the only OS stack they pushed Java was the network computer failed attempt and later on J2ME.<p>It was JEE (J2EE back then) that made it relevant again.<p>Oracle has always invested a lot in Java, they already quite a few Java based products in the early 2000. They were the first DBMS to support stored procedures in Java.<p>They also kept the Sun research labs going and will be integrating the Java JIT Graal into the standard JDK.<p>The Java Language Summit is taking place this week.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLX8CzqL3ArzUY6rQAQTwI_jKvqJxrRrP_" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLX8CzqL3ArzUY6rQAQTwI...</a><p>The problem is that Oracle designs languages for suits not jeans.</text></comment> | <story><title>.NET Framework 4.6.2</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/02/announcing-net-framework-4-6-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentgt</author><text>As a Java developer I am always so envious of how attentive Microsoft is with .NET. Maybe it is the grass is greener but it feels like oracle just sits on its ass and ignores most of the Java community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frik</author><text>Will there ever be a dotNetFramework 5 ?? Version 4 is from 2012 which was already a minor update from v3 from 2007.<p>The new dotNetCoreFramework 1.0 just got released. It wouldn&#x27;t sense to add mayor new features to dotNetFramework 4.6x, legacy is written on the wall.<p>dotNetFramework 1x from 2002 to 2005 is unsupported for many years and APIs and code ate incompatible with dotNetFramework 2+. Basically dotNetFramework rebooted with v2 and got really popular starting in 2005. All mayor features were available since v3. Though then the development stagnated and little new outstanding new featured were included in newer releases. Plus several APIs turned out to vanish pretty quickly and are dragged along as legacy like WinForms, Silverlight, WPF, Managed C++, ManagedDirectX and its next incompatible iteration, SharePoint APIs, WinFS, etc. Plus the incompatible different API WinRT aka WinRunTime aka UniversalRuntime with various incompatibilities in WinPhone8, Win8 &amp; 10.<p>So Microsoft now has to maintain Win32 API and its subsystem (the reason why people are still using Windows, dating back to 1995 and source code compatible to Win16 API dating back to Win1 (1985) and Win16 is still supported on 32bit OS (technically it could also run on 64bit, if MS would want that). And UniversalRuntime (former WinRT) based on Win32 subsystem and still a lot less featurefull and little developer support and little apps - MS wants to push it, many hate it and almost all Windows applications continue as Win32 x84&#x2F;64 applications even most games (Steam is big, the hate on WinStore is rightful). And dotNetFramework 2x+ the legacy big soup infested with dream buildings full of XML. And now dotNetCoreFramework in v1 still pretty rough and unfinished and the usual v1 were you want to wait for service pack 1 or v2.<p>In comparison Java is source compatible to at least v1.4, but in reality often back to Java 1.1 or 1.2. Sure there are some crufty APIs that got a better alternative that is recommend and several third party frameworks come and are now enterprise&#x2F;legacy tools and newer things are now popular. While Java stagnated a bit with Oracle at times, it&#x27;s still a nicer experience than the quickly vanishing and legacy API that Microsoft releases out en mass. And also Google is supporting Java on Android as its main API.</text></comment> |
17,486,542 | 17,486,548 | 1 | 3 | 17,486,077 | train | <story><title>Kialo – a platform for rational debate</title><url>https://www.kialo.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidos</author><text>I like the idea but found it a little hard to follow the arguments. Especially difficult if you follow down the cons thread, because a con of a con is a pro of the original point.<p>I worry that it won’t really result in more rational outcome but I do wish it luck. Is there anyway to downvote the points for being, for example, strawman arguments?<p>Edit: maybe I’d parse it better if they were labelled “agree” and “disagree”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electrograv</author><text>I tried it a while ago, then left when I realized a terrible aspect of its’ design was being abused: The creator of a debate topic gets to moderate it, which basically includes full censorship powers of any pros or cons you don’t like.<p>It boggles my mind anyone designing Kialo would have thought that to be a good idea, or that they wouldn’t foresee it being abused regularly to nudge the tide of an argument in the preferred direction by the moderators.<p>I’ve seen it all the time: Depending on the agenda of the moderators, one side of the argument mysteriously receives an overwhelmingly large amount of “moderation” for minor technicalities or even outright nonsensical reasons.<p>I’ve even seen Kialo’s own confusing design you mention here used as a way to subtly suppress one side of an argument: Take any argument beyond the top level, and it’s very easy to simply claim it is a duplicate of a top level argument. For example, if I write a con of a con, moderators can remove it saying it resembled an argument they saw in a top level pro. Or if I write a pro or a pro, they can remove it by saying it’s a duplicate of its own parent!<p>And this technique applies any number of levels deep in the tree. When this “moderation” gets applies overwhelmingly on one side of an argument, you can shift the entire balance of a Kialo argument quite easily without revealing overt corruption on the surface of your actions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kialo – a platform for rational debate</title><url>https://www.kialo.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidos</author><text>I like the idea but found it a little hard to follow the arguments. Especially difficult if you follow down the cons thread, because a con of a con is a pro of the original point.<p>I worry that it won’t really result in more rational outcome but I do wish it luck. Is there anyway to downvote the points for being, for example, strawman arguments?<p>Edit: maybe I’d parse it better if they were labelled “agree” and “disagree”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kialo</author><text>You can &quot;mark for review&quot; claims that aren&#x27;t clear, duplicates, etc...<p>Mind you, we aren&#x27;t a site for commenting or opining, but for capturing and visualizing the reasoning for your opinions.<p>Thus to &quot;show&#x2F;capture&quot; your opinion, you vote the individual claims and theses (in the case of multi thesis debates, like this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kialo.com&#x2F;2027" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kialo.com&#x2F;2027</a>). Then later you can select the different perspectives (opinions) and see the reasoning of different individuals, all in the same document. Works best in team environments, as public users often only vote 5 claims.<p>We tried agree&#x2F;disagree, but this became problematic on mobile browsers.</text></comment> |
24,098,032 | 24,097,903 | 1 | 3 | 24,096,328 | train | <story><title>Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok</title><url>https://twiktwok.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>llacb47</author><text>This is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;)<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twiktwok.github.io&#x2F;firstVids.js</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blocked_again</author><text>That&#x27;s just the ouput cache of the algorithm&#x27;s last run. The algorithm itself is pretty advanced and is run on the developers&#x27;s biological neural net.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok</title><url>https://twiktwok.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>llacb47</author><text>This is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;)<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twiktwok.github.io&#x2F;firstVids.js</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heed</author><text>So all of the content is manually uploaded to the repo?</text></comment> |
14,841,714 | 14,841,013 | 1 | 2 | 14,838,658 | train | <story><title>Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derekdahmer</author><text>&gt; A spokeswoman for Facebook said none of the company’s contingent or contract workers have access to facilities such as clinics, gyms, or bring-your-child-to-work days<p>One thing I liked about AirBnB was their entire staff including cafeteria workers and security guards were full-time employees who ate the same food, had access to the same facilities and events, and went through the first week &#x27;bootcamp&#x27; alongside developers, HR, and upper management.<p>That doesn&#x27;t solve the wage gap, but it does make a huge difference in developing empathy to see people you&#x27;ve had common experiences with at all levels of the organization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitally</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this was a special circumstance, but I shared a table with a security guard during my noogler orientation. That made a similar impact on me (and we stay in touch even now, actually). But, at Google, there is also a strong differentiation between full time employees and everybody else (temps, vendors, contractors), with clear and consistently impressed rules about what non-FTEs are allowed to see and do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derekdahmer</author><text>&gt; A spokeswoman for Facebook said none of the company’s contingent or contract workers have access to facilities such as clinics, gyms, or bring-your-child-to-work days<p>One thing I liked about AirBnB was their entire staff including cafeteria workers and security guards were full-time employees who ate the same food, had access to the same facilities and events, and went through the first week &#x27;bootcamp&#x27; alongside developers, HR, and upper management.<p>That doesn&#x27;t solve the wage gap, but it does make a huge difference in developing empathy to see people you&#x27;ve had common experiences with at all levels of the organization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acid__</author><text>I want to second this, as a former Airbnb employee -- it really did make a visible difference in enthusiasm, sense of community, and just overall work satisfaction.</text></comment> |
30,200,215 | 30,200,191 | 1 | 2 | 30,183,465 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%</title><url>https://www.usage.ai/</url><text>Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usage.ai&#x2F;<p>We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it&#x27;s done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems.<p>Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups.<p>Here&#x27;s how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 50% for 5 minutes of work.<p>To reduce by 50%+, we don&#x27;t touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback. So you get the steep 57% savings of 3-year no-upfront RIs with none of the commitment (you can sell them back to us anytime after 30 days).<p>We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee. Happy to chat directly [email protected]<p>Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization&#x27;s AWS expenses? We&#x27;d love to hear your feedback and ideas!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FujiApple</author><text>The IAM policy shown on the website allows sts:AssumeRole without any restricting on resources or conditions which will be a deal breaker for many. Presumably you can restrict this to certain AWS principals?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%</title><url>https://www.usage.ai/</url><text>Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usage.ai&#x2F;<p>We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it&#x27;s done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems.<p>Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups.<p>Here&#x27;s how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 50% for 5 minutes of work.<p>To reduce by 50%+, we don&#x27;t touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback. So you get the steep 57% savings of 3-year no-upfront RIs with none of the commitment (you can sell them back to us anytime after 30 days).<p>We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee. Happy to chat directly [email protected]<p>Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization&#x27;s AWS expenses? We&#x27;d love to hear your feedback and ideas!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>A good place to start with cloud savings is just knowing what is out there. I built CloudOptimizer.io [1] for this purpose, aggregrating 10 cloud providers in one place.<p>Running it as a free, hobby project.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudoptimizer.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudoptimizer.io</a></text></comment> |
24,601,311 | 24,600,587 | 1 | 2 | 24,599,642 | train | <story><title>Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)</title><url>https://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benrbray</author><text>More importantly, stop showing me &quot;Sign Up&quot; buttons if I&#x27;m already logged in! And when I&#x27;m logged out, don&#x27;t hide the &quot;Sign In&quot; button from me!<p>I can never remember if it&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;</a>. For the longest time, the first link was just a splash advertisement for Drive with a big &quot;Sign Up&quot; button, and no clear way to actually get to my drive folder. GitHub has a similar issue, as do countless other websites that I use on a daily basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>And when I&#x27;m logged out, don&#x27;t hide the &quot;Sign In&quot; button from me!</i><p>Digital Ocean is guilty of this. If you&#x27;re on a phone, or a tablet, or any browser with a window narrower than about 700px, the page is so obsessed with selling Digital Ocean that in order for an existing customer to use an account you&#x27;ve already paid for, you have to click the hamburger menu, and then scroll... scroll... scroll... all the way down to the bottom of 75 options to find a sign-in button.<p>For a company that brands itself as being tech-forward and people-friendly, Digital Ocean should know better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)</title><url>https://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benrbray</author><text>More importantly, stop showing me &quot;Sign Up&quot; buttons if I&#x27;m already logged in! And when I&#x27;m logged out, don&#x27;t hide the &quot;Sign In&quot; button from me!<p>I can never remember if it&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;</a>. For the longest time, the first link was just a splash advertisement for Drive with a big &quot;Sign Up&quot; button, and no clear way to actually get to my drive folder. GitHub has a similar issue, as do countless other websites that I use on a daily basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paco3346</author><text>This one drives me up a wall. I always find myself thinking &quot;hey jerk I&#x27;m already a paying customer where the f is MY button?&quot;</text></comment> |
28,450,641 | 28,450,622 | 1 | 2 | 28,450,261 | train | <story><title>ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mandliya</author><text>Very responsibly done! The issue was not that they had to share the logs with law enforcement, the issue was that marketing message was incorrect from them. This is a responsible step.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoubleDerper</author><text>Consumers relied upon ProtonMail&#x27;s prominent and concise marketing claim. Consumers who signed up for the service are now in jeopardy, perhaps facing real [legal] injury based on reasonable expectation of not having their IP logged.<p>The privacy-centric nature of this abuse is unlikely to result in a class-action-type of response, but Caveat Emptor abuses can be dealt with by the marketplace, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mandliya</author><text>Very responsibly done! The issue was not that they had to share the logs with law enforcement, the issue was that marketing message was incorrect from them. This is a responsible step.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>futureproofd</author><text>The fact that the messaging was there to begin with is the issue. People assume tech companies are immune from the law based on make believe claims that their ideals allow them to circumvent it.</text></comment> |
32,614,752 | 32,612,656 | 1 | 2 | 32,611,247 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?</title><text>In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sowbug</author><text>Less a specific technology and more a mindset. Repairing things around the house. Today, it&#x27;s almost always rational to throw out the broken thing and buy a new one. There are a bunch of reasons why that&#x27;s true: cost of one&#x27;s own labor, lack of discrete replacement parts, lack of repair documentation, improvements in technology since original purchase, risk of further breakage, risk of injury to self, etc.<p>But the real cost is that people generally don&#x27;t know how things work anymore. They&#x27;re just black boxes, even simple things like a coffee maker or a clothes dryer. Which further reduces the demand for repairability, which seems like a downward spiral toward everything being disposable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccorcos</author><text>I feel like there&#x27;s a city vs suburbs correlation here too.<p>If you live in a city, (nevermind the fact that you&#x27;re probably renting and paying way to much in rent consider fixing anything yourself) you probably don&#x27;t have the space and the tools to enjoy taking apart and fixing things.<p>In the suburbs, you probably have a garage and a side yard where you have the space to entertain these kinds of hobbies.<p>Just recollecting: the last thing I fixed was a bolt that broke off inside a nut that was welded to a pipe. Luckily I have a workshop table, a vice, and a drill with various attachments. All of this takes space.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?</title><text>In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sowbug</author><text>Less a specific technology and more a mindset. Repairing things around the house. Today, it&#x27;s almost always rational to throw out the broken thing and buy a new one. There are a bunch of reasons why that&#x27;s true: cost of one&#x27;s own labor, lack of discrete replacement parts, lack of repair documentation, improvements in technology since original purchase, risk of further breakage, risk of injury to self, etc.<p>But the real cost is that people generally don&#x27;t know how things work anymore. They&#x27;re just black boxes, even simple things like a coffee maker or a clothes dryer. Which further reduces the demand for repairability, which seems like a downward spiral toward everything being disposable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Also it is just a nice feeling, every time you use something you&#x27;ve repaired. I&#x27;m not very handy, but every time I open the door that doesn&#x27;t squeak anymore it cheers me up a little.</text></comment> |
16,082,512 | 16,080,883 | 1 | 2 | 16,080,002 | train | <story><title>Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown</title><url>https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>This covers both Meltdown and Spectre.<p>&gt; Both vulnerabilities exploit performance features (caching and speculative execution) common to many modern processors to leak data via a so-called side-channel attack. Happily, the Raspberry Pi isn’t susceptible to these vulnerabilities, because of the particular ARM cores that we use.<p>The reason why Spectre is not a problem is because there is no branch predictor in these simpler arm cores. Instructions are processed in parallel when possible, but not before dependencies, including branch decisions.<p>EDIT: under &quot;What is speculation?&quot; branch prediction is described. Then in the conclusion: &quot;The lack of speculation in the ARM1176, Cortex-A7, and Cortex-A53 cores used in Raspberry Pi render us immune to attacks of the sort.&quot;</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is great, but remember that it covers Meltdown, not Spectre. Meltdown is the more immediate disaster, but Spectre is the more batshit vulnerability. You <i>really</i> want to get your head around:<p>* The branch target injection variant of Spectre if you want to get a sense of how amazing this vulnerability is: you can spoof the branch predictor to trick a target process into running arbitrary code in its address space! This is crazy!<p>* The misprediction variant of Spectre if you want to get a hopeless feeling in the pit of your stomach, since the implications of mispredict are that certain <i>kinds</i> of programs are riddled with a new kind of side channel we didn&#x27;t really grok until last week, and no upcoming microcode update seems to be in the offing.<p>You could probably use the same Python conceit to illustrate the other two attacks; someone might take a crack at that.<p>(I&#x27;m not disputing that the R-Pi&#x27;s aren&#x27;t vulnerable to Spectre).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makomk</author><text>A lot of the cheaper Pi-like boards also aren&#x27;t affected for the same reason, as are lower-end Android phones. The articles claiming it affected every modern CPU were basically mistaken. It was an easy mistake to make, given that ARM&#x27;s announcement only listed the cores that were affected and had a little note saying everything not listed was unaffected by both Meltdown and Spectre. (There is precisely one ARM-designed core that is affected by Meltdown, a high-end one so new that no chips based on it have been released yet.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown</title><url>https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>This covers both Meltdown and Spectre.<p>&gt; Both vulnerabilities exploit performance features (caching and speculative execution) common to many modern processors to leak data via a so-called side-channel attack. Happily, the Raspberry Pi isn’t susceptible to these vulnerabilities, because of the particular ARM cores that we use.<p>The reason why Spectre is not a problem is because there is no branch predictor in these simpler arm cores. Instructions are processed in parallel when possible, but not before dependencies, including branch decisions.<p>EDIT: under &quot;What is speculation?&quot; branch prediction is described. Then in the conclusion: &quot;The lack of speculation in the ARM1176, Cortex-A7, and Cortex-A53 cores used in Raspberry Pi render us immune to attacks of the sort.&quot;</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is great, but remember that it covers Meltdown, not Spectre. Meltdown is the more immediate disaster, but Spectre is the more batshit vulnerability. You <i>really</i> want to get your head around:<p>* The branch target injection variant of Spectre if you want to get a sense of how amazing this vulnerability is: you can spoof the branch predictor to trick a target process into running arbitrary code in its address space! This is crazy!<p>* The misprediction variant of Spectre if you want to get a hopeless feeling in the pit of your stomach, since the implications of mispredict are that certain <i>kinds</i> of programs are riddled with a new kind of side channel we didn&#x27;t really grok until last week, and no upcoming microcode update seems to be in the offing.<p>You could probably use the same Python conceit to illustrate the other two attacks; someone might take a crack at that.<p>(I&#x27;m not disputing that the R-Pi&#x27;s aren&#x27;t vulnerable to Spectre).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>There is almost certainly a branch predictor even in these simple ARM cores.</text></comment> |
11,158,596 | 11,158,078 | 1 | 3 | 11,157,507 | train | <story><title>Godot game engine reaches 2.0</title><url>http://www.godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-reaches-2-0-stable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zubspace</author><text>Godot is awesome. It&#x27;s a great alternative to Unity. It has a friendly community (IRC). The all-in-one editor is nice. The scripting language is easy to get into and if you need to, you can extend the engine and scripting language with C++. And the export to windows, linux, mac, ios, android and web works actually quite well.<p>What&#x27;s really nice is the notion of scenes which I prefer to the way scenes are handled in Unity. Scenes in Godot are are simply node-trees which you can instantiate in existing scenes. For example you create a character in a single scene which you instantiate in a level scene. I always had the impression that this favored encapsulation compared to highly interdependent components in unity.<p>What brought me back to unity was 3D, scripting and debugging. 3D in Godot feels limited. Shader graphs are not really usable, yet. It&#x27;s a lot simpler to create something nice in Unity with the standard shader and some assets. And well, the debugger, it&#x27;s simply not comparable to Visual Studio. Variables are sometimes not inspectable. I missed refactoring alot. And sometimes you need to dig very deep to understand how stuff works because many things are not yet documented.<p>All-in-all, I love Godot. It&#x27;s a nice cross-platform development environment. I simply hope that I can come back later when all rough edges are gone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Godot game engine reaches 2.0</title><url>http://www.godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-reaches-2-0-stable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chris_wot</author><text>So we are no longer waiting for Godot. Don&#x27;t you think this puts them in a bit of an existential crisis?</text></comment> |
12,344,234 | 12,344,141 | 1 | 2 | 12,343,898 | train | <story><title>Technologies in HN “Who is Hiring?” threads</title><url>https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread-part-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rfrey</author><text>I appreciate how much work stuff like this is, thanks.<p>There&#x27;s something weird to me about how the data is broken out though. The article claims Django and Rails dominate - &quot;the gap between them and the next thing is really big&quot;. This leaves the impression that those are the big backend stacks.<p>Yet there&#x27;s no mention of node. Go? Java stacks? Clojure backends? I know that node and go and Clojure aren&#x27;t frameworks (and meteor <i>is</i> mentioned)... but that&#x27;s the point, I think. The bins are chosen in a way that they seem to exclude a huge chunk (maybe the majority!) of tech stacks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technologies in HN “Who is Hiring?” threads</title><url>https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread-part-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StriverGuy</author><text>I am immediately skeptical of this analysis.
No .NET Framework at all? I know that isn&#x27;t true since I have browsed Who&#x27;s Hiring plenty.</text></comment> |
23,616,333 | 23,616,619 | 1 | 2 | 23,614,128 | train | <story><title>My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kleiba</author><text>It&#x27;s crazy but from a European perspective, stories like this sound more like what I imagine police forces to behave like in dictatorships, not in a democracy.<p>After living in Europe for six years now, my wife is still puzzled sometimes by the differences between Europe and North-America when it comes to the police: how they are experienced by the population and how they see and present themselves and which role they think they&#x27;re playing in society. Big difference. I&#x27;m certainly over-generalizing but here, we see cops as approachable and helpful in general (with exceptions) while in North-America, at least my wife&#x27;s impression is that of cops being mostly intimidating (again, with exceptions).<p>Of course, this is all complex and different social and societal aspects play a big role, such as e.g., the odds for a cop of running into an armed person. But when I read how the police handled the situation with the group of black trick-or-treaters, it seems so foreign to me now from a more European perspective.<p>I suppose accountability is always going to be an issue - who watches the watchmen? But it should not be - in a democracy especially, there should be functioning mechanism to prevent abuse of power, and that of course applies to police actions, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>I think the central difference is that in much of Europe, the the ideal of the perfect police officer would be someone who actively helps people to stay out of trouble, e.g. calming down a brewing pub fight situation before it gets out of hand, or warn you <i>before</i> doing something wrong. I guess this ideal also exists in the US, but there it is counteracted by the opposite ideal in which the police is no position to bother anyone who isn&#x27;t clearly and undeniably in the wrong, but then cracking down hard. &quot;Don&#x27;t mess with Freedom unless it&#x27;s of gunpoint-grade importance.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kleiba</author><text>It&#x27;s crazy but from a European perspective, stories like this sound more like what I imagine police forces to behave like in dictatorships, not in a democracy.<p>After living in Europe for six years now, my wife is still puzzled sometimes by the differences between Europe and North-America when it comes to the police: how they are experienced by the population and how they see and present themselves and which role they think they&#x27;re playing in society. Big difference. I&#x27;m certainly over-generalizing but here, we see cops as approachable and helpful in general (with exceptions) while in North-America, at least my wife&#x27;s impression is that of cops being mostly intimidating (again, with exceptions).<p>Of course, this is all complex and different social and societal aspects play a big role, such as e.g., the odds for a cop of running into an armed person. But when I read how the police handled the situation with the group of black trick-or-treaters, it seems so foreign to me now from a more European perspective.<p>I suppose accountability is always going to be an issue - who watches the watchmen? But it should not be - in a democracy especially, there should be functioning mechanism to prevent abuse of power, and that of course applies to police actions, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Usually police in dictatorships, at least the more successful ones, tend to be much more professional, polite and non-brutal. Until they are very professional, very cruel and very brutal. The latter usually against very well defined groups, in very well defined ways.<p>Simple reason being, that random police violence just results, ultimately, in the kind of uproar and civil unrest the US experience now. Basically the last thing dictatorships want.</text></comment> |
19,695,061 | 19,695,049 | 1 | 2 | 19,694,281 | train | <story><title>Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485599/facebook-instagram-passwords-plain-text-millions-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmate9</author><text>&quot;...various errors seem to have caused Facebook’s systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012.&quot;<p>1) As a software engineer I can&#x27;t imagine how such errors could possibly have entered production code accidentally, especially after code review. If precise details of these errors are released I am open to have my mind changed.<p>2) Even if it did, I can&#x27;t see how it would take facebook&#x27;s tens of thousands of engineers 7 years to find this &quot;bug&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>As a mere programmer I can very easily image dozens of ways such errors could easily enter production code accidentally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485599/facebook-instagram-passwords-plain-text-millions-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmate9</author><text>&quot;...various errors seem to have caused Facebook’s systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012.&quot;<p>1) As a software engineer I can&#x27;t imagine how such errors could possibly have entered production code accidentally, especially after code review. If precise details of these errors are released I am open to have my mind changed.<p>2) Even if it did, I can&#x27;t see how it would take facebook&#x27;s tens of thousands of engineers 7 years to find this &quot;bug&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2016a</author><text>Not too far fetch... For example, I&#x27;ve seen people put in place logging systems that logged the whole request body and then someone changed a field name and all the sudden as a side effect the code that sanitizes the body to remove the sensitive information no longer does it&#x27;s job.</text></comment> |
38,543,314 | 38,543,580 | 1 | 2 | 38,538,886 | train | <story><title>Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermoelectric-heating</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gcanyon</author><text>&gt; Researchers use a dimensionless quantity called ZT to describe the strength of the thermoelectric effect in any combination of materials. Two decades ago, combinations such as lead and tellurium yielded ZT values of around 1. After ten years, the search for new, more complex, and more effective materials had yielded ZT values of 2.<p>These sentences are useless. Going from 1 to 2 <i>probably</i> means doubling the efficiency, <i>if</i> the base value is 0. But even if that&#x27;s true (which it&#x27;s not guaranteed to be) is a real-world usable value 3? or 478?<p>Much later in the article: &quot;Vining predicted in 2009 that a ZT of 4 would be the required threshold for commercialization.&quot; There it is. But even with that, the information given tells us very little about the underlying property, or the technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermoelectric-heating</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elil17</author><text>As someone who works in this industry - no, thermoelectric heating does not stand at the brink of commercialization. The fundamental issue with thermoelectric heating is that you need a material with high electrical conductivity but very low thermal conductivity. zT is a metric that measures this ratio. Conducting electricity but not heat is a weird property for a material to have and no one even knows if zT can be raised much from where it is today. Even if it could, it would probably be expensive, so you&#x27;d probably want to use thermoelectric cooling for things like on-chip computer cooling, not to cool your whole house.</text></comment> |
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