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10,050,735 | 10,049,356 | 1 | 2 | 10,048,086 | train | <story><title>Integration over Invention</title><url>http://blog.convox.com/integration-over-invention</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>At Opendoor, we&#x27;ve been running an important piece of our data science infrastructure on Convox. Their philosophy of relying on battle-tested AWS primitives has made Convox more stable than any non-Heroku PaaS I&#x27;ve ever encountered.<p>We wrote a post on this last week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.opendoor.com&#x2F;moving-opendoors-data-science-stack-from-heroku-to-convox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.opendoor.com&#x2F;moving-opendoors-data-science-stac...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Integration over Invention</title><url>http://blog.convox.com/integration-over-invention</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nzoschke</author><text>So the main question I have is... Obviously someone has to do the invention. How will this pan out after all these container tools settle?<p>What if Kubernetes is it? The primary solid implementation of the hardest parts of distributed state management. Google uses this to power GCE, Amazon supports plugging this into ECS, and anyone building their own data center uses it for a control plane.<p>Is this the dream? Or is this a bad outcome for lack of technology diversity?</text></comment> |
40,878,363 | 40,878,470 | 1 | 2 | 40,877,992 | train | <story><title>NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop</title><url>https://nexdock.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segasaturn</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen these before and I always loved the idea of &quot;convergence&quot; even though its never been successful. I remember in at least 2013 when the Ubuntu Edge had a convergence feature that would blow your phone up into a (very slow) desktop PC over DisplayPort that you would then control via the phone touch screen [1].<p>I suspect the reason that mobile convergence hasn&#x27;t been successful is that people like owning multiple devices that fit the mood you are in. My phone is for social stuff, my tablet is for entertainment stuff and my laptop is for work stuff. The thought of cramming all of those head-spaces into one device feels stressful, like putting all my eggs into one basket. I&#x27;m always very happy when I hear about updates to DeX or new convergence docks though<p>1:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bk9-v8Sl4yU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bk9-v8Sl4yU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>A scooter, motorcycle, car, and delivery van all serve different purposes, though there is a little crossover between each stage.<p>The same is true about these devices: yes, in a pinch you can grab that document and search for something but really when editing it you want not just a keyboard and larger display, but a bit more horsepower and different apps.<p>So I use to think a fancy dock like this would be good, but their continued failure has taught me a lot.</text></comment> | <story><title>NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop</title><url>https://nexdock.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segasaturn</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen these before and I always loved the idea of &quot;convergence&quot; even though its never been successful. I remember in at least 2013 when the Ubuntu Edge had a convergence feature that would blow your phone up into a (very slow) desktop PC over DisplayPort that you would then control via the phone touch screen [1].<p>I suspect the reason that mobile convergence hasn&#x27;t been successful is that people like owning multiple devices that fit the mood you are in. My phone is for social stuff, my tablet is for entertainment stuff and my laptop is for work stuff. The thought of cramming all of those head-spaces into one device feels stressful, like putting all my eggs into one basket. I&#x27;m always very happy when I hear about updates to DeX or new convergence docks though<p>1:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bk9-v8Sl4yU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bk9-v8Sl4yU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; I suspect the reason that mobile convergence hasn&#x27;t been successful is that people like owning multiple devices that fit the mood you are in. My phone is for social stuff, my tablet is for entertainment stuff and my laptop is for work stuff.<p>Nah, I used to think the same thing about desktop vs laptop but turns out once laptops got good enough to be a true desktop replacement it was much better to just have one device. Phones aren&#x27;t there yet, even if the raw processor speed numbers suggest they should be.</text></comment> |
31,856,206 | 31,855,871 | 1 | 2 | 31,845,699 | train | <story><title>Schroedinger's streaming service just died</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/early-adopters/#heads-i-win</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>googlryas</author><text>Is this just wordplay? When you click &quot;Buy now&quot;, are you just buying a license?<p>Is &quot;ownership&quot; just a byproduct of physical goods? If I say I own a record, the proof is basically in the pudding. But how do I prove I own an MP3 file? I&#x27;d probably need to do something like show a receipt for it. But then again, what if I have shown that receipt to 100 people I&#x27;ve sold &quot;my&quot; copy of the MP3 file to? With physical reality, exact duplication is difficult, and is already covered under those existing laws.<p>It seems like computing was big on licensing, even when tech was nascent and there wasn&#x27;t clearly reams of money to be made in it, there must be a reason for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>The issue, as outlined in the article, is that artists get different rates for whether a song was &quot;sold&quot; or &quot;licensed&quot; (with licensing giving a <i>much</i> higher percentage to the artist), and while services presented their sales as license agreements to the end customer, they presented them as sales to the artists, allowing the streaming service to restrict user rights while also not paying artists the much higher percentage.<p>There are of course different ways to interpret what a sale of a digital good is (as you note), but legally speaking with regard to the status quo, it seems like something large might be changing. Either end users might find they have a lot more rights (the ones they&#x27;ve traditionally had for purchased items), or artists will get a lot more money because they&#x27;ve been getting screwed for decades for licensed works, or possibly we&#x27;ll see new legislation codifying the current status quo to protect the large media companies (because for some reason legislators often seem to think past ability to make money is a reason in itself to protect the method in which it was done, regardless of legality).</text></comment> | <story><title>Schroedinger's streaming service just died</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/early-adopters/#heads-i-win</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>googlryas</author><text>Is this just wordplay? When you click &quot;Buy now&quot;, are you just buying a license?<p>Is &quot;ownership&quot; just a byproduct of physical goods? If I say I own a record, the proof is basically in the pudding. But how do I prove I own an MP3 file? I&#x27;d probably need to do something like show a receipt for it. But then again, what if I have shown that receipt to 100 people I&#x27;ve sold &quot;my&quot; copy of the MP3 file to? With physical reality, exact duplication is difficult, and is already covered under those existing laws.<p>It seems like computing was big on licensing, even when tech was nascent and there wasn&#x27;t clearly reams of money to be made in it, there must be a reason for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clownbaby</author><text>And then, along came the blockchain and NFTs... one receipt per purchase??<p>This obviously doesn&#x27;t help the streaming services, but, this - or something similar would help solve the quantum entanglement of digital music.</text></comment> |
41,344,326 | 41,344,423 | 1 | 2 | 41,342,017 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?</title><text>What are you working on? Any new ideas that you&#x27;re thinking about?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>reassess_blind</author><text>I have a question - I&#x27;ve seen TikToks of people who buy rolls of coins from the bank and sort through them for rare imperfections then sell them on eBay. I&#x27;ve always wondered whether it would be possible to develop an automated system where a camera takes high res photos of the coins on a conveyor belt, compares to a DB of known imperfections and sets them aside?<p>Is anyone doing this? It&#x27;s an interesting business model as the product is money so you&#x27;d only stand to make a profit never a loss.</text></item><item><author>nlh</author><text>I’m a tech nerd rare coin &amp; currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rarity7.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rarity7.com&#x2F;</a><p>About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections&#x2F;doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc.<p>The other 50% I’m writing code and building out the tech stack for this business. I’ve written the whole backend for the retail site myself, which includes my own inventory management system, sync with eBay and other marketplaces, etc.<p>I’ve also built out a research tool which includes an ML price prediction engine engine (which sounds fancy but is really just a tabular regression model).<p>Backend is written in Crystal because I love the language and there’s nobody stopping me from using it :) Frontend is all Svelte and they’re glued together using a mini framework I wrote:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noahlh&#x2F;celestite">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noahlh&#x2F;celestite</a><p>I probably have 5 years worth of ideas I still want to build and I wish I could spend even more time building it all, but it’s super fun actually using it in the real live marketplace so I’d never give that up.<p>Happy to chat about this stuff with anyone who’s interested or vaguely interested in numismatics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>Nobody that I know of is doing this, and see no reason why it wouldn&#x27;t be possible from a technical standpoint. I think the only reason I can imagine NOT to do is that the ROI probably isn&#x27;t that high in reality. Now, granted, I don&#x27;t watch the coin TikToks because 95% of it is clickbait, exaggerate, etc. But my actual impression is that there simply isn&#x27;t that much actually-valuable material out there hiding in bank rolls (despite what TikTok says).<p>Most of the people I know who do bank roll hunting and doing it because it&#x27;s just kinda fun and there&#x27;s a thrill when you find a silver quarter from 1964 (worth about $5) hiding in a roll of otherwise-normal quarters. But so much of the good stuff has already been plucked from circulation.<p>Having said that, nothing should stop a good hacker from doing something just for the hell of it :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?</title><text>What are you working on? Any new ideas that you&#x27;re thinking about?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>reassess_blind</author><text>I have a question - I&#x27;ve seen TikToks of people who buy rolls of coins from the bank and sort through them for rare imperfections then sell them on eBay. I&#x27;ve always wondered whether it would be possible to develop an automated system where a camera takes high res photos of the coins on a conveyor belt, compares to a DB of known imperfections and sets them aside?<p>Is anyone doing this? It&#x27;s an interesting business model as the product is money so you&#x27;d only stand to make a profit never a loss.</text></item><item><author>nlh</author><text>I’m a tech nerd rare coin &amp; currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rarity7.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rarity7.com&#x2F;</a><p>About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections&#x2F;doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc.<p>The other 50% I’m writing code and building out the tech stack for this business. I’ve written the whole backend for the retail site myself, which includes my own inventory management system, sync with eBay and other marketplaces, etc.<p>I’ve also built out a research tool which includes an ML price prediction engine engine (which sounds fancy but is really just a tabular regression model).<p>Backend is written in Crystal because I love the language and there’s nobody stopping me from using it :) Frontend is all Svelte and they’re glued together using a mini framework I wrote:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noahlh&#x2F;celestite">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noahlh&#x2F;celestite</a><p>I probably have 5 years worth of ideas I still want to build and I wish I could spend even more time building it all, but it’s super fun actually using it in the real live marketplace so I’d never give that up.<p>Happy to chat about this stuff with anyone who’s interested or vaguely interested in numismatics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>do you know why vendors take credit cards, square and applepay, even though those services charge several percent fees? part of it is for convenience for the customer, but another part is that shuttling cash around to the bank and back is time consuming, risky, and takes you away from running your business (let&#x27;s say you are a breakfast place, you don&#x27;t make your own cups and napkins or farm your own eggs and coffee either)<p>&gt;<i>product is money so you&#x27;d only stand to make a profit never a loss</i><p>you&#x27;re grabbing the expense part of the business that everybody else is trying to shed. Let&#x27;s talk also about time value of money. All the money that you&#x27;ve invested in cash is not making money passively as other investments do. Compared to putting the money in the stock market, you&#x27;re losing 7% a year on this scheme, plus the expenses of running your business, and opportunity cost of not doing something else that generates income.</text></comment> |
14,351,601 | 14,351,734 | 1 | 3 | 14,351,260 | train | <story><title>Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2017/05/16/git-and-github-integration-comes-to-atom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heygrady</author><text>Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tschellenbach</author><text>On the other hand this will Github an incentive to keep on improving Atom. Maybe someone has finally figured out how to monetize an editor. I hope so, cause the current ecosystem of editors is a mess of half baked solutions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2017/05/16/git-and-github-integration-comes-to-atom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heygrady</author><text>Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoschicz</author><text>I find bundling Git support with Atom is a requirement, VSCode does it.</text></comment> |
22,949,257 | 22,949,348 | 1 | 2 | 22,948,885 | train | <story><title>Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)</title><url>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/02/immune-systems-of-healthy-adults-remember-germs-to-which-theyve-never-been-exposed-stanford-study-finds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>&quot;...memory CD4s proliferated and otherwise became activated in response to exposure to certain components of the influenza virus, but also to epitopes of several different bacterial and protozoan microbes. This cross-reactivity could explain why exposure to common bugs in the dirt and in our homes renders us less susceptible to dangerous infectious agents.&quot;<p>So the CD4 is a key activated to fit a particular lock, but given the imperfections of locks it fits a random assortment of others too. As we build up a keychain of these we have a better chance to fit any random lock.<p>But why doesn&#x27;t the larger keychain also increase the chances of auto-immune diseases when they happen to fit our own locks? Or increase inflammation from other benign microbes it fits? Seems like the metaphor needs work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>&gt; But why doesn&#x27;t the larger keychain also increase the chances of auto-immune diseases, when they happen to fit our own locks?<p>The process that generates immune cells tests them for autoimmune reactivity and aggressively culls ones that are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)</title><url>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/02/immune-systems-of-healthy-adults-remember-germs-to-which-theyve-never-been-exposed-stanford-study-finds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>&quot;...memory CD4s proliferated and otherwise became activated in response to exposure to certain components of the influenza virus, but also to epitopes of several different bacterial and protozoan microbes. This cross-reactivity could explain why exposure to common bugs in the dirt and in our homes renders us less susceptible to dangerous infectious agents.&quot;<p>So the CD4 is a key activated to fit a particular lock, but given the imperfections of locks it fits a random assortment of others too. As we build up a keychain of these we have a better chance to fit any random lock.<p>But why doesn&#x27;t the larger keychain also increase the chances of auto-immune diseases when they happen to fit our own locks? Or increase inflammation from other benign microbes it fits? Seems like the metaphor needs work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>three_seagrass</author><text>You do get autoimmune diseases this way.<p>The thyroid does a good job of filtering out new immune cells that attack the body, but sometimes you will get an infection where the targeted protein mimics a body protein. When that happens, you&#x27;re stuck with an autoimmune disease.<p>Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reactive_arthritis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reactive_arthritis</a></text></comment> |
27,972,393 | 27,972,074 | 1 | 2 | 27,971,688 | train | <story><title>IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI</title><url>https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-07-27-Announcing-IBM-z-OS-V2-5,-Next-Gen-Operating-System-Designed-for-Hybrid-Cloud-and-AI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>Other than the obvious buzzword compliance does anyone know what this actually means?<p>&gt; With z&#x2F;OS V2.5, IBM is introducing new high performance AI capabilities that are tightly integrated with z&#x2F;OS workloads, designed to give clients business insights for more informed decision making.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>Here is a good high level slide deck on z&#x2F;OS 2.5 new features: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;IBM&#x2F;IBM-Z-zOS&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;zOS-Education&#x2F;zOS-V2.5-Education&#x2F;What&#x27;s%20New%20in%20zOS%20v2.5%20-%20Preview%20Edition.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;IBM&#x2F;IBM-Z-zOS&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;zOS-Education&#x2F;zOS...</a><p>It starts out with the marketing buzzwords but then drills down into the technical nitty-gritty. In terms of what the &quot;AI&quot; stuff actually means, one answer is contained on slide 121 – support for running Tensorflow and ONNX inside a Linux Docker container using zCX (which lets you run z&#x2F;Linux Docker containers under z&#x2F;OS). The zCX SIMD support referenced on slide 102 is probably highly relevant to this.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI</title><url>https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-07-27-Announcing-IBM-z-OS-V2-5,-Next-Gen-Operating-System-Designed-for-Hybrid-Cloud-and-AI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>Other than the obvious buzzword compliance does anyone know what this actually means?<p>&gt; With z&#x2F;OS V2.5, IBM is introducing new high performance AI capabilities that are tightly integrated with z&#x2F;OS workloads, designed to give clients business insights for more informed decision making.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sennight</author><text>If this was the old IBM, back when they had an internal science journal just to keep track of their own accomplishments, I&#x27;d say they came up with something like z&#x2F;TPF[0] - but for AI. But I would be extremely surprised if the new IBM actually started pushing the envelope of computer science again. Not until they reverse course on the whole &quot;Lets get rid of all our hardware expertise and just focus on software&quot; thing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Transaction_Processing_Facility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Transaction_Processing_Facilit...</a></text></comment> |
39,827,695 | 39,827,404 | 1 | 2 | 39,827,266 | train | <story><title>Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses</title><url>https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xoa</author><text>Just to put some numbers on this:<p>The MV Dali (IMO#9697428) is a little over 95000 GT, or ballpark-ish probably around 114000 tons loaded (and it seems to have been loaded, which would make sense on departure). If it was going even 5kn (2.6 m&#x2F;s) that&#x27;d be about 300 million newton-seconds, or about 3.3 times the momentum of a large jumbo jet like a 747 shortly at cruising speed (around 560 mph). It&#x27;d still have the same momentum as said jet if it was going just 1.5kn. The ship of course is enormously more stoutly built and the force is going to be transmitted far more directly into whatever it hits vs into explosions driving mass elsewhere.<p>I&#x27;ve read that both on water and in space for that matter enormously massive objects moving very slowly messes with human perception and &quot;common sense&quot;, it &quot;feels like&quot; something moving along smoothly and slowly should be stoppable or come to a stop. Enormous momentum and forces can be terrifying things.</text></item><item><author>dathinab</author><text>At least in the links with the video now you can see that the container ship directly hits one of the two main (and in the central area only) pillars completely collapsing it.<p>No matter(1) the engineering there is no pretty much way to not lose the whole large middle area and left area leading to the destroyed pillar in that situation.<p>Such a collapse crates so much force (tension vibrations etc.) so that the collapse of the section right of the right pillar is not unreasonable.<p>The only question is if the impact should have made the pillar collapse.<p>But a loaded container ship is ... absurdly massive I mean they are like multiple high raise building (but not sky scrapers) standing squished together side by side. So the force it can apply is huge and if cargo moving in it there will be force applied to whatever it crashes into even after the initial impact.<p>And looking at the waves caused by impact with the base it was at least 8m high I think (depending on the container ship). So that wasn&#x27;t a &quot;slow moving&quot; impact. And even slow moving impacts with container ships can tear apart a solid jetty.<p>So while the US has issues with infrastructure maintenance idk. if anything but building a many pillar bridge would have made any difference. And building a many pillar bridge might not be very viable depending on the under water landscape and water use under the main area.<p>EDIT: Looking at pictures with daylight where you can try to estimate the high of the ship using containers I would say the waves where handwavingly 4 containers high so ~9.5m and it also looks like the ship might have embedded half of the pillars fundament into&#x2F;under itself (but it&#x27;s a bit hard to tell to the angle of the picture). I think if that&#x27;s the case probably the huge majority of bridge pillars of past and presence would have collapsed.</text></item><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>Somehow I find it surprising how completely the bridge collapsed after the damage. I understand that a container ship collision is serious, but you could imagine a scenarios where the bridge slumps or buckles but doesn’t just disintegrate like that. It’s surprising that ships capable of doing this damage were probably regularly driving past it, and its safety as a thoroughfare depended entirely on those collisions not happening.<p>Does anyone know if modern construction standards would require more stability after a ship collision, or is this still how we build bridges?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>litenboll</author><text>I had a summer job once, filling trains with sugar. They weighed about 15kkg per wagon (usually 5-10 wagons per train IIRC).<p>One time the pulling cart broke down and we had to switch it for another, but when we took it off the rails we forgot about the &quot;shoe&quot; that is supposed to go between the rail and one of the wheels so it can&#x27;t move downhill (it was like 1degree of slope so barely recognizable as a slope).<p>It started moving extremely slowly, and all of us except one tried to hold back the force of the train, which of course was imossible and dangerous. The one who did not try to push it very quickly found the &quot;shoe&quot; and put in place. Initially it did not seem to help at all, the train just continued moving at the same pace, tearing up asphalt with the shoe. It finally came to a stop after about 3-5m(?) which takes a fair bit of time with such low speed, and felt like forever given the situation.<p>The train tracks headed out into an open road, so it could have been so much worse if it were not for the only person thinking clearly in the situation (he was one of the more experienced in our group).</text></comment> | <story><title>Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses</title><url>https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xoa</author><text>Just to put some numbers on this:<p>The MV Dali (IMO#9697428) is a little over 95000 GT, or ballpark-ish probably around 114000 tons loaded (and it seems to have been loaded, which would make sense on departure). If it was going even 5kn (2.6 m&#x2F;s) that&#x27;d be about 300 million newton-seconds, or about 3.3 times the momentum of a large jumbo jet like a 747 shortly at cruising speed (around 560 mph). It&#x27;d still have the same momentum as said jet if it was going just 1.5kn. The ship of course is enormously more stoutly built and the force is going to be transmitted far more directly into whatever it hits vs into explosions driving mass elsewhere.<p>I&#x27;ve read that both on water and in space for that matter enormously massive objects moving very slowly messes with human perception and &quot;common sense&quot;, it &quot;feels like&quot; something moving along smoothly and slowly should be stoppable or come to a stop. Enormous momentum and forces can be terrifying things.</text></item><item><author>dathinab</author><text>At least in the links with the video now you can see that the container ship directly hits one of the two main (and in the central area only) pillars completely collapsing it.<p>No matter(1) the engineering there is no pretty much way to not lose the whole large middle area and left area leading to the destroyed pillar in that situation.<p>Such a collapse crates so much force (tension vibrations etc.) so that the collapse of the section right of the right pillar is not unreasonable.<p>The only question is if the impact should have made the pillar collapse.<p>But a loaded container ship is ... absurdly massive I mean they are like multiple high raise building (but not sky scrapers) standing squished together side by side. So the force it can apply is huge and if cargo moving in it there will be force applied to whatever it crashes into even after the initial impact.<p>And looking at the waves caused by impact with the base it was at least 8m high I think (depending on the container ship). So that wasn&#x27;t a &quot;slow moving&quot; impact. And even slow moving impacts with container ships can tear apart a solid jetty.<p>So while the US has issues with infrastructure maintenance idk. if anything but building a many pillar bridge would have made any difference. And building a many pillar bridge might not be very viable depending on the under water landscape and water use under the main area.<p>EDIT: Looking at pictures with daylight where you can try to estimate the high of the ship using containers I would say the waves where handwavingly 4 containers high so ~9.5m and it also looks like the ship might have embedded half of the pillars fundament into&#x2F;under itself (but it&#x27;s a bit hard to tell to the angle of the picture). I think if that&#x27;s the case probably the huge majority of bridge pillars of past and presence would have collapsed.</text></item><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>Somehow I find it surprising how completely the bridge collapsed after the damage. I understand that a container ship collision is serious, but you could imagine a scenarios where the bridge slumps or buckles but doesn’t just disintegrate like that. It’s surprising that ships capable of doing this damage were probably regularly driving past it, and its safety as a thoroughfare depended entirely on those collisions not happening.<p>Does anyone know if modern construction standards would require more stability after a ship collision, or is this still how we build bridges?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KineticLensman</author><text>&gt; enormously massive objects moving very slowly messes with human perception and &quot;common sense&quot;<p>Yes, hence warnings to amateur boat users (e.g. on a canal boat) not to try to stop a collision with the bank using your arms or legs.<p>[Edit] Boats can also do things that are unintuitive if you are used to driving a car. E.g. turning round the centre of gravity when you steer rather than following the front wheels.</text></comment> |
31,384,060 | 31,383,711 | 1 | 3 | 31,382,779 | train | <story><title>Weak links in finance and supply chains are easily weaponized</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01254-5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fny</author><text>This has already happened. It is not a coincidence that we went from $-40 oil to $130 oil in the span of two years.<p>I posit the Saudis and Russians deliberately maintained elevated production levels into the COVID shutdowns in an attempt to handicap US energy production. Bankruptcies in the US ensued. Wells were shut. Supply went offline. Now we&#x27;re begging them to turn the wells back on, and they&#x27;re not interested.<p>Evidence to ponder for the unbelievers.<p>[0]: In March 2020, Saudis and Russians can&#x27;t come to an agreement about cutting output into a global shutdown (this was clearly a show)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;oil-price-war" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;oil-price-war</a><p>[1]: Trump pushes Saudis to cut production into negative oil, US bankruptcies ensue<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-global-oil-trump-saudi-specialreport&#x2F;special-report-trump-told-saudi-cut-oil-supply-or-lose-u-s-military-support-sources-idUSKBN22C1V4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-global-oil-trump-saudi-sp...</a><p>[2]: Biden tells Saudis to boost production amid $100 oil<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;us-officials-ask-saudi-boost-oil-production-russia-attack-fears-2022-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;us-officials-ask-saudi-boost...</a><p>[3]: At all time high prices, OPEC is still behind its production targets.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;energy&#x2F;opec-oil-output-march-resumes-trend-lagging-pledged-hikes-survey-2022-04-01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;energy&#x2F;opec-oil-output-marc...</a><p>The beauty of this strategy is that is creates the continued fear that at some point the Saudis will turn on the tap and oil can go sub $60 again (see futures prices at the long end of the curve), so the US is still wary of investing in oil and gas to deal with the shortage.<p>Everyone seems to forget the Saudis created an oil crisis in the 70s for political gain once. How we are not talking about this today more actively is beyond me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Weak links in finance and supply chains are easily weaponized</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01254-5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ironSkillet</author><text>No surprise. Uncovering this dependency graph at a granular level is a holy grail of industry analysts because it drives the dynamics of the sector. Definitely a non-trivial task as many companies view their supply chain as a major competitive advantage and would heavily lobby to avoid having to make meaningful disclosures.</text></comment> |
33,968,457 | 33,966,510 | 1 | 2 | 33,966,469 | train | <story><title>PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting</title><url>https://framablog.org/2022/12/13/peertube-v5-the-result-of-5-years-handcrafting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivoras</author><text>This actually makes me sad :(<p>Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later &quot;cloud&quot; providers assumed changed that for the worse.<p>It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone. This is how early protocols were designed. Everyone was supposed to be a SMTP (e-mail) host. Everyone was supposed to run FTP and HTTP. Everyone got an equally routable (the link quality depends, of course) address, not some 3rd level NAT retail monstrosity. If you needed aggregation, you make search sites like Google (and AltaVista and others before it) and RSS to pull data from multiple sources and CACHE IT LOCALLY.<p>Of course I welcome projects like PeerTube, but I&#x27;d much rather go back to the original idea. No ISPs or Clouds, only Peers.<p>With Internet like water grid - a utility.</text></comment> | <story><title>PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting</title><url>https://framablog.org/2022/12/13/peertube-v5-the-result-of-5-years-handcrafting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ealhad</author><text>PeerTube is a free, decentralised and federated video platform, and a part of the fediverse, meaning you can interact with it via Mastodon and other tools, thanks to the ActivityPub protocol.<p>There is only one paid developer, working for the French non-profit Framasoft – and I think it&#x27;s important to share this in non French-speaking spaces.<p>If you want to help them &quot;Collectivise &#x2F; Convivialise the internet&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soutenir.framasoft.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soutenir.framasoft.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
15,921,668 | 15,921,519 | 1 | 2 | 15,910,526 | train | <story><title>The Amazon Machine</title><url>https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/12/12/the-amazon-machine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AJRF</author><text>It’s hard to take anything Ben says seriously anymore. He uses his platform to shill Apple and trash Tesla all the time. This time it only took one sentence before he got cracking on it. Seriously look at his Twitter and its the same monotonous praise for Apple and trashing Tesla Ad nauseam</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skc</author><text>On Twitter he mercilessly blocks anyone who challenges his view on any topic.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Amazon Machine</title><url>https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/12/12/the-amazon-machine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AJRF</author><text>It’s hard to take anything Ben says seriously anymore. He uses his platform to shill Apple and trash Tesla all the time. This time it only took one sentence before he got cracking on it. Seriously look at his Twitter and its the same monotonous praise for Apple and trashing Tesla Ad nauseam</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>“but Tesla has yet to build a machine that can manufacture Model 3s efficiently, reliable, quickly and at quality at the scale of the incumbent car industry.
”<p>People love to call out the Model 3, but Tesla makes almost 2,000 cars a week. They obviously are having a problem with the battery for it. As a general problem, they are past making a few hundred cars a quarter.</text></comment> |
9,065,819 | 9,064,232 | 1 | 2 | 9,061,744 | train | <story><title>Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf]</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmh100</author><text>For me, the key insight came from the following quote regarding Searle’s Chinese Room argument [1]:<p>*&gt; And while it was true, the critics went on, that a giant lookup table wouldn’t “truly understand” its responses, that point is also irrelevant. For the giant lookup table is a philosophical fiction anyway: something that can’t even fit in the observable universe! If we instead imagine a compact, efficient computer program passing the Turing Test, then the situation changes drastically. For now, in order to explain how the program can be so compact and efficient, we’ll need to posit that the program includes representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning, and all sorts of other internal furniture that we would expect to find in a mind. Personally, I find this response to Searle extremely interesting—since if correct, it suggests that the distinction between polynomial and exponential complexity has metaphysical significance.<p>This captures what I had intuitively thought regarding the link between computation and consciousness: consciousness is some sort of sophisticated, elegant computation embodied in human physiology.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_room</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf]</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diego898</author><text>This is my favorite Scott Aaronson piece! It has been submitted to HN before, though quite some time ago. The discussion on that one is worth referencing here as well:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861825" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2861825</a></text></comment> |
29,817,269 | 29,817,431 | 1 | 2 | 29,813,194 | train | <story><title>Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps</title><url>https://logankilpatrick.medium.com/6-julia-frameworks-to-create-desktop-guis-and-web-apps-9ae1a941f115</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AareyBaba</author><text>The startup time was a blocker last time I jumped in (mid-2021). Have things changed ?</text></item><item><author>cardosof</author><text>I feel that the time to migrate to Julia is now. The ecosystem is finally coming together and there doesn&#x27;t seem to be breaking changes to the language anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agucova</author><text>It has improved gradually. The community is targeting latency optimizations in the entire ecosystem, and that effort has been moving rapidly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps</title><url>https://logankilpatrick.medium.com/6-julia-frameworks-to-create-desktop-guis-and-web-apps-9ae1a941f115</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AareyBaba</author><text>The startup time was a blocker last time I jumped in (mid-2021). Have things changed ?</text></item><item><author>cardosof</author><text>I feel that the time to migrate to Julia is now. The ecosystem is finally coming together and there doesn&#x27;t seem to be breaking changes to the language anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kolbe</author><text>Plots is still a problem for me. Rust and Julia have a lot in common in this respect, but I will gladly take the advantages of their package management systems if it means a longer compilation time.</text></comment> |
38,304,558 | 38,303,185 | 1 | 2 | 38,302,634 | train | <story><title>YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-copyright-id-scammers-must-pay-artists-3-3m-restitution-231116/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>I&#x27;ve been getting 1960s public domain Atomic Energy Commission films scanned from 16mm reels at the National Archives and posting on YouTube. I noticed they were running a lot of ads even though I had monetization off. Turns out, each one got a few copyright claims from people who apparently release &quot;remastered&quot; old music in the 2010s. I got annoyed and disputed them all and as of yesterday the claims have all been released. What a pain.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-copyright-id-scammers-must-pay-artists-3-3m-restitution-231116/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AugustoCAS</author><text>I only skimmed through the article, but if I understood correctly the scammers made $23m, now have to repay $3.3m (which probably will never happen) and some of their assets were taken. They were given 4 and 6 year prison sentences (which might be cut short for good conduct I assume).<p>So in 3 years these blokes come out, with probably ~5m-10m stashed away? Not a bad ROI :(.</text></comment> |
40,808,631 | 40,807,848 | 1 | 2 | 40,806,151 | train | <story><title>AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein-science-but-didnt-end-it-20240626/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>&gt; Protein folding is still an unsolved problem, and I’m dubious of the notion machine learning will ever solve it, but hopefully we get some helpful science out of it.<p>As a working hypothesis, protein folding assumes that a protein folds into the globally lowest energy configuration. And that&#x27;s a good assumption for a start.<p>However, nature isn&#x27;t magic and can&#x27;t magically solve global optimisation problems. If there&#x27;s a region in configuration space with a local minimum and high enough energy &#x27;walls&#x27;, this might be stable enough for the protein to be stable.<p>For reasons of computational complexity, I agree that machine learning will probably never solve the global minimisation problem. But the complicated and messy local optimisation problem that we see in reality might very well be solvable eventually by something like machine learning.<p>Why are you dubious? Where do your objections come from?</text></item><item><author>trivexwe</author><text>Weird article.<p>It mentions multiple times that ~”the protein folding problem is solved” as well as multiple instances of ~”but there are limitations to this technique and it is often missing crucial details”.<p>It really is difficult to conceptualize these highly nonlinear problem spaces, like protein folding, until you attempt to work with them.<p>Many in software development have an intuitive understanding of the difficulty evidenced in the community’s ~“the last 10% took 100% of the time” meme.<p>Even in a nonlinear problem spaces you have “trivial” solutions.<p>Terry Tao famously coauthored a paper finding arithmetic progressions for generating sequences of primes.[1] The sequences found are “trivial” in terms of “solving the prime sequence problem” in that they are sparse, the sequences are finite, and progressions lack a method of find more.<p>These machine learning tools are by design approximation engines. I’m unsure of any results that prove one way or the other that it is possible to pass a bound of approximation that provides exact solutions. (think, an approximate solution that only fails to provide exact solutions for solutions that are trivial using a different method, I think a lot of work I p-adics is motivated similarly)<p>I feel these machine learning techniques are expanding the definition of “trivial solutions” to include those capable of being solved by their convoluted methods (back prop, etc). Since this new subset of the space that can be labeled “solved” appear more complex than known trivial solutions people assume the whole space must be known, and this is where the difficult conceptualization rears its influence.<p>Protein folding is still an unsolved problem, and I’m dubious of the notion machine learning will ever solve it, but hopefully we get some helpful science out of it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Green%E2%80%93Tao_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Green%E2%80%93T...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gabia</author><text>Great points about the energy minimisation issue. Funnily enough, this is actually a problem with de-novo protein design at the moment: the designed proteins are _too_ stable! Compared to natural proteins. Protein are often not static shapes, they are machines that need to be dynamic - in other words what you said, they do not live at some deep global optimum.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein-science-but-didnt-end-it-20240626/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>&gt; Protein folding is still an unsolved problem, and I’m dubious of the notion machine learning will ever solve it, but hopefully we get some helpful science out of it.<p>As a working hypothesis, protein folding assumes that a protein folds into the globally lowest energy configuration. And that&#x27;s a good assumption for a start.<p>However, nature isn&#x27;t magic and can&#x27;t magically solve global optimisation problems. If there&#x27;s a region in configuration space with a local minimum and high enough energy &#x27;walls&#x27;, this might be stable enough for the protein to be stable.<p>For reasons of computational complexity, I agree that machine learning will probably never solve the global minimisation problem. But the complicated and messy local optimisation problem that we see in reality might very well be solvable eventually by something like machine learning.<p>Why are you dubious? Where do your objections come from?</text></item><item><author>trivexwe</author><text>Weird article.<p>It mentions multiple times that ~”the protein folding problem is solved” as well as multiple instances of ~”but there are limitations to this technique and it is often missing crucial details”.<p>It really is difficult to conceptualize these highly nonlinear problem spaces, like protein folding, until you attempt to work with them.<p>Many in software development have an intuitive understanding of the difficulty evidenced in the community’s ~“the last 10% took 100% of the time” meme.<p>Even in a nonlinear problem spaces you have “trivial” solutions.<p>Terry Tao famously coauthored a paper finding arithmetic progressions for generating sequences of primes.[1] The sequences found are “trivial” in terms of “solving the prime sequence problem” in that they are sparse, the sequences are finite, and progressions lack a method of find more.<p>These machine learning tools are by design approximation engines. I’m unsure of any results that prove one way or the other that it is possible to pass a bound of approximation that provides exact solutions. (think, an approximate solution that only fails to provide exact solutions for solutions that are trivial using a different method, I think a lot of work I p-adics is motivated similarly)<p>I feel these machine learning techniques are expanding the definition of “trivial solutions” to include those capable of being solved by their convoluted methods (back prop, etc). Since this new subset of the space that can be labeled “solved” appear more complex than known trivial solutions people assume the whole space must be known, and this is where the difficult conceptualization rears its influence.<p>Protein folding is still an unsolved problem, and I’m dubious of the notion machine learning will ever solve it, but hopefully we get some helpful science out of it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Green%E2%80%93Tao_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Green%E2%80%93T...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trivexwe</author><text>&gt; Why are you dubious? Where do your objections come from?<p>That the results the machine learning techniques provide are still nondeterministic.<p>Meaning that they are, in terms of identifying other local minima that satisfy the constraints, as good as a guess.<p>If the provided solution also came with a method of systemic modification to derive all other solutions that satisfy the constraints, then I would be satisfied.<p>Without that you are unable to say with certainty that your local minima is correct even if nature fails to adhere to the lowest energy assumption.<p>&gt; However, nature isn&#x27;t magic and can&#x27;t magically solve global optimisation problems.<p>I wonder sometimes. Let’s remember, this is an open question after all.<p>I have a long standing hypothesis that an algorithmic solution to the global optimization problem is what lends action potentials the appearance, or essence?, of what we mean when we speak of “consciousness”.<p>But I am a more inclined toward the abstract aspects of the mathematics behind the problem, and leave advocacy for the current techniques
to researchers developing practical solutions with them.<p>I applaud the people who toiled with X-ray crystallography to build the field to the point that a machine learning technique could be developed.</text></comment> |
36,465,418 | 36,465,413 | 1 | 3 | 36,465,085 | train | <story><title>Time is not a synchronization primitive</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/blog/nosleep</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>I agree that it is no synchronization primitive and that even if it was, it&#x27;s very fragile. However I found it in nearly every project I worked on, in backend tests, frontend tests and even in integration tests where the library driving the browser should take care of waiting for elements to appear on screen. Modals and browser dialogs are particularly good at breaking stuff.<p>The dynamic is: developers write the the test and it usually works on their machines. If it does not there is a chance that they figure out what&#x27;s wrong and rewrite it in the proper way. Tests often work locally, where the CPU and disk are nearly 100% available to run them. Sometimes they fail on CI systems. Developers scratch their heads and attempt the easy fix of adding a sleep of 1 second. That almosts always work and it took 5 minutes, code, commit, test run. They know that it stinks but they have stuff to do. Every few months somebody attempts to remove some of those sleeps with mixed and often unsuccessful results. Integration tests are particularly nasty.</text></comment> | <story><title>Time is not a synchronization primitive</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/blog/nosleep</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hayley-patton</author><text>Did a devops elective last semester; I was surprised to hear that sleeping to wait for the system to come up was &quot;common in the industry&quot;. 30 seconds was the magic number, which was somehow always either mostly a waste or not enough when I tried to use it.<p>For similar reasons, we similarly can&#x27;t keep making sleep-sort faster by scaling the sleeps down.</text></comment> |
20,835,739 | 20,835,802 | 1 | 3 | 20,835,428 | train | <story><title>Verified by Twilio</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-verified-twilio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical for the following reasons:<p>1. Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls, so I&#x27;m always a little skeptical when the company selling the poison is also selling the antidote.
2. I really don&#x27;t like the idea of a single company being responsible for a global verification system for something like phone calls. How are decisions made over what is verified (e.g. the example shows &quot;call purpose&quot; snippets on the screen - if I put something there saying &quot;I have an important flight update&quot;, but then my call is &quot;You&#x27;re only getting free peanuts on your flight, but if you enroll in this MileagePlus card you&#x27;ll get snack mix too!&quot; who judges that?)<p>Overall I&#x27;d just say with all the consolidation of power with US tech giants I am extremely wary of giving them anything else that could consolidate that power further. I would much prefer an open, federated model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigmar</author><text>&gt;Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls...<p>Nah, Twilio has existed for a decade. Spam calls exploded because of court decisions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apnews.com&#x2F;f9e6e715ebef4c058499fef9efece977" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apnews.com&#x2F;f9e6e715ebef4c058499fef9efece977</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Verified by Twilio</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-verified-twilio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical for the following reasons:<p>1. Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls, so I&#x27;m always a little skeptical when the company selling the poison is also selling the antidote.
2. I really don&#x27;t like the idea of a single company being responsible for a global verification system for something like phone calls. How are decisions made over what is verified (e.g. the example shows &quot;call purpose&quot; snippets on the screen - if I put something there saying &quot;I have an important flight update&quot;, but then my call is &quot;You&#x27;re only getting free peanuts on your flight, but if you enroll in this MileagePlus card you&#x27;ll get snack mix too!&quot; who judges that?)<p>Overall I&#x27;d just say with all the consolidation of power with US tech giants I am extremely wary of giving them anything else that could consolidate that power further. I would much prefer an open, federated model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bestnameever</author><text>It&#x27;s been awhile but I believe it is much easier to use something like Asterisk and a sip provider to spoof calls then twillo.</text></comment> |
19,291,276 | 19,290,918 | 1 | 2 | 19,289,782 | train | <story><title>EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs</title><url>https://editorconfig.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skoskie</author><text>Ok, help me understand this. I’m on #TeamTab which puts me at odds with most coding standards. I usually work solo, so I don’t care, but every time I do let someone else edit a file, the commit shows every line has changed because their editor converts my indents.<p>Are you saying there’s a tool that will let me work with (superior) tabs but have standards compliant commits?<p>I’ve tried doing this in my .gitconfig with limited success. It didn’t work consistently.</text></item><item><author>petetnt</author><text>These days I vastly prefer autoformatters, only run at precommit stage myself. Instead of having to adapt to different styles everytime and getting distracted by stylistic changes mid-coding (eg. on save), I can just rely that the styles are eventually consistent and code ahead. It takes some time getting used to, but it’s super refreshing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>The thing with ideal auto-formatters is that there is no discussion about tabs vs spaces anymore!<p>In a perfect world each language has exactly one (non-configurable) formatter and this solves all the formatting discussions.<p>For JS I use prettier and altough I am not 100% happy with some of the formatting choices I _love_ it because I can focus on code and not have flamewars about tabs vs spaces with my co-workers. prettier ends all style discussions. And code reviews are much nicer because people concentrate on checking the code, not the formatting.</text></comment> | <story><title>EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs</title><url>https://editorconfig.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skoskie</author><text>Ok, help me understand this. I’m on #TeamTab which puts me at odds with most coding standards. I usually work solo, so I don’t care, but every time I do let someone else edit a file, the commit shows every line has changed because their editor converts my indents.<p>Are you saying there’s a tool that will let me work with (superior) tabs but have standards compliant commits?<p>I’ve tried doing this in my .gitconfig with limited success. It didn’t work consistently.</text></item><item><author>petetnt</author><text>These days I vastly prefer autoformatters, only run at precommit stage myself. Instead of having to adapt to different styles everytime and getting distracted by stylistic changes mid-coding (eg. on save), I can just rely that the styles are eventually consistent and code ahead. It takes some time getting used to, but it’s super refreshing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>The real-world choice is not (tabs) || (spaces), it&#x27;s (tabs &amp;&amp; spaces) || (spaces). Which is why spaces is the objectively superior choice.</text></comment> |
34,212,010 | 34,210,705 | 1 | 2 | 34,208,926 | train | <story><title>Mini brains grown from stem cells developed eye-like features (2021)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mini-brains-grown-stem-cells-developed-eyes-can-sense-light-180978478/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Why a pair of eyes? And not three, four, five, ...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loa_in_</author><text>Two eyes give a very very significant increase in information provided over one eye, because two eyes is absolute minimum for depth perception. Three eyes and more don&#x27;t provide any significant advantage functionally, except maybe redundancy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mini brains grown from stem cells developed eye-like features (2021)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mini-brains-grown-stem-cells-developed-eyes-can-sense-light-180978478/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Why a pair of eyes? And not three, four, five, ...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>Because you’re bilaterian which is a very far back feature and basic aspect of embryonic development. You have two of things mirrored left-right.</text></comment> |
41,005,398 | 41,005,646 | 1 | 2 | 41,005,378 | train | <story><title>62 Minutes could bring your business down</title><url>https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/#teaser-79minutes-adversary-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpach</author><text>Main thread here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41002195">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41002195</a></text></comment> | <story><title>62 Minutes could bring your business down</title><url>https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/#teaser-79minutes-adversary-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait to see the reasoning employed by CrowdStrike management to try and justify their continued existence after a lack of testing caused them to trigger the very same global IT meltdown that they are supposed to prevent</text></comment> |
28,265,500 | 28,264,999 | 1 | 3 | 28,264,097 | train | <story><title>Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/19/a-scandal-in-tedhemia-noted-study-in-psychology-first-fails-to-replicate-but-is-still-promoted-by-npr-then-crumbles-with-striking-evidence-of-data-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>merricksb</author><text>Yesterday:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28257860" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28257860</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/19/a-scandal-in-tedhemia-noted-study-in-psychology-first-fails-to-replicate-but-is-still-promoted-by-npr-then-crumbles-with-striking-evidence-of-data-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbullock35</author><text>An important finding is buried in the linked blog post. It turns out that Ariely was hyping the fraudulent findings on NPR in February 2020. At the time, perhaps he didn&#x27;t know that they were fraudulent. But he -did- know that there was great reason to doubt them. We can be confident of this point because, more than half a year earlier, he had submitted for publication a new article [1] that (a) failed to replicate the original findings, and (b) uncovered a massive problem with baseline measurements in the original study, suggesting that the randomization in that study might never even have taken place. Indeed, the whole point of the new article was to make these critical points about the older article!<p>Even if Ariely had no role in the creation of the fake data, it seems hard to defend his behavior on NPR: hyping a study that he knew to be extremely problematic.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;117&#x2F;13&#x2F;7103.short" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;117&#x2F;13&#x2F;7103.short</a></text></comment> |
19,570,580 | 19,570,570 | 1 | 2 | 19,570,378 | train | <story><title>Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots 'could not stop nosedive'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47812225</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>I’d love to see those people who accused the airline and crew of being incompetent to apologize in the light of these reports.<p>It was shameful to see Boeing actively encouraging that narrative behind the scenes. Especially considering it plays on racist stereotypes equating „Africa“ with bad training&#x2F;bad safety record&#x2F;…. The idea of „dingy third world airline“ was ridiculous on its face, considering how bad a fit flying the most modern airliner is with it.<p>And it was also contradicted by the factual record of Ethopian being a competent airline on par with any in Europe or North America. Their safety rating is better than easyjet, Ryanair, Spirit, WOW, and Southwest: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airlineratings.com&#x2F;safety-rating-tool&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airlineratings.com&#x2F;safety-rating-tool&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots 'could not stop nosedive'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47812225</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhandley</author><text>Will be interesting to see the details when the report is actually public. It does sound like the scenario that Mentourpilot explored in the simulator is close to what happened, namely:<p>Bad AoA probe causes MCAS to trim down, and also to indicate IAS disagree. Pilots increase throttle as per non-normal checklist to reduce the risk of stalling due to unreliable airspeed. Pilots disable electric stabilizer trim, as per Boeing&#x27;s advice, without trimming back to neutral trim. Plane is now low, accelerating, and trimmed nose down. Pilots likely started to trim up with the manual trim wheels, but that&#x27;s very slow, and gets harder as airspeed increases. And you don&#x27;t want to reduce power, because that will cause a pitch-down, and you&#x27;re close to the ground. At this point you&#x27;ve run out of options that are recommended by Boeing. The only remaining option is to re-enable electric stabilizer trim, and use that to trim nose-up.<p>Now, from what I understand, appying nose-up electric trim should override MCAS, and so this course of action should be possible. However, at this point, you&#x27;re basically a test pilot - this is not on any of Boeing&#x27;s checklists or training. Why didn&#x27;t it work? We&#x27;ll have to wait for the full report for that I think.</text></comment> |
1,631,204 | 1,631,162 | 1 | 2 | 1,631,002 | train | <story><title>Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/motorola-snaps-up-280-north-for-20-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pchristensen</author><text>%^@&#38;&#38;(*%^@%@!<p>pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo! I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish. My fear came true. EDIT: Half true. No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them.<p>Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors. Let's all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kneath</author><text>At it's core, YCombinator is a Venture Capital firm. A very different one, but still — they give money, advice and connections for equity in hopes of a return on their investment. You make returns on your investment by companies getting acquired (other methods are extremely rare).<p>I can't see why a VC firm would argue against a huge exit that makes everyone a ton of money and leaves the founders working on the same product they built and love.</text></comment> | <story><title>Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/motorola-snaps-up-280-north-for-20-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pchristensen</author><text>%^@&#38;&#38;(*%^@%@!<p>pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo! I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish. My fear came true. EDIT: Half true. No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them.<p>Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors. Let's all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asnyder</author><text>There are plenty of other awesome tools out there. The valley has a tendency to idolize certain people unnecessarily, this leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.<p>Worst of all the attention that one development tool or team gets, reduces the attention that other teams get. As a competitor (former competitor?), I sincerely congratulate 280North, but to suggest that they're the only ones building awesome tools is the furthest from the truth.<p>Edit: No reason to down-vote this. No animosity should be read here. I was just saying there are other cool development tools. I congratulate 280North.</text></comment> |
30,260,468 | 30,260,171 | 1 | 3 | 30,259,609 | train | <story><title>Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/peloton-ceo-john-foley-1.6343537</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>N_A_T_E</author><text>Is it just me or is $40 a month too much for the content they provide? I would spend a couple thousand on fancy exercise equipment, or maybe get one as a gift for my parents but the required subscription gives me rent seeking vibes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m4tthumphrey</author><text>Peloton subscriber here.<p>£40&#x2F;month is worth it. The quality of the classes is impeccable. It&#x27;s like they&#x27;ve been produced with TV budgets! This price does also include the digital membership which has yoga, boxing and loads of other type of workouts.<p>The bike (Bike+) is expensive but it&#x27;s a solid piece of kit and does come with a 24 inch (Android) tablet.<p>Edit: Forgot to say, the £40&#x2F;month is per bike, not per member. So you can have your entire family using the bike for the £40&#x2F;month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/peloton-ceo-john-foley-1.6343537</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>N_A_T_E</author><text>Is it just me or is $40 a month too much for the content they provide? I would spend a couple thousand on fancy exercise equipment, or maybe get one as a gift for my parents but the required subscription gives me rent seeking vibes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>My partner might as well have joined a cult with how obsessed she is with not just the peloton but the culture of the peloton class.<p>That being said, she argues she’s never felt healthier in her entire life and so I can’t complain if she’s happy!</text></comment> |
11,293,777 | 11,293,261 | 1 | 2 | 11,288,896 | train | <story><title>Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability</title><url>http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23011</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Curious to see no mention (in the paper or comments here) of previous neuro-imaging experiments that showed that brain networks associated with empathy and those associated with logical thought are antagonists, and it does not appear to be possible to have both active at the same time:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.case.edu&#x2F;think&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;30&#x2F;empathy_represses_analytic_thought_and_vice_versa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.case.edu&#x2F;think&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;30&#x2F;empathy_represses_anal...</a><p>There&#x27;s a long pop-science suspicion of this, dating back to Jungian psychology (where Thinking vs. Feeling was considered a primitive dichotomy). It&#x27;s enshrined in many of our stereotypes about socially awkward nerds, and also in the structure of the tech industry (which has separate departments for sales vs. engineering, and common wisdom that you need a hustler &amp; a hacker for startups).<p>This seems much more likely, as an explanation, than ideas that poor math performance may be transmitted socially, although of course it&#x27;d need to be rigorously tested in an experiment to be proven.</text></comment> | <story><title>Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability</title><url>http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23011</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Looks to me mostly like a cluster of kids with very high “calculation skills” and relatively low “empathizing quotient” is skewing their result. If you remove that group, the remaining data looks pretty uncorrelated at a glance:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;srep23011&#x2F;figures&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;srep23011&#x2F;figures&#x2F;1</a><p><i>“Math Fluency is a measure of speeded application of arithmetic procedures. Problems included a mix of addition, subtraction, and multiplication with operands up to 10. Children were given 3 minutes to complete as many as possible. We computed a Calculation Skills composite measure, which combines the Calculation and Math Fluency subtests, in order to have a single measure capturing arithmetic ability.<p>“The primary guardian of each child completed the Combined Empathy Quotient-Child (EQ-C) and Systemizing Quotient-Child (SQ-C). The questionnaire was designed to be parent-report in order to avoid variance associated with children’s reading and comprehension abilities.”</i><p>Alternative summary: “Out of 112 children, among the bottom 105 children when ranked by arithmetic calculation speed, there’s no statistically significant correlation between arithmetic calculation speed and parental assessment of child empathy. The parents of the top 7 performers by arithmetic calculation speed uniformly think their kids have below-average empathy.”</text></comment> |
14,299,349 | 14,299,271 | 1 | 2 | 14,299,158 | train | <story><title>Security Update for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine</title><url>https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4022344</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olig15</author><text>&gt; Mr Cluley did add, however, that he thought the Project Zero protocol for announcing the vulnerability - which had included information that malicious hackers might have found useful - had been risky.
&gt; &quot;That can help the bad guys,&quot; he said.<p>This is just plain wrong, isn&#x27;t it? I was under the impression that all of the details on PZ are hidden until either a fix is released, or 90 days have passed. I don&#x27;t see how this could have &#x27;helped the bad guys&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Security Update for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine</title><url>https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4022344</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abalos</author><text>Serious props to Microsoft for getting the fix out the door so quickly. I&#x27;m glad that they took this seriously because this is a major vulnerability.</text></comment> |
6,662,374 | 6,662,347 | 1 | 3 | 6,662,317 | train | <story><title>Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework</title><url>http://thoraxjs.org/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eastridge</author><text>Hey hacker news, I&#x27;m one of the primary authors of Thorax. Was rather surprised to find this on the front page as we are in the middle of revamping our docs and developer tools and weren&#x27;t quite ready for press yet. We are working on a yeoman generator that sets you up with a Grunt + RequireJS project here:<p><a href="https://github.com/walmartlabs/generator-thorax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;walmartlabs&#x2F;generator-thorax</a><p>I would recommend cloning that repo, running npm link then using it if you want to give Thorax a try. We&#x27;ll be doing some more press about Thorax in a month or two.<p>For context, Walmart currently uses Thorax in production on mobile.walmart.com and we are working on a few other web apps that aren&#x27;t public yet. It&#x27;s not as sexy as Ember or Angular in many ways but it&#x27;s a framework that grew directly out of building a very large Backbone application.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework</title><url>http://thoraxjs.org/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmduke</author><text>WalMart&#x27;s (rather impressive) GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/walmartlabs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;walmartlabs</a></text></comment> |
18,947,907 | 18,947,871 | 1 | 2 | 18,947,242 | train | <story><title>Michael Dell Gets $12B Richer with Break from Public Eye</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/michael-dell-gets-12-billion-richer-with-break-from-public-eye</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>Dell’s fortune is now $27 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, up from $15 billion in 2013.</i><p>If he had simply parked his money in a s&amp;p 500 index with dividends reinvested, his $15B would have grown to $26.6B. All without breaking a sweat or exposing himself to concentrated risk.<p>His investment and turnaround of Dell was successful to be sure, but not nearly as spectacular as the article seems to be implying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Michael Dell Gets $12B Richer with Break from Public Eye</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/michael-dell-gets-12-billion-richer-with-break-from-public-eye</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asaph</author><text>&gt; Dell announced it would become a public company again through a complex arrangement that involved buying back tracking shares for VMware, the software business that Dell owns an 80 percent chunk of. ...<p>&gt; ... Taking over an existing listed stock allowed Dell to avoid the usual IPO process...<p>Huh? Can someone please explain this to me like I&#x27;m a 5 year old?</text></comment> |
34,859,436 | 34,858,896 | 1 | 2 | 34,858,318 | train | <story><title>Intentional Camera Movement Photography Magazine</title><url>https://www.icmphotomag.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kebman</author><text>I&#x27;ve used various techniques for slow sync flash throughout my photography career. Worked exceptionally well for stage photography, night-time events, electronica concerts, and the like. Slow sync flash is when you let ambient light expose the film or sensor for a while, before you freeze the scene by activating the flash late. It really takes &quot;painting with light&quot; to a new level, though it&#x27;s of course not the only way to use intentional camera movement.<p>Nearly all my photographs from such events use some kind of intentional camera movement together with a delayed or early flash sync. Slow sync flash is a delightful technique that you can be really, really creative with. Try it with double exposures, for instance, or with weirdly synced monoblocs.<p>I&#x27;ve seen great photos taken of dancers and animals in movement done that way. Moreover, this technique (if you&#x27;ve got it buried in your camera settings somewhere), sets you free to really disregard some of the holy tenets of photography, which is to never, ever move the camera, ever. Nay, in fact it prompts you to be dynamic and jittery, to lounge forward into the music, and let the final image really SHOW how great that moment really was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intentional Camera Movement Photography Magazine</title><url>https://www.icmphotomag.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somethingsaid</author><text>If anyone is confused by what this magazine is about, like I was, you can find a free issue here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icmphotomag.com&#x2F;free-sample-issue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icmphotomag.com&#x2F;free-sample-issue</a><p>Looks like an interesting concept!</text></comment> |
28,194,491 | 28,194,488 | 1 | 3 | 28,194,001 | train | <story><title>Inflation wiped out America's pay raises</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/10/business/raises-inflation-wages/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webinvest</author><text>Inflation:<p>-Causes people to pay taxes on capital gains even when their purchasing power hasn’t risen.<p>-Causes borrowers to get ahead of savers and lenders.<p>-Allows governments to spend more than drunken sailors.<p>-Causes the wealth of the rich to be eroded less than the wealth of the poor (who don’t own any assets).<p>-Causes both the wealth of the rich, middle class, and poor to be eroded away at different rates.<p>-Erodes away the middle class and makes them feel like wage slaves.<p>-Caused Satoshi Nakamoto to release Bitcoin.<p>-Isn’t stopping anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>Nearly all of those aren&#x27;t true.<p>&gt; -Causes people to pay taxes on capital gains even when their purchasing power hasn’t risen.<p>This one is actually true. We could easily fix it by calculating capital gains as adjusted for inflation (and make up the revenue by using the ordinary income rate instead of the capital gains rate).<p>&gt; -Causes borrowers to get ahead of savers and lenders.<p>Savers who don&#x27;t stupidly hold their savings in cash are unaffected, since securities prices increase with inflation.<p>Lenders are affected, but most lenders are banks, who are lending using fractional reserve banking, i.e. the money they lend is created when they make the loan and destroyed when it&#x27;s paid back. The fact that it&#x27;s worth less when it&#x27;s paid back doesn&#x27;t really affect them.<p>&gt; -Allows governments to spend more than drunken sailors.<p>This is generally the cause rather than the consequence.<p>&gt; -Causes the wealth of the rich to be eroded less than the wealth of the poor (who don’t own any assets).<p>The primary thing it erodes is contracts (i.e. loans) denominated in nominal dollars. In other words, it devalues nominal debts. This is generally good for the poor and bad for any rich lenders who aren&#x27;t lending using fractional reserve banking.<p>&gt; -Causes both the wealth of the rich, middle class, and poor to be eroded away at different rates.<p>This is true of nearly anything, but who comes out ahead depends more on factors like &quot;are you a net borrow or lender&quot; than your annual income or net worth.<p>&gt; -Erodes away the middle class and makes them feel like wage slaves.<p>This is caused by low interest rates more than inflation, though they&#x27;re somewhat related. The basic problem is that if money is cheap to borrow, people borrow it and bid up asset prices, and then people who don&#x27;t <i>already have</i> assets (e.g. a home) are forced to buy high.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inflation wiped out America's pay raises</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/10/business/raises-inflation-wages/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webinvest</author><text>Inflation:<p>-Causes people to pay taxes on capital gains even when their purchasing power hasn’t risen.<p>-Causes borrowers to get ahead of savers and lenders.<p>-Allows governments to spend more than drunken sailors.<p>-Causes the wealth of the rich to be eroded less than the wealth of the poor (who don’t own any assets).<p>-Causes both the wealth of the rich, middle class, and poor to be eroded away at different rates.<p>-Erodes away the middle class and makes them feel like wage slaves.<p>-Caused Satoshi Nakamoto to release Bitcoin.<p>-Isn’t stopping anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>The poor have no wealth. Jeff Bezos lost more money to inflation this quarter than the sum of wealth of the 50th percentile of Americans.<p>We’re overdue for inflation and higher rates. Too many stupid businesses are thriving, and too many industries have consolidated into little cartels due to cheap money.</text></comment> |
13,064,833 | 13,064,859 | 1 | 2 | 13,064,407 | train | <story><title>Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogged Miami?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/why-are-developers-still-pouring-billions-into-waterlogged-miami</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adevine</author><text>The answer to this question is quite simple, and the two choice sentences from the article:<p>&quot;And their time frame is what, five years? How do you reconcile those two things: It’s a 100-year problem and a five-year investment cycle.&quot; The answer is simply that the private equity firm does not account for the long term, but that the city of Miami Beach will have to—soon.<p>And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can&#x27;t respond to consequences that are 50-100 years out, and by then it&#x27;s really too late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graaben</author><text>Exactly. It reminds me of the &quot;I&#x27;ll be gone, you&#x27;ll be gone&quot; mentality of Wall Street in the mid-2000s. As long as these new developments are sold to buyers&#x2F;investors now, the risk is transferred away from the developers and their incentive to build remains. And the demand isn&#x27;t going to dry up any time soon with tons of cash from South America coming into Miami every day.<p>There will be a day of reckoning soon when the next major hurricane hits and all of these new developments are damaged beyond repair. Miami got very lucky with Matthew a few months ago, but the next one is really going to hurt today&#x27;s buyers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogged Miami?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/why-are-developers-still-pouring-billions-into-waterlogged-miami</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adevine</author><text>The answer to this question is quite simple, and the two choice sentences from the article:<p>&quot;And their time frame is what, five years? How do you reconcile those two things: It’s a 100-year problem and a five-year investment cycle.&quot; The answer is simply that the private equity firm does not account for the long term, but that the city of Miami Beach will have to—soon.<p>And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can&#x27;t respond to consequences that are 50-100 years out, and by then it&#x27;s really too late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cr0sh</author><text>&gt; And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can&#x27;t respond to consequences that are 50-100 years out, and by then it&#x27;s really too late.<p>On the global level (let&#x27;s say 50-100 years out), do you think we as a species are headed toward an &quot;Easter Island&quot; effect, where we &quot;whistle past the graveyard&quot; and assume everything is &quot;fine&quot; - until it isn&#x27;t - and at that point we can&#x27;t do anything and have to deal with the potentially existential consequences?</text></comment> |
30,471,927 | 30,472,069 | 1 | 2 | 30,470,457 | train | <story><title>Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?</title><url>https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>Years ago I worked at a company where many people were using Grammarly. One of the top devs took a look at it, and saw that the text was sent to Grammarly&#x27;s server unencrypted and warned everyone not to use it. Some still did.<p>At my previous engagement, a large number of staff spoke English as a second or third language, and Grammarly was prevalent. Even as a native English speaker, they wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader. I&#x27;ll admit that it caught some of my dumber mistakes, but I never felt comfortable using it. I could have proof-read my work better is all. Perhaps if I wasn&#x27;t given mind-numbing work, the quality would have been better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctennis1</author><text>My previous role was at a public facing ecommerce site. One day I started noticing a lot of public traffic to internal administrative endpoints that were failing - likely bots, but also to URLs that bots would have never known existed. Urls that only someone internal to the company would even know existed, due to the complex way they were crafted. It was very concerning.<p>We spent a LOT of time tracking down, and finally realized that the &quot;bot&quot; traffic was coming about 30 minutes after one of our employees legitimated visited the site. We found that user was using grammarly. Once we deactivated grammarly, all of the bot traffic stopped.<p>As best as I could tell, every URL that particular person went to in their browsers, grammarly had a service about 30 minutes later that would try and hit the url directly and ascertain what was there.<p>Haven&#x27;t been on the crusade against it ever since.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?</title><url>https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>Years ago I worked at a company where many people were using Grammarly. One of the top devs took a look at it, and saw that the text was sent to Grammarly&#x27;s server unencrypted and warned everyone not to use it. Some still did.<p>At my previous engagement, a large number of staff spoke English as a second or third language, and Grammarly was prevalent. Even as a native English speaker, they wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader. I&#x27;ll admit that it caught some of my dumber mistakes, but I never felt comfortable using it. I could have proof-read my work better is all. Perhaps if I wasn&#x27;t given mind-numbing work, the quality would have been better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boppo1</author><text>&gt; wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine working in a place like this. I often write with some unusual but perfectly valid grammar constructions that are a result of being well read. Running what I&#x27;ve written, the codification of my thoughts, through a statistical homogenization machine is dystopian in a way I had never imagined. What kind of business was it?<p>Imagine running famous writers through this thing, even if they&#x27;re just journalists. Gross. I&#x27;m gonna run Moby Dick through Grammarly later and see what it has to say.</text></comment> |
28,028,186 | 28,027,358 | 1 | 3 | 28,025,121 | train | <story><title>CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price</title><url>https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/new-co2-battery-will-make-wind-and-solar-dispatchable-at-an-unprecedented-low-price/2-1-1044755</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I think this is the paper behind that.[1] Round trip efficiency is listed there as about 75%.<p>It was previously proposed at Lawerence Livermore.[2] It was apparently tried in China in 2016, at least at pilot plant stage.<p>It&#x27;s an obvious idea. There&#x27;s been lots of interest in compressed air storage, and compressed CO2 storage is in some ways easier, because you can liquify it easily. So why hasn&#x27;t this come up much before?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sco2.eu&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;user_upload&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;2021&#x2F;Manzoni-Adiabatic_Compressed_CO2_Energy_Storage-118_c.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sco2.eu&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;user_upload&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;2021&#x2F;Man...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jeffmcmahon&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;how-captured-co2-could-provide-the-energy-storage-solution-everyone-is-looking-for&#x2F;?sh=4c90955fddef" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jeffmcmahon&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;how-capt...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price</title><url>https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/new-co2-battery-will-make-wind-and-solar-dispatchable-at-an-unprecedented-low-price/2-1-1044755</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pfdietz</author><text>The problem with this is not storing the liquid CO2, it&#x27;s storing the &quot;spent&quot; low pressure CO2 gas. The volume required will be very large. The energy&#x2F;volume of this will be even worse than pumped hydro.</text></comment> |
20,646,883 | 20,644,799 | 1 | 2 | 20,644,038 | train | <story><title>Racket: Lisp for Learning</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/795385/d7f8fe54132b2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbob45</author><text>Carmack is a huge fan of Racket. He was going to use it as the scripting language for VR until the Oculus execs made him use JavaScript instead (boooooo)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;id_aa_carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;807797812700348416" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;id_aa_carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;807797812700348416</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layoutIfNeeded</author><text>Ah, again! The first version of JS could have been a Lisp variant but the paper-pushers at Netscape had to ruin it. This was the original sin to which all the suffering of web development can be traced back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Racket: Lisp for Learning</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/795385/d7f8fe54132b2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbob45</author><text>Carmack is a huge fan of Racket. He was going to use it as the scripting language for VR until the Oculus execs made him use JavaScript instead (boooooo)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;id_aa_carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;807797812700348416" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;id_aa_carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;807797812700348416</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6thaccount2</author><text>I think I heard that even his wife didn&#x27;t want him to teach their son Racket and wanted him to learn Java. Not sure if true.</text></comment> |
9,865,842 | 9,866,051 | 1 | 2 | 9,864,534 | train | <story><title>Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2</title><url>http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micro-ram</author><text>Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That&#x27;s quite insecure, and unnecessary.<p>It&#x27;s probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:<p>* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davb</author><text>Yeah, using OpenVPN allows your client and server to reside on the same subnet, which I presume is necessary for Steam In-Home Streaming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2</title><url>http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micro-ram</author><text>Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That&#x27;s quite insecure, and unnecessary.<p>It&#x27;s probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:<p>* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halotrope</author><text>You need the openVPN for the Steam IHS Lan discovery and upd streaming. With my setup I still use Hamachi which also does the job and was much easier to configure. Downside is that it is proprietary and has phases with extreme paket loss which make playing impossible every now and then.</text></comment> |
40,148,851 | 40,145,683 | 1 | 3 | 40,141,967 | train | <story><title>Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sn2010-linux-hacking-switchdev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karma_pharmer</author><text>Having gone through this struggle myself, here&#x27;s the cheat sheet. You want a device that uses the Linux switchdev driver and is supported by dentOS <i>whether or not you actually choose to run dentOS on it</i> (I run NixOS on my switch):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;latest&#x2F;networking&#x2F;switchdev.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;latest&#x2F;networking&#x2F;switchdev....</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dentproject&#x2F;dentOS">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dentproject&#x2F;dentOS</a><p>Switchdev support means you don&#x27;t need hardware-specific userspace tools (with their own bizarre syntax to learn) in order to configure the switch.<p>DentOS support means the device uses a sane bootloader (uboot or grub) and the only binary blobs on the device will be the ones built into the bootloader (IntelME, Arm Trusted Firmware) and the switch firmware which will be part of linux-firmware (and therefore very easy to manage&#x2F;update).<p>In particular, looking for these two keywords is how you make sure that the hardware vendor is staying on &quot;their side of the line&quot; between hardware and software. Violations of this line are endemic to 10G+ switching.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sn2010-linux-hacking-switchdev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>p1esk</author><text>The author mentioned another similar write up which provided more useful explanations and context to me:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipng.ch&#x2F;s&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;mellanox-sn2700.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipng.ch&#x2F;s&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;mellanox-sn2700.html</a></text></comment> |
15,279,002 | 15,278,358 | 1 | 2 | 15,271,160 | train | <story><title>What, exactly, do philosophers do?</title><url>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/where-modern-philosophy-began/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>Always warms my heart to see philosophy on top of HN. Philosophy is <i>hard</i> -- much harder than one would think. And people that contribute are <i>incredibly</i> smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison. On the other hand, it&#x27;s very political, and a lot of it is mental masturbation. Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field. Philosophy of Mind, apart from a few great minds (Chalmers, Nagel) is also equivocal.<p>I went into undergrad with a primary focus on (meta-)logic[1] and I was taught by some of the world&#x27;s premiere logicians (David Kaplan, Sam Cumming, a few others). But I fell in love with ethics -- a subject I&#x27;d never thought I&#x27;d enjoy as much as I did. I loved reading Moore, Foote, Anscombe, Geach.<p>My best memories were attending graduate seminars -- studying the philosophy of language and trying to figure out how logical connectives work in regular discourse, or studying abduction and trying to stitch together Horn clauses that seem to point to one conclusion rather than another.<p>Philosophers, in short, do all kinds of things: from pushing the boundaries of exotic logics, to solving ethical problems, to systematizing natural language or understanding the metaphysics of causality.<p>The article just <i>touches</i> on all of the above (in fact, it doesn&#x27;t discuss <i>modern</i> philosophy at all). If you&#x27;re interested in philosophy, the SEP[2] is a great resource.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dvt.name&#x2F;logic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dvt.name&#x2F;logic&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>Not down-voting you, because it&#x27;s an interesting comment, but:<p>&gt; far smarter than software engineers, by comparison.<p>This is just a dumb, specious statement. Would expect better from a philosopher ;)<p>Also, would be interested why you think:<p>&gt; Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field.<p>What makes it bogus?</text></comment> | <story><title>What, exactly, do philosophers do?</title><url>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/where-modern-philosophy-began/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>Always warms my heart to see philosophy on top of HN. Philosophy is <i>hard</i> -- much harder than one would think. And people that contribute are <i>incredibly</i> smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison. On the other hand, it&#x27;s very political, and a lot of it is mental masturbation. Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field. Philosophy of Mind, apart from a few great minds (Chalmers, Nagel) is also equivocal.<p>I went into undergrad with a primary focus on (meta-)logic[1] and I was taught by some of the world&#x27;s premiere logicians (David Kaplan, Sam Cumming, a few others). But I fell in love with ethics -- a subject I&#x27;d never thought I&#x27;d enjoy as much as I did. I loved reading Moore, Foote, Anscombe, Geach.<p>My best memories were attending graduate seminars -- studying the philosophy of language and trying to figure out how logical connectives work in regular discourse, or studying abduction and trying to stitch together Horn clauses that seem to point to one conclusion rather than another.<p>Philosophers, in short, do all kinds of things: from pushing the boundaries of exotic logics, to solving ethical problems, to systematizing natural language or understanding the metaphysics of causality.<p>The article just <i>touches</i> on all of the above (in fact, it doesn&#x27;t discuss <i>modern</i> philosophy at all). If you&#x27;re interested in philosophy, the SEP[2] is a great resource.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dvt.name&#x2F;logic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dvt.name&#x2F;logic&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomel</author><text>&gt; And people that contribute are incredibly smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison<p>Comparing a software engineer to someone contributing to the advancement of an entire field is not really a fair comparison. This is like comparing someone who has a job in &quot;compliance and ethics&quot; to someone making advancement in quantum computing.</text></comment> |
23,781,875 | 23,781,549 | 1 | 2 | 23,780,945 | train | <story><title>xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15894/xmems-announces-worlds-first-monolithic-mems-speaker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shard</author><text>Just to be clear, this seems to be the first <i>monolithic</i> MEMS speaker, which I take to mean that the speaker array is fabbed as one die, as opposed to each speaker being a separate piece of silicon. There are already MEMS speakers available before this. Also, for mobile devices, MEMS have been used for a long time now, specifically for the microphone and IMU (inertial measurement unit -- consisting of accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic sensor).</text></comment> | <story><title>xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15894/xmems-announces-worlds-first-monolithic-mems-speaker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the8472</author><text>I find it amazing that litography is considered a &quot;simplification of the manufacturing line&quot; compared to century-old technology that essentially consists of winding a coil through a magnet. Granted, it&#x27;s not a bleeding-edge fab process, but it&#x27;s still a very strange view that considers this a simplification.</text></comment> |
18,757,270 | 18,755,617 | 1 | 3 | 18,755,290 | train | <story><title>What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks</title><url>https://www.voanews.com/a/time-may-be-running-out-for-millions-of-clocks/4554376.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nutcracker46</author><text>WWV, WWVH, and WWVB are more than charity for timekeepers. They distribute time and frequency, traceable to a national standard, for one leg of &quot;positioning, navigation, and timing.&quot;<p>Before GPS and the internet, numerous services depended on those signals. I would argue that now, we have positioning, navigation, and timing from multiple satellite systems (and a phone network providing excellent time &amp; freq references derived from satellites). We have internet time synced to atomic standards and satnav. All of the modern references are more precise, accurate, and stable than WWV, WWVH, and WWVB.<p>As to devices which sync from WWVB, there are gadgets which can get GPS time and transmit an LF signal for syncing those devices. No problems, ladies and gents, you&#x27;ve still got time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anishathalye</author><text>I made one of these GPS -&gt; WWVB simulators a couple years ago. There&#x27;s a short write-up here, in case anyone is interested in reading about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anishathalye.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;26&#x2F;micro-wwvb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anishathalye.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;26&#x2F;micro-wwvb&#x2F;</a><p>There are also some neat iPhone apps that use the audio circuitry to produce a low-power signal that can be picked up by radio-controlled clocks that are close by: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;clock-wave&#x2F;id1073576068?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;clock-wave&#x2F;id1073576068?mt=8</a><p>A couple people mentioned the FCC and licensing issues in the comments below. As far as I know, as long as you&#x27;re transmitting at a very low power (40 µV&#x2F;m as measured at 300m), it&#x27;s okay. This should be fine for personal use, but won&#x27;t work on a municipal level.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks</title><url>https://www.voanews.com/a/time-may-be-running-out-for-millions-of-clocks/4554376.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nutcracker46</author><text>WWV, WWVH, and WWVB are more than charity for timekeepers. They distribute time and frequency, traceable to a national standard, for one leg of &quot;positioning, navigation, and timing.&quot;<p>Before GPS and the internet, numerous services depended on those signals. I would argue that now, we have positioning, navigation, and timing from multiple satellite systems (and a phone network providing excellent time &amp; freq references derived from satellites). We have internet time synced to atomic standards and satnav. All of the modern references are more precise, accurate, and stable than WWV, WWVH, and WWVB.<p>As to devices which sync from WWVB, there are gadgets which can get GPS time and transmit an LF signal for syncing those devices. No problems, ladies and gents, you&#x27;ve still got time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>The services you described as being dependent on these stations cannot necessarily be upgraded to use internet or satellite time.</text></comment> |
20,925,437 | 20,924,959 | 1 | 2 | 20,919,461 | train | <story><title>‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’</title><url>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/05/911-oral-history-flight-93-book-excerpt-228001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sopooneo</author><text>I&#x27;m going to piggy-back on this about a certain way information may not add up. I live in Boston, and so do my siblings. We all worked downtown. On the day of the marathon bombing, I immediately called my sister on her cell phone to see if she was okay. Someone that <i>was not</i> my sister picked up, then immediatly hung up after I said who I was looking for.<p>I was immediately terrified. What if my sister had been hurt, dropped her phone, and it was now in the hands of an opportunistic lowlife? But no. That wasn&#x27;t it at all. It was instead, that the overloaded cell network, instead of just failing to connect my call, instead, <i>mis</i>connected it.<p>That was a failure mode I had not predicted. In the end, all my people were fine. But I was shaken. And of course, many other people were not fine.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>This is a phenomenal oral history of the events, learning of, and response to the events of 9&#x2F;11.<p>If an emergency is a circumstance in which <i>ongoing realities are emergent</i> and aren&#x27;t predictable based on previous experience or world-models, this is a phenomenal example of those dynamics.<p><i>Commander Anthony Barnes: That first hour was mass confusion because there was so much erroneous information. It was hard to tell what was fact and what wasn’t. We couldn’t confirm much of this stuff, so we had to take it on face value until proven otherwise.</i><p>I&#x27;ve long maintained that the first signs of a disaster tend to be:<p>- Information doesn&#x27;t add up.<p>- Communications are completely severed.<p>- Old models of understanding don&#x27;t apply.<p>- Old filters or sources of information don&#x27;t apply, and information overload is experienced <i>because it&#x27;s not clear what to ignore or what to trust.</i><p>Our world models give us the means to <i>process</i> and <i>parse</i> information, but also, critically, <i>let us discard extraneous information at little or no cost</i>. When we&#x27;re placed in unfamiliar or extraordinary circumstances, &quot;foreign territory&quot; as Col. Bob Maar put it, old models do not hold.<p>Very powerful reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticautomatic</author><text>I got misconnected once while trying to book a hotel reservation over the phone. Rooms became available 330 days out but a whole month at once, so when the reservation office opened at 8am or whatever on the first of the month, everyone would try to call in.<p>So many people were calling this number that the system would start hanging up on people at random, so you&#x27;d just call back over and over hoping that you&#x27;d get connected when the phones went live.<p>Finally, someone on the other end said &quot;Hello?&quot; and I said &quot;Hi, I&#x27;d like to book a room for next summer&quot; and he said &quot;Me too&quot; and I said &quot;good luck!&quot; and hung up.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’</title><url>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/05/911-oral-history-flight-93-book-excerpt-228001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sopooneo</author><text>I&#x27;m going to piggy-back on this about a certain way information may not add up. I live in Boston, and so do my siblings. We all worked downtown. On the day of the marathon bombing, I immediately called my sister on her cell phone to see if she was okay. Someone that <i>was not</i> my sister picked up, then immediatly hung up after I said who I was looking for.<p>I was immediately terrified. What if my sister had been hurt, dropped her phone, and it was now in the hands of an opportunistic lowlife? But no. That wasn&#x27;t it at all. It was instead, that the overloaded cell network, instead of just failing to connect my call, instead, <i>mis</i>connected it.<p>That was a failure mode I had not predicted. In the end, all my people were fine. But I was shaken. And of course, many other people were not fine.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>This is a phenomenal oral history of the events, learning of, and response to the events of 9&#x2F;11.<p>If an emergency is a circumstance in which <i>ongoing realities are emergent</i> and aren&#x27;t predictable based on previous experience or world-models, this is a phenomenal example of those dynamics.<p><i>Commander Anthony Barnes: That first hour was mass confusion because there was so much erroneous information. It was hard to tell what was fact and what wasn’t. We couldn’t confirm much of this stuff, so we had to take it on face value until proven otherwise.</i><p>I&#x27;ve long maintained that the first signs of a disaster tend to be:<p>- Information doesn&#x27;t add up.<p>- Communications are completely severed.<p>- Old models of understanding don&#x27;t apply.<p>- Old filters or sources of information don&#x27;t apply, and information overload is experienced <i>because it&#x27;s not clear what to ignore or what to trust.</i><p>Our world models give us the means to <i>process</i> and <i>parse</i> information, but also, critically, <i>let us discard extraneous information at little or no cost</i>. When we&#x27;re placed in unfamiliar or extraordinary circumstances, &quot;foreign territory&quot; as Col. Bob Maar put it, old models do not hold.<p>Very powerful reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Noctem</author><text>Wow, I&#x27;ve never heard of that happening. If anyone knows, I&#x27;d love to hear a technical explanation of how and why that could occur.</text></comment> |
22,262,275 | 22,262,010 | 1 | 2 | 22,258,113 | train | <story><title>No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkingsy</author><text>This is a tried and true practice in dating, and it translates well to hiring, which is basically the same thing.<p>Most people, ESPECIALLY people who ask you for feedback, do not want feedback. They want to get in a fight with you.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t remember ghosting anyone personally in either setting, but it&#x27;s happened to me plenty. Getting upset about it just means you&#x27;re new to the experience.</text></item><item><author>ddelt</author><text>Hot take: you could hire someone who did absolutely well in the interview, and they could find a few weeks into the job that they loathe everyone, and go on a social media rampage.<p>What I’m getting at is, there will always be bad apples, or people who react in a way that damages your organization. But not providing useful feedback to people who ask for it simply because one person went crazy is punishing a lot more people because of that one. Who knows if all of their negative karma ends up being worse in the grand scheme of things?<p>I personally avoid applying to places that other engineers tell me to avoid because I trust their opinion more than I trust a company selling me the highlight reel in an interview. If a trusted engineer said he got a rejection in an interview, asked for feedback, and none was given, I’d avoid that place too.</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>&gt; Most people, ESPECIALLY people who ask you for feedback, do not want feedback.<p>The data I&#x27;ve seen suggests you&#x27;re totally wrong about this.<p>I work at a company in the recruiting space. My primary role is interviewing technical candidates, and we provide very detailed feedback to candidates of all levels, regardless of whether or not we move forward with them.<p>People consistently tell us they love the feedback that we provide - in fact, people say the feedback we provide is one of the best parts of their experience with us.</text></comment> | <story><title>No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkingsy</author><text>This is a tried and true practice in dating, and it translates well to hiring, which is basically the same thing.<p>Most people, ESPECIALLY people who ask you for feedback, do not want feedback. They want to get in a fight with you.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t remember ghosting anyone personally in either setting, but it&#x27;s happened to me plenty. Getting upset about it just means you&#x27;re new to the experience.</text></item><item><author>ddelt</author><text>Hot take: you could hire someone who did absolutely well in the interview, and they could find a few weeks into the job that they loathe everyone, and go on a social media rampage.<p>What I’m getting at is, there will always be bad apples, or people who react in a way that damages your organization. But not providing useful feedback to people who ask for it simply because one person went crazy is punishing a lot more people because of that one. Who knows if all of their negative karma ends up being worse in the grand scheme of things?<p>I personally avoid applying to places that other engineers tell me to avoid because I trust their opinion more than I trust a company selling me the highlight reel in an interview. If a trusted engineer said he got a rejection in an interview, asked for feedback, and none was given, I’d avoid that place too.</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jscotto</author><text>Honestly as someone who is looking for a junior role this could not be further from the truth. I just want to know how to improve so I can stop being unhappy at my current job and get a new one.</text></comment> |
39,635,674 | 39,634,723 | 1 | 3 | 39,625,379 | train | <story><title>Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68488756.amp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drunkpotato</author><text>Why? They’re dead. Not trying to be flippant, I honestly don’t get why the deceased’s desires should be elevated over the living’s. It’s a moral choice I don’t agree with and don’t entirely understand.</text></item><item><author>csdvrx</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.<p>Are we lucky, or was Kafka unlucky?<p>I find the lack of respect about authors&#x27; wishes very shocking.</text></item><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>It&#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jzb</author><text>They weren&#x27;t deceased when they expressed the desire. You usually don&#x27;t know when, exactly, you&#x27;re going to die. Nobody would argue, I hope, with &quot;I&#x27;m going on a trip, don&#x27;t publish anything I&#x27;m not done with until I get back and finish it.&quot; This just happens to be a very long, one-way trip.<p>That said, I do think once someone is dead, there&#x27;s some argument whether you have to respect that. But I at least understand the desire.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68488756.amp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drunkpotato</author><text>Why? They’re dead. Not trying to be flippant, I honestly don’t get why the deceased’s desires should be elevated over the living’s. It’s a moral choice I don’t agree with and don’t entirely understand.</text></item><item><author>csdvrx</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.<p>Are we lucky, or was Kafka unlucky?<p>I find the lack of respect about authors&#x27; wishes very shocking.</text></item><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>It&#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itishappy</author><text>Does this apply to inheritance too? Why should we care what happens to our kids once we die?</text></comment> |
27,207,930 | 27,206,668 | 1 | 2 | 27,200,579 | train | <story><title>The Matrix Space Beta</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/17/the-matrix-space-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ldarby</author><text>I wish Matrix would instead focus on fixing all the existing encryption usability issues instead of these new features:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=label%3AA-E2EE-Key-Backup+sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aopen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=label%3AA-...</a><p>I would love to migrate my family to Element (and also friends, and eventually also recommend it to employers if they&#x27;re ever choosing something other than Teams) but can&#x27;t until it&#x27;s reliable as webmail. I also wrote this comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25271512" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25271512</a>
&quot;Once Element is mature enough (and I&#x27;m sorry, but looking at the incoming issues on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=sort%3Aupd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=sort%3Aupd</a>..., it doesn&#x27;t look like it yet), then hopefully more companies will start considering it.&quot;<p>I get that E2E means it cannot be as simple as email, and I can handle the extra training that&#x27;s needed, but not for figuring out all these known issues and attempting to prevent people hitting them, or having to handle the situation if they do.</text></item><item><author>Arathorn</author><text>For what it’s worth, the thing I find most exciting about Spaces is that they provide a decentralised hierarchical namespace with decentralised access controls for every room (ie pubsub topic) in Matrix. So it’s like we’ve sprouted an openly federated global hierarchical filing system for freeform realtime data streams of all flavours - where people can go crazy defining their own trees, applying their own curation ideals; perhaps we’ll even see a single global tree emerge (although the implementation may need some more optimisation first).<p>It’s like a multiplayer hybrid of DMOZ and USENET and the read&#x2F;write Web all rolled together. Once we start storing more interesting data streams than instant messages in it (eg forums, email, bulletin boards, DOMs, scene graphs, ticker data, IOT sensor data...) it <i>really</i> gets interesting :)<p>Plus you can use it to organise your own rooms and have Discord style communities or Slack style workspaces, but that’s the boring obvious bit ;)<p>Edit: for a user-facing rather than developer-facing overview, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;spaces-the-next-frontier&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;spaces-the-next-frontier&#x2F;</a> has more details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arathorn</author><text>So there is a finite number of active contributors to Element, and we have to prioritise what to work on. While E2EE is not perfect (the UX needs another major iteration and we are still hunting rare edge cases where messages cannot be decrypted) in practice it&#x27;s usable day to day.<p>We consciously chose to prioritise building out Spaces over the last few months over E2EE UX as otherwise there&#x27;s a risk of Discord becoming the de-facto home for open source projects, much as Slack started to be a few years ago - which would be catastrophic for open standards-based communication like Matrix.<p>Meanwhile, the cryptography team chose to focus primarily on implementing next-generation encryption (IETF&#x27;s MLS) on Matrix rather than polishing the current behaviour - given MLS should both radically improve scalability, but also fix the majority of the edge conditions which are problematic for today&#x27;s E2EE, or at least entirely switch bugs in the existing implementation for entirely different failure modes in the new implementation. We showed off MLS over Matrix last week (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;xn0fzyimycs?t=248" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;xn0fzyimycs?t=248</a>), and we&#x27;re now finishing the decentralisation component of it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.uhoreg.ca&#x2F;mls&#x2F;ordering.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.uhoreg.ca&#x2F;mls&#x2F;ordering.html</a>).<p>Eitherway, now that the Spaces beta is out the door, we&#x27;re catching up on other UX issues, including E2EE. We also have more folks being paid fulltime by Element to work on encryption (amongst other stuff) starting in July. Talking of which, if anyone wants to get paid to make this happen sooner, Element is hiring at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apply.workable.com&#x2F;elementio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apply.workable.com&#x2F;elementio</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Matrix Space Beta</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/17/the-matrix-space-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ldarby</author><text>I wish Matrix would instead focus on fixing all the existing encryption usability issues instead of these new features:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=label%3AA-E2EE-Key-Backup+sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aopen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=label%3AA-...</a><p>I would love to migrate my family to Element (and also friends, and eventually also recommend it to employers if they&#x27;re ever choosing something other than Teams) but can&#x27;t until it&#x27;s reliable as webmail. I also wrote this comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25271512" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25271512</a>
&quot;Once Element is mature enough (and I&#x27;m sorry, but looking at the incoming issues on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=sort%3Aupd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vector-im&#x2F;element-web&#x2F;issues?q=sort%3Aupd</a>..., it doesn&#x27;t look like it yet), then hopefully more companies will start considering it.&quot;<p>I get that E2E means it cannot be as simple as email, and I can handle the extra training that&#x27;s needed, but not for figuring out all these known issues and attempting to prevent people hitting them, or having to handle the situation if they do.</text></item><item><author>Arathorn</author><text>For what it’s worth, the thing I find most exciting about Spaces is that they provide a decentralised hierarchical namespace with decentralised access controls for every room (ie pubsub topic) in Matrix. So it’s like we’ve sprouted an openly federated global hierarchical filing system for freeform realtime data streams of all flavours - where people can go crazy defining their own trees, applying their own curation ideals; perhaps we’ll even see a single global tree emerge (although the implementation may need some more optimisation first).<p>It’s like a multiplayer hybrid of DMOZ and USENET and the read&#x2F;write Web all rolled together. Once we start storing more interesting data streams than instant messages in it (eg forums, email, bulletin boards, DOMs, scene graphs, ticker data, IOT sensor data...) it <i>really</i> gets interesting :)<p>Plus you can use it to organise your own rooms and have Discord style communities or Slack style workspaces, but that’s the boring obvious bit ;)<p>Edit: for a user-facing rather than developer-facing overview, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;spaces-the-next-frontier&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;spaces-the-next-frontier&#x2F;</a> has more details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viccuad</author><text>Enabling by default:<p>- cross-signing (so users verify their own devices themselves, and you verify users only once by verifying their public key, regardless of how many times they add or update devices)<p>- and key backup (so moving between devices doesn&#x27;t need manual polling for other devices&#x27; keys the first time for decrypting messages)<p>would be a great step forward. Those are there, but they are disabled by default yet, which is a disservice.</text></comment> |
37,978,698 | 37,978,355 | 1 | 3 | 37,971,198 | train | <story><title>Please be dying, but not too quickly, part 2: The patient's perspective</title><url>https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-too-quickly-199</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tehwebguy</author><text>&gt; Telemedicine? No: on May 11, the feds declared an end of the “public health emergency” that allowed telemedicine across state lines.<p>The people holding back telehealth should be uhhhhh asked to reconsider.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please be dying, but not too quickly, part 2: The patient's perspective</title><url>https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-too-quickly-199</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sieste</author><text>The system seems to select for people who are fit and healthy enough, and live long enough, to make the ordeal to get admitted to cancer trials. This means the results are not representative, and effectiveness of these trials is probably overestimated. Very depressing.</text></comment> |
28,596,856 | 28,597,007 | 1 | 2 | 28,594,863 | train | <story><title>Ruby for eBook Publishing</title><url>https://nts.strzibny.name/ruby-for-ebook-publishing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyingkneepad</author><text>Man, I love Ruby. I think it is much more elegant than Python and I really really wish Ruby would have taken the world instead of Python. That said, it&#x27;s often the case where I want to do something where there&#x27;s just no Ruby library for it (or at least not a maintained one) and there&#x27;s a well known library for it in Python. Note: I do low level things, I don&#x27;t do anything related to web or Rails.<p>Also, sometimes I start writing scripts for simple things, then they grow and at some point it&#x27;s interesting to share them to my teammates, and they all immediately dismiss it since it&#x27;s in Ruby. For that reason, I started doing all my work-related scripting in Python. But oh boy, it&#x27;s always with that sad feeling of &quot;I wish I was doing this in Ruby&quot;. Sometimes I think I should just not have learned Ruby and jumped straight to Python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ash_while</author><text>I feel very similarly! Ruby just feels like such a well designed system from the ground-up. The object model is so elegant and consistent. The standard library is feature-full and fun to use, and the docs are excellent. Ruby is a beautiful object-oriented language but also leans into the power of FP with a plethora of functions defined on the powerful base-classes like Enumerable. In comparison, Python feels way less thoughtful, more of an ad-hoc language constructed through independent decisions over a long period of time</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby for eBook Publishing</title><url>https://nts.strzibny.name/ruby-for-ebook-publishing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyingkneepad</author><text>Man, I love Ruby. I think it is much more elegant than Python and I really really wish Ruby would have taken the world instead of Python. That said, it&#x27;s often the case where I want to do something where there&#x27;s just no Ruby library for it (or at least not a maintained one) and there&#x27;s a well known library for it in Python. Note: I do low level things, I don&#x27;t do anything related to web or Rails.<p>Also, sometimes I start writing scripts for simple things, then they grow and at some point it&#x27;s interesting to share them to my teammates, and they all immediately dismiss it since it&#x27;s in Ruby. For that reason, I started doing all my work-related scripting in Python. But oh boy, it&#x27;s always with that sad feeling of &quot;I wish I was doing this in Ruby&quot;. Sometimes I think I should just not have learned Ruby and jumped straight to Python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobsenscott</author><text>It just shows how &quot;cargo cult&quot; driven our industry is. Ruby was in. Then it was out, because it &quot;doesn&#x27;t scale&quot;. Then suddenly Python is in, even though it is has the exact same performance characteristics, give or take some constant value, as Ruby.</text></comment> |
5,584,077 | 5,583,818 | 1 | 2 | 5,583,759 | train | <story><title>Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/cognitive-overhead/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilliams</author><text>I was all primed to disagree with this article, but it's a pretty well placed piece.<p>I think an interesting pivot occurs when your start hitting the limits of working memory. Posting a photo is usually pretty immediate and doesn't max out your working memory.<p>Many years ago, I worked on a project to convert a Loan Application system from a VT100 "green screen" terminal to a Web Interface.<p>The Web Interface was actually pretty good, but it required too much navigation and too much working memory. We tried to reduce the number of clicks, but then the pages themselves became too slow and confusing.<p>Finally I got to see someone using the old VT100 app. It was blistering fast, and they supplemented it with codes written on a piece of paper. Crude and it required training, but it was far superior. The main thing was navigation. The codes on the paper were enough of a picture to offload that bit of cognitive processing... With the web interface, as soon as you clicked and had to pause or search - you'd lose the thread.<p>Unfortunately too late for that project, but a good lesson for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/cognitive-overhead/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>&#62; There isn’t yet much written about cognitive overhead in our field<p>Couldn't disagree more. Cognitive load is a major element of information architecture and even has an explicit representation in flow charts. Any book on information architecture or UX is half about it.<p>Many if not most decisions in interface design and IA are based on estimating (and reducing) cognitive load - how many options/buttons to present, how deep navigation should go, how to group things, splitting up an action flow in order to reduce the memory/choices needed...<p>The example given for QR codes is also wrong - "So it’s a barcode? No? ..." - it <i>is</i> a barcode and you need a barcode scanner/app, everyone knows how barcodes work. QR codes are not the best thing around, but IMO they didn't catch on for a lack of interest from manufacturers (no native support), not because it's overly complex.</text></comment> |
35,041,642 | 35,039,899 | 1 | 2 | 35,037,723 | train | <story><title>The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/foundations/writing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>urbandw311er</author><text>I mostly agree with you on this one. But regarding “swipe for help”: typically I avoid UI labels that reference the action to be taken (“tap”, “swipe”, etc).<p>Good UI design should render the action obvious - a button should look tappable, a slider slidable and so on. That way the label can use its minimal estate to focus on describing the action instead.<p>“Swipe for help” might also be suitably ambiguous that some users think it means “get help” in the sense of an info page, or assistance.<p>I’d go with something like “(SOS) Make emergency call” or regional equivalent. Combined with a more obviously swipable UI design.<p>Ideally then usability test on 50 people to seen if it works!</text></item><item><author>wruza</author><text>The “it looks like you’ve blah blah” example is terrible, imo. The last thing I’d want to deal with after a hard fall is this chatter.<p>The correct way to do it is:<p><pre><code> (Attention sound)
Did you just fall?
((SOS) swipe for help)
[I’m okay]
</code></pre>
The original message <i>doesn’t even mention</i> it’s a swipe. I can imagine a stressed person trying to tap that message or icon without realizing it doesn’t work. Targeting at eldery you must be crystal clear, not subtle-UX-clear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>The original iPhone UI had “slide to unlock” written on the lock screen slider, because it’s not obvious until you learn it. On the emergency&#x2F;power-off screen, there’s still “slide to power off” written on the slider. Recently I tried to explain to my father remotely how to restart his iPad. However, in his local language, there is only the equivalent of “power off” written on the slider (possibly due to space constraints, as the language is more verbose than English), and so he was at a loss of what to do, since he didn’t recognize that it was a slider.<p>Looking at the screenshot of the SOS slider, I would have a hard time recognizing it as a slider myself, when seeing it for the first time.</text></comment> | <story><title>The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/foundations/writing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>urbandw311er</author><text>I mostly agree with you on this one. But regarding “swipe for help”: typically I avoid UI labels that reference the action to be taken (“tap”, “swipe”, etc).<p>Good UI design should render the action obvious - a button should look tappable, a slider slidable and so on. That way the label can use its minimal estate to focus on describing the action instead.<p>“Swipe for help” might also be suitably ambiguous that some users think it means “get help” in the sense of an info page, or assistance.<p>I’d go with something like “(SOS) Make emergency call” or regional equivalent. Combined with a more obviously swipable UI design.<p>Ideally then usability test on 50 people to seen if it works!</text></item><item><author>wruza</author><text>The “it looks like you’ve blah blah” example is terrible, imo. The last thing I’d want to deal with after a hard fall is this chatter.<p>The correct way to do it is:<p><pre><code> (Attention sound)
Did you just fall?
((SOS) swipe for help)
[I’m okay]
</code></pre>
The original message <i>doesn’t even mention</i> it’s a swipe. I can imagine a stressed person trying to tap that message or icon without realizing it doesn’t work. Targeting at eldery you must be crystal clear, not subtle-UX-clear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>411111111111111</author><text>&gt; <i>Good UI design should render the action obvious - a button should look tappable, a slider slidable and so on</i><p>That&#x27;s basically what every designer says. What these people usually forget is that these intuitive Interfaces are only intuitive for people that think like <i>them</i>.<p>Nothing about that screenshot indicates that I&#x27;d have to swipe to take action. There is a very high chance I&#x27;d be unable to figure it out in a stressful situation while hurting... Unless I&#x27;ve already encountered the same interface in a less stressful environment.<p>The SOS could just be a button with the label to the right.</text></comment> |
16,125,717 | 16,125,966 | 1 | 3 | 16,125,080 | train | <story><title>Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident</title><url>http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169582189317/incident-report-npm-inc-operations-incident-of</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>Why allow namespace recycling at all? The potential harm is high and the potential benefit is some slight convenience.<p>If npm packages used a Github-style &quot;author&#x2F;package&quot; format, name collision would never be an issue again.</text></item><item><author>bhuga</author><text>This is a good post-mortem with clear, policy-based remediations. Nicely done.<p>I wonder why they are only preventing republishing for 24 hours. Is there a good reason to allow a package namespace to be recycled with less than, say, a week? Is it based on the assumption that the only case where it comes up is during an incident, and 24 hours is enough time to assume an incident will be resolved? I&#x27;m curious what went in to that number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>When your code deployment model is effectively &quot;download stuff from random websites&quot;, I feel like namespace recycling is the least of your worries.<p>(That is to say, trusting that any given named package that `npm install` downloads is what you think it is is really no different that trusting `wget <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;thecode.tgz`" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;thecode.tgz`</a>. Even if you verify that the domain hasn&#x27;t switched hands, you have no guarantee that the author&#x27;s pipeline wasn&#x27;t compromised, or that the author didn&#x27;t add malware themselves. There&#x27;s a reason Debian, Red Hat et. al. put a lot of effort into ensuring integrity of their repositories.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident</title><url>http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169582189317/incident-report-npm-inc-operations-incident-of</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>Why allow namespace recycling at all? The potential harm is high and the potential benefit is some slight convenience.<p>If npm packages used a Github-style &quot;author&#x2F;package&quot; format, name collision would never be an issue again.</text></item><item><author>bhuga</author><text>This is a good post-mortem with clear, policy-based remediations. Nicely done.<p>I wonder why they are only preventing republishing for 24 hours. Is there a good reason to allow a package namespace to be recycled with less than, say, a week? Is it based on the assumption that the only case where it comes up is during an incident, and 24 hours is enough time to assume an incident will be resolved? I&#x27;m curious what went in to that number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Seems like they&#x27;re only allowing name reuse in the case of spam packages. Not allowing name reuse in that case might result in lots of names being rendered permanently unusable by automated spambots.<p>Assuming no actual users are depending on packages which are literally just spam, I don&#x27;t really see an issue with reusing the names of those packages.</text></comment> |
11,183,457 | 11,183,128 | 1 | 3 | 11,182,729 | train | <story><title>The rise of the API-based SaaS</title><url>https://blog.chartmogul.com/api-based-saas/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomschlick</author><text>The struggle that many people have with API based providers is that they don&#x27;t abstract that functionality in their application to a driver based system. For something as crucial as mail, payments, sms, etc you absolutely need to build it as if the provider could go away at any point.<p>Case in point: Mandrill announced two days ago that they were going to merge their product with MailChimp which included a terms of service change that banned marketing emails from Mandrill after their forced migration date in April. At work we have a commercial real estate app which lets our customers send marketing emails. We had built this functionality on top of mandrill but using a driver based system. Last night I launched a Mailgun driver and we have already started to migrate customers with their own Mandrill accounts to MG. If we hadn&#x27;t used a driver based system we would be screwed for the next few weeks.<p>Build your api integrations via drivers. Even if you only have one driver. You will be happy you did later.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of the API-based SaaS</title><url>https://blog.chartmogul.com/api-based-saas/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thecodemonkey</author><text>We&#x27;re in the exact same bucket at geocod.io[1]. I definitely agree with the sentiment that there is less flexibility with pricing on an API-based SaaS.<p>We&#x27;ve also decided to go with the usage-based model, on the contrary it however also makes it easy to make a simple a transparent pricing model.<p>We still have a UI-based piece with a spreadsheet upload tool, but under the hood it&#x27;s more or less just a GUI on top of our API.<p>When building out a new SaaS, I think it should be clear from the beginning whether it lends itself to an API-first approach, especially as a part of target audience research. In our case our primary target audience is developers, and the secondary is data analysts that prefer the GUI-based approach for one-off batches.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocod.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocod.io</a></text></comment> |
19,244,704 | 19,244,157 | 1 | 2 | 19,242,058 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?</title><text>And would you recommend it? I&#x27;ve decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:<p>1. It should work with OpenVPN<p>2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)<p>PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kinkora</author><text>PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running.<p>Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any logs when asked to handover personal information.<p>Sources:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-claims-proven-true-again-in-court-180606&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;303226103&#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;303226103&#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>PIA&#x27;s offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they&#x27;re still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN).<p>Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?</title><text>And would you recommend it? I&#x27;ve decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:<p>1. It should work with OpenVPN<p>2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)<p>PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kinkora</author><text>PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running.<p>Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any logs when asked to handover personal information.<p>Sources:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-claims-proven-true-again-in-court-180606&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;303226103&#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;303226103&#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AsyncAwait</author><text>They also donate to FLOSS on a semi-regular basis.</text></comment> |
32,651,333 | 32,650,840 | 1 | 2 | 32,650,432 | train | <story><title>1 week of Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://multimodal.art/news/1-week-of-stable-diffusion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>I will not even be slightly surprised when in 10 years we get stats like<p>&quot;60% of all image generation compute power used for making NSFW material&quot;</text></item><item><author>metadat</author><text>They forgot to mention the porn one..<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;xgygy4&#x2F;stable-diffusion-stability-ai-nsfw-ai-generated-porn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;xgygy4&#x2F;stable-diffusion-stab...</a><p>Why&#x27;d they &quot;overlook&quot; it? Probably more culturally significant and controversial than any of the others. It&#x27;s the natural elephant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgwgk</author><text>I would expect the % of image generation compute power used for making NSFW material to come down over time, just like the % of home video minutes or digital photographs used for making NSFW material went down over time.</text></comment> | <story><title>1 week of Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://multimodal.art/news/1-week-of-stable-diffusion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>I will not even be slightly surprised when in 10 years we get stats like<p>&quot;60% of all image generation compute power used for making NSFW material&quot;</text></item><item><author>metadat</author><text>They forgot to mention the porn one..<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;xgygy4&#x2F;stable-diffusion-stability-ai-nsfw-ai-generated-porn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;xgygy4&#x2F;stable-diffusion-stab...</a><p>Why&#x27;d they &quot;overlook&quot; it? Probably more culturally significant and controversial than any of the others. It&#x27;s the natural elephant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metadat</author><text>Or maybe something like &quot;60% of all power on earth&quot;.<p>I can&#x27;t yet decide if it&#x27;s going to be extremely appealing or quickly get [even more] boring and repetitive.</text></comment> |
14,847,587 | 14,846,913 | 1 | 2 | 14,845,107 | train | <story><title>Buying time promotes happiness</title><url>http://pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/18/1706541114.full</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>because otherwise the logical conclusion is to do everything yourself</i><p>The logical conclusion is to do <i>as much as you can</i> yourself, and only get others to do things you are unable to do yourself. Where possible, don&#x27;t use the work&#x2F;income&#x2F;tax&#x2F;payment cycle to do it, try to use bartering or something more efficient where there are not so many middle-men taking a cut.<p>&gt; <i>The entire premise of market economies is that people are better at different things and by working together you get a higher aggregate amount of value</i><p>Ah-ha, you&#x27;re right - but it doesn&#x27;t create &quot;higher value&quot; for the individual worker.. it&#x27;s higher value for those at the top of the pyramid.<p>&gt; <i>If it didn&#x27;t work. Market economies wouldn&#x27;t work.</i><p>Again, you are right, they don&#x27;t work! The rich are getting vastly richer while the workers are getting vastly poorer. Look around you.<p>You might not have noticed, but the reason everyone goes to work every day for their entire lives is NOT because it&#x27;s the most efficient or smartest thing for them to do. It&#x27;s because they have been convinced that it is, and they are chasing the carrot dangling on a stick in front of them (house, car, new iPhone, etc.)<p>&gt;<i>Mechanic could probably change the brakes on a car without even thinking about it, you would probably take a few hours research before you even start.</i><p>I can tell you have never tried. Even the first time I did it I took less than an hour (inc research), and actually it would still have been &quot;cheaper&quot; even if it took 8+ hours (I was earning ~$70k as salary, mechanics where I live start at $145&#x2F;hr)</text></item><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>This is demonstrably false, because otherwise the logical conclusion is to do everything yourself. Including growing your own food.<p>The entire premise of market economies is that people are better at different things and by working together you get a higher aggregate amount of value. I.e Get more stuff with less resources spent(which includes time)<p>If it didn&#x27;t work. Market economies wouldn&#x27;t work.<p>Are your perhaps not including the efficiency of the worker in your calculations? Mechanic could probably change the brakes on a car without even thinking about it, you would probably take a hour of research and work grabbing the right replacement before you even start. Most farmers have a large of agricultural knowledge which allows them produce food cheaply in large quantities.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>If you sit down and run the numbers, it&#x27;s not even close. Going to work to pay other people to do things for you to &quot;free up time&quot; simply does not work. You will work a lot more than you would if you just did things for yourself. Money is an extremely inefficient middle-man, given taxes and everyone wanting their cut.<p>Keep in mind you have to deduct taxes from your income, and the expenses it costs you to earn your income (clothes, transport, bought food, parking, car &amp; maintenance, expensive housing, etc.).<p>Also keep in mind you must pay others with after-tax dollars. So when you pay that mechanic or plumber $85 per hour, that&#x27;s a LOT of money, not even similar to you EARNING $85&#x2F;hr.<p>I wrote a book about it, and in all my research and calculations, it roughly works out that most people earn only around 30-50% as much as they think they do.. so even if your salary is $120k, you&#x27;re only earning something like $30&#x2F;hr at absolute best, which is much lower than you pay a plumber or mechanic.</text></item><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>Because it&#x27;s more efficient. If your a software developer, 1 hour of your time could probably buy many hours of time from someone else.</text></item><item><author>neilwilson</author><text>Call me old fashioned, but rather than working yourself silly to then spend your money buying time back, why don&#x27;t we set society up so that you have to work less in the first place to earn a living?<p>Are we not back to the parable of the fisherman and the banker? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.garywu.net&#x2F;fisherman-and-banker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.garywu.net&#x2F;fisherman-and-banker&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;don&#x27;t use the work&#x2F;income&#x2F;tax&#x2F;payment cycle to do it, try to use bartering</i><p>Fyi, bartering is taxable in the USA.[1]<p>Yes, lots of people barter without reporting &quot;fair market value&quot; of bartered services to the IRS and yes, there isn&#x27;t a large scale manhunt or crackdown for the tax evaders.<p>So it&#x27;s very possible that people think bartering is cheaper because of ignorance of IRS laws. It&#x27;s still technically &quot;tax evasion&quot;. (Similar to how driving across state lines to buy things for 0% sales tax is also technically tax evasion when you don&#x27;t declare the purchases in your home state&#x27;s tax forms.)<p>E.g. A homeowner&#x27;s lawn service costs $3000 a year. The homeowner could barter his web developer skills to make a &quot;lawn care website&quot; in exchange for 1 year of lawn care. The homeowner is supposed to declare the $3000-fair-market-value as <i>income</i>. If the homeowner is in 30% tax bracket, he owes ~$900 extra taxes PLUS he still has to expend the extra hours writing HTML&#x2F;javascript to fulfill his side of the trade.<p>Is bartering that much cheaper if it&#x27;s not &quot;under the table&quot; and you add in the the extra work+time to satisfy your end of the deal? (Especially if that extra work could be expended on other projects that are worth more than $3000 -or- working on websites more interesting to the homeowner than a lawn care service.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;p525&#x2F;ar02.html#en_US_2016_publink1000229343" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;p525&#x2F;ar02.html#en_US_2016_p...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Buying time promotes happiness</title><url>http://pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/18/1706541114.full</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>because otherwise the logical conclusion is to do everything yourself</i><p>The logical conclusion is to do <i>as much as you can</i> yourself, and only get others to do things you are unable to do yourself. Where possible, don&#x27;t use the work&#x2F;income&#x2F;tax&#x2F;payment cycle to do it, try to use bartering or something more efficient where there are not so many middle-men taking a cut.<p>&gt; <i>The entire premise of market economies is that people are better at different things and by working together you get a higher aggregate amount of value</i><p>Ah-ha, you&#x27;re right - but it doesn&#x27;t create &quot;higher value&quot; for the individual worker.. it&#x27;s higher value for those at the top of the pyramid.<p>&gt; <i>If it didn&#x27;t work. Market economies wouldn&#x27;t work.</i><p>Again, you are right, they don&#x27;t work! The rich are getting vastly richer while the workers are getting vastly poorer. Look around you.<p>You might not have noticed, but the reason everyone goes to work every day for their entire lives is NOT because it&#x27;s the most efficient or smartest thing for them to do. It&#x27;s because they have been convinced that it is, and they are chasing the carrot dangling on a stick in front of them (house, car, new iPhone, etc.)<p>&gt;<i>Mechanic could probably change the brakes on a car without even thinking about it, you would probably take a few hours research before you even start.</i><p>I can tell you have never tried. Even the first time I did it I took less than an hour (inc research), and actually it would still have been &quot;cheaper&quot; even if it took 8+ hours (I was earning ~$70k as salary, mechanics where I live start at $145&#x2F;hr)</text></item><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>This is demonstrably false, because otherwise the logical conclusion is to do everything yourself. Including growing your own food.<p>The entire premise of market economies is that people are better at different things and by working together you get a higher aggregate amount of value. I.e Get more stuff with less resources spent(which includes time)<p>If it didn&#x27;t work. Market economies wouldn&#x27;t work.<p>Are your perhaps not including the efficiency of the worker in your calculations? Mechanic could probably change the brakes on a car without even thinking about it, you would probably take a hour of research and work grabbing the right replacement before you even start. Most farmers have a large of agricultural knowledge which allows them produce food cheaply in large quantities.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>If you sit down and run the numbers, it&#x27;s not even close. Going to work to pay other people to do things for you to &quot;free up time&quot; simply does not work. You will work a lot more than you would if you just did things for yourself. Money is an extremely inefficient middle-man, given taxes and everyone wanting their cut.<p>Keep in mind you have to deduct taxes from your income, and the expenses it costs you to earn your income (clothes, transport, bought food, parking, car &amp; maintenance, expensive housing, etc.).<p>Also keep in mind you must pay others with after-tax dollars. So when you pay that mechanic or plumber $85 per hour, that&#x27;s a LOT of money, not even similar to you EARNING $85&#x2F;hr.<p>I wrote a book about it, and in all my research and calculations, it roughly works out that most people earn only around 30-50% as much as they think they do.. so even if your salary is $120k, you&#x27;re only earning something like $30&#x2F;hr at absolute best, which is much lower than you pay a plumber or mechanic.</text></item><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>Because it&#x27;s more efficient. If your a software developer, 1 hour of your time could probably buy many hours of time from someone else.</text></item><item><author>neilwilson</author><text>Call me old fashioned, but rather than working yourself silly to then spend your money buying time back, why don&#x27;t we set society up so that you have to work less in the first place to earn a living?<p>Are we not back to the parable of the fisherman and the banker? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.garywu.net&#x2F;fisherman-and-banker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.garywu.net&#x2F;fisherman-and-banker&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>It is extraordinarily unlikely any of my ancestors were ever rich.<p>And even if some of my ancestors were rich, my life today as a <i>worker</i> is economically better of by, oh I don&#x27;t know, a factor of 1000.<p>If we also take in to account things like decrease in child mortality, clean running water, modern medicine, the internet, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, <i>disposable computers</i>, my life today as a <i>worker</i> is better off by a factor of at least 10,000.[1]<p>Additionally, despite what Jubal Harshaw might have us believe[2], it is <i>infeasible</i> that any given person should hope to be proficient at a wide variety of tasks.<p>While I certainly <i>can</i> do most automotive servicing myself, I lack a few specialist tools that would make the tasks efficient and enjoyable, so I outsource some &#x2F; most if it as I choose.<p>1. Deirde McCloskey bangs on endlessly about this in her book <i>Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bourgeois_Dignity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bourgeois_Dignity</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Competent_man" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Competent_man</a></text></comment> |
22,916,153 | 22,915,231 | 1 | 2 | 22,914,828 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?</title><text>Amid the severe backlash that tech companies currently face (Google and FB amongst others), how do you consider your own company from a moral POV?
Do you think the current backlash is justified?<p>No judgement, just curious.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway22349</author><text>Googler. Yes, I think the backlash is all deserved. I’ve been here for many years, since back when any criticism was still very niche, and at the beginning it was different. Obviously morally superior to working at a bank, and more meaningful than working on Snapchat for Sourdough Starters or similar dumb startups. Now it’s no better than the banks, and they’re even chasing military contracts. And the work is largely pointless tedium.<p>I’ve thought of leaving for years. Problem is: I have a wife who doesn’t work, two kids, piles of debt, and live in the most expensive city in the country. We can’t just leave, our whole life is here. And moving to a bank now to make more money (if I even would, the tenure and promotions do pile up) means working harder and more hours. That comes out of spending time with my young kids.<p>I spent a couple of years having a tough time with this. It genuinely caused a long-term, slow burn existential crisis that only recently started to settle into a stable state. All of life is moral compromise, I think. It sucks and I’m sorry, but it would be too hard to stop and I’m just sort of accepting that now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MperorM</author><text>I would like to thank all the wonderful people like you who created such amazing products for me to use. I am sorry to hear that you have experienced mental anguish due to this. From my perspective you should feel pride and accomplishment from having contributed to helping millions of people every day.<p>I get dozens of questions answered each day through your search engine that before would go unanswered. (my last question was: &quot;how does a digital scale work?&quot;)<p>I get to write beautiful documents, spreadsheets and presentations that I can easily share with colleagues, who in turn, easily can provide feedback and comments inside the documents themselves.<p>I tracked the length of my last run with only my phone using android and maps, something that otherwise would have been difficult to do.<p>My family easily collects photos of our holiday together in a single shared space.<p>These are just the first things that came to mind I used google for in the last week. Whatever evils google do, you do at least as much good as well.<p>It&#x27;s absurd to me that you are feeling guilt because of this. I can&#x27;t tell you what to feel, but people like you have made my life significantly better and I want to express thankfulness for that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?</title><text>Amid the severe backlash that tech companies currently face (Google and FB amongst others), how do you consider your own company from a moral POV?
Do you think the current backlash is justified?<p>No judgement, just curious.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway22349</author><text>Googler. Yes, I think the backlash is all deserved. I’ve been here for many years, since back when any criticism was still very niche, and at the beginning it was different. Obviously morally superior to working at a bank, and more meaningful than working on Snapchat for Sourdough Starters or similar dumb startups. Now it’s no better than the banks, and they’re even chasing military contracts. And the work is largely pointless tedium.<p>I’ve thought of leaving for years. Problem is: I have a wife who doesn’t work, two kids, piles of debt, and live in the most expensive city in the country. We can’t just leave, our whole life is here. And moving to a bank now to make more money (if I even would, the tenure and promotions do pile up) means working harder and more hours. That comes out of spending time with my young kids.<p>I spent a couple of years having a tough time with this. It genuinely caused a long-term, slow burn existential crisis that only recently started to settle into a stable state. All of life is moral compromise, I think. It sucks and I’m sorry, but it would be too hard to stop and I’m just sort of accepting that now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_g_67</author><text>Another Googler here, thanks for saving me the typingm<p>Yes, Google does unethical things. This sucks and I feel uncomfortable supporting it. Quitting is just too costly in terms of personal cost and would not have much effect.</text></comment> |
10,544,873 | 10,544,620 | 1 | 3 | 10,541,356 | train | <story><title>Google launches offline maps</title><url>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigate-and-search-real-world-online.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is amazing. Now things like Garman have no real purpose (offline maps was their niche as Google Map&#x27;s version of the same was terrible).<p>Now who do I need to bribe at Google to get Google Maps to support Mirrorlink so it works with a quarter of a million vehicles? And to give Google Now a fake telephone number?<p>Google would prefer vehicles implement Android Auto. I&#x27;d prefer that too. The reality on the ground is that about a dozen vehicles in the 2016 model year support Android Auto, while four times that support Mirrorlink (a Android Auto&#x2F;Car Play competitor). That&#x27;s a lot of vehicles who for their ten-twenty year lifespan won&#x27;t have Google Maps without MirrorLink app support. So they&#x27;re stuck using wonderful Android apps like &quot;BringGo&quot; and &quot;Sygic&quot; that are MirrorLink compatible.<p>As to the Google Now fake phone number issue. Microsoft&#x27;s Cortana does this, it rocks. A lot of vehicles totally botch Bluetooth. On a $20 Bluetooth Headset you can push and hold the call button and it opens up a audio stream to your smartphone, you say &quot;OK Google&quot; and Google Now works. Unfortunately many vehicles lack this very simple functionality. They outright refuse to open up a blank audio stream over Bluetooth, instead they want a specific phone number to call (that is stored on the vehicle&#x27;s contact list). With no telephone contact in the directory the vehicle won&#x27;t even pretend to start a call. Once you ask your vehicle to call someone, it opens up the Android dialer app and &quot;OK Google&quot; does not function (since you&#x27;re now in a voice call). Cortana&#x27;s fake number solves this outright, you &quot;call&quot; Cortana, she answers and you conduct your query. Your vehicle cannot know it isn&#x27;t a real voice call, it is amazing.<p>PS - No, Tasker does not solve the bluetooth thing. You can intercept the call and start Google Now, but as soon as it hangs up the call the bluetooth cuts out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinator</author><text>&gt; Now things like Garman have no real purpose (offline maps &gt; was their niche as Google Map&#x27;s version of the same was
terrible).<p>I see you&#x27;ve never used a GPS in the back country for days at a time.<p>Things that are still wonderful about my eTrex 20 [0] is that it&#x27;s cheap, it takes AA batteries, those AA&#x27;s can last for 16+ hours continually, and it&#x27;s not my phone. (phones are great, but I need it to operate as a phone, when I do need it).<p>And yes, I know your phone can do may wonderful things, and I am as grateful for that as you are, but of the few things they still are not getting right is: use in incremental weather. Like: winter outside, in a snowstorm, on a mountain. Or, being dropped onto things, like rocks. They seem to be allergic to those.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.garmin.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;etrex&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.garmin.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;etrex&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google launches offline maps</title><url>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigate-and-search-real-world-online.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is amazing. Now things like Garman have no real purpose (offline maps was their niche as Google Map&#x27;s version of the same was terrible).<p>Now who do I need to bribe at Google to get Google Maps to support Mirrorlink so it works with a quarter of a million vehicles? And to give Google Now a fake telephone number?<p>Google would prefer vehicles implement Android Auto. I&#x27;d prefer that too. The reality on the ground is that about a dozen vehicles in the 2016 model year support Android Auto, while four times that support Mirrorlink (a Android Auto&#x2F;Car Play competitor). That&#x27;s a lot of vehicles who for their ten-twenty year lifespan won&#x27;t have Google Maps without MirrorLink app support. So they&#x27;re stuck using wonderful Android apps like &quot;BringGo&quot; and &quot;Sygic&quot; that are MirrorLink compatible.<p>As to the Google Now fake phone number issue. Microsoft&#x27;s Cortana does this, it rocks. A lot of vehicles totally botch Bluetooth. On a $20 Bluetooth Headset you can push and hold the call button and it opens up a audio stream to your smartphone, you say &quot;OK Google&quot; and Google Now works. Unfortunately many vehicles lack this very simple functionality. They outright refuse to open up a blank audio stream over Bluetooth, instead they want a specific phone number to call (that is stored on the vehicle&#x27;s contact list). With no telephone contact in the directory the vehicle won&#x27;t even pretend to start a call. Once you ask your vehicle to call someone, it opens up the Android dialer app and &quot;OK Google&quot; does not function (since you&#x27;re now in a voice call). Cortana&#x27;s fake number solves this outright, you &quot;call&quot; Cortana, she answers and you conduct your query. Your vehicle cannot know it isn&#x27;t a real voice call, it is amazing.<p>PS - No, Tasker does not solve the bluetooth thing. You can intercept the call and start Google Now, but as soon as it hangs up the call the bluetooth cuts out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>&gt; A lot of vehicles totally botch Bluetooth.<p>I had no idea, I got a 2011 car recently and it plays bluetooth audio and does calling as a separate functionality. I had issues getting it setup at first, but once I did, I haven&#x27;t really thought of it sense. My only issue is I think Google should let you pick a default music software somehow, when I first started using it, it would open up the stock music player instead of Google Play Music (which is what I use by default). Now I go into my car and it autoplays, but I have to have the app open. Hopefully there will be progress in future versions of Android.</text></comment> |
30,260,714 | 30,260,692 | 1 | 3 | 30,259,183 | train | <story><title>Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/apple-unveils-contactless-payments-via-tap-to-pay-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>I studied abroad in France in 2012--at this time, all European card readers had been chip-based for quite a while and my US credit card didn&#x27;t have one. I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to use them and many store clerks had no idea what to do with my magnetic-strip credit card.<p>I went to England in 2019, at which point cards in the US had been updated to use magnetic stripes, and everyone was using tap-to-pay. It turns out my credit card had tap-to-pay support as well but it wasn&#x27;t widely used in the US (or at least in my sphere). Now it finally seems common-enough here.<p>I&#x27;m planning another trip to Europe in the next year... Really eager to see what payments look like nowadays.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>EU has contactless paying for a while now, but it uses a chip embedded in the bank card.</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>The long slow road to contactless payments. Almost 2 decades along in the technology adoption curve.<p>I was ready for this in 2005.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;debt-management&#x2F;blink.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;debt-manage...</a><p>If course as the article points out, it wasn’t even new technology back then:<p>“ Not Exactly New Tech
Mobile introduced the Speedpass in 1997. Speedpass is a small device on a keychain (called a fob) that users wave in front of the Speedpass logo on gas pumps. The cost of the gas is automatically deducted from the user&#x27;s Speedpass account”</text></item><item><author>sabjut</author><text>Clarification due to a somewhat confusing title:<p>This is about the merchant using an iPhone to accept credit cards and other Tap to Pay devices.<p>The customer was able to pay with Tap to Pay with their iPhone for a while now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Medowar</author><text>..just dont go to Germany. We are not very advanced in that regard.<p>Of course huge amounts of stores offer contactless paying, but generally Cash is still dominant around here. Change is slow, and currently, Cash is still king, especially with small or street merchants.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/apple-unveils-contactless-payments-via-tap-to-pay-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>I studied abroad in France in 2012--at this time, all European card readers had been chip-based for quite a while and my US credit card didn&#x27;t have one. I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to use them and many store clerks had no idea what to do with my magnetic-strip credit card.<p>I went to England in 2019, at which point cards in the US had been updated to use magnetic stripes, and everyone was using tap-to-pay. It turns out my credit card had tap-to-pay support as well but it wasn&#x27;t widely used in the US (or at least in my sphere). Now it finally seems common-enough here.<p>I&#x27;m planning another trip to Europe in the next year... Really eager to see what payments look like nowadays.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>EU has contactless paying for a while now, but it uses a chip embedded in the bank card.</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>The long slow road to contactless payments. Almost 2 decades along in the technology adoption curve.<p>I was ready for this in 2005.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;debt-management&#x2F;blink.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;debt-manage...</a><p>If course as the article points out, it wasn’t even new technology back then:<p>“ Not Exactly New Tech
Mobile introduced the Speedpass in 1997. Speedpass is a small device on a keychain (called a fob) that users wave in front of the Speedpass logo on gas pumps. The cost of the gas is automatically deducted from the user&#x27;s Speedpass account”</text></item><item><author>sabjut</author><text>Clarification due to a somewhat confusing title:<p>This is about the merchant using an iPhone to accept credit cards and other Tap to Pay devices.<p>The customer was able to pay with Tap to Pay with their iPhone for a while now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rozenmd</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in France since September, and I think I&#x27;ve used cash... once? You can live entirely off using your phone&#x2F;credit card to pay these days (if you don&#x27;t frequent &quot;cash-only&quot; shops).</text></comment> |
7,732,756 | 7,732,550 | 1 | 2 | 7,732,457 | train | <story><title>Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone</title><url>http://xip.io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Piskvorrr</author><text>Perhaps I am missing something - what problem does this solve? Instead of an IPv4 address, you are now entering (optional) prefix, the IPv4 address, and a postfix &quot;.xip.io&quot; Where is the added value over entering the IP address directly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarymax</author><text>This is very useful for me, because lots of the software I write is SaaS where the customer has their own subdomain - and testing on mobile in a local network is a PITA.<p>Think of setting acme.example.local and foo.example.local in hosts to 127.0.0.1. In my code I have middleware that sniffs the leftmost part of the hostname and authenticates and routes based on that info.<p>With this I don&#x27;t need to mess with hosts, and I don&#x27;t need to worry about putting in a hack for mobile (on which you cannot change any hosts).</text></comment> | <story><title>Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone</title><url>http://xip.io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Piskvorrr</author><text>Perhaps I am missing something - what problem does this solve? Instead of an IPv4 address, you are now entering (optional) prefix, the IPv4 address, and a postfix &quot;.xip.io&quot; Where is the added value over entering the IP address directly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluefinity</author><text>You can set up your web server to serve different applications on different domains if you&#x27;re working on multiple projects at the same time and don&#x27;t want to put them on different ports or use subdirectories.<p>Another use case I can see is for testing subdomain-based web apps where you give each customer a subdomain (really just a wildcard dns record), e.g. acme.myapp.com</text></comment> |
23,903,254 | 23,902,868 | 1 | 3 | 23,890,897 | train | <story><title>The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2020/07/15/the-many-methods-of-communicating-with-submarines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SaberTail</author><text>My favorite attempt to get the Department of Defense to pay for physics research is a paper that suggests building a muon storage ring and using that to generate a beam of neutrinos to communicate with submarines[1].<p>The physical principals are pretty sound. We do already generate neutrino beams, like at Fermilab[2]. And we do have the ability to detect neutrinos in water, optically as ANTARES[3] does, or acoustically, as SAUND[4] demonstrated.<p>There are some serious engineering challenges to building a muon storage ring, which is why we don&#x27;t have any. If we could build them, we could build a muon collider. Muon colliders would be great. Muons are elementary particles, and don&#x27;t have all the garbage inside that a proton does, and so you&#x27;d get very clean signals out of such a collider, unlike the LHC. And since muons are much heavier than electrons, it&#x27;s easier to get them to very high energies without losing a lot of power to synchrotron radiation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0909.4554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0909.4554</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fnal.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;science&#x2F;particle-physics&#x2F;experiments&#x2F;neutrinos.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fnal.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;science&#x2F;particle-physics&#x2F;experiment...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antares.in2p3.fr&#x2F;Overview&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antares.in2p3.fr&#x2F;Overview&#x2F;index.html</a>
[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;saund.stanford.edu&#x2F;saund1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;saund.stanford.edu&#x2F;saund1&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; If we could build them, we could build a muon collider. Muon colliders would be great.<p>Making muons easy to make&#x2F;keep will get us closer to a legit cold fusion reactor as a result.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muon-catalyzed_fusion#Viability_as_a_power_source" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muon-catalyzed_fusion#Viabilit...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2020/07/15/the-many-methods-of-communicating-with-submarines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SaberTail</author><text>My favorite attempt to get the Department of Defense to pay for physics research is a paper that suggests building a muon storage ring and using that to generate a beam of neutrinos to communicate with submarines[1].<p>The physical principals are pretty sound. We do already generate neutrino beams, like at Fermilab[2]. And we do have the ability to detect neutrinos in water, optically as ANTARES[3] does, or acoustically, as SAUND[4] demonstrated.<p>There are some serious engineering challenges to building a muon storage ring, which is why we don&#x27;t have any. If we could build them, we could build a muon collider. Muon colliders would be great. Muons are elementary particles, and don&#x27;t have all the garbage inside that a proton does, and so you&#x27;d get very clean signals out of such a collider, unlike the LHC. And since muons are much heavier than electrons, it&#x27;s easier to get them to very high energies without losing a lot of power to synchrotron radiation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0909.4554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0909.4554</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fnal.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;science&#x2F;particle-physics&#x2F;experiments&#x2F;neutrinos.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fnal.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;science&#x2F;particle-physics&#x2F;experiment...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antares.in2p3.fr&#x2F;Overview&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antares.in2p3.fr&#x2F;Overview&#x2F;index.html</a>
[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;saund.stanford.edu&#x2F;saund1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;saund.stanford.edu&#x2F;saund1&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>I&#x27;ve often wondered about the feasbility of a private firm doing something similar to <i>dominate</i> the HFT scene by getting a massive lead on information from the opposite end of the globe.</text></comment> |
20,219,687 | 20,215,629 | 1 | 2 | 20,212,622 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep</title><text>My book on &quot;GNU grep and ripgrep&quot; is free to download today and tomorrow [1][2]<p>Code snippets, example files and sample chapters are available on GitHub [3]<p>The book uses plenty of examples and regular expressions are also covered from scratch. The book is suitable for beginners as well as serves as a reference. Hope you find it useful, I would be grateful for your feedback and suggestions.<p>I used pandoc+xelatex [4] to generate the pdf.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learnbyexample&#x2F;learn_gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learnbyexample&#x2F;learn_gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;ebook-generation&#x2F;customizing-pandoc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;ebook-generation&#x2F;c...</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>For fun casual reading, try comparing the source code of any BSD utility vs. GNU.<p>BSD tail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchcode.com&#x2F;codesearch&#x2F;view&#x2F;457515&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchcode.com&#x2F;codesearch&#x2F;view&#x2F;457515&#x2F;</a><p>GNU tail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coreutils&#x2F;coreutils&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;tail.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coreutils&#x2F;coreutils&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;tail....</a><p>Usually the BSD one is short and sweet and the GNU one is a bit complex.<p>GNU utilities may be high performance but they tend to be hard to understand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep</title><text>My book on &quot;GNU grep and ripgrep&quot; is free to download today and tomorrow [1][2]<p>Code snippets, example files and sample chapters are available on GitHub [3]<p>The book uses plenty of examples and regular expressions are also covered from scratch. The book is suitable for beginners as well as serves as a reference. Hope you find it useful, I would be grateful for your feedback and suggestions.<p>I used pandoc+xelatex [4] to generate the pdf.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learnbyexample&#x2F;learn_gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learnbyexample&#x2F;learn_gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;ebook-generation&#x2F;customizing-pandoc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;ebook-generation&#x2F;c...</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iamnotacrook</author><text>This should be run past an editor. The text is missing articles (a, an, the) all over. Something obviously got lost in translation.
It&#x27;s fine for a blog or comment on HN or whatever but if you&#x27;re asking for money...</text></comment> |
34,788,627 | 34,788,763 | 1 | 2 | 34,787,844 | train | <story><title>Rust vs. Haskell</title><url>https://serokell.io/blog/rust-vs-haskell</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>This article paints Rust and Haskell as very similar languages, but when I saw the title I was thinking about how they are fundamentally different. Rust is technical and exposes&#x2F;requires you to understand the reality of computation, while Haskell hides it away and lets you program in a system based on lambda-calculus (you don&#x27;t even have strict order of evaluation!) Interesting to see that they are very similar regardless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedataangel</author><text>Quite a few of Rust&#x27;s features were borrowed from or inspired by ones in Haskell - albeit often modified to be more suitable for systems programming (and systems programmers!).<p>Most Haskellers I know are quite fond of Rust :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust vs. Haskell</title><url>https://serokell.io/blog/rust-vs-haskell</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>This article paints Rust and Haskell as very similar languages, but when I saw the title I was thinking about how they are fundamentally different. Rust is technical and exposes&#x2F;requires you to understand the reality of computation, while Haskell hides it away and lets you program in a system based on lambda-calculus (you don&#x27;t even have strict order of evaluation!) Interesting to see that they are very similar regardless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>I think painting Rust and Haskell as similar languages is very misleading.<p>Haskell has a garbage collector for a reason.<p>You can&#x27;t program naturally with closures unless you have a garbage collector, because closures introduce cyclic references.<p>Also, Haskell has a type inference system that allows e.g. the IO monad to work seamlessly with the rest of the language.<p>EDIT: and laziness of course.</text></comment> |
21,019,893 | 21,019,213 | 1 | 2 | 21,017,914 | train | <story><title>Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu-te-1.5288609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aug_aug</author><text>Possibly related tidbit - I used to roll my own cigarettes when working in the field as a geologist, left a pack of papers under the seat of my truck which had no carpeting, spilled 100% DEET on the floor, DEET absorbed into pack of papers. Months later found those same papers (what luck!) and rolled a cigarette without thinking about it, minutes later I was asking my now wife if she &quot;could hear the helicopter sounds!!?&quot; and thought I was losing my mind.
I put it all together weeks later when I remembered the DEET spill from several months earlier. Pesticides&#x2F;insecticides, in my experience at least, can induce those symptoms, lol - maybe the mosquito spraying was a little heavy by the hotel? And now I hope I don&#x27;t have brain damage, thanks internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>I had an experience when I was a hardware engineer working in a lab that had been converted from previously being a machine room (for mainframes: raised floors, closed ventilation system). I was cleaning a prototype board with trichlorotrifluoroethane (or something similar -- whatever the solvent du jour was back then). The board had the typical green FR4 or Brobimer solder mask film. While engaged in this task I saw a little green dragon emerge from the board, chuckle, then blow a small flame from its snout. The whole thing was entirely realistic. The only thing that made me realize it wasn&#x27;t real is I was pretty sure dragons don&#x27;t exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu-te-1.5288609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aug_aug</author><text>Possibly related tidbit - I used to roll my own cigarettes when working in the field as a geologist, left a pack of papers under the seat of my truck which had no carpeting, spilled 100% DEET on the floor, DEET absorbed into pack of papers. Months later found those same papers (what luck!) and rolled a cigarette without thinking about it, minutes later I was asking my now wife if she &quot;could hear the helicopter sounds!!?&quot; and thought I was losing my mind.
I put it all together weeks later when I remembered the DEET spill from several months earlier. Pesticides&#x2F;insecticides, in my experience at least, can induce those symptoms, lol - maybe the mosquito spraying was a little heavy by the hotel? And now I hope I don&#x27;t have brain damage, thanks internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skim_milk</author><text>When my father was a child, he would bike behind the trucks that sprayed DDT all over the neighborhood because the DDT mist kept him cool. I hope you&#x27;ll be fine, because people have done much worse!</text></comment> |
23,966,784 | 23,966,740 | 1 | 2 | 23,962,961 | train | <story><title>Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers</title><url>https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/21/first-class-and-priority-mail-delayed-in-favor-of-amazon-parcels-according-to-portland-letter-carriers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkuntz2</author><text>USPS is efficient and self-sufficient, congress has just done everything possible to make it look like they&#x27;re failing.<p>If they didn&#x27;t have to prepay pensions (something no other government agency, or private company in the world is required to do, or does), they&#x27;d be in great shape.</text></item><item><author>ptero</author><text>&gt; The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention.<p>I agree with this, and this attention needs to come in more ways than extra $$. As others said, USPS is stuck in a weird state: need to be self-funded with no authority to set prices. So the gov&#x27;t needs to either subsidize some things or let USPS compete.<p>However, to fix USPS some of that attention needs to come in the form of hard kicks and forced reorgs. USPS is a dinosaur with a lot of inertia against improving efficiency and modernization. That causes problems, costs a lot of money and drives customers away. USPS is also notorious for advocating for spam senders (who give USPS a lot of revenue) and against people they are supposed to serve. Those are all problems that external &quot;attention&quot; should resolve.<p>As an anecdata, I was occasionally involved with field testing campaigns which include significant shipping for next day delivery a couple of thousand miles away (something would break or some new hardware would be needed and will be shipped from home ASAP). This provides a non-insignificant revenue to the shipper. We tried USPS, but it just did not work. With FedEx we get accurate, near real time package tracking, so the minute the package is dumped at our hotel we see it and someone can drive out and pick it up. With USPS, their system was showing delivery at the end of the <i>following</i> day. Maybe something changed in the last few years, but I doubt it.</text></item><item><author>nomercy400</author><text>The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention. If you don&#x27;t properly fund and support you public postal service, you don&#x27;t get on-time mail deliveries. Maybe that is the issue.<p>This has little to do with Amazon. Amazon is paying the USPS according to their contract. If the contract from 2013 is unsatisfactory, then it should be renegotiated by USPS. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it is a 10-year deal, and has hefty fines for late deliveries.<p>A journalist should be able to request the contract and see why USPS is now overloaded: Is it because USPS is not receiving enough funding from the government, or because the contract with Amazon is really bad for USPS. It sounds like the fact that Amazon is shipping so many parcels is a symptom, not the (systemic) cause of why parcels aren&#x27;t shipped on time.
If the USPS is to blame, then who made this deal and what were their reasons? Was it a national deal? Why is it a problem now? Why wasn&#x27;t this anticipated? And how can it be avoided in the future?<p>Aren&#x27;t contracts of the government with private parties publically accessible? I mean, you, the taxpayer, pay for the contract so you should have access to it, as well be able to check on the government&#x27;s workings. At least, that&#x27;s how we do things in europe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dodobirdlord</author><text>In fairness, pension pre-funding should be an expectation of all government agencies and private companies with pensions. But the way it was introduced was absurd, IIRC USPS had 10 years in which to pre-fund 50 years of pensions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers</title><url>https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/21/first-class-and-priority-mail-delayed-in-favor-of-amazon-parcels-according-to-portland-letter-carriers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkuntz2</author><text>USPS is efficient and self-sufficient, congress has just done everything possible to make it look like they&#x27;re failing.<p>If they didn&#x27;t have to prepay pensions (something no other government agency, or private company in the world is required to do, or does), they&#x27;d be in great shape.</text></item><item><author>ptero</author><text>&gt; The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention.<p>I agree with this, and this attention needs to come in more ways than extra $$. As others said, USPS is stuck in a weird state: need to be self-funded with no authority to set prices. So the gov&#x27;t needs to either subsidize some things or let USPS compete.<p>However, to fix USPS some of that attention needs to come in the form of hard kicks and forced reorgs. USPS is a dinosaur with a lot of inertia against improving efficiency and modernization. That causes problems, costs a lot of money and drives customers away. USPS is also notorious for advocating for spam senders (who give USPS a lot of revenue) and against people they are supposed to serve. Those are all problems that external &quot;attention&quot; should resolve.<p>As an anecdata, I was occasionally involved with field testing campaigns which include significant shipping for next day delivery a couple of thousand miles away (something would break or some new hardware would be needed and will be shipped from home ASAP). This provides a non-insignificant revenue to the shipper. We tried USPS, but it just did not work. With FedEx we get accurate, near real time package tracking, so the minute the package is dumped at our hotel we see it and someone can drive out and pick it up. With USPS, their system was showing delivery at the end of the <i>following</i> day. Maybe something changed in the last few years, but I doubt it.</text></item><item><author>nomercy400</author><text>The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention. If you don&#x27;t properly fund and support you public postal service, you don&#x27;t get on-time mail deliveries. Maybe that is the issue.<p>This has little to do with Amazon. Amazon is paying the USPS according to their contract. If the contract from 2013 is unsatisfactory, then it should be renegotiated by USPS. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it is a 10-year deal, and has hefty fines for late deliveries.<p>A journalist should be able to request the contract and see why USPS is now overloaded: Is it because USPS is not receiving enough funding from the government, or because the contract with Amazon is really bad for USPS. It sounds like the fact that Amazon is shipping so many parcels is a symptom, not the (systemic) cause of why parcels aren&#x27;t shipped on time.
If the USPS is to blame, then who made this deal and what were their reasons? Was it a national deal? Why is it a problem now? Why wasn&#x27;t this anticipated? And how can it be avoided in the future?<p>Aren&#x27;t contracts of the government with private parties publically accessible? I mean, you, the taxpayer, pay for the contract so you should have access to it, as well be able to check on the government&#x27;s workings. At least, that&#x27;s how we do things in europe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>&gt; <i>If they didn&#x27;t have to prepay pensions (something no other government agency, or private company in the world is required to do, or does)</i><p>That&#x27;s…not true? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;ebauer&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;post-office-pensions--some-key-myths-and-facts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;ebauer&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;post-office-p...</a></text></comment> |
9,168,268 | 9,168,194 | 1 | 3 | 9,167,781 | train | <story><title>Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go</title><url>http://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>Just because the number of legal positions is computed doesn&#x27;t mean we&#x27;re anywhere close to &quot;solving&quot; 18x18 Go, right? What&#x27;s the utility of computing the number of legal positions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tromp</author><text>As George Mallory said when asked &quot;Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?&quot;<p>&quot;Because it&#x27;s there.&quot;<p>The number of legal Go positions is a simply defined number that is easily approximated but an enormous computational challenge to compute exactly. I&#x27;ve made it my Mount Everest:-)<p>I also want to see if the number, written as 19x19 trits in ternary, corresponds to a legal position, which would be totally awesome (but at 1.2% the odds are against it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go</title><url>http://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>Just because the number of legal positions is computed doesn&#x27;t mean we&#x27;re anywhere close to &quot;solving&quot; 18x18 Go, right? What&#x27;s the utility of computing the number of legal positions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>placeybordeaux</author><text>It&#x27;s just an open problem in combinatorics. Plenty of math doesn&#x27;t have a specific utility associated with the problems.</text></comment> |
21,483,240 | 21,482,471 | 1 | 2 | 21,471,419 | train | <story><title>Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die</title><url>https://craigmod.com/essays/media_accounting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m31415</author><text>This is an excellent article. Much of the discussion about digital vs. dead-tree books is similar to Stallman&#x27;s &quot;Right to Read&quot; essay [1], which was published 22 years ago in 1997. As a graduate teaching assistant who has taught several introductory physics courses in an American university, I&#x27;ve noticed that book publishers like Pearson and MacMillan have been pushing students to buy&#x2F;subscribe digital versions of their textbooks. Professors also increasingly assign homeworks online rather than make students do it on paper. This is really sad because it&#x27;s really difficult to learn physics without actually doing pen-and-paper calculations. As an example, in a particular homework on vector addition, students were asked to draw the resultant vectors on some poorly-written JS based web notebook, and the students spent more time getting the thing to work instead of learning vector addition.<p>I can also understand why publishers push for digital subscriptions. Introductory physics textbooks have hardly changed in the past 30-40 years (I would even say they were less distracting and had better problems 30 years ago than now), and it should be obvious for the execs at Pearson and MacMillan that their business model is not going to survive unless they introduce subscription based textbooks. You really don&#x27;t need anything more than an old (SI-units based) copy of Halliday &amp; Resnick to learn introductory physics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.en.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die</title><url>https://craigmod.com/essays/media_accounting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abathur</author><text>&gt; Make note: Design and contract parameters go hand in hand. When the front page is the only entry point, only a single page of the publication requires hyperbole to convert passers-by to readers. Online, every article becomes a potential entry point. And so there is an incentive for pervasive hyperbole in order to “convert” eyeballs in service to ads and the consumption of more attention.<p>Good point.</text></comment> |
5,010,910 | 5,010,376 | 1 | 3 | 5,010,071 | train | <story><title>μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby</title><url>http://fogus.github.com/ulithp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mahmud</author><text>Before this devolves into another farcical, Lisp arm-chair punditry: at 9 operators it's pretty much a kernel untyped lambda-calculus with pairs. And <i>just</i> that.<p>The implementation is as trivial as the concept is profound. The discussion should be about the lambda-calculus, not Lisp, which is a far more complex beast. And much less about Lisp dialects, Greenspun's, or the usual BS topics that invariably appear on any L-word thread.</text></comment> | <story><title>μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby</title><url>http://fogus.github.com/ulithp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitops</author><text>I think this is a neat project and a nice demonstration of how Lisp-influenced Ruby is.<p>However, whenever people post "Lisp in Ruby" stories, I always hope that it'll be a "Clojure in Ruby" implementation. I am surprised no-one has done it yet.</text></comment> |
15,246,992 | 15,246,843 | 1 | 3 | 15,244,596 | train | <story><title>Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nstart</author><text>Just in case any bright eyed hopeful person is reading this, please don&#x27;t think &quot;ah shucks&quot; and go away. Some of the biggest things in the internet including the protocols the internet lives on were never envisioned as something that would change the life of billions of people. They were initially created to solve a problem for a small group and then grew into something much bigger over time. Please please don&#x27;t back away from this problem just because some article says it&#x27;s going to be challenging.<p>Solve it for yourself.<p>Post on your own blogs on your own servers.<p>Solve it for others.<p>Help others get set up with their own servers.<p>Create solutions for people<p>Make attempts at creating decentralized solutions. Even if a 1000 people use it, someday we might crack the code to getting people off the walled gardens.<p>Basically, if that article sounded like a demotivating blow to your hopes, please flip the bird at it, and keep working to solve this problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unicornporn</author><text>Decentralized social networks is often an alternative to profit driven social networks.<p>The social giants today optimize their offerings so that we spend as much time as possible using them[1] to maximize profits. That doesn&#x27;t necessarily make us happier. Wouldn&#x27;t a a social that frees time and doesn&#x27;t create addiction and depression be something to strive for?<p>I think we should stop counting success in time spent and numbers of users.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.1843magazine.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.1843magazine.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;the-scientists-who-mak...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nstart</author><text>Just in case any bright eyed hopeful person is reading this, please don&#x27;t think &quot;ah shucks&quot; and go away. Some of the biggest things in the internet including the protocols the internet lives on were never envisioned as something that would change the life of billions of people. They were initially created to solve a problem for a small group and then grew into something much bigger over time. Please please don&#x27;t back away from this problem just because some article says it&#x27;s going to be challenging.<p>Solve it for yourself.<p>Post on your own blogs on your own servers.<p>Solve it for others.<p>Help others get set up with their own servers.<p>Create solutions for people<p>Make attempts at creating decentralized solutions. Even if a 1000 people use it, someday we might crack the code to getting people off the walled gardens.<p>Basically, if that article sounded like a demotivating blow to your hopes, please flip the bird at it, and keep working to solve this problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>I have given some thought to this problem and I think it&#x27;s technically solvable. The main problem is that it would be non-profit so less incentive to build it. Anyone want to kick around ideas?</text></comment> |
23,409,761 | 23,409,655 | 1 | 2 | 23,409,138 | train | <story><title>Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bshipp</author><text>This is just the start. Landlords would be smart to work with tenants to share some of the loss and renegotiate temporary adjustments to keep at least some revenue coming in because the heady days of high demand for rental units is likely behind us for a while.<p>It&#x27;ll be worse in downtown areas. I&#x27;ve heard from multiple firms that are looking at downsizing their expensive office space and continuing to allow employees to work from home. if a person doesn&#x27;t have to work downtown they will often choose not to live there either.<p>COVID is going to change the face of urban real estate. So if you have a tenant, they&#x27;re gold and do what you can to keep them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dv_dt</author><text>Unfortunately, as part of the unfolding of the post 2008 recession, a lot of rentals shifted from individual or smaller landlords to larger corporate landlords whom take a much more impersonal approach to making it through the depression. To some degree, to the extent they can take out holdover loans and let rentals sit empty, they will do just that - irregardless of the social utility of compromise.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;single-family-landlords-wall-street&#x2F;582394&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;singl...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bshipp</author><text>This is just the start. Landlords would be smart to work with tenants to share some of the loss and renegotiate temporary adjustments to keep at least some revenue coming in because the heady days of high demand for rental units is likely behind us for a while.<p>It&#x27;ll be worse in downtown areas. I&#x27;ve heard from multiple firms that are looking at downsizing their expensive office space and continuing to allow employees to work from home. if a person doesn&#x27;t have to work downtown they will often choose not to live there either.<p>COVID is going to change the face of urban real estate. So if you have a tenant, they&#x27;re gold and do what you can to keep them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cft</author><text>In California for example, due to state-wide rent control, it&#x27;s very dangerous for a landlord to lower rents. I would rather offer 6 months free rent than lock into permanent nonadjustable lower rent situation.</text></comment> |
20,976,631 | 20,975,223 | 1 | 3 | 20,970,774 | train | <story><title>France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency-france-german/france-and-germany-agree-to-block-facebooks-libra-idUSKCN1VY1XU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lacker</author><text>But they don’t want to become a bank. They want to build a cryptocurrency. There are already hundreds of cryptocurrencies that operate in France and Germany, and the developers do not have to have banking licenses.</text></item><item><author>zaphirplane</author><text>I feel there is a conflation here. Facebook is free to apply for a banking license in countries they want to operate as a bank in. Facebook shouldn’t be able to circumvent banking over site and regulations by coming in as a technology company with fancy words.
The conflation here is Facebook isn’t being blocked form becoming a licensed bank in Germany - correct me if I’m wrong</text></item><item><author>nugget</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the answer better consumer protections, though? Rather than a ban on new technology that threatens the status quo. If Facebook wants to be a bank, they should be subject to the banking regulators and there could be (should be) strong consumer protections preventing the type of corporate behavior you describe.</text></item><item><author>dpau</author><text>Last week I wanted to purchase a used item but discovered that, without warning or notification, Marketplace was deactivated from my Facebook account. My Facebook account is quite active, with posts, discussion in multiple groups, and hundreds of friends. I still have no clue as to what rule I triggered and no recourse to reactivate it. Now imagine that&#x27;s my digital Libra bank account? No thanks.</text></item><item><author>blackbrokkoli</author><text>I&#x27;m of course not familiar with the specific mindsets and the history of this decision, but I want to share a bit of cultural perspective from Germany that is so far not really considered in this comment section:<p>Germany is very, very keen on preventing powerful entities from acting outside of regulation and similarly, if not more, on preventing a single entity to get in control of everything. This is largely due to some foobar in the last century, which I&#x27;m sure everyone is aware of.<p>So if Facebook, 10x of Germany&#x27;s population comes around the corner with a proposal akin to &quot;Hey do you mind if we just skip the paperwork part and just control currency, while actually being a social media tech giant&quot; there going to be up against every trick in the book. This is not hypocrite behavior because Germany allowed some fun regional currency project no one is aware of some time ago. This is much more protecting the idea of the German society.<p>And personally, as a German, I&#x27;m really glad about it. You remember the hundreds of cases of worked with a scummy developer on an app once, now I&#x27;m blocked out of my email and all my files stories? Now imagine that, but with <i>money</i> and with a company who never even bothered to pretend it isn&#x27;t evil - this is gonna be a no, thank you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrGman</author><text>With Libra, Facebook wouldn&#x27;t just make itself a bank. It would make itself a central bank. A world wide central bank.<p>Libra = inventing a new fiat currency and then replacing a significant portion of other fiat currencies around the world through a cloak of &quot;we&#x27;re just here doing the next big thing, also App, p2p payments, online crypto AI blockchain social network Facebook <i>innocent whistling of a song</i>&quot;. As a little bonus, they would be selling the Libra nodes (that handle all the payment traffic) to third parties. Initially for 10 million USD per node. That way they can shift the blame of selling payment data to third parties away from Facebook, while still making money by giving third parties the right to do whatever they want with that payment data.<p>Having a banking license doesn&#x27;t allow you to replace a countries&#x27; fiat currency by some new invented token. The value of Libra in Europe would depend on a promise by an American tech company (led by 1 man). A promise to keep the value of the Libra tied to a predetermined basket of fiat currencies. Assuming that Libra would become popular, this would yield pretty much infinite international political and economical power to Mark Zuckerberg based on the mere perception of the possibility that this promise could be broken by him. This is also why Libra is not comparable to an actual crypto currency like Bitcoin. The value and existence of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin network is not dependent on 1 man and the contracts he has with Bitcoin nodes.<p>Germany and France aren&#x27;t stupid. I guess.<p>Those are my thoughts on what&#x27;s actually going on.</text></comment> | <story><title>France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency-france-german/france-and-germany-agree-to-block-facebooks-libra-idUSKCN1VY1XU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lacker</author><text>But they don’t want to become a bank. They want to build a cryptocurrency. There are already hundreds of cryptocurrencies that operate in France and Germany, and the developers do not have to have banking licenses.</text></item><item><author>zaphirplane</author><text>I feel there is a conflation here. Facebook is free to apply for a banking license in countries they want to operate as a bank in. Facebook shouldn’t be able to circumvent banking over site and regulations by coming in as a technology company with fancy words.
The conflation here is Facebook isn’t being blocked form becoming a licensed bank in Germany - correct me if I’m wrong</text></item><item><author>nugget</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the answer better consumer protections, though? Rather than a ban on new technology that threatens the status quo. If Facebook wants to be a bank, they should be subject to the banking regulators and there could be (should be) strong consumer protections preventing the type of corporate behavior you describe.</text></item><item><author>dpau</author><text>Last week I wanted to purchase a used item but discovered that, without warning or notification, Marketplace was deactivated from my Facebook account. My Facebook account is quite active, with posts, discussion in multiple groups, and hundreds of friends. I still have no clue as to what rule I triggered and no recourse to reactivate it. Now imagine that&#x27;s my digital Libra bank account? No thanks.</text></item><item><author>blackbrokkoli</author><text>I&#x27;m of course not familiar with the specific mindsets and the history of this decision, but I want to share a bit of cultural perspective from Germany that is so far not really considered in this comment section:<p>Germany is very, very keen on preventing powerful entities from acting outside of regulation and similarly, if not more, on preventing a single entity to get in control of everything. This is largely due to some foobar in the last century, which I&#x27;m sure everyone is aware of.<p>So if Facebook, 10x of Germany&#x27;s population comes around the corner with a proposal akin to &quot;Hey do you mind if we just skip the paperwork part and just control currency, while actually being a social media tech giant&quot; there going to be up against every trick in the book. This is not hypocrite behavior because Germany allowed some fun regional currency project no one is aware of some time ago. This is much more protecting the idea of the German society.<p>And personally, as a German, I&#x27;m really glad about it. You remember the hundreds of cases of worked with a scummy developer on an app once, now I&#x27;m blocked out of my email and all my files stories? Now imagine that, but with <i>money</i> and with a company who never even bothered to pretend it isn&#x27;t evil - this is gonna be a no, thank you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Are we sure those crypto developers are acting within the law? Genuine question.</text></comment> |
16,754,374 | 16,747,358 | 1 | 3 | 16,743,476 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Diamond – Full-stack web-framework in D</title><url>https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bausshf</author><text>Okay, so I figured I&#x27;d give a little back story to the project and feel free to ask anything too!<p>So the project initially started back in 2016 and I originally just made it as an alternative template engine to the template engine in vibe.d, because I didn&#x27;t like the style of their &quot;Diet&quot; templates and came from an ASP.NET background, so I wanted to make something that was in the style of razor and then I just kept adding features onto it, until it eventually became a MVC Framework, then I kept missing certain features that I would implement in sites, instead of having generic solutions, so I figured I might as well add them to the framework and that&#x27;s how Diamond went from just a MVC &#x2F; Template Framework to a full-stack web-framework.<p>There&#x27;s still a lot of work to be done, but it&#x27;s most definitely usable.<p>I want to thank everyone who&#x27;s shown interest in the project as I&#x27;ve spend a lot of time on it and I&#x27;m currently the only person working on it and I have nobody backing me with funding or anything, so hosting of the website, development of the framework etc. is all done by me so far!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Diamond – Full-stack web-framework in D</title><url>https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>52-6F-62</author><text>I&#x27;m intrigued. I&#x27;ve previously considered D and vibe.d for a web project, but ultimately went with something else.<p>I&#x27;m curious what a project might look like in completion. Are there any examples? The repo is currently empty... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DiamondMVC&#x2F;Examples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DiamondMVC&#x2F;Examples</a></text></comment> |
11,945,533 | 11,945,421 | 1 | 3 | 11,944,011 | train | <story><title>“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”</title><url>https://seafile.de/en/important-infos-about-app-seafile-de-and-licensing-purchases-through-our-web-shops/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcherm</author><text>I call BS on that.<p>It is true that banks will go a long way to try to satisfy banking regulators. But unless you have some evidence I am simply unwilling to believe that banking regulators can make up any restrictions they like without regard for the actual requirements of federal law.</text></item><item><author>cynicalkane</author><text>In the US, at least, AML regulations are whatever the regulators say they are.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>&gt; Welcome to the world of financial regulations!<p>&gt; You may have not realised but banks and any financial institutions have been deputised by the regulators to be the financial police. They need to endure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes or launder the proceeds of a crime, under the penalty of heavy (up to multi billions) fines. Particularly in the US.<p>While I fully agree with this statement, PayPal&#x27;s actions here seem excessive even by the broadest interpretations of anti-money-laundering regulations. Furthermore, AML regulations target a specific set of transactions and&#x2F;or individuals.<p>&quot;Monitoring all traffic for illegal content&quot; is a vague statement that could mean anything. Illegal where? Illegal how?<p>Edit: I forgot to mention: PayPal operates as a credit institution (ie, a bank) within the EU, so the strict AML regulations the parent alluded to apply to it directly.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>Welcome to the world of financial regulations!<p>You may have not realised but banks and any financial institutions have been deputised by the regulators to be the financial police. They need to ensure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes or launder the proceeds of a crime, under the penalty of heavy (up to multi billions) fines. Particularly in the US.<p>I am pretty sure this is what is forcing paypal to do this. And also why I wish good luck to startups who think they will disrupt this massively over regulated industry.</text></item><item><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as all our customers’ files for illegal content. They have also asked us to provide them with detailed statistics about the files types of our customers sync and share on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.seafile.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.seafile.de</a><p>That&#x27;s a pretty big WTF right there.<p>I know PayPal has a on overall pretty scummy reputation, but I still I cannot imagine PayPal doing this because they themselves think they&#x27;ll benefit from this data.<p>To me this seems like a demand which comes &quot;upstream&quot; from above PayPal, from its payment providers (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, etc). Would I be overly paranoid to imagine these demands and claims are the result of lobbing by entities like RIAA and MPAA? They <i>do</i> have a history for blocking payments to known pirate-friendly services after all.<p>And as such, they clearly have too much power, and there needs to be some anti-discriminatory financial regulation to stop business-hostile practices like this from being lobbied and put in place.<p>Because this is just madness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ckastner</author><text><i>But unless you have some evidence I am simply unwilling to believe that banking regulators can make up any restrictions they like without regard for the actual requirements of federal law.</i><p>The actual requirements of federal law are often (intentionally) formulated on such a high level that in practice, the banking regulator does end up specifying the actual rules.<p>Say, for example, a federal law requires that banks &quot;take reasonable measures to impede money laundering&quot;.<p>Now what those &quot;reasonable measures&quot; are is usually determined by the overseeing regulator (eg: the SEC). Sure, you can disagree with their assessment, but they&#x27;ll fine you anyway and then, the best-case scenario is that after X years in court, the fine gets overturned.</text></comment> | <story><title>“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”</title><url>https://seafile.de/en/important-infos-about-app-seafile-de-and-licensing-purchases-through-our-web-shops/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcherm</author><text>I call BS on that.<p>It is true that banks will go a long way to try to satisfy banking regulators. But unless you have some evidence I am simply unwilling to believe that banking regulators can make up any restrictions they like without regard for the actual requirements of federal law.</text></item><item><author>cynicalkane</author><text>In the US, at least, AML regulations are whatever the regulators say they are.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>&gt; Welcome to the world of financial regulations!<p>&gt; You may have not realised but banks and any financial institutions have been deputised by the regulators to be the financial police. They need to endure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes or launder the proceeds of a crime, under the penalty of heavy (up to multi billions) fines. Particularly in the US.<p>While I fully agree with this statement, PayPal&#x27;s actions here seem excessive even by the broadest interpretations of anti-money-laundering regulations. Furthermore, AML regulations target a specific set of transactions and&#x2F;or individuals.<p>&quot;Monitoring all traffic for illegal content&quot; is a vague statement that could mean anything. Illegal where? Illegal how?<p>Edit: I forgot to mention: PayPal operates as a credit institution (ie, a bank) within the EU, so the strict AML regulations the parent alluded to apply to it directly.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>Welcome to the world of financial regulations!<p>You may have not realised but banks and any financial institutions have been deputised by the regulators to be the financial police. They need to ensure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes or launder the proceeds of a crime, under the penalty of heavy (up to multi billions) fines. Particularly in the US.<p>I am pretty sure this is what is forcing paypal to do this. And also why I wish good luck to startups who think they will disrupt this massively over regulated industry.</text></item><item><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as all our customers’ files for illegal content. They have also asked us to provide them with detailed statistics about the files types of our customers sync and share on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.seafile.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.seafile.de</a><p>That&#x27;s a pretty big WTF right there.<p>I know PayPal has a on overall pretty scummy reputation, but I still I cannot imagine PayPal doing this because they themselves think they&#x27;ll benefit from this data.<p>To me this seems like a demand which comes &quot;upstream&quot; from above PayPal, from its payment providers (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, etc). Would I be overly paranoid to imagine these demands and claims are the result of lobbing by entities like RIAA and MPAA? They <i>do</i> have a history for blocking payments to known pirate-friendly services after all.<p>And as such, they clearly have too much power, and there needs to be some anti-discriminatory financial regulation to stop business-hostile practices like this from being lobbied and put in place.<p>Because this is just madness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>Coming from a bank (but with limited interaction with regulators), regulators usually try to work within the law. However, I would like to remind you the law is all contradicting and has literally tens if not hundreds of thousands of various laws each one with its own implications.<p>Point being, regulators can justify just about anything. That is why all large banks have an army of lawyers. They then work with regulators to find some middle ground.</text></comment> |
17,279,410 | 17,278,328 | 1 | 2 | 17,276,843 | train | <story><title>On paying for software</title><url>https://seths.blog/2018/06/on-paying-for-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>One of the reasons that I switched from Linx to OSX was so that I could pay for more of my software. Why? Because then I more of the software I used could be maintained by someone who had the time to dig into bugs and UI problems and to fix them. But in Linux, couldn&#x27;t I just edit the source myself? Realistically, no. It takes a tremendous amount of effort to source-dive in a totally new project in a language I never use, especially without someone willing to give me a walkthrough of the architecture and fundamental models of the program. It is waaaay more efficient for these to be fixed by an engineer working not in their spare time, but as their full-time job.<p>A developer targeting OSX knows they have an audience of people willing to pay him money so he can spend his whole day doing usability tests and his evening watching a little league game.<p>I do miss strace though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>This is actually completely backwards in an ironic way. I have found in the past that when I made a program closed source, for sale, all further incentive to do anything to the program became connected to its revenue. Like, &quot;it hasn&#x27;t generated any meaningful revenue, so I cannot justify spending another N hours on it unless those hours lead to sales.&quot;<p>Most software that you can buy has little or no revenue, which means you will be one of a scarce set of suckers paying for it. That meagre revenue doesn&#x27;t pay for the developer resources to improve the program.<p>Paying for software is like an insurance premium against bugs and issues in that program.<p>Paying for some unpopular software with few users is like buying insurance from an insurance company that insures only a handful of other policy holders.</text></comment> | <story><title>On paying for software</title><url>https://seths.blog/2018/06/on-paying-for-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>One of the reasons that I switched from Linx to OSX was so that I could pay for more of my software. Why? Because then I more of the software I used could be maintained by someone who had the time to dig into bugs and UI problems and to fix them. But in Linux, couldn&#x27;t I just edit the source myself? Realistically, no. It takes a tremendous amount of effort to source-dive in a totally new project in a language I never use, especially without someone willing to give me a walkthrough of the architecture and fundamental models of the program. It is waaaay more efficient for these to be fixed by an engineer working not in their spare time, but as their full-time job.<p>A developer targeting OSX knows they have an audience of people willing to pay him money so he can spend his whole day doing usability tests and his evening watching a little league game.<p>I do miss strace though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wazoox</author><text>I use Linux and most free software projects allow donations. I even donated to projects I don&#x27;t actually use, like FreeBSD. I donated money to many free software projects, Ardour, Mozilla, LibreOffice, OpenBSD, etc. This is clearly a false dichotomy.</text></comment> |
20,696,119 | 20,696,234 | 1 | 2 | 20,694,988 | train | <story><title>The 1619 Project</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>portmanteaufu</author><text>&gt; The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 1619 Project</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Note that if you&#x27;re having trouble navigating the scrolly-animated presentation, you can go to the NYT Magazine&#x27;s landing page to see a more straightforward listing of articles and links:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;section&#x2F;magazine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;section&#x2F;magazine</a></text></comment> |
27,454,347 | 27,454,200 | 1 | 2 | 27,450,364 | train | <story><title>2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident</title><url>https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2021-06-08-certificate-lifetime-incident/153426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>I love your work!<p>Any chance you could convince Microsoft to add Let&#x27;s Encrypt as an &quot;integrated&quot; CA in Azure Key Vault? It&#x27;s absolutely bonkers how much money I have to pay to get a certificate in 2021 for cloud services! E.g.: the App Service certificates are $70&#x2F;year each or $300&#x2F;year for a wildcard certificate. That&#x27;s nuts. Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details&#x2F;app-service&#x2F;windows&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details&#x2F;app-servic...</a><p>I strongly suspect the reason Let&#x27;s Encrypt isn&#x27;t adopted more widely in cloud services is because there&#x27;s <i>no margin on a free service</i>. This is why Microsoft, AWS, and GCP all carefully pretend that there are no free options, and make sure that it&#x27;s a difficult uphill battle to use Let&#x27;s Encrypt.<p>E.g.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;key-vault&#x2F;certificates&#x2F;how-to-integrate-certificate-authority" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;key-vault&#x2F;certificate...</a><p>Notice how the document title is literally &quot;Integrating Key Vault with DigiCert certificate authority&quot;. Not &quot;Certificate Authority&quot;, it&#x27;s the &quot;<i>DigiCert</i> certificate authority&quot;. Apparently, HTTPS is now DigiCert&#x27;s protocol, they&#x27;re the gatekeepers, and you have to pay them money to use it.<p>It boils my blood that 1KB files of random numbers still cost money, and the trolls under the bridge are still taxing everyone for what is now essentially mandatory for all web sites.<p>If anyone here has a significant account with Azure, please apply some pressure to your Microsoft account manager next time you have coffee with them. This rent seeking for what should be free for everyone has to stop.</text></item><item><author>jaas</author><text>Head of Let&#x27;s Encrypt here.<p>The question of whether or not revocation should happen has to be asked whenever a certificate compliance issue is being discussed, regardless of how serious the issue is. That is a normal part of the process of evaluating an incident thoroughly.<p>We do not plan to revoke any certificates as a result of this issue.<p>An aside - I love how informed many of the commenters here are, thanks to you all for helping to explain what&#x27;s happening!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorrez</author><text>&gt;This is why Microsoft, AWS, and GCP all carefully pretend that there are no free options, and make sure that it&#x27;s a difficult uphill battle to use Let&#x27;s Encrypt.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m misunderstanding, but GCP HTTPS and SSL load balancers give you certificates for free. They support Google&#x27;s own CA (pki.goog) as well as Let&#x27;s Encrypt. Full disclosure I work in GCP, but not on this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;load-balancing&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ssl-certificates&#x2F;google-managed-certs#optional_procedures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;load-balancing&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ssl-certificate...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident</title><url>https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2021-06-08-certificate-lifetime-incident/153426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>I love your work!<p>Any chance you could convince Microsoft to add Let&#x27;s Encrypt as an &quot;integrated&quot; CA in Azure Key Vault? It&#x27;s absolutely bonkers how much money I have to pay to get a certificate in 2021 for cloud services! E.g.: the App Service certificates are $70&#x2F;year each or $300&#x2F;year for a wildcard certificate. That&#x27;s nuts. Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details&#x2F;app-service&#x2F;windows&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details&#x2F;app-servic...</a><p>I strongly suspect the reason Let&#x27;s Encrypt isn&#x27;t adopted more widely in cloud services is because there&#x27;s <i>no margin on a free service</i>. This is why Microsoft, AWS, and GCP all carefully pretend that there are no free options, and make sure that it&#x27;s a difficult uphill battle to use Let&#x27;s Encrypt.<p>E.g.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;key-vault&#x2F;certificates&#x2F;how-to-integrate-certificate-authority" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;key-vault&#x2F;certificate...</a><p>Notice how the document title is literally &quot;Integrating Key Vault with DigiCert certificate authority&quot;. Not &quot;Certificate Authority&quot;, it&#x27;s the &quot;<i>DigiCert</i> certificate authority&quot;. Apparently, HTTPS is now DigiCert&#x27;s protocol, they&#x27;re the gatekeepers, and you have to pay them money to use it.<p>It boils my blood that 1KB files of random numbers still cost money, and the trolls under the bridge are still taxing everyone for what is now essentially mandatory for all web sites.<p>If anyone here has a significant account with Azure, please apply some pressure to your Microsoft account manager next time you have coffee with them. This rent seeking for what should be free for everyone has to stop.</text></item><item><author>jaas</author><text>Head of Let&#x27;s Encrypt here.<p>The question of whether or not revocation should happen has to be asked whenever a certificate compliance issue is being discussed, regardless of how serious the issue is. That is a normal part of the process of evaluating an incident thoroughly.<p>We do not plan to revoke any certificates as a result of this issue.<p>An aside - I love how informed many of the commenters here are, thanks to you all for helping to explain what&#x27;s happening!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irgeek</author><text>Certificates issued from AWS Certificate Manager are — and, I believe, always have been — free. AWS is definitely not rent-seeking on certificates.</text></comment> |
15,638,421 | 15,637,846 | 1 | 2 | 15,637,329 | train | <story><title>Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming Language</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/pyro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stablemap</author><text>Some discussion from a few days ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15619634" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15619634</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming Language</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/pyro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bpicolo</author><text>Why is it being labelled a &quot;Language&quot; instead of a python library?</text></comment> |
4,654,191 | 4,654,175 | 1 | 3 | 4,653,766 | train | <story><title>Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site </title><url>https://github.com/rigoneri/syte</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjourne</author><text>But isn't it a big problem that all the blog posts are loaded using Javascript? It means your blog will be fully invisible to Googlebot and anyone coming from search engines. The purpose of a blog is, at least partially, to have readers but loading content via Javascript makes that harder to get.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VMG</author><text>Googlebot executes javascript: <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/google-ajax-execute-15169.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.seroundtable.com/google-ajax-execute-15169.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site </title><url>https://github.com/rigoneri/syte</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjourne</author><text>But isn't it a big problem that all the blog posts are loaded using Javascript? It means your blog will be fully invisible to Googlebot and anyone coming from search engines. The purpose of a blog is, at least partially, to have readers but loading content via Javascript makes that harder to get.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markild</author><text>At the moment, it seems that you need to use Tumblr for blog posts, the author also mentions maybe extending it to Wordpress.<p>I think the entire idea here is that it is an aggregator of sorts. The site itself contains nothing that does not exist elsewhere, and judging from one of the open pull requests where someone has implemented local blog support, the author does not intend to store anything locally.<p>Though I like that he has open sourced this, I find it really weird that this is not offered as a service.</text></comment> |
17,209,860 | 17,209,848 | 1 | 3 | 17,208,876 | train | <story><title>California approves $768M for electric vehicles</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghouse</author><text>I drive a EV with a range &gt; 200 miles. Utility-customer funded chargers strike me as a solution tomorrow for a problem of yesterday -- limited EV range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what this means. I have an EV also and the biggest barrier to EV adoption is charging infrastructure. I have a charger at home, but realize that many more people live in apartments and condos that require that infrastructure. Further, there are days when I forget to charge, and would really benefit from a quick 40-50 mile charging at a public location. Charging infrastructure is definitely a necessity.</text></comment> | <story><title>California approves $768M for electric vehicles</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghouse</author><text>I drive a EV with a range &gt; 200 miles. Utility-customer funded chargers strike me as a solution tomorrow for a problem of yesterday -- limited EV range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biggc</author><text>According to: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dot.ca.gov&#x2F;hq&#x2F;tsip&#x2F;hpms&#x2F;hpmslibrary&#x2F;prd&#x2F;prd2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dot.ca.gov&#x2F;hq&#x2F;tsip&#x2F;hpms&#x2F;hpmslibrary&#x2F;prd&#x2F;prd2010.p...</a><p>California has 172,138 miles of maintained roads, 63,856 if we don&#x27;t include &quot;Local&quot; roads.<p>There are certainly many stretches of road in the state that could use charging stations in order to be accessible by EV.</text></comment> |
5,057,191 | 5,057,147 | 1 | 2 | 5,056,279 | train | <story><title>Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-help-119-days-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>(1) hindsight is 20-20<p>(2) the facts as we know then today were not readily apparent back then (even to those that were actively seeking those facts)<p>(3) Ed has a longstanding history of compassion and care<p>(4) mistakes were made, but there is nobody to apologise to.<p>Can we please stop the mobbing? Thanks.</text></item><item><author>django34211</author><text>"Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills."<p>~Ed<p>Sounds like Ed was a bit harsh on someone who was going through allot of trouble. The comment was excessively cruel. Not to mention it was the top comment, which must of added large dosage of salt on an already wounded soul.<p>So he(Ed) rightfully deserves any criticism thrown at him.<p>It's such a tool bag comment, Ed should apologize. Your defending such a vitriolic comment, sorry but you sound like scum.</text></item><item><author></author><text></text></item><item><author>woah</author><text>He certainly seemed to support the outrageous, overreaching prosecution that Aaron was facing.<p>"Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills."<p>This sounds a lot like "screw you, what you did is wrong, and you should quit whining about it."<p>"man up" clearly implies that Ed Weissman feels that going up against the massive US justice system to allow people without university affiliation or piles of cash to read publicly funded scientific research is an immature act.<p>As someone who has been blocked in the past from doing research because of lack of funds to pay the journals, this attitude disgusts me.<p>EDIT: Let me be absolutely clear that I am not implying that Ed had any blame in what happened or anything ridiculous like that. What I find objectionable in his commentary is his cavalier attitude towards the heavyhanded prosecution of those trying to make publicly funded research publicly available. This suggests a very elitist attitude towards the distribution of valuable public research.</text></item><item><author></author><text></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marvin</author><text>I really respect Ed Weissman's contributions and knowledge, so this is not meant as any type of personal attack. But I was thinking back when I read this comment four months ago that it seemed unusually harsh for someone who was facing 35 years in prison for something that _might_ deserve a slap on the wrist. So it's not all hindsight.<p>I was also surprised that it was the most-upvoted comment of the thread. And it also wasn't the only harsh comment in that thread. So if anyone deserves criticism, it's the Hacker News community for not showing a more compassionate side. I'd rather say it was the responsibility of the community as a whole rather than a single person.<p>It makes no sense to discuss if anything would be different if the HN community had responded differently to this story, but in general, giving an unsupportive collective response to someone who is down is probably not the best idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-help-119-days-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>(1) hindsight is 20-20<p>(2) the facts as we know then today were not readily apparent back then (even to those that were actively seeking those facts)<p>(3) Ed has a longstanding history of compassion and care<p>(4) mistakes were made, but there is nobody to apologise to.<p>Can we please stop the mobbing? Thanks.</text></item><item><author>django34211</author><text>"Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills."<p>~Ed<p>Sounds like Ed was a bit harsh on someone who was going through allot of trouble. The comment was excessively cruel. Not to mention it was the top comment, which must of added large dosage of salt on an already wounded soul.<p>So he(Ed) rightfully deserves any criticism thrown at him.<p>It's such a tool bag comment, Ed should apologize. Your defending such a vitriolic comment, sorry but you sound like scum.</text></item><item><author></author><text></text></item><item><author>woah</author><text>He certainly seemed to support the outrageous, overreaching prosecution that Aaron was facing.<p>"Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills."<p>This sounds a lot like "screw you, what you did is wrong, and you should quit whining about it."<p>"man up" clearly implies that Ed Weissman feels that going up against the massive US justice system to allow people without university affiliation or piles of cash to read publicly funded scientific research is an immature act.<p>As someone who has been blocked in the past from doing research because of lack of funds to pay the journals, this attitude disgusts me.<p>EDIT: Let me be absolutely clear that I am not implying that Ed had any blame in what happened or anything ridiculous like that. What I find objectionable in his commentary is his cavalier attitude towards the heavyhanded prosecution of those trying to make publicly funded research publicly available. This suggests a very elitist attitude towards the distribution of valuable public research.</text></item><item><author></author><text></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnsonB</author><text>The feds going after a 20-something idealistic activist, who we all knew was completely harmless, and hadn't committed a <i>real</i> crime? That can't be anything other than a severe and cruel abuse of power. I'm sorry but enough information was known at the time to conclude what was going on.</text></comment> |
13,251,682 | 13,249,832 | 1 | 2 | 13,249,675 | train | <story><title>Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)</title><url>https://www.bottomupcs.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delsarto</author><text>Thanks, I wrote this!<p>It was a bit of a different time, when docbook was the way to publish, when Itanium was the 64-bit architecture, things like go and rust didn&#x27;t exist and we used bitkeeper. But most of it is still relevant, and despite acquiring 2 kids since I started still have some ideas.<p>Yes yes, it&#x27;s not Alan Turing-esque computer science. I have taught algorithms and data structures courses as well as operating systems courses to &quot;computer science&quot; students and this is more the second obviously. You gotta know both!<p>All I can say is that being a professional now for some time, anyone who knows this stuff is welcome in my team, no matter if we&#x27;re bit banging hardware or writing JavaScript. When you have some concept of what&#x27;s happing underneath, you write better code and, more importantly, are a better debugger.<p>I&#x27;m mostly cloud-y devops-y these days ... But when your CI triggers a kernel panic or a crash in some low level libray, it&#x27;s nice to be able to go digging and send a patch upstream to fix it :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)</title><url>https://www.bottomupcs.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gravypod</author><text>I&#x27;ve been rattling this idea around in my head and, although it may sound crazy, I think C is a little high level to start an adult out on.<p>I know many people won&#x27;t agree with this but all of the people I admire in the world of CS and everyone who is a true scottsman for all intents and purposes loves dipping down to a lower level once and a while. I think the best way to learn about computer science it to program for a machine so simple anyone can understand how every bit works. No magic.<p>One such example of this is old retro computers. Systems like old Z80 machines. If I wanted to teach everyone how to be an amazing programmer I&#x27;d start them out on an old broken computer, help them fix it and get it working, help them get programming and wet their feet copying in some hex values to get some binaries programs working, start them up with a notebook and give them &quot;homework&quot; of a few really useful routines to write for themselves in Assembly. They&#x27;d write the assembly and compile it with pen and paper so ther really understand what&#x27;s going on. Then we&#x27;d write an assembler together, then from an assembler we&#x27;d write up a standard library, then from there we&#x27;d get to a compiler for a language they make up. After that the sky is the limit. Maybe help them start writing their own ROMs for the machines and see where they can take it. (Maybe 6 months to 1 year)<p>If someone was able to get through that they&#x27;d really, truely, understand everything in the computer. Funnily enough that&#x27;s what most of my CS education feels like right now (except much less fun and I&#x27;m learning less then I would from this). Intersplice these sessions of training with lectures of computer architecture, basics of electronics, how each of the components in the computer works, different protocalls and why they are used. You&#x27;d be very well rounded and pretty much well suited for many programming jobs. Follow this up with a slow maybe 5 week transition period where you come back to a modern computer, learn some C and why C was made, learn some LISP was made, and then apply that to real world projects while only introducing new technologies and concepts only when they are of imediate use and then allow the student to learn directly from taking advantage of the benifits of these technologies.<p>I think a student would come out very well rounded from something like this. I wish I could pay for an education like this.</text></comment> |
5,829,117 | 5,827,283 | 1 | 2 | 5,826,475 | train | <story><title>Fitbit for Dogs</title><url>http://www.whistle.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielpal</author><text>Disagree 100%. Just pre-ordered one. I am a very attentive and interested dog owner.<p>Here's what I'll get:<p>1. I pay a dog walker to exercise my dog every-day for 1 hour. I want to make sure he is actively walking and not just sitting around the park.<p>2. Dog Sleep: I want to keep a healthy sleep vs activity percentage.<p>I think this is great. I love this trend of constantly tracking vs going to the vet every 6 months to find out whats wrong.</text></item><item><author>pdeuchler</author><text>If you are a non-attentive, dis-interested pet owner you probably don't care enough to buy this. If you are attentive and interested in your pet this device tells you nothing new.<p>Fitbit works because you can correlate the data to your personal well being. Unless this device magically discerns the dog's well being I don't see how it provides any actionable statistics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timsalabim</author><text>Attentive and interested dog owner &#60;--&#62; I pay a dog walker to exercise my dog<p>You don't need a device, you need to walk your own dog and bond with him/her.<p>This is like having kids, hiring a full time nanny and then saying you're a great parent because you have a camera on her to make sure she's nice to them whilst she's raising your children.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fitbit for Dogs</title><url>http://www.whistle.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielpal</author><text>Disagree 100%. Just pre-ordered one. I am a very attentive and interested dog owner.<p>Here's what I'll get:<p>1. I pay a dog walker to exercise my dog every-day for 1 hour. I want to make sure he is actively walking and not just sitting around the park.<p>2. Dog Sleep: I want to keep a healthy sleep vs activity percentage.<p>I think this is great. I love this trend of constantly tracking vs going to the vet every 6 months to find out whats wrong.</text></item><item><author>pdeuchler</author><text>If you are a non-attentive, dis-interested pet owner you probably don't care enough to buy this. If you are attentive and interested in your pet this device tells you nothing new.<p>Fitbit works because you can correlate the data to your personal well being. Unless this device magically discerns the dog's well being I don't see how it provides any actionable statistics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdeuchler</author><text>Do you not trust your dog walker? That would be a problem this device cannot fix. I can tell the minute I get home if my dogs got a good walk or not.<p>I'm also interested in how you plan on acting upon this new knowledge about your dog's sleeping habits.</text></comment> |
36,332,159 | 36,332,465 | 1 | 3 | 36,331,849 | train | <story><title>San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep homeless from using it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/14/23760787/san-francisco-public-library-wifi-homeless-castro-district-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>damnesian</author><text>&gt;Neighbors of the library collaborated with the city to urge the library to turn off its Wi-Fi at night in hopes the Castro neighborhood’s unhoused population would move on.<p>Theoretically, wifi access could <i>help</i> people move on by giving them the network access even old tech could use to look for jobs, living situations, long-lost relatives, access e-counseling and telehealth visits, etc.<p>It&#x27;s not the only thing the haves have taken from the have-nots to get them to move on. Bottle and can deposits used to be a much bigger deal in the US. It served its purpose of retrieving bottling materials for reuse to save costs and removing them from the landscape. But some noticed it gave the homeless a little spending cash too. The people in my otherwise fairly liberal city voted in the 90s to remove the local deposits from cans and bottles in order to force the homeless to move on.<p>Fast forward to 2023. The homeless did not move on. They stayed and are begging more intensely. Many &quot;prominent&quot; homeless (a guy I know just as the Cowboy for his begging flair, for instance) are still here 30 years later.</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep homeless from using it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/14/23760787/san-francisco-public-library-wifi-homeless-castro-district-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bastard_op</author><text>City of Santa Monica was having to do the same thing to keep homeless from piling up around the library for Internet access. The Library became the hub for all homeless in the region for the wifi alone. Seeing as they run a data center in the basement I had to access working there, it was always an adventure to visit.</text></comment> |
37,022,658 | 37,022,957 | 1 | 2 | 37,021,916 | train | <story><title>An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airtag-lost-luggage-flight/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>My ex incorporated for reasons I no longer recall, but is important at the climax of this story.<p>I helped her pick out a monitor, which was to be delivered by UPS. UPS receives it, moves it, and then nothing for days. For a week. She calls. They can’t find it. Thee weeks go by and we have escalated through recriminations. She wants a refund, but they don’t do refunds for lost goods (seriously? Wtf), unless, the employee mentions offhand, this is for a business account.<p>Aha. This monitor was bought for her business, which she intended to write off as an expense. So can I have my money now?<p>And then a miracle happens, suddenly they <i>can</i> find her monitor. A month after she ordered it her monitor shows up. The box is dirty as hell, but she finally got it.<p>Also fuck UPS. Several of my friends have thought I was joking about the UPS curse, and then they knew me longer and found out I am cursed (I joke that I must have dissed some manager and didn’t know it). The day Amazon stopped letting you pick your shipping service was a dark day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Operyl</author><text>The other way to get them to actually do anything quickly is if it’s an Apple shipment. They value that contract so much that they will bend over backwards for both you and Apple to get it resolved, like same day 1 hour the driver will unfuck whatever mistake he did. One year I worked UPS during peak season for extra cash, and the number of times I went searching for a missing Apple product during preload shift was astonishing.</text></comment> | <story><title>An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airtag-lost-luggage-flight/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>My ex incorporated for reasons I no longer recall, but is important at the climax of this story.<p>I helped her pick out a monitor, which was to be delivered by UPS. UPS receives it, moves it, and then nothing for days. For a week. She calls. They can’t find it. Thee weeks go by and we have escalated through recriminations. She wants a refund, but they don’t do refunds for lost goods (seriously? Wtf), unless, the employee mentions offhand, this is for a business account.<p>Aha. This monitor was bought for her business, which she intended to write off as an expense. So can I have my money now?<p>And then a miracle happens, suddenly they <i>can</i> find her monitor. A month after she ordered it her monitor shows up. The box is dirty as hell, but she finally got it.<p>Also fuck UPS. Several of my friends have thought I was joking about the UPS curse, and then they knew me longer and found out I am cursed (I joke that I must have dissed some manager and didn’t know it). The day Amazon stopped letting you pick your shipping service was a dark day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>Fedex and UPS do weird stuff when there is an exception.<p>My company made a mistake - we shipped a bunch of midsize laser printers to some new offices. They ship with a small onboarding kit (instructions and a small network “puck” that VPNs the devices to a specific network). With this particular model, which is new to us, that kit pushed the weight of the box to 76 lbs, 9 oz. The limit is 75lbs.<p>So we got an exception notice that it’s overweight and cannot be delivered as a result, so we can pay for return shipping or pick it up. Fine. Our bad, we’ll just rent a truck and pick them up. Turns out… when something is big to ship, they are shipped to be held in Texas, <i>3,000 miles away</i>.</text></comment> |
30,362,395 | 30,361,707 | 1 | 2 | 30,361,262 | train | <story><title>Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC</title><url>https://www.aserto.com/blog/aserto-the-developer-api-for-permissions-and-rbac-is-open-to-all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>This is probably a pretty stupid question, or at least based on some misconception of mine about this space. But I don&#x27;t really understand how permissions as a service or API can work efficiently.<p>If I request a single resource, of course this can work if I ask a second API on whether the request is allowed or not. But if I query a database for a list of items, to add access control I need to modify the database query. I can&#x27;t just filter after the fact, it&#x27;s too easy to cause pathological performance issues there e.g. if the user has only access to a very small subset of a large list of results. How does this work with a separate access control API that can&#x27;t directly modify the database query?</text></comment> | <story><title>Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC</title><url>https://www.aserto.com/blog/aserto-the-developer-api-for-permissions-and-rbac-is-open-to-all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>There are a lot of new-ish products in the last 5 years in the auth&#x2F;identity space. I have been meaning to dig into them: Kanadm, Keycloak, Ory, SuperTokens, Oso, FusionAuth, CAS, maybe Authzed. I hadn&#x27;t heard of Aserto yet, adding them to the list. Although I&#x27;m most interested in OSS products and Aserto looks like it is hosted-only.<p>If anyone has already done an independent study of the ecosystem I&#x27;d love a link.</text></comment> |
20,580,958 | 20,580,938 | 1 | 2 | 20,580,589 | train | <story><title>Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity</title><url>https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/8/1_Apple_is_reverting_to_their_1990s_disposition.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orev</author><text>From the headline I thought this was going to be about them having too many SKUs, but after reading I see it’s just the standard techie tropes about overpriced and closed systems.<p>The thing is that consumers (clearly) don’t care about that stuff. There is no such thing as “overpriced” as long as the item is selling. Consumers determine the price of something based on the single factor of “what they are willing to pay”. If Apple can sell devices at that price, and consumers are willing to pay it, then it is by definition not overpriced.<p>Opennes is also overvalued for techies. While I am on the side of openness myself, the vast majority of consumers don’t care about it. They only care about the value they are getting from the product. There might be a few people who really want to crack open the case, but they do not have any significant presence in the market.<p>What consumers <i>do</i> care about is feeling good about their purchase, and the Apple of the 1990s had so many products and was so unfocused that none of the products were good, and consumers felt bad when they bought them.<p>The SKU problem is the same as today. Now you have half a dozen iPads to choose from, and a number of laptops that all seem to be the same except for half an inch between models. No matter what you pick, you leave the store with a sense of FOMO, not knowing if you really picked the right model. That is really what Steve did — you went in and bought the only option they gave you, and you felt confident you got the right one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity</title><url>https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/8/1_Apple_is_reverting_to_their_1990s_disposition.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>askafriend</author><text>No they&#x27;re not. They&#x27;re a different company serving a different, and now global audience. Consider that Apple is more than 5% of America&#x27;s entire GDP, and 1% of the world&#x27;s entire GDP. There are ~1 billion people in the Apple ecosystem and that number is an under-estimate. When Apple chooses to add Sapphire as a material to the Apple Watch or iPhone, they affect global prices for the raw material.<p>People still don&#x27;t get it. It&#x27;s not a game of pattern matching with their past. Not only have they and their customers changed, but the world has changed. Computing has changed.<p>These articles always fail to consider context in favor of the easy, selective, myopic pattern matching.<p>Don&#x27;t take this to mean that Apple is above criticism. They&#x27;re not. But articles like this are lazy.</text></comment> |
2,385,217 | 2,385,112 | 1 | 3 | 2,385,023 | train | <story><title>Evan Williams on leaving Twitter</title><url>http://evhead.com/2011/03/obvious-next-step.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>far33d</author><text>I'm likely to be on the wrong side of this argument, but part of my gets upset every time I hear about a founder leaving their fast-growing company. Great companies are built by the kinds of founders who don't just want to start something, they want to build and scale it into something world-changing.<p>Imagine Mark Zuckerberg leaving FB to "start something new". Imagine Bill Gates leaving MSFT early on to "experiment with some new ideas". Larry Ellison, Page and Brin, Jobs, etc all evolved with their companies. Why does it seem like this class of entrepreneurs is uninterested in seeing their companies out?</text></comment> | <story><title>Evan Williams on leaving Twitter</title><url>http://evhead.com/2011/03/obvious-next-step.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Blogger supported 1400 characters. Twitter supported 140 characters. –––––er will support 14 characters. Can't wait for the release!</text></comment> |
27,122,846 | 27,123,052 | 1 | 3 | 27,121,918 | train | <story><title>FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices</title><url>https://www.fragattacks.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text>From the industry response[1]:<p>&gt; &quot;It’s important to note that there is presently no evidence of the vulnerabilities being used against Wi-Fi users maliciously and these issues are mitigated through routine device updates once updated firmware becomes available.<p>&gt; &quot;Like many previous vulnerabilities, FragAttacks has been academically well-researched and responsibly reported in a manner allowing the industry to proactively prepare and begin to roll out updates that fully eliminate the vulnerabilities. This set of vulnerabilities requires a potential attacker to be physically within range of the Wi-Fi network (or user device) in order to exploit it. This significantly reduces the likelihood of actual exploitation or attack.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commscope.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;wi-fi-alliance-discloses-fragattacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commscope.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;wi-fi-alliance-discloses...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asclepi</author><text>I agree with the industry response here. KRACK was the same thing. The author finds a vulnerability that is <i>absolutely valid</i> (no denying here), easy to exploit in a lab but very hard to exploit in practice. Back in the day, we did test our equipment for KRACK. We concluded that someone had to circumvent all our physical security barriers (challenging, but theoretically possible) to get close enough to an AP that would see sensitive stuff, had to know WHEN to do that, or at least plant a device that could easily be noticed, and they would still fail because we didn&#x27;t have 802.11r enabled on those AP&#x27;s.<p>Is it a concern? It depends on what you&#x27;re doing. It is absolutely a concern if your corporation is handling ultra-sensitive information. However, you should also question your physical barriers in that case and whether you should use Wi-Fi at all for some aspects of your operation. Is it a concern for the vast majority of office workers or someone at home? Probably not; there would be easier ways to find a valid credit card number that don&#x27;t involve the time and effort for a hacker to travel to your place where they could be discovered. There&#x27;s no need to replace all your AP&#x27;s with new hardware, although the Wi-Fi Alliance would love for you to do that.<p>Does this exploit warrant its own fancy name and domain name? As was the case for KRACK, I don&#x27;t believe so. That should be reserved for vulnerabilities that have a severe impact AND are extremely trivial to exploit with no proximity requirements. If not, the fancy-name-vulns risk being deprived of their ability to get the attention that is required.</text></comment> | <story><title>FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices</title><url>https://www.fragattacks.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text>From the industry response[1]:<p>&gt; &quot;It’s important to note that there is presently no evidence of the vulnerabilities being used against Wi-Fi users maliciously and these issues are mitigated through routine device updates once updated firmware becomes available.<p>&gt; &quot;Like many previous vulnerabilities, FragAttacks has been academically well-researched and responsibly reported in a manner allowing the industry to proactively prepare and begin to roll out updates that fully eliminate the vulnerabilities. This set of vulnerabilities requires a potential attacker to be physically within range of the Wi-Fi network (or user device) in order to exploit it. This significantly reduces the likelihood of actual exploitation or attack.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commscope.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;wi-fi-alliance-discloses-fragattacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commscope.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;wi-fi-alliance-discloses...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomaskafka</author><text>&gt; This set of vulnerabilities requires a potential attacker to be physically within range of the Wi-Fi network<p>I have troubles imagining an attack on wifi protocol where this doesn&#x27;t apply :).</text></comment> |
39,429,731 | 39,429,805 | 1 | 2 | 39,418,107 | train | <story><title>Programming book authors: put all the code in the book</title><url>https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/an-extreme-antipattern-for-programming-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InfiniteRand</author><text>Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?</text></item><item><author>oytis</author><text>Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing.<p>But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdw5204</author><text>A cheap USB drive sells for under $10 and you can seal a book in plastic so I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;d be feasible to just add the $5-$10 to the price of the book. People who buy books, especially programming books, generally aren&#x27;t very price sensitive anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming book authors: put all the code in the book</title><url>https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/an-extreme-antipattern-for-programming-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InfiniteRand</author><text>Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?</text></item><item><author>oytis</author><text>Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing.<p>But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schaefer</author><text>How about Micro SD?</text></comment> |
27,881,009 | 27,880,999 | 1 | 2 | 27,880,657 | train | <story><title>Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfeq9gyPWK3yao6cCj7LKeU3vQEDGJ3rKDdcaPNVMQzQ@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text><i>&gt; NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage</i><p>I thought it was FAT32. Do Macs support NTFS?<p>EDIT: It seems they don&#x27;t out of the box: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;236055&#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES-ON-A-MAC&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;236055&#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES...</a>&gt;<p>EDIT 2: Since many comments replied with the same thing, I&#x27;ll reply here: I wouldn&#x27;t consider read-only support as support for portable data storage, since that allows you only to send data in one direction. When you want to copy a file from a Mac to a Windows computer, NTFS is not a solution now (out of the box at least), therefore falls pretty short wrt &quot;portable&quot;.</text></item><item><author>Santosh83</author><text><p><pre><code> As the person who tested the latest ntfs3 patchset, and had tested
many of those iterations in the past, I would really like to see
this *finally* land in Linux 5.14.
However, I get the feeling it&#x27;s not going to make it for 5.14 *or*
5.15, and it seems like Paragon became discouraged by the lack of
feedback on the latest revision.
I know that compared to all you awesome folks, I&#x27;m just a lowly
user, but it&#x27;s been frustrating to see nothing happen for months
with something that has a seriously high impact for a lot of people.
It&#x27;s a shame, because the ntfs3 driver is miles better than the
current ntfs one, and is a solid replacement for the unmaintained
ntfs-3g FUSE implementation.
</code></pre>
Seriously, such a well funded, high profile project like Linux should be more receptive to key QoL improvements and drivers. NTFS is <i>the</i> de facto filesystem for portable data storage, much as I wish an open alternative was there. I hope they speed up the merge of ntfs3 into the mainline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullify88</author><text>exFAT is probably better in terms of cross platform compatibility and addresses a lot of the limitations of FAT while remaining portable.
Since Snow Leopard OS X is able to read and write out the box.
Linux natively supported from kernel 5.4.
Windows supports it from updated XP and onwards.<p>I not sure of Android compatibility though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfeq9gyPWK3yao6cCj7LKeU3vQEDGJ3rKDdcaPNVMQzQ@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text><i>&gt; NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage</i><p>I thought it was FAT32. Do Macs support NTFS?<p>EDIT: It seems they don&#x27;t out of the box: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;236055&#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES-ON-A-MAC&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;236055&#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES...</a>&gt;<p>EDIT 2: Since many comments replied with the same thing, I&#x27;ll reply here: I wouldn&#x27;t consider read-only support as support for portable data storage, since that allows you only to send data in one direction. When you want to copy a file from a Mac to a Windows computer, NTFS is not a solution now (out of the box at least), therefore falls pretty short wrt &quot;portable&quot;.</text></item><item><author>Santosh83</author><text><p><pre><code> As the person who tested the latest ntfs3 patchset, and had tested
many of those iterations in the past, I would really like to see
this *finally* land in Linux 5.14.
However, I get the feeling it&#x27;s not going to make it for 5.14 *or*
5.15, and it seems like Paragon became discouraged by the lack of
feedback on the latest revision.
I know that compared to all you awesome folks, I&#x27;m just a lowly
user, but it&#x27;s been frustrating to see nothing happen for months
with something that has a seriously high impact for a lot of people.
It&#x27;s a shame, because the ntfs3 driver is miles better than the
current ntfs one, and is a solid replacement for the unmaintained
ntfs-3g FUSE implementation.
</code></pre>
Seriously, such a well funded, high profile project like Linux should be more receptive to key QoL improvements and drivers. NTFS is <i>the</i> de facto filesystem for portable data storage, much as I wish an open alternative was there. I hope they speed up the merge of ntfs3 into the mainline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>FAT32 doesn&#x27;t support files bigger than 4GiB, that&#x27;s a huge limitation these days. But I don&#x27;t disagree that calling NTFS &quot;portable&quot; is a bit of a stretch, although hopefully that&#x27;ll change if good quality open source drivers become available.</text></comment> |
36,385,130 | 36,383,575 | 1 | 3 | 36,382,361 | train | <story><title>Goodbye, Twilio</title><url>https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/goodbye-twilio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffiel</author><text>Thank you Miguel for all of your contributions to Twilio over the past four years, and I hope your next gig is just as rewarding!<p>For all those interested in why we acquired Segment, and are focused on the integration of data and communications -- several years ago, we came to the conclusion that the world doesn&#x27;t need more communications, it needs better communications. More relevant. More effective.<p>As a developer, I know that&#x27;s really hard to pull all the threads together to make realtime personalization of every communication hard -- and Segment is so good at it.<p>So that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re focused on!<p>As an aside, the fraud and scam vectors of email, sms, and voice have grown a lot since we started the company 15 years ago. We are always fighting that cat and mouse game with the bad folks of the world. Are we perfect, no. But are we here to make money off those bad actors? Hell no. That&#x27;s why we just launched fraud guard [1] for free to all Verify customers, and soon to all SMS customers as well. More to come like this.<p>Happy Father&#x27;s Day (in the US) HN!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twilio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;verify&#x2F;preventing-toll-fraud&#x2F;sms-fraud-guard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twilio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;verify&#x2F;preventing-toll-fraud&#x2F;sms...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallat</author><text>This person businesses.<p>And to others reading: Miguel didn&#x27;t say anything bad about Twilio really, just that the alignments for them aren&#x27;t there - and that&#x27;s ok. Maybe it back fires and Twilio adjusts back to its dev-focused strategy. Businesses just evolve as they need to. If Twilio ends up being &quot;bad&quot; it just means there&#x27;s now a spot for someone else to form &quot;The Good Twilio&quot; :) See: the many Google competitors, the many smartphone competitors, the many VPN competitors, etc...</text></comment> | <story><title>Goodbye, Twilio</title><url>https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/goodbye-twilio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffiel</author><text>Thank you Miguel for all of your contributions to Twilio over the past four years, and I hope your next gig is just as rewarding!<p>For all those interested in why we acquired Segment, and are focused on the integration of data and communications -- several years ago, we came to the conclusion that the world doesn&#x27;t need more communications, it needs better communications. More relevant. More effective.<p>As a developer, I know that&#x27;s really hard to pull all the threads together to make realtime personalization of every communication hard -- and Segment is so good at it.<p>So that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re focused on!<p>As an aside, the fraud and scam vectors of email, sms, and voice have grown a lot since we started the company 15 years ago. We are always fighting that cat and mouse game with the bad folks of the world. Are we perfect, no. But are we here to make money off those bad actors? Hell no. That&#x27;s why we just launched fraud guard [1] for free to all Verify customers, and soon to all SMS customers as well. More to come like this.<p>Happy Father&#x27;s Day (in the US) HN!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twilio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;verify&#x2F;preventing-toll-fraud&#x2F;sms-fraud-guard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twilio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;verify&#x2F;preventing-toll-fraud&#x2F;sms...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Only tangentially related—and I know the odds are low that you worked on this personally—but I want to give sincere thanks for the stuff you guys have shared via Twilio Labs. The netlify-okta-auth package in particular was <i>exactly</i> what I needed to complete a recent project, and the documentation it came with was nearly perfect.</text></comment> |
14,027,318 | 14,027,572 | 1 | 3 | 14,023,223 | train | <story><title>Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/tesla-passes-ford-by-market-value-before-musk-delivers-model-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wang_li</author><text>&gt; If we are serious about climate change, then sometime in the 2030s [1] we have to stop building new combustion engines.<p>Or there might be a breakthrough in carbon capture, converting atmospheric CO2 into petroleum and we can drive combustion engines forever.<p>CO2 capture is an area of active research and it&#x27;s entirely possible that advances there will make Tesla and Solar City moot.</text></item><item><author>Certhas</author><text>&gt; &#x27;s valuation is also based on the idea that clean energy will replace fossil fuels.<p>Last month Tesla sold 10,000 electric vehicles to Fords 2,500.<p>If we are serious about climate change, then sometime in the 2030s [1] we have to stop building new combustion engines.<p>The entire technology platform on which these 6,7 million Ford sales rest is about to be swapped out in little over a decade.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;germanys-bundesrat-votes-to-ban-the-internal-combustion-engine-by-2030&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;germanys-bundesrat-vote...</a></text></item><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>&gt; There are so many car makers, there is no monopole they could get. Same for solar and batteries.<p>The automobile industry will contract as we move from individual ownership to mobility. But along with that transition some manufacturers will keep up and others will not. Tesla is hoping to be one of the winners, taking perhaps 25% of the mobility market as the car buying market dries up.<p>Tesla&#x27;s valuation is also based on the idea that clean energy will replace fossil fuels. If that happens, the battery market will grow by orders of magnitude. Tesla will basically take the market from coal and petroleum.<p>They don&#x27;t need a monopoly in either of these to justify their valuation. Simply get 10% of mobility and 10% of electricity storage and they&#x27;ll have justified well above their current valuation.<p>Remember mobility services will subsume much of public transit and shipping too. The borders between industries are moving around. You can&#x27;t just ask &quot;how much of industry X will Tesla get?&quot; because whole industries will ascent and others will wither as we transition to sustainable energy.</text></item><item><author>allendoerfer</author><text>&gt; Ford: &quot;We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let&#x27;s just put it in the bank.&quot;<p>&gt; Tesla: &quot;We have so many idea for investments, we&#x27;re only constrained by cash. Let&#x27;s go back to the capital markets!&quot;<p>I think becoming as big as Ford already is, is one of Tesla&#x27;s most positive possible futures if all of their many ideas play out. But they are already valued higher than that. How can this possibly work? There are so many car makers, there is no monopole they could get. Same for solar and batteries.</text></item><item><author>crabasa</author><text>&gt; Over the last five years, Ford has posted net income totaling $26 billion, while Tesla has lost $2.3 billion.<p>Ford: &quot;We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let&#x27;s just put it in the bank.&quot;<p>Tesla: &quot;We have so many idea for investments, we&#x27;re only constrained by cash. Let&#x27;s go back to the capital markets!&quot;</text></item><item><author>dan1234</author><text>Interesting, but market cap isn’t everything - FTA:<p>&quot;While Tesla’s market capitalization has swelled in size, Ford still overshadows the Palo Alto, California-based company in most other financial metrics. Over the last five years, Ford has posted net income totaling $26 billion, while Tesla has lost $2.3 billion. Last year, Ford had annual revenue of $151.8 billion compared with Tesla’s $7 billion.<p>And when it comes to car sales, Tesla sold 40,697 vehicles in the U.S. last year, according to researcher IHS Markit. Ford sells that many F-Series trucks in the U.S. about every three weeks.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeff_petersen</author><text>&gt; CO2 capture is an area of active research and it&#x27;s entirely possible that advances there will make Tesla and Solar City moot.<p>I don&#x27;t know how likely that is. Even if carbon capture comes through, the low hanging fruit of fossil fuels are gone so now we have to get more invasive in harvesting the hard-to-get ones (strip mining, fracking, etc). It&#x27;s likely that even with C02 emissions taken care of that we&#x27;ll want electric vehicles and renewable power in general.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/tesla-passes-ford-by-market-value-before-musk-delivers-model-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wang_li</author><text>&gt; If we are serious about climate change, then sometime in the 2030s [1] we have to stop building new combustion engines.<p>Or there might be a breakthrough in carbon capture, converting atmospheric CO2 into petroleum and we can drive combustion engines forever.<p>CO2 capture is an area of active research and it&#x27;s entirely possible that advances there will make Tesla and Solar City moot.</text></item><item><author>Certhas</author><text>&gt; &#x27;s valuation is also based on the idea that clean energy will replace fossil fuels.<p>Last month Tesla sold 10,000 electric vehicles to Fords 2,500.<p>If we are serious about climate change, then sometime in the 2030s [1] we have to stop building new combustion engines.<p>The entire technology platform on which these 6,7 million Ford sales rest is about to be swapped out in little over a decade.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;germanys-bundesrat-votes-to-ban-the-internal-combustion-engine-by-2030&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;germanys-bundesrat-vote...</a></text></item><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>&gt; There are so many car makers, there is no monopole they could get. Same for solar and batteries.<p>The automobile industry will contract as we move from individual ownership to mobility. But along with that transition some manufacturers will keep up and others will not. Tesla is hoping to be one of the winners, taking perhaps 25% of the mobility market as the car buying market dries up.<p>Tesla&#x27;s valuation is also based on the idea that clean energy will replace fossil fuels. If that happens, the battery market will grow by orders of magnitude. Tesla will basically take the market from coal and petroleum.<p>They don&#x27;t need a monopoly in either of these to justify their valuation. Simply get 10% of mobility and 10% of electricity storage and they&#x27;ll have justified well above their current valuation.<p>Remember mobility services will subsume much of public transit and shipping too. The borders between industries are moving around. You can&#x27;t just ask &quot;how much of industry X will Tesla get?&quot; because whole industries will ascent and others will wither as we transition to sustainable energy.</text></item><item><author>allendoerfer</author><text>&gt; Ford: &quot;We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let&#x27;s just put it in the bank.&quot;<p>&gt; Tesla: &quot;We have so many idea for investments, we&#x27;re only constrained by cash. Let&#x27;s go back to the capital markets!&quot;<p>I think becoming as big as Ford already is, is one of Tesla&#x27;s most positive possible futures if all of their many ideas play out. But they are already valued higher than that. How can this possibly work? There are so many car makers, there is no monopole they could get. Same for solar and batteries.</text></item><item><author>crabasa</author><text>&gt; Over the last five years, Ford has posted net income totaling $26 billion, while Tesla has lost $2.3 billion.<p>Ford: &quot;We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let&#x27;s just put it in the bank.&quot;<p>Tesla: &quot;We have so many idea for investments, we&#x27;re only constrained by cash. Let&#x27;s go back to the capital markets!&quot;</text></item><item><author>dan1234</author><text>Interesting, but market cap isn’t everything - FTA:<p>&quot;While Tesla’s market capitalization has swelled in size, Ford still overshadows the Palo Alto, California-based company in most other financial metrics. Over the last five years, Ford has posted net income totaling $26 billion, while Tesla has lost $2.3 billion. Last year, Ford had annual revenue of $151.8 billion compared with Tesla’s $7 billion.<p>And when it comes to car sales, Tesla sold 40,697 vehicles in the U.S. last year, according to researcher IHS Markit. Ford sells that many F-Series trucks in the U.S. about every three weeks.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Robotbeat</author><text>Even if CO2 to petroleum were 100% efficient, you&#x27;re still throwing away 70+% of the energy by burning it in an ICE rather than putting it in a battery as electricity.<p>Any likely method of CO2 to petroleum is likely to be below 50%, more like 15-30% efficient. Round-trip efficiency an entire order of magnitude worse than battery. That&#x27;s why batteries are better for ground-based applications and will remain so.</text></comment> |
14,335,904 | 14,335,921 | 1 | 2 | 14,335,159 | train | <story><title>Intel AMT Checker for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaimex2</author><text>God #$%@ing damn it, this is why we can&#x27;t have nice things. You can do only so much to not get pwned software wise, now you need to be paranoid about the hardware too?!<p>Going through all Xeon servers is going to be fun tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nom</author><text>Unfortunately, there are too few hardware developers and not enough hardware-awareness, thanks to the good abstraction nowadays. In the modern age, only few software devs cares about the underlying hardware, because it just works. The thing is, software _runs_ on hardware and any bug&#x2F;backdoor etc in it undermines everything above.<p>Did you know that the baseband chip in your smartphone runs it&#x27;s own linux? Or that every SIM card comes with java applications that can communicate with it? I guess not.<p>Considering how much hardware is required on a modern PC main board, it&#x27;s really not that surprising that there are backdoors, bugs, or other mechanisms that can be exploited.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel AMT Checker for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaimex2</author><text>God #$%@ing damn it, this is why we can&#x27;t have nice things. You can do only so much to not get pwned software wise, now you need to be paranoid about the hardware too?!<p>Going through all Xeon servers is going to be fun tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>If your servers have multiple network ports and you aren&#x27;t using them all, don&#x27;t use the first one. Apparently the ME interface is only exposed on the main network interface.</text></comment> |
20,854,522 | 20,854,689 | 1 | 3 | 20,853,752 | train | <story><title>Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note</title><url>https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Athas</author><text>It&#x27;s good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time.<p>However, the concept art in that article is really ugly. I&#x27;m not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking? Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all. There&#x27;s even drop shadows! It honestly looks like something I&#x27;d put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamnotacrook</author><text>I just got back from a trip to the States and I have to say that US money is very boring by comparison to UK money. How on earth do blind&#x2F;old people deal with the fact that all denominations are practically the same size, design, colour etc?</text></comment> | <story><title>Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note</title><url>https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Athas</author><text>It&#x27;s good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time.<p>However, the concept art in that article is really ugly. I&#x27;m not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking? Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all. There&#x27;s even drop shadows! It honestly looks like something I&#x27;d put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willyt</author><text>I agree, of all the different kinds of UK notes the latest Royal Bank of Scotland notes are my favourite designs [0] [1]. Make sure to look at both sides. One of the confusing things about bank notes in the UK is that there are 5 totally different designs for each denomination: Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Ulster Bank. This can lead to some confusion when you try to pay someone with a rarer note as they may not have seen them before. Scottish notes are usually OK. Good luck with Ulster Bank notes though.
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39,706,088 | 39,705,706 | 1 | 2 | 39,683,501 | train | <story><title>Performance-Aware Programming Series</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/table-of-contents</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ayhanfuat</author><text>A couple of months ago I saw this on HN and subscribed (it was $10 per month). It is endorsed a lot but my experience was not that good. To me it seems like he keeps explaining himself instead of explaining the topic (10 minutes of a 20 minute video might just be about why he chose a specific example). I think he is simply too defensive about what people might talk about him so he tries to find what people might criticize and prepares answers for them. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I&#x27;ve got more than my money&#x27;s worth for one month subscription and if you are interested in the topic and you can afford it, there is some good stuff in there but I just couldn&#x27;t continue because those explanations became too distracting for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Performance-Aware Programming Series</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/table-of-contents</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GuestHNUser</author><text>This course is fantastic. For anyone that wants a campanion book to go along with it, Computer Systems: A Programmer&#x27;s Perspective is a great book to go alongside it. (Just don&#x27;t get the international edition per the author&#x27;s recommendation).</text></comment> |
22,115,267 | 22,114,415 | 1 | 3 | 22,113,827 | train | <story><title>Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/01/21/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>Coming from the C# and JVM world to go, tooling looked like one of the worst parts of Go.<p>The debugging story is very limited:<p>- No function execution<p>- No edit-and-continue<p>- No conditional breakpoints<p>- No watchpoints<p>Package management works OK on the consumption side, though it is much more clunky than with classic package managers (e.g. set an ENV variable to get a custom proxy, but write something in go.mod file to get a per-package proxy). However, the publishing side is all over the place:<p>- Relies on source-control integration<p>- Horrible import paths for packages published from large repos<p>- Versioning based on source-control tagging, exact format undocumented<p>- Major version changes require source-code level changes in all files touching the package<p>- Multiple Go modules in same repo use-case is not documented (can you have separate versions from same commit? how do they reference each other?)<p>The source-code level tools&#x2F;plugins available are extremely basic (except for GoLand):<p>- No refactoring support other than &quot;rename variable&quot;<p>- Reference-finding across modules rarely seems to work<p>- No way to automatically find all implementations of an interface - especially problematic in a language with implicit interface implementation<p>- The tools are pretty slow, constantly re-parsing large chunks of code; go pls has fixed some of that</text></comment> | <story><title>Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/01/21/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>When I first got into go, a few of the Go Opinions kinda rubbed me the wrong way.<p>- I have to source GOPATH in my rc files? Annoying.<p>- File paths are network URI&#x27;s? Ugly.<p>- I have to deal with every err != nil? Verbose.<p>But over time I&#x27;ve grown to love go more than almost any language (python is still bae, especially with type hints, and even then, it&#x27;s close).<p>- dependency pathing is a pain in most other languages. Singular source of truth is great (I&#x27;ve had virtualenvs leak and cmake do bizarre things when multiple libs are on the file tree)<p>- host&#x2F;paths are file&#x2F;paths. I love this pattern now. It&#x27;s just so obvious and natural.<p>- ok the err != nil still drives me nuts. But it drives me to write things in a way where I don&#x27;t need to deal with errors as much. Reduces fractal complexity and paths through the code. It also forces &quot;the buck stops here&quot; sort of pattern where you have some atrium which is resiliant and is where most errors bubble up to</text></comment> |
35,766,226 | 35,766,003 | 1 | 3 | 35,765,882 | train | <story><title>Whisper.cpp v1.4.0</title><url>https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tosh</author><text>Are there any end-user friendly apps yet that make whisper accessible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>I’ve been playing around with various iOS apps today.<p>Someone else mentioned “Hello Transcribe”, which is a cool demo due to how real time the transcription is, but it’s effectively unusable for anything practical because it seems to split the audio on 30 second chunks (and not in the contextual way that Whisper normally does it).<p>Whisperboard is a free, open source iOS app (available on the App Store) that seems fairly user friendly, but there are a few crashes and bugs that the author is hopefully going to work out soon.<p>Aiko is extremely simple to use, but it only supports the “medium” model, so it isn’t very fast, but the results are good quality. Aiko is really designed to be paired with another app, like the Apple Voice Memos app, where you can share a voice memo directly to Aiko.</text></comment> | <story><title>Whisper.cpp v1.4.0</title><url>https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tosh</author><text>Are there any end-user friendly apps yet that make whisper accessible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guptaneil</author><text>This one is excellent on MacOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goodsnooze.gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;macwhisper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goodsnooze.gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;macwhisper</a></text></comment> |
36,282,143 | 36,282,172 | 1 | 3 | 36,280,091 | train | <story><title>Why aren't black box flight recorders better?</title><url>https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-black-boxes-changed-air-travel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Is there some good explanation, show a sinking titanic was heard both in london and new york, but a modern(...ish) MH-370 can just dissapear?<p>I&#x27;m sure that there are a bunch of factors in play, but tracking a plane seems like a relatively simple and a high priority thing to do, and relatively cheap compared to a total cost of a plane. GPS, satellite connectivity, battery backup and even in a case of a total explosion, at least you know the last location, speed and direction to try to find the wreckage.</text></item><item><author>bnycum</author><text>I work on flight data recorders, mainly in rotorcraft but some small fixed wing aircraft. The current generation does use a satellite connection for real time tracking, as well as sending high level caution information, and a few data parameters. Really the cost of sending data over the satellite is the real issue. However this is coming down.<p>Outside of that, the ADS-B requirement is a huge help in knowing where aircraft are and where they are going.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipython</author><text>The difference is that the mh370 pilot deliberately took actions to avoid tracking. At some point if you can’t trust the captain of your vessel, that person can disrupt or disable most any system put in place.<p>If the captain of the titanic intended on sinking the ship without a trace, he most certainly would have succeeded as well.<p>A more apt comparison would be AF447, which took a few days before the wreckage was found. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_France_Flight_447" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_France_Flight_447</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why aren't black box flight recorders better?</title><url>https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-black-boxes-changed-air-travel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Is there some good explanation, show a sinking titanic was heard both in london and new york, but a modern(...ish) MH-370 can just dissapear?<p>I&#x27;m sure that there are a bunch of factors in play, but tracking a plane seems like a relatively simple and a high priority thing to do, and relatively cheap compared to a total cost of a plane. GPS, satellite connectivity, battery backup and even in a case of a total explosion, at least you know the last location, speed and direction to try to find the wreckage.</text></item><item><author>bnycum</author><text>I work on flight data recorders, mainly in rotorcraft but some small fixed wing aircraft. The current generation does use a satellite connection for real time tracking, as well as sending high level caution information, and a few data parameters. Really the cost of sending data over the satellite is the real issue. However this is coming down.<p>Outside of that, the ADS-B requirement is a huge help in knowing where aircraft are and where they are going.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teraflop</author><text>&gt; show a sinking titanic was heard both in london and new york, but a modern(...ish) MH-370 can just dissapear?<p>What do you mean by &quot;heard both in London and New York&quot;? The Titanic was actively sending out distress signals via telegraph as it sank, but those signals weren&#x27;t strong enough to reach land. They were picked up by other nearby vessels and relayed.</text></comment> |
22,173,945 | 22,173,978 | 1 | 2 | 22,173,254 | train | <story><title>Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand</title><url>https://lithub.com/poverty-hurts-children-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>altacc</author><text>In discussions about low income families I often see somebody comment along the lines of blaming the parents for making bad choices and choosing to have children they couldn&#x27;t afford&#x2F;care for&#x2F;want. This is used as a reason not to provide any social support to those families as they see it as rewarding bad behaviour. But these children didn&#x27;t make those choices and they now exist in their circumstances through no fault of their own.<p>We&#x27;re consistently condemning the children for the sins of their parents to appease this view and severely reducing these children&#x27;s potential, and in doing so reducing the potential of the country. As this article shows, the cost to a country&#x27;s society and economy of poverty and low standards of living is very large and over a long time span. Our governments should be doing more to tackle child poverty as whilst it&#x27;s not as bad as it used to be, we can certainly do better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand</title><url>https://lithub.com/poverty-hurts-children-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdlecler1</author><text>Housing is an enormous tax, and rent seeking just transfers money from the poor to the rich. Rather than giving everyone money, I would prefer to see a market solution where we greatly lower the costs for things at the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid.</text></comment> |
28,059,926 | 28,059,467 | 1 | 2 | 28,058,698 | train | <story><title>My small revenge on Apple</title><url>https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmobdev</author><text>Only the naive and the ignorant believe that Apple cares about users privacy. All their &quot;privacy&quot; features are just designed to collect more and more data about its users. Even unnecessary data. And they get away with it because of marketing that leads people like you to believe that they can be &quot;trusted&quot; with your data - the same data they use, and will use, to make more money. They have already restarted their advertising network again, like before. They claim they are no longer part of PRISM, a US government program that allowed big tech to sell user data to government agencies.</text></item><item><author>shellac</author><text>Petty and hysterical.<p>The part where the developer puts the word &#x27;privacy&#x27; in scare quotes is a bit of a red flag for me. Suggesting that &quot;accept[ing] two &quot;social logins&quot;: Google and Facebook. All was well.&quot; does not fill me with confidence that the developer respects privacy concerns.</text></item><item><author>spinningarrow</author><text>Seems a bit petty to me. As a developer I empathize with the possible lack of documentation (I don’t know, I never tried to integrate Sign In with Apple) but as a user I actually am super happy with it. Nowadays any iOS app that doesn’t support logging in with Apple makes me think twice about whether I really need the app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>Apple Maps:<p>&gt;“We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went from point A to point B. We’re collecting the segments of it.<p>The segments that he is referring to are sliced out of any given person’s navigation session. Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;29&#x2F;apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;29&#x2F;apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...</a><p>Google Maps:<p>&gt;Google Maps won&#x27;t let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18070183" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18070183</a><p>and<p>&gt;An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;north-america-science-technology-business-ap-top-news-828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;north-america-science-technology-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>My small revenge on Apple</title><url>https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmobdev</author><text>Only the naive and the ignorant believe that Apple cares about users privacy. All their &quot;privacy&quot; features are just designed to collect more and more data about its users. Even unnecessary data. And they get away with it because of marketing that leads people like you to believe that they can be &quot;trusted&quot; with your data - the same data they use, and will use, to make more money. They have already restarted their advertising network again, like before. They claim they are no longer part of PRISM, a US government program that allowed big tech to sell user data to government agencies.</text></item><item><author>shellac</author><text>Petty and hysterical.<p>The part where the developer puts the word &#x27;privacy&#x27; in scare quotes is a bit of a red flag for me. Suggesting that &quot;accept[ing] two &quot;social logins&quot;: Google and Facebook. All was well.&quot; does not fill me with confidence that the developer respects privacy concerns.</text></item><item><author>spinningarrow</author><text>Seems a bit petty to me. As a developer I empathize with the possible lack of documentation (I don’t know, I never tried to integrate Sign In with Apple) but as a user I actually am super happy with it. Nowadays any iOS app that doesn’t support logging in with Apple makes me think twice about whether I really need the app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RL_Quine</author><text>They implemented end to end encryption in iMessage to collect more data? There&#x27;s a vast array of technical instances where apple has gone above and beyond to implement privacy preserving technology, even when they weren&#x27;t talking about it. This is, like the OP, hysteria without any basis in fact.</text></comment> |
30,880,834 | 30,879,652 | 1 | 3 | 30,878,926 | train | <story><title>Authorization in a Microservices World</title><url>https://www.alexanderlolis.com/authorization-in-a-microservices-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samjs</author><text>Love this article. My favourite part is:<p>&gt; &quot;So the logical thing to do is to implement an authorization service and everybody would be able to use that and keep your precious service boundaries, right? WRONG. Your hell, has just begun!<p>Drawing the right boundary for authorization is near impossible. If I want to check whether the user is allowed to see who left an emoji reaction on a comment response to an issue inside a repository belonging to an organization -- do I store that entire hierarchy in my authorization service? Or do I leave some of that in the application? I&#x27;ve yet to see a good heuristic for the latter.<p>Also, thank you to the author for referencing us :) I&#x27;m Sam, Cofounder&#x2F;CTO at Oso where we&#x27;ve been working on authorization through our open source library for the past couple of years. Authorization for microservices has been a recurrent theme over that time, and we&#x27;ve been furiously writing on the topic (e.g. [1], [2], [3]).<p>We&#x27;d be interested in talking to anyone who is currently facing the challenges of authorization for microservices (or really just multiple services). We&#x27;re building authorization as a service, which you can learn more about here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;oso-cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;oso-cloud</a>. It&#x27;s currently in private beta, but if you would rather _not_ speak with us first, there&#x27;s also a free sandbox to try out the product linked from that page.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;why-authorization-is-hard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;why-authorization-is-hard</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;microservices-authorization-patterns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;microservices-authorization-patte...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;academy&#x2F;microservices-authorization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;academy&#x2F;microservices-authorization</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Authorization in a Microservices World</title><url>https://www.alexanderlolis.com/authorization-in-a-microservices-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epberry</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osohq.com&#x2F;</a> is a very interesting company in this space. They have an open source authorization library, and a great blog.</text></comment> |
17,844,997 | 17,843,388 | 1 | 3 | 17,842,553 | train | <story><title>Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jarmitage</author><text>I met a coral researcher last year who said we just have to get over the fact that it’s all over for coral as it exists now, and try to learn as much as possible from it so we can re-design it later ourselves. They were very calm about this suggesting they were way past the grieving period. It was quite shocking to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>As a Brisbane resident I&#x27;ve been lucky enough to visit the north central reef twice in the last 30 years. If you are a casual visitor (as I was) the damage is for many people, theoretical because you have no basis to compare, and the reef charter boats go to the best places you can find to see the best diversity. I know it&#x27;s real. It harder too see and understand it&#x27;s extent.<p>Also, much tourism runs in the northern-central reef, but the southern reef is actually visitable, if slightly less spectacular and less developed onshore for tourism and hospitality. You can still see a rich diverse reef from heron island or lady Musgrave. It&#x27;s not as &quot;wow&quot; as up north.<p>TL;DR yes, the reef is highly damaged and in extreme danger. Come visit anyway: you&#x27;ll have fun, you will still see a rich diverse ecosystem (albiet in stress and failing globally) and the reef community needs your dollars.<p>Its worse if you don&#x27;t come visit.</text></comment> |
16,091,773 | 16,091,796 | 1 | 3 | 16,089,435 | train | <story><title>Hacking a Google Interview (2009)</title><url>http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajathagasthya</author><text>These are useful tips, although the example questions are extremely outdated. I found one tip &quot;interesting&quot; though.<p>&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!<p>Most interview questions are taken from sites like Leetcode. So you would have come across some of them if you work through those problems. Is it really that bad if you give the solution quickly? Some problems have specific &quot;techniques&quot; to solve them which you would likely only know if you solved it before. Are you expected to come up with a completely new algorithm to solve a problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!&quot;<p>This to me epitomizes the absurdity of this whole &quot;leet code, cracking the algorithm&quot; mania that has blighted the tech interview process. The only way to pass these types of tests is to spend time studying them. But then if you have studied and therefore know the tricks(use two pointers etc.) its seen as unacceptable enough that you should either lie or tell your interviewer &quot;I know the trick&quot; to solving this so ask me something else.&quot; The whole thing has become a scripted charade.<p>I get it that these types of tests and interviews work for Google but it&#x27;s absurd when small startups still building a product adopt these tests simply because Google and FB do it.<p>There&#x27;s a sad corporate uniformity to it that feels very much at odds with the hacker ethos.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacking a Google Interview (2009)</title><url>http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajathagasthya</author><text>These are useful tips, although the example questions are extremely outdated. I found one tip &quot;interesting&quot; though.<p>&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!<p>Most interview questions are taken from sites like Leetcode. So you would have come across some of them if you work through those problems. Is it really that bad if you give the solution quickly? Some problems have specific &quot;techniques&quot; to solve them which you would likely only know if you solved it before. Are you expected to come up with a completely new algorithm to solve a problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceautery</author><text>A better response would be honesty: &quot;I&#x27;ve seen this question before on a (puzzle&#x2F;interview prep&#x2F;whatever) site. The optimal answer was better than what I initially came up with... I didn&#x27;t consider that we knew one of the coins was explicitly heavier than the others, I was only thinking that one was a different weight. That&#x27;s a good reminder to read your specs very closely.&quot;<p>Or something like that.</text></comment> |
29,453,791 | 29,449,093 | 1 | 2 | 29,447,854 | train | <story><title>Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs</title><url>https://twitter.com/arkann1985/status/1467202744947822594</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cassianoleal</author><text>Many years ago I had a job offer at Badoo in the UK. After many rounds of going back-and-forth with the contract, me trying to better understand certain clauses, them going back to the lawyers, etc. I told them I&#x27;d be happy to sign if they removed the caluses that stated pretty much anything I created on or off hours belonged to them.<p>They went back to the lawyers and came back to me saying that this is not the first time this has been brought up, that the contract was standard across the org and was originally written for managerial types and C-suites, and that the company had never even considered taking over an employee&#x27;s off-hours work, open source or otherwise.<p>I said good, then it should not be a problem to remove the clause. They said they would have another discussion and would really like it for me to join. I said great, then once you issue me a contract with that clause I&#x27;ll be happy to join, assuming I hadn&#x27;t found something else.<p>They never came back to me. For years I wondered if anything had actually changed. Reading this tweet I&#x27;m glad I declined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>To add an anecdote: on my last job search I got offers from two different but very similar companies (both around ~200 people).<p>I got one first, read through the contract, saw the standard clause about owning your whole life. I told them it was a deal-breaker if we couldn&#x27;t get it changed. I got the standard response &quot;oh we never act on that, lots of people here have side-projects&quot;, etc. I told them if that was the policy, it needed to be in writing. They escalated internally, talked with legal, etc, but the decision-makers ultimately wouldn&#x27;t budge. I walked away, and told them in very plain terms that their legal department was responsible for how things turned out.<p>Shortly afterward I started the process with the second company. Got to the end, saw the clause, told them it was a deal-breaker. Discussed it on multiple calls with different people, eventually the CTO himself who was still reluctant to change it but was sympathetic. Eventually they were able to come back with a contract where that entire section was cut out. I took the offer and it&#x27;s been a great job so far.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is: hold out. Make a stink about these draconian contracts, and you&#x27;ll eventually get through and find someone willing to be reasonable. Who knows, if enough people draw a line in the sand maybe it&#x27;ll become a big enough roadblock that they&#x27;ll stop putting it in the &quot;standard&quot; contracts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs</title><url>https://twitter.com/arkann1985/status/1467202744947822594</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cassianoleal</author><text>Many years ago I had a job offer at Badoo in the UK. After many rounds of going back-and-forth with the contract, me trying to better understand certain clauses, them going back to the lawyers, etc. I told them I&#x27;d be happy to sign if they removed the caluses that stated pretty much anything I created on or off hours belonged to them.<p>They went back to the lawyers and came back to me saying that this is not the first time this has been brought up, that the contract was standard across the org and was originally written for managerial types and C-suites, and that the company had never even considered taking over an employee&#x27;s off-hours work, open source or otherwise.<p>I said good, then it should not be a problem to remove the clause. They said they would have another discussion and would really like it for me to join. I said great, then once you issue me a contract with that clause I&#x27;ll be happy to join, assuming I hadn&#x27;t found something else.<p>They never came back to me. For years I wondered if anything had actually changed. Reading this tweet I&#x27;m glad I declined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomxor</author><text>I had a similar situation with my current job, but with a happy ending. The contract was &quot;standard&quot; but others who also read it thoroughly had the same issue with broad, overreaching clauses that essentially attempt to claim complete IP ownership of everything the employee ever touched. The directors were very reasonable and understood my concerns, we eventually managed to remove or reword all of the offending parts.<p>The origins of these clauses appeared to be entirely from third party lawyers, probably derived from some boilerplate contract. I presume their priority is to maximise legal &quot;protection&quot; for the company at all cost... even if it drives employees away, so it&#x27;s not necessarily something the company explicitly asked for. Whether or not you are able to push back against them probably has more to do with the company culture and whether the leaders or hiring managers are sympathetic to developers and how the FOSS world really works.<p>I think this is probably true for most small companies, that it&#x27;s incidental and intended for protection... but obviously in this case Bumble seem to actively be exploiting these clauses for gain rather than protection.</text></comment> |
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