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39,842,150 | 39,834,746 | 1 | 3 | 39,831,912 | train | <story><title>After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower</title><url>https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ballad-health-er-wait-times-copa-monopoly-appalachia-hospitals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>The 5 greedy systems of US healthcare.<p>1. AMA (American Medical Association) artificially controlling the number of medical graduates based on a quota. Every doctor starts of a huge debt, and many don&#x27;t get to practice. No experienced doctors from other countries can practice here.<p>2. Hospitals (many owned by Private Equity) - Maximize profit &#x2F; patient. Don&#x27;t show prices, lots of outrageous billing for basic care like Ibuprofen and bandages. The bills keep on coming for months after care.<p>3. Doctors - Gotta pay those debts. No prices advertised, Inflated costs for basic care. Specialists are booked for months.<p>5. Insurance companies - Can only make max 20% on administration costs. Love the high prices and denying claims for whatever reason they can find.<p>3. The politicians - Make $$ from lobbying insurance companies and big providers. Employers sponsored health insurance means individual workers don&#x27;t have same bargaining power.<p>Essentially we are paying a fortune. ~5 trillion for healthcare. If we pooled all that money into a govt funded insurance pool, and removed artificial license quotas, market advertised prices, we&#x27;d have a much more efficient healthcare.<p>The corporations know the individuals can&#x27;t coordinate between themselves to take them out. They have captured the market.<p>Instead we have a huge administrative bloat, gofundme pages, lowest mortality amongst the rich countries and a shit show.</text></comment> | <story><title>After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower</title><url>https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ballad-health-er-wait-times-copa-monopoly-appalachia-hospitals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wcedmisten</author><text>I was thinking it might be interesting to show a map of regions to the closest hospital, and color code it by the operator, like ballad health = red, banner health = green, etc. I&#x27;ll see if OpenStreetMap has this data available</text></comment> |
10,063,029 | 10,062,796 | 1 | 2 | 10,061,391 | train | <story><title>How California Is Winning the Drought</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/how-california-is-winning-the-drought.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giltleaf</author><text>Hydroponic farms, vertical farms, and agroecology could all do even better. Unsustainable food production is more of a contributor than personal consumption (though people&#x27;s obsession with meaningless green lawns is also ridiculous).<p>I wish the article did a better job of exploring various agricultural solutions - drip irrigation is just a baby step when compared to something like hydroponics. Hydroponic production uses anywhere (and I&#x27;m just trying to remember the various claims I&#x27;ve seen in both studies and articles without going back to them) from 75%-90% less water than conventional ag, beating drip irrigation off the low end.<p>Agroecology challenges the monoculture system that (I think) caused this over-consumption. By planting thirsty crops like corn and polluting the existing aquacultures with the pesticides needed to preserve an area lacking any sort of biodiversity, monocultures have created a fragile food supply that increasing prices (and terrible subsidies) continue to highlight. Agroecology, on the other hand, encourages a system of farming that takes into account the cultural&#x2F;social context of a region while suggesting methods (grounding those suggestions in data) of production that respect local ecology and agricultural practices for increased production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmsmith</author><text>If we&#x27;re willing to invest in engineered solutions like hydroponics and vertical farms, then there is no need to be growing crops in California in the first place. The advantage of California agriculture is that you can grow crops outside year round. If you&#x27;re growing inside, then you might as well grow where the water&#x2F;people are.</text></comment> | <story><title>How California Is Winning the Drought</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/how-california-is-winning-the-drought.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giltleaf</author><text>Hydroponic farms, vertical farms, and agroecology could all do even better. Unsustainable food production is more of a contributor than personal consumption (though people&#x27;s obsession with meaningless green lawns is also ridiculous).<p>I wish the article did a better job of exploring various agricultural solutions - drip irrigation is just a baby step when compared to something like hydroponics. Hydroponic production uses anywhere (and I&#x27;m just trying to remember the various claims I&#x27;ve seen in both studies and articles without going back to them) from 75%-90% less water than conventional ag, beating drip irrigation off the low end.<p>Agroecology challenges the monoculture system that (I think) caused this over-consumption. By planting thirsty crops like corn and polluting the existing aquacultures with the pesticides needed to preserve an area lacking any sort of biodiversity, monocultures have created a fragile food supply that increasing prices (and terrible subsidies) continue to highlight. Agroecology, on the other hand, encourages a system of farming that takes into account the cultural&#x2F;social context of a region while suggesting methods (grounding those suggestions in data) of production that respect local ecology and agricultural practices for increased production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trhway</author><text>Efficiency? What efficiency?! CA farmers are increasing nut trees acreage because nut trees require a lot of water, and thus nut prices are going up in the current drought, and thus the farmers are rushing to increase the production of such profitable product. (Heard on NPR)</text></comment> |
15,596,301 | 15,596,271 | 1 | 3 | 15,592,682 | train | <story><title>Show HN: WebGL Voxel Engine</title><url>https://github.com/Lallassu/voxelengine3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidos</author><text>It&#x27;s a world I&#x27;d like to enter more myself but I&#x27;ve found it&#x27;s a little hard to get started. With a degree in maths &#x2F; comp sci, I have a pretty good understanding of linear algebra. 20 years experience coding means I&#x27;m quite happy to hack away.<p>Thing I&#x27;ve struggled with is all the background. People talk about shaders and launch straight into the details, but I&#x27;ve barely been able to find any background information that sets the scene.<p>Last night I made a game with Unity, which was fun and pretty simple to start with and I&#x27;d like to understand more about it all.<p>Where does someone with plenty of comp and maths knowledge but no 3D experience (other than tinkering with the likes of Blender) go to learn about it quickly?</text></item><item><author>ixtli</author><text>i think the degree to which Three.JS has allowed programmers access to the world of modern 3d is severely understated. If you haven&#x27;t tried it, go to threejs.org&#x2F;examples&#x2F; and copy and paste some source, it&#x27;s _incredibly_ simple to start hacking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khedoros1</author><text>At just a basic level: 15-ish years ago, 3D rendering APIs used what is called the &quot;fixed function pipeline&quot;. Texture mapping, 3d-to-2d projection, and so on were limited to the specific functions implemented in the hardware of the video card and exposed by the 3D API you were using.<p>The programmable pipeline requires you to define some programs called &quot;shaders&quot; that run on the graphics card and replace the previous fixed pipeline functions.<p>Example: Say you feed a bunch of geometry information into the API (a list of vertices, faces that use those vertices, coordinates for textures, etc). The &quot;vertex shader&quot; receives 3D vertex coordinates (and possibly other values) and needs to output 2D screen coordinates. The hardware calculates which screen pixels will actually show which part of which face, and passes some coordinate information to a &quot;pixel&#x2F;fragment shader&quot;. The basic job of that shader is to read texture, color, and lighting information and decide what color should be output to the screen for a specific pixel (replacing the functionality of the lighting and texturing functions that were used in the fixed-function pipeline).<p>I think that three.js adds another level of abstraction on top of the actual graphics APIs.<p>Coming from a CS background, with a few years &quot;in industry&quot;, I started by reading about the history of computer graphics, read some fixed-function 3D graphics tutorials, built a few toy programs, then moved to the shader pipeline, and built a few more toy programs with the things that I learned. Read theory, experiment to see how it maps to practice, refine your understanding, and then go back to reading, if necessary.<p>If I&#x27;m remembering correctly, I mostly ended up using <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opengl-tutorial.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opengl-tutorial.org&#x2F;</a>, liberally supplemented with Wikipedia articles and random mathematics articles, as necessary. (obviously, this isn&#x27;t focused on WebGL and Three.js, but the core concepts apply. It might make more sense to go for tutorials in the ecosystem you&#x27;d like to learn, rather than learning one system, then having the time and cognitive overhead of learning to map the concepts to a new system).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: WebGL Voxel Engine</title><url>https://github.com/Lallassu/voxelengine3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidos</author><text>It&#x27;s a world I&#x27;d like to enter more myself but I&#x27;ve found it&#x27;s a little hard to get started. With a degree in maths &#x2F; comp sci, I have a pretty good understanding of linear algebra. 20 years experience coding means I&#x27;m quite happy to hack away.<p>Thing I&#x27;ve struggled with is all the background. People talk about shaders and launch straight into the details, but I&#x27;ve barely been able to find any background information that sets the scene.<p>Last night I made a game with Unity, which was fun and pretty simple to start with and I&#x27;d like to understand more about it all.<p>Where does someone with plenty of comp and maths knowledge but no 3D experience (other than tinkering with the likes of Blender) go to learn about it quickly?</text></item><item><author>ixtli</author><text>i think the degree to which Three.JS has allowed programmers access to the world of modern 3d is severely understated. If you haven&#x27;t tried it, go to threejs.org&#x2F;examples&#x2F; and copy and paste some source, it&#x27;s _incredibly_ simple to start hacking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>westoncb</author><text>Part of why it&#x27;s difficult is that there are a tons of concepts belonging to &#x27;real-time rendering&#x27; which three.js is built on top of. These are things like how a 3D scene is projected from a particular viewpoint using a &#x27;camera&#x27;, how lighting works, the split in vector&#x2F;raster techniques for representing 3D shapes vs their surfaces, the role of shaders in modern GPU architectures etc. I&#x27;d recommend the book &#x27;Real-time Rendering&#x27;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Real-Time-Rendering-Third-Tomas-Akenine-Moller&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1568814240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Real-Time-Rendering-Third-Tomas-Akeni...</a><p>Edit: I&#x27;d also add: I wouldn&#x27;t bother learning much OpenGL&#x2F;WebGL to begin with (except shader programming in GLSL, since there&#x27;s no good alternative abstraction for that). If you end up liking working with 3D graphics, go back and learn some about it since it&#x27;ll help you understand performance concerns better—but meanwhile, knowing it is just an optimization you don&#x27;t need yet. It&#x27;s true three.js is built on top of it, but the significant <i>principles</i> you need to use three.js effectively fall under real-time rendering, not OpenGL.</text></comment> |
27,138,822 | 27,138,591 | 1 | 2 | 27,137,866 | train | <story><title>Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (2020)</title><url>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/07/fuck-the-bread-the-bread-is-over/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>People keep saying this is beautify written and stuff, but I feel like I just read a research paper in a topic I don&#x27;t know about. Am I just dumb, what am I missing here? I feel genuinely confused about what I just read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>It&#x27;s a series of melancholy musings on the relationship between one&#x27;s career and identity&#x2F;self-worth in the context of a society like ours, told through the lens of a) the author&#x27;s personal career experience and b) fairytales.<p>My takeaway, if I had to reduce it to one (it doesn&#x27;t really want to be reduced like that), is that many careers in our society consist of jumping through a series of arbitrary and ultimately pointless hoops, in order to eke out some kind of feeling of identity or personal worth. For the people who fail these challenges, there is no story. They lose their story, in some sense, unless they reframe it around something different. The author is able to be aware of this state of affairs despite remaining subject to it on some level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (2020)</title><url>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/07/fuck-the-bread-the-bread-is-over/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>People keep saying this is beautify written and stuff, but I feel like I just read a research paper in a topic I don&#x27;t know about. Am I just dumb, what am I missing here? I feel genuinely confused about what I just read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>babesh</author><text>I think it is for people who love their feelings and fall into them. I also have a lot of trouble relating. I couldn’t stand reading more than 2 paragraphs.</text></comment> |
11,761,691 | 11,761,625 | 1 | 3 | 11,761,583 | train | <story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FiloSottile</author><text>&gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.<p>This is terrible. They are introducing a way to broadcast mentions without using .@, which is great. So why also making non-reply mentions forcefully broadcasted, with no way to hide them!?<p>I don&#x27;t want my @ThreeUKSupport tweets to go to all my followers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atonse</author><text>Am I misunderstanding this statement?<p>&gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.<p>What if I don&#x27;t want a reply to be broadcast in everyone&#x27;s feed? (Not that it&#x27;s private, but it&#x27;s just not relevant and usually lacks context). Or are they saying that if you want it shown to everyone, retweet it and it&#x27;ll show up to everyone?</text></comment> |
27,942,842 | 27,941,090 | 1 | 2 | 27,939,043 | train | <story><title>Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>machinehermiter</author><text>As someone who hasn&#x27;t used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them?<p>There has to be some threshold but I just don&#x27;t understand how this threshold hasn&#x27;t been crossed for more people.<p>I don&#x27;t want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. Twitter is not a public utility like electricity or drinking water. You actually need to drink water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmaunder</author><text>I have been off Facebook for years. I was forced to rejoin because our head of marketing departed and I had to take over our company page. OH MY F*** GOD. I could not believe the mess of user engagement triggers and dark patterns that confronted me. (I&#x27;m an ops guy, a dev and a successful entrepreneur, currently a high growth CEO) I was literally nauseated. I&#x27;ve actually postponed the job just to avoid the damn thing.<p>As someone who left for a long time and looked at it with a fresh set of non-desensitized eyes, I can tell you with absolute certainty that FB is bad for your mental health.<p>I think the trouble with social is that it&#x27;s really hard to tell people what they don&#x27;t want to hear. Anyone who lived through the 80s knows how pissed a smoker would get when you&#x27;d tell them they&#x27;re killing themselves. You felt like an asshole. Same with Facebook, Insta, Twitter, etc. Tell someone who&#x27;s into it (most of us) they&#x27;re self harming, and it doesn&#x27;t exactly improve your relationship with them.<p>But I think the ship has sailed. These are companies making north of 100 Billion per year (in FB&#x27;s case) with massive lobbying cannons, who are now entrenched and ingrained in our culture and day to day life. It may sound overly dramatic, but I think the truth is that, this sucks for the species boys and girls.<p>[Sorry, had to add the boys and girls. Little Starship Troopers hat tip]</text></comment> | <story><title>Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>machinehermiter</author><text>As someone who hasn&#x27;t used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them?<p>There has to be some threshold but I just don&#x27;t understand how this threshold hasn&#x27;t been crossed for more people.<p>I don&#x27;t want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. Twitter is not a public utility like electricity or drinking water. You actually need to drink water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belval</author><text>Other humans acknowledging your existence and even agreeing with your various opinions is a very very euphoric experience, it is true of any social media. Suddenly you have hundreds or even thousands of people that &quot;get&quot; you, that understand how great and clever you are. This is the drug that people can&#x27;t quit.<p>People won&#x27;t quit because they&#x27;d be unable to tell people that they&#x27;ve quit.<p>Another take could be that we are just all very lonely and that when you stop using social media you are left with emptiness that is harder to fill with real connections with friends especially during covid.</text></comment> |
25,876,670 | 25,874,866 | 1 | 3 | 25,874,039 | train | <story><title>Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts</title><url>http://autoredistrict.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that political parties or race should be included in redistricting plans, especially since I think that this could often accidentally result in <i>optimally</i> &quot;cracking&quot; or &quot;packing&quot; minority districts. Neither political parties nor races should be intentionally institutionalized.<p>The defining characteristic of a district is that it is geographically contiguous. A defining specification for districts is that they have a roughly even population. With those constraints, what you would want to do is find physical commonalities (not abstract loyalties.) For example: water sources, proximity to commercial areas, types of housing stock, local weather patterns, local roads&#x2F;accessibility, proximity to major land features&#x2F;employers (like quarries, factories, lakes.) That&#x27;s harder than doing this.<p>A problem I have with with doing this by political parties is that the two parties aren&#x27;t themselves part of government and shouldn&#x27;t be. A real problem I have with making racial guarantees (other than the possibility of packing and cracking) is that it seems to be calculated through averaging &quot;diversity&quot; - meaning that a group with 6% representation would be guaranteed 6% voting power on the district level (assuming people vote purely based on racial allegiance.) &quot;Diversity&quot; is a red herring; it&#x27;s remedy that is important. 6% can be ignored at the district level nearly as easily as it can be ignored at the individual level. You&#x27;re not going to get remedy from redistricting, but districts that grow from material features of the places where people live will end up shaped by race anyway (due to the history of those places.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts</title><url>http://autoredistrict.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spankalee</author><text>Districts themselves are the problem. They can be more &quot;fair&quot; than they are currently, but they can&#x27;t overcome the fact that common interests and voting alignment are not exclusively geographic.<p>Removing districts, or enlarging them so the borders barely matter, and implementing ranked choice voting and proportional representation is a far, far better solution.</text></comment> |
24,559,481 | 24,557,770 | 1 | 3 | 24,555,464 | train | <story><title>2020 Bundles</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2020/2020-bundles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgudkov</author><text>One of the most successful examples of bundling is Microsoft&#x27;s enterprise plans. For instance, the top E5 plan includes so much enterprise software for so low price that it creates the perception of free software. MS Office? Free. Power BI? Free. Etc.<p>Tableau, which I believe is a more sophisticated data visualization application is getting squeezed out from enterprise accounts. Why? Because Power BI is &quot;free&quot;.<p>Bundling is a huge power.</text></comment> | <story><title>2020 Bundles</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2020/2020-bundles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charliemil4</author><text>&gt; The problem is that Apple’s financing programs — both the one pictured above, and also the iPhone Upgrade Program — continue to be funded by 3rd-parties; Apple is making it easier to buy an iPhone, but is still focused on getting its money right away. And, as long as it sticks with this approach, its Apple One bundle feels more like a money-grab, and less like a strategic driver of the business.<p>To me, I see this as a finance play. Since rates are near zero (and will be for some time), you can effectively leverage your revenues on both ends: servicing debt and factoring accounts receivable.<p>Since Apple&#x27;s customers are usually high income buyers, the AR ratings are already high, combined with low rates, means Apple gets 95%+ of the revenues up front. I&#x27;m not sure what period for the new subscriptions they have (whether its a quarterly or annual period), but whatever it is, it&#x27;s genius.</text></comment> |
21,389,005 | 21,388,949 | 1 | 2 | 21,387,633 | train | <story><title>Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/america-s-middle-class-is-getting-hooked-on-debt-with-100-rates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&gt; $100 a month on cable TV<p>given that the average American spends 4 hours&#x2F;day watching TV[1], that&#x27;s well under $1 per hour of entertainment. There aren&#x27;t a lot of hobbies or entertainment media that are cheaper.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;186833&#x2F;average-television-use-per-person-in-the-us-since-2002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;186833&#x2F;average-televisio...</a></text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to tut-tut the poor, but I do want to tut-tut consumer culture in general.<p>There are a whole lot of people who _should_ be able to afford an unexpected car repair bill, and could quite easily do so, if they weren&#x27;t spending $100 a month on cable TV, $800 every other year on a high-end smartphone, $500&#x2F;month on owning an SUV when a $200&#x2F;mo economy car would serve just fine, etc., and put the money into a basic rainy day fund instead.<p>And a middle and working class that was just a little bit more frugal might create some downward pressure on prices that would, in turn, alleviate what less wealthy people need to pay on just the basics.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Okay these loans certainly sound like a bad deal, but what are people supposed to do? Say your car breaks and you can’t get to work. For all of us here billing out &gt;$100hr or whatever your local consulting rate is, the answer is some calculus around the cost of losing your job vs the cost of fixing it.<p>But for MOST people, the cost of fixing it is functionally infinite. They literally do not have even a few hundred dollars to, for instance, replace a tire.<p>Yeah, the interest on these is predatory, but then what are these lenders supposed to do? Many of the people getting these loans WILL default on them. Yes it would be great to offer these loans at a reasonable interest rate, but they are unsecured loans. The only collateral is the clients credit score.<p>It’s easy for all of us with our comfy tech jobs to hate on these, but to me that feels like kicking the poor while they are already down. Yeah, they know the loan is bad. They probably don’t have any other options.<p>Instead we should be looking at ways to make it so that giant unpredicted expenses don’t happen at all. That means cheaper transportation options, cheaper access to healthcare or preventitive care, predictive diagnostics, etc.<p>It helps nobody to point out how foolish the poor are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reilly3000</author><text>I think the point was more that entertainment isn&#x27;t really a necessity at all, even if its a &#x27;good value&#x27;. If entertainment is in fact a necessity, most public libraries offer an immense amount of choices of physical and digital media available for free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/america-s-middle-class-is-getting-hooked-on-debt-with-100-rates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&gt; $100 a month on cable TV<p>given that the average American spends 4 hours&#x2F;day watching TV[1], that&#x27;s well under $1 per hour of entertainment. There aren&#x27;t a lot of hobbies or entertainment media that are cheaper.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;186833&#x2F;average-television-use-per-person-in-the-us-since-2002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;186833&#x2F;average-televisio...</a></text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to tut-tut the poor, but I do want to tut-tut consumer culture in general.<p>There are a whole lot of people who _should_ be able to afford an unexpected car repair bill, and could quite easily do so, if they weren&#x27;t spending $100 a month on cable TV, $800 every other year on a high-end smartphone, $500&#x2F;month on owning an SUV when a $200&#x2F;mo economy car would serve just fine, etc., and put the money into a basic rainy day fund instead.<p>And a middle and working class that was just a little bit more frugal might create some downward pressure on prices that would, in turn, alleviate what less wealthy people need to pay on just the basics.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Okay these loans certainly sound like a bad deal, but what are people supposed to do? Say your car breaks and you can’t get to work. For all of us here billing out &gt;$100hr or whatever your local consulting rate is, the answer is some calculus around the cost of losing your job vs the cost of fixing it.<p>But for MOST people, the cost of fixing it is functionally infinite. They literally do not have even a few hundred dollars to, for instance, replace a tire.<p>Yeah, the interest on these is predatory, but then what are these lenders supposed to do? Many of the people getting these loans WILL default on them. Yes it would be great to offer these loans at a reasonable interest rate, but they are unsecured loans. The only collateral is the clients credit score.<p>It’s easy for all of us with our comfy tech jobs to hate on these, but to me that feels like kicking the poor while they are already down. Yeah, they know the loan is bad. They probably don’t have any other options.<p>Instead we should be looking at ways to make it so that giant unpredicted expenses don’t happen at all. That means cheaper transportation options, cheaper access to healthcare or preventitive care, predictive diagnostics, etc.<p>It helps nobody to point out how foolish the poor are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>Just because it&#x27;s cheap doesn&#x27;t mean there aren&#x27;t cheaper alternatives. Most people could easily replace that with a netflix subscription for $13, since they already have an internet connection.</text></comment> |
35,694,245 | 35,694,337 | 1 | 2 | 35,693,471 | train | <story><title>Layoff Runbook</title><url>https://github.com/derwiki/layoff-runbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some thoughts:<p>Put your money into an HSA rather than an FSA. It&#x27;s a free extra retirement account.<p>You don&#x27;t need to worry about being locked out of your 401K after being sacked. It&#x27;s still your money and they have to give you access to it, even after you&#x27;re sacked. Transfer the money out to a separate 401K account that only you control after you&#x27;ve left the company. (Or don&#x27;t, because I&#x27;m pretty sure they have to keep your account open indefinitely, but IANAL so ask a professional)<p>You should practice interviewing well before your last day. Interview somewhere you&#x27;d like to work at least every 6 months. Tell them you&#x27;re not looking to move right away but you&#x27;re curious about their company and team an open to hearing about new opportunities. Keep in contact afterward.<p>Not mentioned there, but commuter benefits cards have an expiration after which you can&#x27;t spend the money, so make sure if you have a balance that you spend it before it expires. I once built up $250 on a card and forgot about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>candiddevmike</author><text>HSAs and FSAs are not entirely swappable. HSAs require a qualifying health plan, and are a pain in the ass to move around in my experience. FSAs are actually better for those that are laid off--you can use the full balance of the FSA before you pay it. Say you commit 3k to a FSA, you can use 3k of it on day one (or the day you are laid off...). Your company is on the hook for the remainder of the balance if you aren&#x27;t there to pay it back.<p>I would be annoyed as hell if someone kept asking to be interviewed but never accepted the position. Interviews aren&#x27;t free, don&#x27;t waste peoples time doing them if you aren&#x27;t serious&#x2F;need to practice. Pay for an interview coach.</text></comment> | <story><title>Layoff Runbook</title><url>https://github.com/derwiki/layoff-runbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some thoughts:<p>Put your money into an HSA rather than an FSA. It&#x27;s a free extra retirement account.<p>You don&#x27;t need to worry about being locked out of your 401K after being sacked. It&#x27;s still your money and they have to give you access to it, even after you&#x27;re sacked. Transfer the money out to a separate 401K account that only you control after you&#x27;ve left the company. (Or don&#x27;t, because I&#x27;m pretty sure they have to keep your account open indefinitely, but IANAL so ask a professional)<p>You should practice interviewing well before your last day. Interview somewhere you&#x27;d like to work at least every 6 months. Tell them you&#x27;re not looking to move right away but you&#x27;re curious about their company and team an open to hearing about new opportunities. Keep in contact afterward.<p>Not mentioned there, but commuter benefits cards have an expiration after which you can&#x27;t spend the money, so make sure if you have a balance that you spend it before it expires. I once built up $250 on a card and forgot about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousllama</author><text>&gt; Or don&#x27;t, because I&#x27;m pretty sure they have to keep your account open indefinitely, but IANAL so ask a professional<p>Definitely a life best practice to periodically consolidate these kinds of accounts. Imagine trying to track down your 401k from your time at GE 20 years ago. It definitely exists somewhere, but it would not be fun finding it.</text></comment> |
11,165,427 | 11,163,487 | 1 | 2 | 11,162,490 | train | <story><title>Researchers create super-efficient Wi-Fi</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/researchers-create-super-low-power-wi-fi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avian</author><text>While this is interesting work, I would say it&#x27;s going into the wrong direction. It is simplifying the devices at the cost of less efficient use of the already crowded radio spectrum (the plugged-in device must transmit the carrier wave and the reflections from passive devices consume twice the spectrum due to mirror frequencies) Everyone else is going the other way: complicating devices to achieve higher spectrum efficiency. This approach might be sustainable for spy agencies, but I don&#x27;t see how it could scale to mass deployment (especially with device densities predicted by IoT pundits these days).</text></comment> | <story><title>Researchers create super-efficient Wi-Fi</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/researchers-create-super-low-power-wi-fi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ptha</author><text>Mentioned in the article is the passive bug the Soviets used for covert listening in the US embassy in Moscow. Impressive technology for 1945: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Thing_%28listening_device%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Thing_%28listening_device%...</a></text></comment> |
23,415,663 | 23,415,933 | 1 | 3 | 23,414,879 | train | <story><title>Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases</title><url>https://www.thequint.com/news/india/coronavirus-for-a-population-of-12-crore-why-bengaluru-has-only-300-covid-cases</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stormdennis</author><text>In the UK non white ethnic groups and especially Bangladeshis have had the highest mortality rate from Covid 19 and yet the countries they come from are faring better than the UK is against the disease. The explanation for this when it&#x27;s found will be interesting, one factor might be climate and possible vitamin D deficiency among these groups in Britain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavs</author><text>No one in Bangladesh believes Bangladesh&#x27;s low death number. I live here. Freedom of the press is non-existent (al-most all press&#x2F;media is owned by government party). There are actual laws that say that you can&#x27;t say anything against the government online (many have been prosecuted for this).<p>There is literally only 1 party - all other parties are destroyed, their members arrested or banned, jailed on real or fake cases.<p>Bangladesh&#x27;s health care has been horrible even before the pandemic. Air pollution is extremely high. We don&#x27;t have the infrastructure to handle so many patients - private hospitals are having a hard time handling patients. Public hospitals are even worse. Central oxygen is almost non-existent, lack of proper PPE, masks or proper testing. They only recently started ramping up tests - but the numbers are still very low.<p>Even with all the hiding and misinformation by the government, the official number is still climbing at an alarming rate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases</title><url>https://www.thequint.com/news/india/coronavirus-for-a-population-of-12-crore-why-bengaluru-has-only-300-covid-cases</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stormdennis</author><text>In the UK non white ethnic groups and especially Bangladeshis have had the highest mortality rate from Covid 19 and yet the countries they come from are faring better than the UK is against the disease. The explanation for this when it&#x27;s found will be interesting, one factor might be climate and possible vitamin D deficiency among these groups in Britain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Is there a difference in obesity rates between the two populations?</text></comment> |
37,426,054 | 37,425,122 | 1 | 2 | 37,422,624 | train | <story><title>Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/humanised-kidneys-grown-inside-pigs-for-the-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bertil</author><text>One issue with chimeras (the article doesn’t mention) is that they open the door to a new philosophical question about the <i>zoonotic transmission</i> risk.<p>Human-animal barriers are hard to pass for infections (bacteria or virus) because there’s very little material shared between organisms: occasional spittle of saliva, maybe blood drops during butchering, but not much. Therefore, there’s hardly ever an opportunity to mutate in an environment that would select for human compatibility. In a chimera, there’s a life-long tissue-sized opportunity. Even for one individual, hat’s enormous.<p>If pigs routinely carry a pathogen to which they are immune or that has no apparent symptoms, we wouldn’t know. We know it happens, but we have no more way of knowing than Christopher Columbus did. If any pathogen proves easily transmittable but deadly to humans, it’s over. Every bridging case tells us such infections are likely, numerous even.<p>Chimeras are the perfect ground to mutate those until it’s too late — not for the individual recipient, but potentially for the entire human population. This is a very easy-to-imagine and, overall, quite likely extinction event.<p>We don’t know what pigs have that could be it. We could and do raise chimeras in total isolation, hoping they would not catch anything like that. Still, every step of the process, from the circumstances of the pigs’ birth to where the food comes from, is an opportunity for such contamination.<p>Philosophically, we know, but we don‘t know: we know what it would look like, so if nasty things happen, we would understand; however, we have no sure way to prevent it until it happens. The closest equivalent in fiction would be the opening chapter of _The Last Of Us_ (spoilers): tell every epidemiologist this is it, set yourself on fire, and beg a foreign country to immediately nuke your country out of existence, hoping that will be enough.<p>I find that new conception of risk interesting, but have been pondering that scenario for decades (one of my professors was the first to suggest that path). I realize that it sounds a lot grimmer than vegans and Muslim people finding the practice “revolting” without nearly as dark a shadow over the practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frisco</author><text>Fun story I heard recently: apparently a bunch of pigs were placed on various small islands in the pacific in the 19th century so in case sailors were running out of food, they would have a known self-sustaining backup option.<p>Many of those pigs were completely isolated for over a hundred years and entirely missed out on the globalization of tons of infectious diseases.<p>A while ago a group of them were picked up and brought to a special protected refuge in New Zealand, where they are being used for artificial organ research (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nzeno.nz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nzeno.nz&#x2F;</a>) basically for the reasons you highlight.</text></comment> | <story><title>Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/humanised-kidneys-grown-inside-pigs-for-the-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bertil</author><text>One issue with chimeras (the article doesn’t mention) is that they open the door to a new philosophical question about the <i>zoonotic transmission</i> risk.<p>Human-animal barriers are hard to pass for infections (bacteria or virus) because there’s very little material shared between organisms: occasional spittle of saliva, maybe blood drops during butchering, but not much. Therefore, there’s hardly ever an opportunity to mutate in an environment that would select for human compatibility. In a chimera, there’s a life-long tissue-sized opportunity. Even for one individual, hat’s enormous.<p>If pigs routinely carry a pathogen to which they are immune or that has no apparent symptoms, we wouldn’t know. We know it happens, but we have no more way of knowing than Christopher Columbus did. If any pathogen proves easily transmittable but deadly to humans, it’s over. Every bridging case tells us such infections are likely, numerous even.<p>Chimeras are the perfect ground to mutate those until it’s too late — not for the individual recipient, but potentially for the entire human population. This is a very easy-to-imagine and, overall, quite likely extinction event.<p>We don’t know what pigs have that could be it. We could and do raise chimeras in total isolation, hoping they would not catch anything like that. Still, every step of the process, from the circumstances of the pigs’ birth to where the food comes from, is an opportunity for such contamination.<p>Philosophically, we know, but we don‘t know: we know what it would look like, so if nasty things happen, we would understand; however, we have no sure way to prevent it until it happens. The closest equivalent in fiction would be the opening chapter of _The Last Of Us_ (spoilers): tell every epidemiologist this is it, set yourself on fire, and beg a foreign country to immediately nuke your country out of existence, hoping that will be enough.<p>I find that new conception of risk interesting, but have been pondering that scenario for decades (one of my professors was the first to suggest that path). I realize that it sounds a lot grimmer than vegans and Muslim people finding the practice “revolting” without nearly as dark a shadow over the practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbarton</author><text>Great comment and I would add that this has already happened:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;1051725&#x2F;xenotransplant-patient-died-received-heart-infected-with-pig-virus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;1051725&#x2F;xenotran...</a></text></comment> |
24,291,105 | 24,290,971 | 1 | 3 | 24,280,413 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland</title><url>https://cedaei.com/posts/vim-like-layer-for-xorg-wayland/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>renke1</author><text>I am also using a custom keyboard layout (basically the movement layer from the NEO layout + left alt → left ctrl, right alt → left alt, caps lock → esc). Initially it was implemented as xmodmap, then as xkb layout and finally as C program using Interception Tools [0]. I had problems with both xmodmap and xkb where it wouldn&#x27;t work in certain applications; Interception tools works everywhere (even in VMs and outside of X&#x2F;Wayland).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;interception&#x2F;linux&#x2F;tools&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;README.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;interception&#x2F;linux&#x2F;tools&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;READ...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland</title><url>https://cedaei.com/posts/vim-like-layer-for-xorg-wayland/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>secure</author><text>The NEO keyboard layout (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo-layout.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo-layout.org&#x2F;</a>) which I’m using for over a decade, has a similar concept of a number of additional layers.<p>This is quite handy for having a bunch of special characters for programming readily available (hover over the layers on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo-layout.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo-layout.org&#x2F;</a> to see).<p>For any other modal use-cases (e.g. resizing windows, changing music volume), I use i3’s modes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i3wm.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;userguide.html#binding_modes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i3wm.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;userguide.html#binding_modes</a></text></comment> |
33,369,835 | 33,366,075 | 1 | 2 | 33,359,240 | train | <story><title>The rise of biodigital surveillance</title><url>https://compactmag.com/article/the-rise-of-biodigital-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>There is nothing friendly or helpful or optimistic about digital identity schemes, they are domestic passports for movement, and a pervasive, specific and ongoing threat against you as an individual for giving the appearance of non-compliance, or even a lack of enthusiasm for compliance. It&#x27;s dominion. Honestly, a digital ID scheme is what the next global, multi year or even decade long land war will be fought over. I know we have a convention about avoiding discussions of violence, but digital ID, just like the ID schemes of early 20th c Europe and Russia, is the thing that you either nip in the bud in the present, or the number of lives that will be lost over it just grows every single day as the cancer of these systems establishes itself in our societies.<p>There is zero hyperbole in this. I&#x27;ve worked on digital identity solutions, and fundamentally, they are not a consumer product anybody actually wants because their use cases are <i>all</i> about enforcing rules <i>against</i> the identity subject. The only way the tech survives is it must be mandated, and then it&#x27;s a question of whose problem does it solve?<p>The only people that a global digital identity solves a problem for are the people administering it, literally against the whole world. The survivors will ask, &quot;how did it all happen so fast, what were the warnings?&quot; and this obscure comment will be the hunger stone and harbinger. I&#x27;m literally saying millions of people will die, partially because of my inability to be persuasive, but mostly because of your misunderstanding of what this technology does and of what it is the effect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IYasha</author><text>I&#x27;m in tears. So blissful to have understanding people among tech enthusiasts! Usually such topics as surveillance, biometry, privacy, control of people, digital currencies, dangers of wireless, etc. rise immediate skepticism and hate. I&#x27;m glad more and more people around are shifting from indifference.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of biodigital surveillance</title><url>https://compactmag.com/article/the-rise-of-biodigital-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>There is nothing friendly or helpful or optimistic about digital identity schemes, they are domestic passports for movement, and a pervasive, specific and ongoing threat against you as an individual for giving the appearance of non-compliance, or even a lack of enthusiasm for compliance. It&#x27;s dominion. Honestly, a digital ID scheme is what the next global, multi year or even decade long land war will be fought over. I know we have a convention about avoiding discussions of violence, but digital ID, just like the ID schemes of early 20th c Europe and Russia, is the thing that you either nip in the bud in the present, or the number of lives that will be lost over it just grows every single day as the cancer of these systems establishes itself in our societies.<p>There is zero hyperbole in this. I&#x27;ve worked on digital identity solutions, and fundamentally, they are not a consumer product anybody actually wants because their use cases are <i>all</i> about enforcing rules <i>against</i> the identity subject. The only way the tech survives is it must be mandated, and then it&#x27;s a question of whose problem does it solve?<p>The only people that a global digital identity solves a problem for are the people administering it, literally against the whole world. The survivors will ask, &quot;how did it all happen so fast, what were the warnings?&quot; and this obscure comment will be the hunger stone and harbinger. I&#x27;m literally saying millions of people will die, partially because of my inability to be persuasive, but mostly because of your misunderstanding of what this technology does and of what it is the effect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maroonblazer</author><text>&gt; they are not a consumer product anybody actually wants because their use cases are all about enforcing rules against the identity subject. The only way the tech survives is it must be mandated, and then it&#x27;s a question of whose problem does it solve?<p>Doesn&#x27;t the CLEAR example in the article&#x27;s opening paragraph contradict your claim?</text></comment> |
29,924,873 | 29,924,685 | 1 | 2 | 29,924,208 | train | <story><title>Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/game-studios-turning-play-into-work-crypto-nfts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Look to Vegas to see how grinding for money works out. Especially slot machines. There&#x27;s a fraction of the population that will play slot machines for long periods. This despite it being a net lose. This is the population that falls for Axie Infinity.<p>Axie Infinity was, at peak, about half the NFT market. It is now a Ponzi in the final stages. Here&#x27;s the chart for Smooth Love Potion token, the one players grind for.[1] Down from $0.35 to $0.018. How low can it go? That one suckered a lot of poor people in the Philippines.<p>From the discussions on Reddit, it looks like people are wising up about NFTs. For a while, there were two new wannabe NFT metaverses a day. That&#x27;s stopped. Most NFT comments are now negative.<p>Roblox may get in trouble for using child labor to implement games on their platform.[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com&#x2F;currencies&#x2F;smooth-love-potion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com&#x2F;currencies&#x2F;smooth-love-potion&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;2022&#x2F;jan&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-trouble-with-roblox-the-video-game-empire-built-on-child-labour" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;2022&#x2F;jan&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-trouble-wi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/game-studios-turning-play-into-work-crypto-nfts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>me_me_mu_mu</author><text>I miss when games were for fun.<p>Now, games are filled with pay-items which I guess some people enjoy, but it leads to not a lot of fun in some cases. For example, some games sell tokens that you can convert to in-game money. That essentially translates into a boring grind for 100 hours or pay X amount to skip that by getting enough money to buy the items you need to skip that content.<p>I haven&#x27;t bought a new game since 2016, and I&#x27;ll never support the *AAA gaming industry ever again :)</text></comment> |
26,183,936 | 26,183,857 | 1 | 2 | 26,182,744 | train | <story><title>Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0</title><url>https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/changelog/migration_20.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>I’ve seen quite a few shops which effectively hit every python db&#x2F;networking&#x2F;pooling foot gun you could possibly encounter while using SQLAlchemy.<p>People cargo cult the flask intro tutorial and have no clue how session binding works, where the transactions are, how committing works, etc because it’s all tucked away in magical middleware and singletons. As the code base grows so does the mess of blocking txns, accidental cross joins, pool exhaustion, and so on.<p>It’s a great tool from a technical expressiveness perspective but terribly full of operational foot guns. Beware and use Django until you’re sure you AND your team know what you’re doing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0</title><url>https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/changelog/migration_20.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avolcano</author><text>One of the most interesting 1.4&#x2F;2.0 changes is first-class asyncio support, not just for core (the query builder) but for the ORM layer as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;14&#x2F;changelog&#x2F;migration_14.html#change-3414" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;14&#x2F;changelog&#x2F;migration_14.htm...</a><p>As this notes, there&#x27;s several changes you have to make to your assumptions around the ORM interface. SQLAlchemy, for better or worse, supports &quot;lazy loading&quot; of relationships on attribute access - that is, simply accessing `user.friends` would trigger a query to select a user&#x27;s friends. This kind of magic is at odds with async&#x2F;await execution models, where you would instead need to run something like `await user.get_friends()` for non-blocking i&#x2F;o.<p>It looks like they&#x27;ve done some good work in making the ORM layer work reasonably well with these limitations (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;14&#x2F;orm&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;asyncio.html#preventing-implicit-io-when-using-asyncsession" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;14&#x2F;orm&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;asyncio.htm...</a>), but I wonder if removing &quot;helpful magic&quot; like this will push more people to stick with the query-builder, rather than the ORM.</text></comment> |
41,262,861 | 41,247,946 | 1 | 3 | 41,247,023 | train | <story><title>Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels</title><url>https://ytch.xyz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slazaro</author><text>I&#x27;d echo the sentiment that this is amazing, and that a TV guide would be awesome.<p>I&#x27;d also suggest maybe adding the channel names (like the comment you posted here) to the app itself (although i think it&#x27;s cool when it&#x27;s unnamed and you get the old-school feeling of channels just being numbers).<p>Also, I&#x27;d love to have permalinks for the channels. Not for the individual videos themselves, but just a link that when sharing would bring somebody else to the same channel you&#x27;re watching right now.<p>Another thing, although probably outside your control, is that I use a Firefox extension called &quot;SoundFixer&quot; that I use to force the youtube audio to mono (since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left&#x2F;right and it&#x27;s super distracting), but it doesn&#x27;t seem to work on this website, probably because of the way they&#x27;re embedded. I don&#x27;t know if this can be changed somehow, or have a mode to force mono audio (which would be also oldschool like old TVs with one speaker only!). It&#x27;s probably too niche and hard to do though.<p>Also I don&#x27;t seem to find any volume control except mute?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thefourthchime</author><text>Before Netflix, there was Blockbuster. If we’re old enough, we remember going there and wandering through the aisles, trying to find something we would commit to. It was just as hard as picking something to watch today. There’s something incredibly important about not having the option and just going with the flow, which I think a lot of people won’t admit they like but actually do. It’s something truly missing from today’s society.<p>Actually, now that I think about it, I believe this is why TikTok succeeds so well, along with all the doom scrolling—it’s exactly like this. You don’t know what you’re going to get next. Maybe you like it, maybe you don’t, and that’s okay. You’re just flipping through it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels</title><url>https://ytch.xyz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slazaro</author><text>I&#x27;d echo the sentiment that this is amazing, and that a TV guide would be awesome.<p>I&#x27;d also suggest maybe adding the channel names (like the comment you posted here) to the app itself (although i think it&#x27;s cool when it&#x27;s unnamed and you get the old-school feeling of channels just being numbers).<p>Also, I&#x27;d love to have permalinks for the channels. Not for the individual videos themselves, but just a link that when sharing would bring somebody else to the same channel you&#x27;re watching right now.<p>Another thing, although probably outside your control, is that I use a Firefox extension called &quot;SoundFixer&quot; that I use to force the youtube audio to mono (since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left&#x2F;right and it&#x27;s super distracting), but it doesn&#x27;t seem to work on this website, probably because of the way they&#x27;re embedded. I don&#x27;t know if this can be changed somehow, or have a mode to force mono audio (which would be also oldschool like old TVs with one speaker only!). It&#x27;s probably too niche and hard to do though.<p>Also I don&#x27;t seem to find any volume control except mute?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hadisafa</author><text>Thank you for the feedback, I&#x27;ll see what I can do regarding the mono audio issue, and I&#x27;ll try to add more features as soon as possible.</text></comment> |
27,111,981 | 27,112,026 | 1 | 2 | 27,110,493 | train | <story><title>Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2</title><url>https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202105090002</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I doubt Samsung is gonna come even close to Apple in performance. But perhaps getting decent ARM processors in laptops will mean we get battery life that is actually good.<p>It&#x27;s hard to believe that you can use a mobile phone with a high resolution screen and get 8 hours SOT with a varied workload. But browse the web in Chrome on a 2020 Intel or AMD based Windows laptop with a 1080p screen and see that your battery life doesn&#x27;t even come close. Despite a much larger battery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zevis</author><text>I&#x27;m confused. I easily get 8-10 hours on my Core i7 laptop as long as I&#x27;m not at 100% CPU usage permanently. Modern Ryzens also hit this easily. So I don&#x27;t know why 8 hours screen on time on a tiny screen with an incomparably weak CPU is supposed to be proof of how much we need ARM.<p>Apple&#x27;s M1 is in a class of its own, unfortunately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2</title><url>https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202105090002</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I doubt Samsung is gonna come even close to Apple in performance. But perhaps getting decent ARM processors in laptops will mean we get battery life that is actually good.<p>It&#x27;s hard to believe that you can use a mobile phone with a high resolution screen and get 8 hours SOT with a varied workload. But browse the web in Chrome on a 2020 Intel or AMD based Windows laptop with a 1080p screen and see that your battery life doesn&#x27;t even come close. Despite a much larger battery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>It&#x27;s very unlikely given the difference in mobile performance, but it might mean that Samsung is going to seriously invest in ARM performance going forward.<p>The latest Samsung mobile processor (Exynos 2100) hits 956 single-core and 3,151 multi-core for Geekbench. That&#x27;s basically the same as the Qualcomm Snapdragon processors or maybe a bit slower. Apple&#x27;s A14 hits 1,585 single-core and 4,214 multi-core (66% and 34% faster respectively).<p>I would note that the Exynos still has good numbers. A 2020 MacBook Pro with i5-1038NG7 pulling 28W (not the cheaper 15W MacBook Pros) only hits 1,143 single-core and 4,227 multi-core. While the Exynos doesn&#x27;t quite match an $1,800 laptop pulling 28W on single-core performance, the Intel is only 20% faster. Plus, on multi-core performance it is matching. If Samsung created a 10W or 15W part, it seems likely that they could beat that Intel processor.<p>And one can nitpick about Intel having released an 11th gen processor or looking at AMD performance or any number of things. However, it seems reasonable to believe that Samsung is definitely within striking distance of Intel&#x27;s laptop performance without too much difficulty and certainly within what people want in terms of laptop performance.<p>If there were no worries about emulation of x86 instructions (since a lot of Windows software may never be ported to ARM), I think Samsung could easily satisfy people&#x27;s performance needs.<p>Ultimately, Apple isn&#x27;t really a competitor if they&#x27;re not going to sell their M-series chips to Windows laptop makers. Maybe people will start buying Macs based on their performance, but generally people have bought Macs because they want the Apple hardware&#x2F;software, not because they could get better performance (and even stuck with Apple when they would have to suffer through miserable performance circa 2004).<p>Samsung doesn&#x27;t need to match Apple. They need to match Intel and it looks like they&#x27;re there. If they can offer something at a lower cost with better thermal properties, that&#x27;s a huge win. I think the bigger issue is going to be that so much Windows software won&#x27;t get ported over. On the Mac side, everyone knows that they have to port everything over. On the Windows side, I&#x27;m guessing there are a lot of developers that doubt everyone&#x27;s commitment to Windows-ARM. Plus, part of the Windows ecosystem is being able to run all sorts of stuff - something Mac users don&#x27;t expect.</text></comment> |
26,990,704 | 26,990,740 | 1 | 2 | 26,979,879 | train | <story><title>GB Studio: A game maker for the Game Boy</title><url>https://www.gbstudio.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t8y</author><text>I worry about things like this trivialising the difficulty of the past. Something like this is more like modding a game than making a new game in terms of tech. It makes it seem like it&#x27;s really easy to make a Game Boy game, when the creators of this put in heaps of work (more than just making a game) into making a tool that gives people the ability to reskin their base game.<p>Homebrew that&#x27;s designed to run in an emulator isn&#x27;t the same as running on actual hardware either. In the past people had to think about things like how to fit a 20hr RPG into less than 1MB. Now you could make tile sheets for each room because the game can be much shorter. Other things like how art assets can look good on a modern LCD monitor when on an actual Game Boy they would be a blurry mess also contribute to a misunderstanding of retro games.<p>People already have an unrealistic view of &quot;retro&quot; games because in GameMaker or Unity it&#x27;s easy to have 1000s of sprites, shaders and 32bit colour(You can even have HDR sprites if you want) when that isn&#x27;t possible on the actual hardware.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to hate on GB Studio it looks great, just some thoughts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numlock86</author><text>Despite your gatekeeping thoughts I think things like this are great. You make it sound like it&#x27;s a bad thing that you abstract the difficulty from past times away, but what actually will happen is that it makes this stuff much more accessible to get started with it at all. There will be a few people among those falling down the rabbit hole and end up at reading and writing raw code for the Game Boy because stuff like this will always limit you in some way.</text></comment> | <story><title>GB Studio: A game maker for the Game Boy</title><url>https://www.gbstudio.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t8y</author><text>I worry about things like this trivialising the difficulty of the past. Something like this is more like modding a game than making a new game in terms of tech. It makes it seem like it&#x27;s really easy to make a Game Boy game, when the creators of this put in heaps of work (more than just making a game) into making a tool that gives people the ability to reskin their base game.<p>Homebrew that&#x27;s designed to run in an emulator isn&#x27;t the same as running on actual hardware either. In the past people had to think about things like how to fit a 20hr RPG into less than 1MB. Now you could make tile sheets for each room because the game can be much shorter. Other things like how art assets can look good on a modern LCD monitor when on an actual Game Boy they would be a blurry mess also contribute to a misunderstanding of retro games.<p>People already have an unrealistic view of &quot;retro&quot; games because in GameMaker or Unity it&#x27;s easy to have 1000s of sprites, shaders and 32bit colour(You can even have HDR sprites if you want) when that isn&#x27;t possible on the actual hardware.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to hate on GB Studio it looks great, just some thoughts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parski</author><text>You&#x27;re absolutely on the money. If you scrape the surface of Game Boy development you&#x27;ll find that it&#x27;s even inadvisable to use C since the hardware is so weak (compared to today&#x27;s standards) that you really need to squeeze out performance at the instruction level.<p>If GB Studio and GBDK spurs someone&#x27;s interest to get into Game Boy development, great, but getting the most out of the hardware requires a lot more effort.</text></comment> |
30,713,571 | 30,713,788 | 1 | 3 | 30,697,719 | train | <story><title>Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)</title><url>https://tdarb.org/blog/hamburger-menu-alternative.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text><i>When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing</i><p>Tell it to the many people who have no idea what it means on a mobile device, or increasingly on desktop websites. I&#x27;ve said it many times before, but it&#x27;s worth repeating: Most people are frustrated by modern information tools. According to a 2015 OECD computer skills study, &lt;6% of Americans are level 3 (highest) while half have only basic skills and 20% can&#x27;t use computers. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;skills-matter_9789264258051-en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;skills-matter_978926...</a>)<p>I like the sausage link concept <i>because it clearly labels options with text</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; I like the sausage link concept because it clearly labels options with text.<p>100%. I&#x27;m kinda surprised how the 3 lines hamburger menu got so prevalent in the first place, because it <i>always</i> user tests poorly. My guess is that when flat minimalism (my favorite shitty example of this is when Android expected everyone to know what a flat square, circle and triangle are supposed to mean) was the rage, even though user testing always showed a ton of people didn&#x27;t know what the three lines meant, that designers felt it would eventually become &quot;the standard&quot; and people would know.<p>Problem is, years later, tons of people <i>still</i> don&#x27;t know what it means - every time we do user testing, words do better. I think these days design fads change so frequently that there really isn&#x27;t enough time for any design to be that &quot;standard&quot; long enough for everyone to really grasp it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)</title><url>https://tdarb.org/blog/hamburger-menu-alternative.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text><i>When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing</i><p>Tell it to the many people who have no idea what it means on a mobile device, or increasingly on desktop websites. I&#x27;ve said it many times before, but it&#x27;s worth repeating: Most people are frustrated by modern information tools. According to a 2015 OECD computer skills study, &lt;6% of Americans are level 3 (highest) while half have only basic skills and 20% can&#x27;t use computers. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;skills-matter_9789264258051-en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;skills-matter_978926...</a>)<p>I like the sausage link concept <i>because it clearly labels options with text</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t the mechanics of the hamburger menu, it&#x27;s that we use an icon to represent it. I&#x27;ve never seen a case where space was so scarce that the icon couldn&#x27;t be replaced by the word &quot;Menu.&quot;<p>Perhaps there is some issue with internationalization, but I&#x27;ve been to restaurants in 30+ countries, and &quot;Menu&quot; seems to be pretty universally-used word.</text></comment> |
29,258,993 | 29,253,953 | 1 | 3 | 29,253,069 | train | <story><title>Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related ongoing thread:<p><i>Netlify Drop</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29254405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29254405</a> - Nov 2021 (86 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SnowingXIV</author><text>Years ago I applied to Netlify and went through a pretty lengthy interview process and at the very end it was between me and one other guy.<p>He got it. Now I&#x27;m really bummed I missed out. Hats off to him though. Really happy for Netlify&#x27;s success, still use them for many projects&#x2F;clients.</text></comment> |
31,566,019 | 31,566,013 | 1 | 2 | 31,562,264 | train | <story><title>Working on the weekends – an academic necessity?</title><url>https://thegradient.pub/working-on-the-weekends-an-academic-necessity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmeyerov</author><text>Numbers-wise, something like 3% of phds lead to professorships: it&#x27;s not quite as competitive as becoming a professional athlete, but not far. Peak competition. Most professors watching their interview candidates nowadays freely admit they wouldn&#x27;t have made the cut. That is unhealthy levels of competition bc at that point it is more of a lottery.<p>But there is something valuable going on here for everyone else. Most eventually realize they are not in the 3% bucket one way or the other, so then it becomes whether they want to invest in themselves or not. (Good) Phd programs are rare opportunities to work with the best from around the world and not worry about $ as much as results and other impact, and with like-minded people. For example, in my cohort, as folks switched for entertaining the idea of continuing in academics, they used the environment to do other equally hard things, such as startups with their peers. In both cases, only as limited as your work ethic. Others got cushy jobs where they could work hard till 5p but then clock out, but it was rarer, and even folks with families generally pulled the long hours: this was their time to grow.<p>For people happy to clock out and try to convince others to do the same, that devalues the experience for others who ARE there to work as hard &amp; creatively as they can to do amazing things with like-minded individuals. A big part of picking a PhD program is the students you will be exploring with. Masters programs are great for learning technical skills and doing semi-structured technical projects, and a 9-5 view there makes sense. The PhD, which is researching new things, often starts after that, and a different environment. Think an artist colony where someone asks everyone to only do sports &amp; gambling as soon as the sun sets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>This also leads to a few bad outcomes for society at large.<p>- PhD programs can become abusive of their students&#x2F;workers. Paying below subsistence or even charging money to study.<p>- PhD programs can become places where only those with no opportunity cost go.<p>- PhD students will stop caring about long term careers in their field - recognizing the impossibility.<p>- Science enters a hyper-competitive phase where scientists do not target ground breaking research. Instead focusing on small repeatable wins.<p>- Scientists adopt anti-competitive practices to secure their small slice of research funding including review kabals, and disuading research in conflicting views.<p>While I&#x27;m all for letting students take the risks they feel like taking, the current situation is the result of a systemic <i>massive</i> overproduction of PhDs through government funding. It&#x27;s possible this overproduction of apprentices results in decreased productivity amongst those working in the field by introducing noise, and training costs to researchers.<p>If typical science PhD programs reduced their admittance by a factor of 3-10, you would still have a highly competitive field - but one where students, and in turn faculty have a career path should they produce results.</text></comment> | <story><title>Working on the weekends – an academic necessity?</title><url>https://thegradient.pub/working-on-the-weekends-an-academic-necessity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmeyerov</author><text>Numbers-wise, something like 3% of phds lead to professorships: it&#x27;s not quite as competitive as becoming a professional athlete, but not far. Peak competition. Most professors watching their interview candidates nowadays freely admit they wouldn&#x27;t have made the cut. That is unhealthy levels of competition bc at that point it is more of a lottery.<p>But there is something valuable going on here for everyone else. Most eventually realize they are not in the 3% bucket one way or the other, so then it becomes whether they want to invest in themselves or not. (Good) Phd programs are rare opportunities to work with the best from around the world and not worry about $ as much as results and other impact, and with like-minded people. For example, in my cohort, as folks switched for entertaining the idea of continuing in academics, they used the environment to do other equally hard things, such as startups with their peers. In both cases, only as limited as your work ethic. Others got cushy jobs where they could work hard till 5p but then clock out, but it was rarer, and even folks with families generally pulled the long hours: this was their time to grow.<p>For people happy to clock out and try to convince others to do the same, that devalues the experience for others who ARE there to work as hard &amp; creatively as they can to do amazing things with like-minded individuals. A big part of picking a PhD program is the students you will be exploring with. Masters programs are great for learning technical skills and doing semi-structured technical projects, and a 9-5 view there makes sense. The PhD, which is researching new things, often starts after that, and a different environment. Think an artist colony where someone asks everyone to only do sports &amp; gambling as soon as the sun sets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coastflow</author><text>I found myself agreeing with much of your comment, except: &quot;For people happy to clock out and try to convince others to do the same, that devalues the experience for others who ARE there to work as hard &amp; creatively as they can to do amazing things with like-minded individuals.&quot;<p>Is there possibly a separation between PhD students who work 9-5 with a mentality of hard work but strong time boundaries, versus PhD students who work 9-5 but don&#x27;t plan to make the most of the opportunity?<p>I&#x27;m also instinctively wary of any romanticization of a PhD program, especially when working long hours. From anecdotal reports, national labs also provide the resources to do great research, with far more reasonable hours and less of a pressure to work longer hours. I&#x27;ve read of too many reports, which exist even if they are minority situations, where advisors take advantage of the power they have over students, such as in this HN thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26367099" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26367099</a><p>I believe that doing &quot;amazing things with like-minded individuals&quot; is worthwhile, but can also happen in the private sector where the pay is commensurate to the value of the provided work. In general, I&#x27;m very wary of the idea that working longer hours should ever be romanticized, because the potential downsides are severe and should not be underestimated (including physical&#x2F;psychological health problems due to burnout from long hours and failed relationships&#x2F;divorce).</text></comment> |
30,380,573 | 30,380,541 | 1 | 3 | 30,379,973 | train | <story><title>Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Accelerating-fusion-science-through-learned-plasma-control</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klabb3</author><text>AFAIU this is entirely simulated - if it turns out the simulation doesn&#x27;t perfectly match reality, what are the challenges in re-adjusting? Does the RL network need to be re-trained with massive amounts of data on a new improved simulation or can it be fine tuned on the real thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>317070</author><text>Hi, author here. We validated the neural network controller on the real plant in a couple of experiments. All experiments in the paper are based on data from running the controller on an actual tokamak.<p>There is a video of one of these experiments in the linked blogpost (figure 2), where we show imagery taken from a camera looking into the vessel. Next to it is a reconstruction of the shot, visualised on a cross-section of the torus.<p>The simulation not perfectly matching reality is indeed a major challenge, and the nature paper is mainly about showing how you can overcome that challenge. As others have said, plasma is a pain to model, and you cannot collect a ton of data on these machines. But it seems technology is coming at a point where we know how to work within these limits and still get it to work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Accelerating-fusion-science-through-learned-plasma-control</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klabb3</author><text>AFAIU this is entirely simulated - if it turns out the simulation doesn&#x27;t perfectly match reality, what are the challenges in re-adjusting? Does the RL network need to be re-trained with massive amounts of data on a new improved simulation or can it be fine tuned on the real thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willis936</author><text>This is why fundamental plasma physics is so valuable to fund. ML can come up with good models that fit the data in the domains that there are empirical datasets to train against, but it can&#x27;t reliably extrapolate outside of those domains.<p>So this is a good tool for the computationalists but we still need the experimentalists. This is science.</text></comment> |
11,735,326 | 11,735,255 | 1 | 2 | 11,732,303 | train | <story><title>Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks</title><url>https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spot</author><text>from the post:<p>&gt; Schools in the US are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined -- and in Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US*.<p>that&#x27;s pretty amazing actually. congrats to google &amp; the chromebook team!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jalami</author><text>Congrats on the adoption, although I still don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s moving our public institutions in the right direction. It&#x27;s really just moving a lot more kids into a walled garden. I know Google has been in hot water for collecting student data recently and has since taken steps to fix it. That&#x27;s their primary business model though. &quot;<i>Anonymizing</i>&quot; promises always follow and then it&#x27;s a trust game again.<p>I can see a future where a mandatory Google account follows you up the grades. Educational software is released exclusively in Google&#x27;s Play store. Assignments and homework are handed in with Google Drive and Google Docs.<p>Sure this is great for Google, but I think our public institutions suffer from such a third-party centrality. I remember at UW-Madison, it was annoying having to pay for a semester long subscription to whatever the professor decided was a good cms for the class, but at least the costs were explicit and there wasn&#x27;t a monopoly player in the field that everyone had to use. IMHO, Google is more interested in getting people into the garden than it is in selling hardware or fostering education.</text></comment> | <story><title>Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks</title><url>https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spot</author><text>from the post:<p>&gt; Schools in the US are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined -- and in Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US*.<p>that&#x27;s pretty amazing actually. congrats to google &amp; the chromebook team!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I hate to be the contrarian one in a thread full of Google fans, but I&#x27;d consider this trend of schools flocking to locked-down and largely cloud-dependent computing devices to be <i>pretty freaking scary</i>. Start them young, get them accustomed to and comfortable with the idea of some huge company having great knowledge of and control over their online lives... it&#x27;s a great business plan, but one that I would certainly object to my kids participating in.</text></comment> |
652,742 | 652,785 | 1 | 3 | 652,669 | train | <story><title>Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course</title><url>http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>michael_dorfman</author><text>I think the gatekeepers of the institution feel that human knowledge is not increased when homework answers are published on the web, rendering the assignments obsolete for future instances of the course.</text></item><item><author>ionfish</author><text>Good for him. It's perverse for the gatekeepers of an institution supposedly dedicated to increasing human knowledge to attempt to restrain its dissemination in this fashion, and it's cheering to see the university backing the student here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mileszs</author><text>What is the chance they are doing anything new in a 100 level CS course? Interesting, perhaps, but new? Couldn't one find answers to most of the problems in 4+ languages with a single search? I understand the argument, to an extent, that the student is simply lowering the barrier to cheating, but isn't it he really just lowering it from just above the knee to just below the knee?<p>It was easy to cheat 8 years ago (from what I remember), it's surely easier to cheat now, and it's certainly not because this one kid stood up for something in which he believes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course</title><url>http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>michael_dorfman</author><text>I think the gatekeepers of the institution feel that human knowledge is not increased when homework answers are published on the web, rendering the assignments obsolete for future instances of the course.</text></item><item><author>ionfish</author><text>Good for him. It's perverse for the gatekeepers of an institution supposedly dedicated to increasing human knowledge to attempt to restrain its dissemination in this fashion, and it's cheering to see the university backing the student here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>Professors should already be using new problems in each instance of the class. In particular, frats and other student societies often pass things down, and you don't want to advantage them. Trying to stop people from posting knowledge on the web that is already public is ineffective and unfair.</text></comment> |
38,236,336 | 38,235,839 | 1 | 3 | 38,232,334 | train | <story><title>Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?</title><url>https://librearts.org/2023/11/radical-redesign-of-gimp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SebastianKra</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised there&#x27;s uncertainty about <i>how</i> Gimp should be redesigned. Just copy Photoshop! Select tools on the left, configure the current tool at the top, global options on the right. Affinity does this and nobody complains. Thanks to MacOS help search, we even already have the command search that this video proposes. And it has interaction hints too.<p>Gimp isn&#x27;t more complex than Photoshop. We don&#x27;t need it to reinvent drawing applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>The thing is, Photoshop didn&#x27;t win the &quot;graphics wars&quot; in the 90s by having a good interface. It won by having an interface that&#x27;s analogous to physical photo editing and by having a bunch of the weird&#x2F;fiddly things that professional need.<p>The best from-the-ground-up interface for a graphics program imo is that of CorelDraw, which survives as the interface to Inkscape. Rather than a craptasm of random, physical-analogue tools, you have a small number of highly functional tools giving you a wide range of options at any one point.<p>And yes, I&#x27;m &quot;confusing&quot; vector-graphics editors and bit-map editors. But imo they should be the same, the form of the image should be secondary. High film editors produce a script of editing operations to be done on the raw film. Bit-maps should also produce a sequence of operation that can be edited afterwards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?</title><url>https://librearts.org/2023/11/radical-redesign-of-gimp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SebastianKra</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised there&#x27;s uncertainty about <i>how</i> Gimp should be redesigned. Just copy Photoshop! Select tools on the left, configure the current tool at the top, global options on the right. Affinity does this and nobody complains. Thanks to MacOS help search, we even already have the command search that this video proposes. And it has interaction hints too.<p>Gimp isn&#x27;t more complex than Photoshop. We don&#x27;t need it to reinvent drawing applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>replete</author><text>This still blows my mind a bit - yes literally they should just copy Photoshop because everyone knows how to use it. Menus are fine, any complex tool has lots of menus. I have been wishing for a photoshop-like GUI frontend for GIMP for 20 years. It&#x27;s not even that far off. That sounds ungrateful, and it&#x27;s not meant to be - I know this is just how it is, amazing stuff under the hood and janky interfaces<p>I mean, linux today is full of macos GUI ripoffs and people love it - because Apple did some great UI design. I was using windows 11 recently and so many common things are complex to the typical user - e.g. making an application run at startup, anyway I&#x27;m in boomer mode so I&#x27;d better stop writing</text></comment> |
33,903,929 | 33,903,383 | 1 | 3 | 33,902,878 | train | <story><title>Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms</title><url>https://www.umass.edu/news/article/soil-midwestern-us-eroding-10-1000-times-faster-it-forms-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>Good documentary about this issue on Netflix: Kiss the Ground (2020)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;81321999" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;81321999</a><p>It has some striking pictures of two farm fields side by side.<p>One supports diverse plant life and produces nutrient-rich food. The plant roots prevent erosion, and retain water. The soil is rich and black. It&#x27;s &quot;regenerative&quot;.<p>The other has brown, dry, dead soil. It&#x27;s tilled and irrigated and sprayed with chemicals. It grows a single crop, a monoculture.<p>Multiply that by a hundred years and thousands of consolidating mega farms all over the world, and you have a huge amount of erosion<p>---<p>This problem has been well understood for decades (and by other civilizations for centuries), but is repressed &#x2F; conveniently ignored by a wealthy, government-subsidized food industry<p>Here&#x27;s a 2012 documentary about a 1994 project in China to restore degraded &#x2F; desertified land, and it shows how poor entire states become when the soil is poor (which I suppose is not unlike the American midwest!)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bjLV_aVRUmQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bjLV_aVRUmQ</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethink.earth&#x2F;turning-desert-to-fertile-farmland-on-the-loess-plateau&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethink.earth&#x2F;turning-desert-to-fertile-farmland-on-...</a><p>Chinese land has supported agriculture way longer than American land, and they have way more people, so they have these problems sooner<p>The US is going to get there</text></comment> | <story><title>Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms</title><url>https://www.umass.edu/news/article/soil-midwestern-us-eroding-10-1000-times-faster-it-forms-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jihadjihad</author><text>&quot;Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.&quot; - Paul Harvey</text></comment> |
18,680,393 | 18,680,423 | 1 | 3 | 18,677,735 | train | <story><title>FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library</title><url>https://github.com/guenchi/FLI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>Racket has this for C-based APIs. My mind is kind of wondering how this would ever be stable&#x2F;maintainable to use for Python, but Lua seems possible but I would rather do my scripting in Racket then Lua and use the C APIs directly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;foreign&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;foreign&#x2F;index.html</a><p>Looking at Julia (Which has a no &quot;boiler plate&quot; philosophy when using C or Fortan) the function is just called.<p>Interesting to look at for comparison<p>Julia ccall- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v0.6.1&#x2F;manual&#x2F;calling-c-and-fortran-code&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v0.6.1&#x2F;manual&#x2F;calling-c-and-fo...</a><p>Racket FFI - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;foreign&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;foreign&#x2F;index.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library</title><url>https://github.com/guenchi/FLI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akavel</author><text>How does Chez Scheme compare vs. CHICKEN Scheme? For a layman, they both seem to compile to binary; Chicken via C, Chez maybe not? Which one has a bigget community?<p>Also, do you know of any static typing extension for Chez?</text></comment> |
36,521,721 | 36,521,208 | 1 | 2 | 36,519,633 | train | <story><title>Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blueridge</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve been thinking about: it&#x27;s only a matter of time before your friends load an AI assistant on their phone, and it devours every text message you have ever sent to that person, every photo you&#x27;ve shared together, every record of an in-person meeting. This makes me really uncomfortable.</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>I mean, it ingested all of the content from my blog. Without my permission. It&#x27;s not a major part of their corpus of data, but still -- I wasn&#x27;t asked and I don&#x27;t really care to donate work to large corporations like that.<p>So the technology is cool, but I&#x27;m firmly of the stance that they cut corners and trampled peoples&#x27; rights to get a product out the door. I wouldn&#x27;t be entirely unhappy if this iteration of these products were sued into the ground and were forced to start over on this stuff The Right Way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4ggr0</author><text>That&#x27;s what bothers me for years now in the context of contacts on smartphones. Maybe I&#x27;m making a mistake when thinking about it, but - if I refuse to share my contacts with let&#x27;s say Instagram, but all of my friends share their contacts list which includes me, does it really matter if I decline to share or not?<p>Another part which bothers me is that I have lots of different personalities online. On most sites I use different usernames, and I wonder if there will someday be an AI which can match all the different online profile to a single person, even if different username are being used etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blueridge</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve been thinking about: it&#x27;s only a matter of time before your friends load an AI assistant on their phone, and it devours every text message you have ever sent to that person, every photo you&#x27;ve shared together, every record of an in-person meeting. This makes me really uncomfortable.</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>I mean, it ingested all of the content from my blog. Without my permission. It&#x27;s not a major part of their corpus of data, but still -- I wasn&#x27;t asked and I don&#x27;t really care to donate work to large corporations like that.<p>So the technology is cool, but I&#x27;m firmly of the stance that they cut corners and trampled peoples&#x27; rights to get a product out the door. I wouldn&#x27;t be entirely unhappy if this iteration of these products were sued into the ground and were forced to start over on this stuff The Right Way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsaavy</author><text>We&#x27;re already on the way: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rewind.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rewind.ai&#x2F;</a><p>Not on the phone yet, but on a Mac which could include iMessages.</text></comment> |
40,897,861 | 40,897,724 | 1 | 2 | 40,897,205 | train | <story><title>YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable</title><url>https://frontendmasters.com/blog/youtube-embeds-are-bananas-heavy-and-its-fixable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmmmmbop</author><text>The author says they don&#x27;t believe that a lighter version has been shown to reduce engagement.<p>I, on the other hand, fully believe that.<p>The recommended lite-youtube-embed project page has a demo of both lite and regular players [0], and the lite version takes <i>noticeably</i> longer to start playing the video.<p>Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement, and here the difference is more on the order of hundreds of milliseconds or more.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulirish.github.io&#x2F;lite-youtube-embed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulirish.github.io&#x2F;lite-youtube-embed&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>I suspect you’re right, but on the other hand, I think it’s useful to think critically about whether starting the video faster is worth it if it makes the web page that it’s embedded in load slower. The “every millisecond counts” argument applies to the web page too. If the user bounces off the web page, they won’t get to the video anyway.<p>Also, maybe it’s fine if people don’t want to play the video? Personally, I appreciate it when a web page includes a summary, so that I can <i>avoid</i> watching a video. (I prefer not using YouTube for anything other than listening to music or occasionally watching a movie.)<p>Video can be a useful tool, but consider whose interest it’s in for you to encourage your audience to watch more TV. Is it really serving your users?<p>Even when I do want to watch a video, it’s selective. One thing I find rather frustrating about YouTube’s redesign (on desktop) is that it devotes so much screen real estate to promoting videos other than the one you’re actually there to watch. I’d prefer fewer distractions.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable</title><url>https://frontendmasters.com/blog/youtube-embeds-are-bananas-heavy-and-its-fixable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmmmmbop</author><text>The author says they don&#x27;t believe that a lighter version has been shown to reduce engagement.<p>I, on the other hand, fully believe that.<p>The recommended lite-youtube-embed project page has a demo of both lite and regular players [0], and the lite version takes <i>noticeably</i> longer to start playing the video.<p>Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement, and here the difference is more on the order of hundreds of milliseconds or more.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulirish.github.io&#x2F;lite-youtube-embed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulirish.github.io&#x2F;lite-youtube-embed&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnf</author><text>I would <i>much</i> rather wait a few hundred milliseconds for a video to start during the few times I decide to watch an embedded video than to wait for the full video player to load every single time I visit a page with an embedded video that I&#x27;m never going to watch. Similarly, I would <i>much</i> rather have every stoplight I approach be green for me rather than having every light be red but for not very long.</text></comment> |
29,151,129 | 29,151,477 | 1 | 2 | 29,149,555 | train | <story><title>Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kayson</author><text>Has anyone ever done an a analysis on whether Denuvo (or DRM in general) is actually a wise investment of capital? I imagine it probably does have some impact on early sales in that it will prevent early customers from pirating to try it rather than buying it. But at the same time, you have things like Steam&#x27;s return policy, the general dislike of DRM, and the publicity&#x2F;image cost when something happens preventing everyone from playing the game. Not to mention that it seems inevitable these days that it either gets cracked or removed by the publisher anyway.<p>I always wonder if the resources spent on Denuvo would be better spent on the game itself, or marketing the game, allowing the so-inclined to pirate it more easily at launch, but offsetting that with better sales overall driven by better reception, more word of mouth, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WmyEE0UsWAwC2i</author><text>DRM doesn&#x27;t work in games, go to a torrent site to see all the failed attempts.<p><pre><code> 1. It costs money
2. It makes the product worse(slower, less portable,etc...) for your _ paying _ customers.
3. It doesn&#x27;t work if the game is good.
</code></pre>
Just add a copyright note on the corner and make sure to have good distribution.</text></comment> |
18,989,367 | 18,988,809 | 1 | 3 | 18,988,774 | train | <story><title>Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?</title><url>https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/why-are-pianos-traditionally-tuned-out-of-tune-at-the-extremes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vnorilo</author><text>Related: in a grand piano, the hammers strike the string at a node of the 5th harmonic (thus avoiding excitation), which reduces the beating from thirds that do not match the harmonic series (due to equal temperament)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?</title><url>https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/why-are-pianos-traditionally-tuned-out-of-tune-at-the-extremes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xchip</author><text>Related: If you have a piano you can check that by using my online tuner that shows you the power of all the 88 notes a piano has. This means you can look at the fundamental frequency and its harmonics too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmlpreview.github.io&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aguaviva&#x2F;GuitarTuner&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;GuitarTuner.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmlpreview.github.io&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aguaviva&#x2F;G...</a></text></comment> |
19,097,236 | 19,096,802 | 1 | 2 | 19,096,233 | train | <story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chanandler_bong</author><text>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. <i>That</i> will fix even more.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexB138</author><text>&gt; The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.<p>When you think there are simple answers to big problems it&#x27;s generally because you don&#x27;t actually understand the problem.<p>How would you outlaw lobbyists? Setting aside the fact that it would be unconstitutional, do you think it should be illegal for you to air your grievances to elected officials? That seems to fly directly in the face of democracy. Or should it only be that businesses aren&#x27;t allowed to lobby? What about a small business that is being unfairly impacted by regulations, or being run out of business by a large company abusing a loophole in the law? Seems like them not having a voice in government would be a path to oligopoly or monopoly. If that&#x27;s ok, where&#x27;s the line in which business is allowed to lobby, and how do you keep a large business from simply hiring a small business to lobby on their behalf?</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chanandler_bong</author><text>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. <i>That</i> will fix even more.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citilife</author><text>Not siding one way or the other, that will definitely limit the amount of <i>expertise</i> that comes with a Congressman&#x2F;Congresswoman.<p>Think about it, it takes at least six months for us to learn our jobs, they have to learn about hundreds of things ongoing in the government before they can make informed decisions. You then even rely more on lobbyists (or &quot;experts&quot;) who at least generally know what they are talking about.<p>Point being, I think this issue is a hell of a lot more complex than it seems.</text></comment> |
25,042,644 | 25,041,958 | 1 | 3 | 25,037,064 | train | <story><title>Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88anxg/students-have-to-jump-through-absurd-hoops-to-use-exam-monitoring-software</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloud5ir</author><text>To me, this underscores notion that schools continue to test for the wrong thing. With the exception of professions&#x2F;trades that require impulse application of knowledge, I don&#x27;t know why I would want&#x2F;need someone to memorize a concept in order to apply it. Productive members of our society&#x2F;workforce think critically, they ask good questions, and they research and leverage the information at their disposal to make data-driven decisions. Let&#x27;s test for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sn41</author><text>I teach programming. What prevents students from colluding over their tablets&#x2F;mobiles&#x2F;laptops while taking the exam from another device? Can&#x27;t the student mirror the screen elsewhere, leading to interesting possibilities for cheating?<p>Proctoring is not a solution that I am comfortable with. I do not want to peer into the private lives of students and their home environments. Not every student is well-off, and has a private space all to their own for 3 hours.<p>I think taking tests from home does not really work with any of the models I have seen discussed this year. Cheating is real. It has nothing to do with rote learning. I am out of ideas which are foolproof.</text></comment> | <story><title>Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88anxg/students-have-to-jump-through-absurd-hoops-to-use-exam-monitoring-software</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloud5ir</author><text>To me, this underscores notion that schools continue to test for the wrong thing. With the exception of professions&#x2F;trades that require impulse application of knowledge, I don&#x27;t know why I would want&#x2F;need someone to memorize a concept in order to apply it. Productive members of our society&#x2F;workforce think critically, they ask good questions, and they research and leverage the information at their disposal to make data-driven decisions. Let&#x27;s test for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bllguo</author><text>while this sounds good on the surface, i think memorization is much more important than you give it credit. imo you absolutely should have key concepts memorized if you have any real understanding of a subject. and as you become more of a specialist, your bar for what constitutes a &quot;key concept&quot; should raise.<p>Being able to search things up is well and good, but dont you run into situations where you don&#x27;t even know what to search for in the first place?</text></comment> |
32,850,516 | 32,850,477 | 1 | 2 | 32,849,506 | train | <story><title>Twitter blocked our indie game account</title><text>8 days ago, Twitter suspended the &#x27;Ticket to Europe&#x27; account (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TicketToEurope). As the reason, Twitter gave a vague formula: your account broke the Twitter Rules. What rules exactly? It is not known.<p>We have already sent several appeals, but we are not getting any reply. Twitter Support also does not respond to us. We have the impression that for several days our efforts have only fallen into the abyss of algorithms. Several months of work on Twitter thus go to the trash. Is there any chance to get our Twitter account back? Is the only option to create a new account and start building a community from scratch? Do you have any experiences with similar situations?<p>Personally, it is hard for us to imagine breaking any Twitter Rules. Our game is a socially engaged project that we have been working on for 8 years (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2094580&#x2F;Ticket_to_Europe&#x2F;). We invest private savings in it and create it out of a sense of mission - it&#x27;s a Text-Based RPG about refugees. The scenario was based on real stories of refugees we met during our research in a refugee camp. We are supported by various human rights volunteers and various NGOs consulted the scenario. We do not promote racist behavior in any way, on the contrary - our project was created precisely to increase social awareness and sensitivity to the drama that refugees face. How can such ideals conflict with Twitter&#x27;s principles? Dunno.<p>Will publicizing such a case in the media increase our chances of recovering the account? Please help us, we are emotionally broken and a little desperate.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pasc1878</author><text>Or is the name thought to be near to the game Ticket to Ride: Europe. Which is what I thought when seeing your name
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daysofwonder.com&#x2F;tickettoride&#x2F;en&#x2F;europe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daysofwonder.com&#x2F;tickettoride&#x2F;en&#x2F;europe&#x2F;</a><p>This was released in 2005 and the web version I think is before 2011<p>This name might well be trademarked as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>That seems like a bit of a stretch for a platform with uncountable &quot;E1on Musk&quot; style accounts going untouched.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter blocked our indie game account</title><text>8 days ago, Twitter suspended the &#x27;Ticket to Europe&#x27; account (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TicketToEurope). As the reason, Twitter gave a vague formula: your account broke the Twitter Rules. What rules exactly? It is not known.<p>We have already sent several appeals, but we are not getting any reply. Twitter Support also does not respond to us. We have the impression that for several days our efforts have only fallen into the abyss of algorithms. Several months of work on Twitter thus go to the trash. Is there any chance to get our Twitter account back? Is the only option to create a new account and start building a community from scratch? Do you have any experiences with similar situations?<p>Personally, it is hard for us to imagine breaking any Twitter Rules. Our game is a socially engaged project that we have been working on for 8 years (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2094580&#x2F;Ticket_to_Europe&#x2F;). We invest private savings in it and create it out of a sense of mission - it&#x27;s a Text-Based RPG about refugees. The scenario was based on real stories of refugees we met during our research in a refugee camp. We are supported by various human rights volunteers and various NGOs consulted the scenario. We do not promote racist behavior in any way, on the contrary - our project was created precisely to increase social awareness and sensitivity to the drama that refugees face. How can such ideals conflict with Twitter&#x27;s principles? Dunno.<p>Will publicizing such a case in the media increase our chances of recovering the account? Please help us, we are emotionally broken and a little desperate.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pasc1878</author><text>Or is the name thought to be near to the game Ticket to Ride: Europe. Which is what I thought when seeing your name
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daysofwonder.com&#x2F;tickettoride&#x2F;en&#x2F;europe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daysofwonder.com&#x2F;tickettoride&#x2F;en&#x2F;europe&#x2F;</a><p>This was released in 2005 and the web version I think is before 2011<p>This name might well be trademarked as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omgmajk</author><text>I pretty much just thought that ticket to ride had gotten their account suspended for a second. So I was confused for a little bit.</text></comment> |
24,752,424 | 24,747,373 | 1 | 3 | 24,746,001 | train | <story><title>A Note about Spotify Transfers</title><url>https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>I think this will push me to finally just jump to Apple Music (even though it’s worse and will now be harder to do, plus I’ll miss discover weekly).<p>Spotify’s attack on podcasts with exclusivity and trying to destroy the open standard really bothers me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&#x2F;</a><p>Now with this I just don’t have much respect for them.<p>When paired with their complaining about Apple’s policies being unfair it makes me really dislike them, they don’t care about their users or what’s best for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if soon I have to call and beg them to cancel my subscription like Sirius XM.<p>FreeYourMusic also still works, so if you want to do this download it quickly before Spotify forces them to break the feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bartoszhernas</author><text>Hi, founder of FreeYourMusic here. It will still work, Spotify tried to block us just the same two years ago. We then switched to different method of integration to not be legally bound via SDK agreements.<p>We are still operational and have Spotify export working. If they won&#x27;t let you through doors, we get in via window. ️<p>We do not expect any platforms to be limited on FYM.FM in near future.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Note about Spotify Transfers</title><url>https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>I think this will push me to finally just jump to Apple Music (even though it’s worse and will now be harder to do, plus I’ll miss discover weekly).<p>Spotify’s attack on podcasts with exclusivity and trying to destroy the open standard really bothers me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&#x2F;</a><p>Now with this I just don’t have much respect for them.<p>When paired with their complaining about Apple’s policies being unfair it makes me really dislike them, they don’t care about their users or what’s best for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if soon I have to call and beg them to cancel my subscription like Sirius XM.<p>FreeYourMusic also still works, so if you want to do this download it quickly before Spotify forces them to break the feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>actuator</author><text>Amusingly enough, I think the podcast move was a realisation that like Netflix they will need their own content to prosper in the long run when faced against goliaths like Apple, as big players will just throw money and platform advantages at their services.<p>It doesn&#x27;t help Spotify&#x27;s image though.</text></comment> |
28,947,082 | 28,946,548 | 1 | 2 | 28,945,998 | train | <story><title>We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers</title><url>https://blog.sentry.io/2021/10/21/we-just-gave-154-999-dollars-and-89-cents-to-open-source-maintainers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maximedupre</author><text>That&#x27;s an amazing way to step up.<p>It&#x27;s not even about the amount, since in the grand scheme of things, it&#x27;s nothing.<p>It&#x27;s about the leadership they are exercising and the influence it can have on other businesses.<p>Most of our daily work as programmers involves us benefiting from OSS, yet so few of us are part of a culture that values this kind of support.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers</title><url>https://blog.sentry.io/2021/10/21/we-just-gave-154-999-dollars-and-89-cents-to-open-source-maintainers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghuntley</author><text>Way to go Sentry! I’ve just finished setting up the early motions of a similar fund over at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;gitpod-open-source-sustainability-fund" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;gitpod-open-source-sustainability...</a>. Currently an initial amount of USD 30,000 has been earmarked. One day I hope to triple that (or more). At <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;devxconf-wrap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;devxconf-wrap</a> USD 10,000 was distributed to maintainers of LSP implementations and “digital infrastructure” that people use day-to-day but seldom think about.</text></comment> |
39,928,627 | 39,928,670 | 1 | 3 | 39,927,657 | train | <story><title>Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected</title><url>https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/keeping-your-data-from-apple-is-harder-than-expected</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Apple should provide an option to opt-out of Siri &quot;learn from app&quot; for ALL applications.<p>At present, this must be done individually for every app, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;how-stop-siri-learning-how-you-use-apps-iphone-and-ipad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;how-stop-siri-learning-how-you-use-app...</a>. When you later install new apps after setting up the device, you have to remember to go into Settings and opt-out again, for every app, forever.<p>How many people know that iOS devices will default to Siri reading plaintext for all apps, including E2EE messengers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdrive</author><text>It would be much better if I could just uninstall Siri. I don&#x27;t want a voice assistant, and never have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected</title><url>https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/keeping-your-data-from-apple-is-harder-than-expected</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Apple should provide an option to opt-out of Siri &quot;learn from app&quot; for ALL applications.<p>At present, this must be done individually for every app, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;how-stop-siri-learning-how-you-use-apps-iphone-and-ipad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;how-stop-siri-learning-how-you-use-app...</a>. When you later install new apps after setting up the device, you have to remember to go into Settings and opt-out again, for every app, forever.<p>How many people know that iOS devices will default to Siri reading plaintext for all apps, including E2EE messengers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;How many people know that iOS devices will default to Siri reading plaintext for all apps, including E2EE messengers?<p>Is there more on what Siri &quot;learn from app&quot; actually does? Does it scrape entire screen contents? Or just metadata? Or only what the app developer decides to send?</text></comment> |
4,127,618 | 4,127,385 | 1 | 2 | 4,127,042 | train | <story><title>Stop Working All Those Hours</title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2012/06/stop-working-all-those-hours.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>The article is aimed at the wrong people. Corporate culture starts at the top. Stop judging your employees by the hours they appear, and judge them on results. If you can't measure results, you were in trouble already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simplezeal</author><text>I should add to that - not just results but quality of results. Software development is a tricky profession to measure for quality - outside of bug count (which may be heavily influenced by quality of testing) and code coverage numbers (those can miss some really nasty edge cases) the only thing you can measure is how long it takes to make change to existing code.<p>I have seen numerous cases where the person implementing the code is rewarded and next one comes along, and rewrites the code since first one is too hard to change. He gets rewarded too and cycle continues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Working All Those Hours</title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2012/06/stop-working-all-those-hours.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>The article is aimed at the wrong people. Corporate culture starts at the top. Stop judging your employees by the hours they appear, and judge them on results. If you can't measure results, you were in trouble already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wilhow</author><text>I agree. Most of the people who works that kind of hours already know and agree with the article. This article should've been directed at the managers who require that kind of hours from the employes.</text></comment> |
15,684,690 | 15,684,603 | 1 | 2 | 15,684,225 | train | <story><title>An ARM killer from IIT-M?</title><url>https://factordaily.com/india-chip-design-shakti-iit-madras/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>To be honest though building a processor these days is not exactly difficult. That is especially true if you start with someone else&#x27;s ISA and they have already created a GCC or LLVM back end for it. I was at Sun during the development of SPARC and as part of the Systems group we got to see a lot of the trade offs up front but these days transistors are not nearly so scarce. If you stick to 30 - 50Mhz for your first round you can simulate pretty much power on to shell prompt in a reasonable amount of time. Then there are the process specific issues that TSMC or Global Foundries or whomever will help you with translating your HDL into their most reliable node (probably 45nm or 90nm at the moment), then you&#x27;ll build a test chip and it will likely do everything you want it to do and it will cost 10x what an equally powerful ARM chip will do, so you will really really want to use your chip instead of that one if you&#x27;re going to design it into something. And that something has to be popular enough that you sell at least a million of them, otherwise you&#x27;re going to eat a lot of Nonrecurring engineering (NRE) cost.<p>It is certainly possible, but it is a long game and you have to survive the early years. Go back and read the history of ARM (and Acorn), Intel (and IBM), Motorola (and Sun and Apple), and Power PC (and Cisco). Then read the history of the Z8000, the NS32032, the AMD88000, and the TI 9900. When you look at the history from where we sit today you will see that building a new CPU is the easiest thing in the world, staying alive until it is relevant is exceptionally difficult and requires quite a bit of luck in addition to good design.<p>I wish these guys a lot of luck, I would love to see a fully open architecture be even half as successful as ARM has been. They have to walk into this with their eyes open though, it is not going to be easy.</text></comment> | <story><title>An ARM killer from IIT-M?</title><url>https://factordaily.com/india-chip-design-shakti-iit-madras/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throw3192312</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely to be welcomed, but India barely has the kind of interests, state-apparatus or companies that&#x27;d want something like this to succeed. India neither has Baidu, nor Tencent, nor Wechat. They have Flipkart, which is barely an Alibaba, and is on a long drawn collision course towards merging with Amazon. The startups I&#x27;ve seen generally seem to target foreign markets, or to service people who service foreign markets; this is inherently a tiny subset of India&#x27;s population.<p>Considering the &#x27;prestige&#x27; and money that comes with working in the US, I&#x27;d be very surprised if the country can ever accumulate enough talent to do anything fundamentally significant (esp. since all of the relevant Education&#x2F;Industry is entirely Anglophone).<p>I also feel there is generally a lot of self-flattering that goes on, often for this very reason. I&#x27;m old enough to remember the embarrassment that was to be &#x27;India&#x27;s answer to OLPC&#x27; (also conceived at an IIT of note).</text></comment> |
39,561,715 | 39,561,738 | 1 | 2 | 39,561,492 | train | <story><title>A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/science/daddy-long-legs-eyes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;NxIiF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;NxIiF</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/science/daddy-long-legs-eyes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>Note that even though Opiliones aren&#x27;t spiders, Pholcidae - which are also commonly called daddy longlegs - definitely are. This article is about Opiliones.</text></comment> |
37,881,674 | 37,881,352 | 1 | 3 | 37,880,656 | train | <story><title>Antarctica: Ice shelves shrinking 'with no sign of recovery</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/antarctica-ice-shelves-shrinking-with-no-sign-of-recovery/a-67084109</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bantunes</author><text>Nobody cares.<p>Most have decided they prefer SUVs, cheap burgers and flying to Greece twice a year for 50 quid over the Amazon being a thing or co-existing with wildlife.<p>And the ones that didn&#x27;t make that choice are unwilling to change things because deep down they know violence (in the short term) is the only thing that can stop the car going over the cliff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jodrellblank</author><text>The UK government has just stopped off-shore wind turbine growth for the next decade, delayed their ban on internal combustion engine cars another five years, cancelled the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway extension and said they’ll put that money into roads instead.<p>Great.</text></comment> | <story><title>Antarctica: Ice shelves shrinking 'with no sign of recovery</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/antarctica-ice-shelves-shrinking-with-no-sign-of-recovery/a-67084109</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bantunes</author><text>Nobody cares.<p>Most have decided they prefer SUVs, cheap burgers and flying to Greece twice a year for 50 quid over the Amazon being a thing or co-existing with wildlife.<p>And the ones that didn&#x27;t make that choice are unwilling to change things because deep down they know violence (in the short term) is the only thing that can stop the car going over the cliff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GravityLab</author><text>&gt; violence (in the short term) is the only thing that can stop the car going over the cliff.<p>nah that’s just what ideologues say because they care more about their top-down control agenda. If climate change was fixed tomorrow, they’d be disappointed because they wouldn’t be able to exact control over others in the name of climate concern.<p>Plant more trees. Invest in renewables.</text></comment> |
28,014,586 | 28,013,292 | 1 | 2 | 28,008,571 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?</title><text>I&#x27;m sure some of your heard about what&#x27;s happening in my country, Tunisia. (tldr: the president made some &#x27;unconstitutional&#x27; moves to thwart rampant corruption. Five days later, everything seems fine ... for now).<p>Even though it seems the president is keeping his promise on freedom of speech, I don&#x27;t think it would be extravagant to get prepared for the worse.<p>So, what should I do to keep myself safe online?<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not worried about my physical safety, I&#x27;m just asking about protecting my privacy online if the government decides to go full on Big Brother.<p>P.S.: I tried to submit this question with a throwaway account, for obvious reasons, was told to &quot;please slow down&quot;.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahern</author><text>[Some time later] I&#x27;m glad you contacted me Ahmed. Lesson #1: Don&#x27;t trust random people on the internet. The secret police are everywhere. Now come with me down to the police station so we can get you booked and interrogated.</text></item><item><author>slim</author><text>Hey Ahmed I live in Tunisia too. You seem to be young enough to not remember how it was to live under the dictatorship 10 years ago. I&#x27;m a political activist from the Pirate Party, and I&#x27;ve been arrested twice under the dictatorship and I&#x27;m not as worried as you are. Send me an email if you want to chat. I&#x27;m [email protected]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>Slim Amamou is not random. Maybe not quite famous but he is a bit known in Tunisia.<p>And there is no secret police in Tunisia for now. The current plot is quite amateurish but given history (Cuba&#x2F;Fidel) anything is possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?</title><text>I&#x27;m sure some of your heard about what&#x27;s happening in my country, Tunisia. (tldr: the president made some &#x27;unconstitutional&#x27; moves to thwart rampant corruption. Five days later, everything seems fine ... for now).<p>Even though it seems the president is keeping his promise on freedom of speech, I don&#x27;t think it would be extravagant to get prepared for the worse.<p>So, what should I do to keep myself safe online?<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not worried about my physical safety, I&#x27;m just asking about protecting my privacy online if the government decides to go full on Big Brother.<p>P.S.: I tried to submit this question with a throwaway account, for obvious reasons, was told to &quot;please slow down&quot;.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahern</author><text>[Some time later] I&#x27;m glad you contacted me Ahmed. Lesson #1: Don&#x27;t trust random people on the internet. The secret police are everywhere. Now come with me down to the police station so we can get you booked and interrogated.</text></item><item><author>slim</author><text>Hey Ahmed I live in Tunisia too. You seem to be young enough to not remember how it was to live under the dictatorship 10 years ago. I&#x27;m a political activist from the Pirate Party, and I&#x27;ve been arrested twice under the dictatorship and I&#x27;m not as worried as you are. Send me an email if you want to chat. I&#x27;m [email protected]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slim</author><text>:) While this was good advice under the dictatorship, it is not anymore. He specifically said he&#x27;s not concerned about his physical safety. Tunisia is not like saudi arabia or syria anymore. It&#x27;s as safe as any western country. And he can easily check me out, I&#x27;m on HN since 2007.</text></comment> |
30,358,048 | 30,357,887 | 1 | 2 | 30,357,370 | train | <story><title>Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B</title><url>https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1527/intel-to-acquire-tower-semiconductor-for-5-4-billion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lnsru</author><text>When reading headline I was thinking about Intel removing its competitor. Then I searched a bit and found this:
“ Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is an Israeli company that manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power management, and non-volatile memory as well as MEMS capabilities.”<p>Looks like that Intel wants to go deeper in foundry business offering more services. I can speculate, that Intel has very good silicon process for logic circuits and will improve their offerings with technology from this acquisition. Sounds like a reasonable strategy to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B</title><url>https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1527/intel-to-acquire-tower-semiconductor-for-5-4-billion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comboy</author><text>For anyone interested in the topic of semiconductors industry this channel provides some great info and explanations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8</a></text></comment> |
1,549,023 | 1,548,970 | 1 | 2 | 1,548,321 | train | <story><title>Experimenting with Node.js</title><url>http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/experimenting-with-node-js/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamwt</author><text>While I think it's great that more and more developers are being exposed to building network applications using async I/O (which I guess is "evented" now) via Node.js, I think it's worthwhile to point out that the state of the art has moved well beyond these kind of callback frameworks. The reason is simple: it sucks programming in callback patterns on serious, large projects. You end up with lots of routines that are 6 or 7 callback chained together--and don't forget to attach error callbacks as well at each point.<p>In the Python world, for example, eventlet, gevent, and diesel (disclosure: my project) all use coroutines to achieve very high performance asynchronous I/O that's still written in a "synchronous" style. And before that, CCP games has been using stackless python to do coroutine-based networking for the servers behind the very popular MMORPG eve online (<a href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/10044" rel="nofollow">http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/10044</a>).<p>Even slicker, in languages like Erlang and Haskell (via forkIO + the select/epoll I/O manager), support for asynchronous networking using "blocking-style" code is a fundamental language/compiler/vm feature. When you write <i>any</i> code in these languages, you're transparently taking advantage of the same scaling characteristics node.js and its ilk provide.<p>So, I'd humbly suggest to anyone getting serious about doing this kind of programming that they investigate some of these systems (which are usually built by weary callback-style async I/O veterans) and leapfrog the rest of their peers. Consider Node.js a gateway drug.<p>Linkage:<p><a href="http://eventlet.net/" rel="nofollow">http://eventlet.net/</a>
<a href="http://github.org/jamwt/diesel" rel="nofollow">http://github.org/jamwt/diesel</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_I/O#Light-weight_processes_or_threads" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_I/O#Light-weight_p...</a>
<a href="http://www.galois.com/~dons/slides/a-scalable-io-manager-for-ghc.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.galois.com/~dons/slides/a-scalable-io-manager-for...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Experimenting with Node.js</title><url>http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/experimenting-with-node-js/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reeses</author><text>Why is it that within ten seconds, I felt compelled to "hump" other arrows with my own?<p>It was also interested to see if I could get other people to form lines and other constructs, without any communication other than my own cursor.</text></comment> |
11,489,774 | 11,489,553 | 1 | 2 | 11,486,223 | train | <story><title>Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans</title><url>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-obama-is-forgiving-the-student-loans-of-nearly-400000-people-2016-04-12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>readams</author><text>Government-guaranteed loans are a fantastic way to force prices to spiral out of control. The way student loans were before income-based repayment, we&#x27;d have expected college cost to rise until it meets the lifetime expected benefit of college discounted to the present.<p>With income-based repayment, where your loan balance is forgiven after 20 years, there is no limit to how high it can go.<p>Government-subsidized mortages and mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing, a basic good that government policy should try to make as cheap as possible. Instead, government policy is to make it as expensive as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans</title><url>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-obama-is-forgiving-the-student-loans-of-nearly-400000-people-2016-04-12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffdavis</author><text>As with medicine, college is now an industry with third-party payment and no third-party control.<p>In other words, the student (patient) and the university (doctor&#x2F;hospital&#x2F;pharmacy) agree to do business, and the government (insurance company) pays regardless of the price.<p>That obviously creates major price distortions. Expect college to get a lot more expensive before it gets cheaper.</text></comment> |
8,059,373 | 8,059,059 | 1 | 3 | 8,058,306 | train | <story><title>How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/07/19/332380449/how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>satjot</author><text>As a Sikh American that wears a turban every day [<a href="https://www.facebook.com/satjot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;satjot</a>], it&#x27;s great to see a positive piece on Turbans in the US. For the most part I&#x27;ve dealt with comments like, &quot;Hey Osama&quot;, &quot;You Towel Head&quot;, &quot;Taliban!&quot;...</text></comment> | <story><title>How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/07/19/332380449/how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxdemarzi</author><text>This goes sideways as well. I was dating an Indian girl in High School (almost 20 years ago). If any older Indian men were around or crossed our path, she would say a few words in spanish. They would assume she was Mexican which would make it none-of-their-business who this &quot;Mexican girl&quot; dated and would stop staring.</text></comment> |
13,047,622 | 13,047,507 | 1 | 2 | 13,046,053 | train | <story><title>I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again</title><url>https://bokstuff.com/i-made-an-iphone-game-with-phonegap-and-ill-never-do-it-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiodari</author><text>Of course the little detail here is that 50 tiny sprites apparently counts as graphically intensive.<p>Why do web developers constantly make the argument that Javascript is not slower than C (or Swift, or C++, or any native programming language) ? The difference is night and day, 5000% and up for simple things like drawing.</text></item><item><author>memracom</author><text>This sounds like the same old rule that has existed for the last 30 years or more. If you want to build an app that uses graphically intensive animations, build as close to the metal as possible and do not rely on layers provided by the OS.<p>I learned nothing from this because if I was going to build a game like he described, I would suck
it in and get down to the platform&#x27;s assembly language layer which for IOS is ObjectiveC and for Android is Java.<p>It would be far more interesting to read a review that explores the boundary of what works well in PhoneGap and what doesn&#x27;t. Clearly lots of successful apps are built in PhonegGap&#x2F;Cordova. We could have the same conversations about desktop apps or server apps. Too many layers make things easier to build but impose a performance penalty. It is wise to think before you build and do some architecture and engineering before coding. Writing code is NOT engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mahn</author><text>C is always going to be faster than almost anything you compare it to, of course. But the V8 interpreter is also not 5000% slower; for computationally intensive tasks it&#x27;s not actually significantly slower. The problem in OP&#x27;s case is that JS lacks an interface to interact with the display and render that is as &quot;close to the metal&quot; as their &quot;native&quot; counter parts. You are drawing sprites on a html canvas which is then rendered by a web view, which just not that great no matter what language you use to get there.<p>What I&#x27;m getting at is that it&#x27;s easy to blame Javascript, but really that&#x27;s not the whole picture, and if Google and Apple chose to support Javascript natively it wouldn&#x27;t have these dramatic performance issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again</title><url>https://bokstuff.com/i-made-an-iphone-game-with-phonegap-and-ill-never-do-it-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiodari</author><text>Of course the little detail here is that 50 tiny sprites apparently counts as graphically intensive.<p>Why do web developers constantly make the argument that Javascript is not slower than C (or Swift, or C++, or any native programming language) ? The difference is night and day, 5000% and up for simple things like drawing.</text></item><item><author>memracom</author><text>This sounds like the same old rule that has existed for the last 30 years or more. If you want to build an app that uses graphically intensive animations, build as close to the metal as possible and do not rely on layers provided by the OS.<p>I learned nothing from this because if I was going to build a game like he described, I would suck
it in and get down to the platform&#x27;s assembly language layer which for IOS is ObjectiveC and for Android is Java.<p>It would be far more interesting to read a review that explores the boundary of what works well in PhoneGap and what doesn&#x27;t. Clearly lots of successful apps are built in PhonegGap&#x2F;Cordova. We could have the same conversations about desktop apps or server apps. Too many layers make things easier to build but impose a performance penalty. It is wise to think before you build and do some architecture and engineering before coding. Writing code is NOT engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>&gt; The difference is night and day, 5000% and up for simple things like drawing.<p>I find that seriously doubtful, you&#x27;re going to have to provide a citation if you want me to swallow that.<p>The relevant comparison is a single JavaScript function in Firefox looping through a static array and making WebGL calls vs. a C++ function looping through the same array and making OpenGL calls.<p>If the difference is 5000% or more I will donate $20 to the charity of your choice.</text></comment> |
22,383,919 | 22,383,991 | 1 | 3 | 22,383,746 | train | <story><title>Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-resists-demand-from-states-in-digital-ad-probe-11582281000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notamanager</author><text>Fun fact: Google is allowed to defend itself and is not obliged to give prosecutors all they want.
The framing of “resists giving documents” purposely makes it similar to “resisting arrest”.<p>Fun fact 2: the AGs are being advised by a former News Corp (read: WSJ) lawyer who also advises other google competitors (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;texas-attorney-general-googles-new-competition-cop-says-everything-is-table&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;texas-a...</a>)<p>Fun fact 3: AGs are elected so they seek publicity, they are also corrupt: the one in Mississippi was issuing subpoenas to Google on behalf of the entertainment industry (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20141217&#x2F;06353329462&#x2F;attorney-general-downplays-ties-to-mpaa-despite-letter-he-sent-google-revealed-as-written-mpaa.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20141217&#x2F;06353329462&#x2F;attor...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-resists-demand-from-states-in-digital-ad-probe-11582281000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerl</author><text>Google has a long history of pushing back for on government requests for data relating to its customers, and they have years worth of history establishing that initial government requests are always overreaching.<p>Is anyone surprised that they&#x27;d push back on requests for their own data, especially when it&#x27;s run by state AGs (i.e. politically motivated) and involves turning trade secrets directly over to competitors?<p>&gt; “To date, Texas has requested, and we have provided, over 100,000 pages of information,” the spokeswoman said. “But we’re also concerned with the irregular way this investigation is proceeding, including unusual arrangements with advisers who work with our competitors and vocal complainants.&quot;</text></comment> |
12,637,395 | 12,637,333 | 1 | 3 | 12,636,826 | train | <story><title>Pixel by Google</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rykmwn0SMWU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_protocol</author><text>This video is screaming to me that there is something obnoxious on the top edge of the phone. It is hidden in every camera angle and we see every other edge of the phone.<p>Anyone know what&#x27;s there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>Here is an image of the top edge: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lh3.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;hYE3ZZEpDkaT6PkjmodS4RsYbcHY3pjpk-fL3mwb96PldMkUWdGjIxBbcxZdaOMoejY=rw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lh3.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;hYE3ZZEpDkaT6PkjmodS4RsYbc...</a> Nothing obnoxious. Just a 3.5mm jack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pixel by Google</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rykmwn0SMWU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_protocol</author><text>This video is screaming to me that there is something obnoxious on the top edge of the phone. It is hidden in every camera angle and we see every other edge of the phone.<p>Anyone know what&#x27;s there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inputdev</author><text>Maybe they had to hide the top because this version was made before they decided to add a headphone jack back in?</text></comment> |
32,204,471 | 32,204,534 | 1 | 2 | 32,202,033 | train | <story><title>A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/supercharged-biotech-rice-yields-40-more-grain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msla</author><text>&gt; not doing weird stuff like putting fish antifreeze genes in strawberries.<p>Oooh! Weird! Modifying my immune system to be able to fight cancer is &quot;weird&quot; too, right? Is there a good reason to use &quot;weird&quot; as a criterion in any of this? Because I like being a GMO organism who <i>isn&#x27;t</i> dying of cancer, and people using &quot;weird&quot; as a metric make me a bit uneasy about how much longer such treatments are going to be allowed.<p>Remember: GMO isn&#x27;t just about the &quot;Organic&quot; aisle at Amazon Whole Foods.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>This is the kind of GMO that&#x27;s generally considered fairly benign as they&#x27;re only increasing the expression of genes already found in the plant, not doing weird stuff like putting fish antifreeze genes in strawberries. You still have to be careful in some cases (for example, humans have bred toxins out of many food crops by reducing expression levels over generations; the genes for toxins might still be there, i.e. potatoes, so you&#x27;d not want to trigger their expression accidentally).<p>As far as nitrogen use, the claim is that these plants utilize nitrogen more efficiently than wild-type, so that you&#x27;d actually have to apply less nitrogen fertilizer and thus there&#x27;d be less nitrogen runoff from fields into lakes&#x2F;streams etc.<p>From the materials and methods:<p>&gt; &quot;For nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) measurement, rice plants were grown in three independent field blocks supplied with 0, 100, or 200 kg N&#x2F;ha. The study was performed in the Experimental Station of the Institute of Crop Science, CAAS, in Beijing from May to October, 2021. The N fertilizer was applied as urea at two stages: 40% at the tillering stage and 60% at the heading stage. Each line was cultivated in randomized plots with 20 cm spacing between rows and plants, and each plot contained at least 50 plants per line.&quot;<p>Oddly enough, the publisher makes materials and methods freely available but not results and discussion, go figure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>I think “weird” here means “things that may have unexpected side effects.” Cancer treatments have loads of those but we put up with them because death is worse. Eating strawberries and rice maybe exists at a different point on the risk continuum.</text></comment> | <story><title>A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/supercharged-biotech-rice-yields-40-more-grain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msla</author><text>&gt; not doing weird stuff like putting fish antifreeze genes in strawberries.<p>Oooh! Weird! Modifying my immune system to be able to fight cancer is &quot;weird&quot; too, right? Is there a good reason to use &quot;weird&quot; as a criterion in any of this? Because I like being a GMO organism who <i>isn&#x27;t</i> dying of cancer, and people using &quot;weird&quot; as a metric make me a bit uneasy about how much longer such treatments are going to be allowed.<p>Remember: GMO isn&#x27;t just about the &quot;Organic&quot; aisle at Amazon Whole Foods.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>This is the kind of GMO that&#x27;s generally considered fairly benign as they&#x27;re only increasing the expression of genes already found in the plant, not doing weird stuff like putting fish antifreeze genes in strawberries. You still have to be careful in some cases (for example, humans have bred toxins out of many food crops by reducing expression levels over generations; the genes for toxins might still be there, i.e. potatoes, so you&#x27;d not want to trigger their expression accidentally).<p>As far as nitrogen use, the claim is that these plants utilize nitrogen more efficiently than wild-type, so that you&#x27;d actually have to apply less nitrogen fertilizer and thus there&#x27;d be less nitrogen runoff from fields into lakes&#x2F;streams etc.<p>From the materials and methods:<p>&gt; &quot;For nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) measurement, rice plants were grown in three independent field blocks supplied with 0, 100, or 200 kg N&#x2F;ha. The study was performed in the Experimental Station of the Institute of Crop Science, CAAS, in Beijing from May to October, 2021. The N fertilizer was applied as urea at two stages: 40% at the tillering stage and 60% at the heading stage. Each line was cultivated in randomized plots with 20 cm spacing between rows and plants, and each plot contained at least 50 plants per line.&quot;<p>Oddly enough, the publisher makes materials and methods freely available but not results and discussion, go figure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vostok</author><text>When I&#x27;ve talked to anti-GMO people in real life, they seem to (1) be anti-Roundup and similar pesticides more so than literally anti-GMO or (2) be anti-IP laws that won&#x27;t allow farmers to use seeds from their last crop.</text></comment> |
4,372,752 | 4,372,667 | 1 | 2 | 4,372,563 | train | <story><title>Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.</title><url>http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxcole</author><text>I don't know if this makes me cruel, but whenever people talk about donating money to starving children in Africa, I always imagine the following: If I were to donate some amount of money to starving children in an impoverished nation every year I could, theoretically, bring some of them out of starvation. However, these children would then grow into adults, and then these adults would have children of their own. The number of these new children would almost certainly be higher than the number I originally helped bring out of famine, so at that point there would be just as many if not more starving children than we had to begin with. So in my mind the question really goes the other way, how does donating money to buy food for starving children in Africa improve Africa's condition in the long term? What problems caused these nations to produce more children than food and what is being done to eliminate the source of these problems, rather than just the symptoms?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.</title><url>http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>It certainly reads better than "We need to funnel some money to the guys who build the rockets so that, if the Russians get frisky, we can credibly threaten to can end the world."</text></comment> |
12,122,803 | 12,122,747 | 1 | 3 | 12,122,600 | train | <story><title>Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-teachers-idUSKCN0ZZ22F?il=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jayess</author><text>The whole thing seemed fishy that night. I was watching Erdogan&#x27;s plane circle southwest of Istanbul for an hour or so on FlightRadar24. Then suddenly it lands where just a couple of hours earlier coup-controlled tanks were patrolling the runways. Huh? The &quot;coup&quot; had control of fighter jets that were buzzing Istanbul and Ankara (live on TV), yet they let his plane circle, for all to see, just minutes away?</text></comment> | <story><title>Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-teachers-idUSKCN0ZZ22F?il=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcbits</author><text>It&#x27;s starting to seem like they had these lists made up ahead of time and have been waiting for the right time to start cleansing the ranks.</text></comment> |
37,433,373 | 37,433,481 | 1 | 3 | 37,432,399 | train | <story><title>IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024</title><url>https://www.cio.com/article/651215/price-shock-ibm-to-increase-cloud-costs-by-up-to-26-from-2024.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press...</a> IBM is getting killed in infrastructure, their margins look to be growing but losing ~15% of their revenue y&#x2F;y. This seems like them just gouging the last of the customers who are either unwilling or unable to leave.<p>for context during the same period AWS grew 12% y&#x2F;y.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makestuff</author><text>I often wonder is AWS success due to paying top dollar to staff where as IBM seems to have gone down the cost cutting route and low salaries. I&#x27;m sure that isn&#x27;t the only reason, but IBM&#x27;s fall from the top has been pretty drastic over the last 30 years.<p>I guess it also could just be due to companies eventually get too big and bloated which causes them to innovate slower.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024</title><url>https://www.cio.com/article/651215/price-shock-ibm-to-increase-cloud-costs-by-up-to-26-from-2024.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press...</a> IBM is getting killed in infrastructure, their margins look to be growing but losing ~15% of their revenue y&#x2F;y. This seems like them just gouging the last of the customers who are either unwilling or unable to leave.<p>for context during the same period AWS grew 12% y&#x2F;y.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangus</author><text>AWS also increased their prices by a similar amount.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;aws-and-azure-cloud-pricing-moving-in-different-directions-as-shown-by-liftr-insights-data-301736920.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;aws-and-azure-cloud...</a></text></comment> |
35,434,463 | 35,434,550 | 1 | 2 | 35,433,982 | train | <story><title>Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01993-w</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davnicwil</author><text>What do they mean by time slits? A beam of light twice gated in time... what does this mean?<p>Is it something like sending pulses of light towards each other separated by some very small amount of time and observing an interference pattern of some kind?</text></comment> | <story><title>Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01993-w</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkural</author><text>This seems like a relevant write-up from a Nature science reporter:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-023-00968-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-023-00968-4</a></text></comment> |
13,236,376 | 13,235,842 | 1 | 2 | 13,234,463 | train | <story><title>To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/opinion/to-slow-global-warming-we-need-nuclear-power.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afterburner</author><text>Don&#x27;t even bother talking about political capital. Nuclear is a worse option because it is overpriced, period. It&#x27;s not just the downsides that are subsidized by the government, the actual running cost is hidden behind reams of bureaucracy, hidden program budgets, optimistic amortizations, and underestimated decommissioning costs. And even then the reactors still manage to go massively over budget with the initial construction.<p>People like to feel superior to others by citing fear as the reason nuclear is being avoided, but the real reason anyone should oppose it is straight up costs, without even any disasters factored in. Any other choice with the current and next-3-decades technology is just pissing money away, when it could be spent continuing renewables&#x27; rapid decline in cost.</text></item><item><author>niels_olson</author><text>My undergrad is in Physics and I took engineering classes in Rickover Hall. I was stationed on a nuclear ship. Even after deploying for the Fukushima disaster, I am a fan of nuclear power. But I have a hard time justifying new investment in an era where solar is competitively priced. The downside of solar is approximately 0 compared to the downside of a reactor accident.<p>I&#x27;ll even allow for the high, high likelihood that more people will die installing roof-top solar than will ever die in the lifetime of all nuclear reactors combined. The political capital lost in a reactor accident isn&#x27;t worth it. The lost of faith in technology, the loss of trust in science. The mass hysteria just isn&#x27;t worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>First, there can be little doubt that a substantial fraction of the high cost of nuclear is down to almost the entire west being scared stiff of the stuff for thirty years. If we gave actual scientists and engineers a real mandate to come up with a pragmatic, realistic (ie accepting a small amount of risk as acceptable, perhaps something on the scale of a single Fukushima every 30 years, just like we accept a small amount of risk everywhere else - driving, living in hurricane country, even flying isn&#x27;t perfectly safe) regulatory regime, costs would surely come back down.<p>Second, funny how costs suddenly matter when it&#x27;s about nuclear. Barely a month goes by without some new unimaginable mind numbing (wholly impractical) &#x27;solution&#x27; to climate change that we&#x27;re being implored to consider, because it&#x27;s about saving the planet for our children. Nuclear is a perfectly practical, <i>much</i> cheaper (if still very expensive), 80% solution to climate change that we can actually start implementing today, but somehow it&#x27;s not on the table. Somehow it doesn&#x27;t seem all that plausible that cost is really the issue.<p>In short, climate change is the biggest issue facing the world (except nuclear and fracking). I&#x27;m very excited that the NYT is being practical here.</text></comment> | <story><title>To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/opinion/to-slow-global-warming-we-need-nuclear-power.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afterburner</author><text>Don&#x27;t even bother talking about political capital. Nuclear is a worse option because it is overpriced, period. It&#x27;s not just the downsides that are subsidized by the government, the actual running cost is hidden behind reams of bureaucracy, hidden program budgets, optimistic amortizations, and underestimated decommissioning costs. And even then the reactors still manage to go massively over budget with the initial construction.<p>People like to feel superior to others by citing fear as the reason nuclear is being avoided, but the real reason anyone should oppose it is straight up costs, without even any disasters factored in. Any other choice with the current and next-3-decades technology is just pissing money away, when it could be spent continuing renewables&#x27; rapid decline in cost.</text></item><item><author>niels_olson</author><text>My undergrad is in Physics and I took engineering classes in Rickover Hall. I was stationed on a nuclear ship. Even after deploying for the Fukushima disaster, I am a fan of nuclear power. But I have a hard time justifying new investment in an era where solar is competitively priced. The downside of solar is approximately 0 compared to the downside of a reactor accident.<p>I&#x27;ll even allow for the high, high likelihood that more people will die installing roof-top solar than will ever die in the lifetime of all nuclear reactors combined. The political capital lost in a reactor accident isn&#x27;t worth it. The lost of faith in technology, the loss of trust in science. The mass hysteria just isn&#x27;t worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>admiun</author><text>I agree. Nuclear fission power seems to be associated with a negative learning curve [1][2]. This means that as the newly installed capacity goes up, price per unit actually increases. As solar is already becoming competitive and is experiencing a positive learning curve (costs going down rapidly as production expands) it would be pretty silly to invest in nuclear at this point.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thinkprogress.org&#x2F;does-nuclear-power-have-a-negative-learning-curve-b389ef2de998#.p915rpshi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thinkprogress.org&#x2F;does-nuclear-power-have-a-negative...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Experience_curve_effects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Experience_curve_effects</a></text></comment> |
31,009,110 | 31,008,790 | 1 | 2 | 31,004,363 | train | <story><title>Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-workers-at-100-more-facilities-want-to-unionize-amazon-labor-union-president-chris-smalls-181900885.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Decabytes</author><text>It would sure be something if Amazon went from one of the worst places to work, to one of the best through the creation of unions. If they can do this, then I think it will be held up as an example for other people to unionize. I&#x27;m rooting for them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>I think there&#x27;s something to be said in favor of company-specific unions vs. industry-wide unions. The optimal situation would be one in which Amazon workers form an Amazon-wide union and end up with voting seats on the corporate board, to which they&#x27;d elect representatives. As I understand it, this is a bit how VW works in Germany.<p>The notion that a corporation&#x27;s employees should have the same &#x27;stakeholder&#x27; role as a corporation&#x27;s shareholders might seem to be a radical notion. It would require re-imagining the corporate board&#x27;s role: worker value and shareholder value would have to be balanced. This seems like a much fairer system of governance, and also has the benefit of partially democratizing corporations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-workers-at-100-more-facilities-want-to-unionize-amazon-labor-union-president-chris-smalls-181900885.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Decabytes</author><text>It would sure be something if Amazon went from one of the worst places to work, to one of the best through the creation of unions. If they can do this, then I think it will be held up as an example for other people to unionize. I&#x27;m rooting for them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Melatonic</author><text>I am not as hopeful as you but that would definitely be something<p>Unions do seem to be making a big comeback</text></comment> |
32,294,858 | 32,294,505 | 1 | 2 | 32,279,897 | train | <story><title>Page Weight Matters (2012)</title><url>https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit pessimistic about this now, and largely given up beating the drum<p>Even in industries where customers are on extremely bad connections [0], I couldn&#x27;t convince people to give up their bloated component libraries or cache things in indexedDB. Fact is not many web developers know how to write for these environments and not many businesses will incentivize for it, even when their customers complain.<p>Though the optimist in me will say this - if anyone actually does web dev where people do actually care about this, I&#x27;d love to hear about it.<p>[0] My experience here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lewiscampbell.tech&#x2F;blog&#x2F;220205.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lewiscampbell.tech&#x2F;blog&#x2F;220205.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Page Weight Matters (2012)</title><url>https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>There&#x27;s some interesting lessons in the article, one being that following metrics blindly will lead you down the wrong path. You have to know why the numbers are the way they are, not just what they are.<p>The second lesson I guess, is that inside an evolving product, this is a constant battle against entropy. The YouTube homepage is once again 15mb&#x2F;90 requests, and that&#x27;s with an ad-blocker.</text></comment> |
34,807,140 | 34,807,356 | 1 | 2 | 34,802,730 | train | <story><title>Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps</title><url>https://www.bennettnotes.com/notes/why-does-apple-restrict-hobby-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bragr</author><text>I doubt this is &quot;Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps&quot;, so much as &quot;Apple doesn’t want dev accounts to be an easy backdoor for sideloading apps&quot; and hobby apps are an acceptable casualty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>Sideloading should be allowed — that&#x27;s non-negotiable for me. That&#x27;s the main reason why I ended up with the configuration I have, a Mac but an Android phone.<p>Apple tries really hard to pretend they own the relationship between the app developer and the user because they made the iPhone and iOS, when in fact, for most developers, the necessity to publish on the app store isn&#x27;t the godsend Apple thinks it is. It&#x27;s an asinine obstacle they have to clear to get their app out to the world. I&#x27;ve seen Apple reject iOS apps for nonsensical reasons on many occasions. For most developers, the discovery aspect of the app store is, in fact, irrelevant. They do their own marketing and user acquisition anyway.<p>Mac shows this very clearly. There&#x27;s the same app store, with the same rules, but with one exception: its use is not mandatory. So most developers end up simply ignoring it and doing their own app distribution. In other words, this model doesn&#x27;t work very well when it&#x27;s not the only distribution channel and when there&#x27;s no draconian lockdown on the OS level. The notarization requiring a $100&#x2F;year account is also optional. So you can, if you wish, distribute a Mac app without any Apple involvement whatsoever.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps</title><url>https://www.bennettnotes.com/notes/why-does-apple-restrict-hobby-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bragr</author><text>I doubt this is &quot;Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps&quot;, so much as &quot;Apple doesn’t want dev accounts to be an easy backdoor for sideloading apps&quot; and hobby apps are an acceptable casualty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>The casual use of the word &quot;sideloading&quot; is dangerous to society. It is literal newspeak with the intent to eliminate even the idea of &quot;installing&quot; and make it so people cannot even think of applications outside of a corporation (or institution&#x27;s) walled garden.<p>Users installing applications is the default. Walled gardens are the weird dangerous thing.</text></comment> |
8,246,268 | 8,244,413 | 1 | 3 | 8,239,251 | train | <story><title>Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>wow, how does anyone get anything done in that country! Compare it to the asian countries that work 16 hour days....</text></item><item><author>aeire</author><text>hmm.. i believe this is pretty the same in Greece, at least during weekends, holidays and work-free days.<p>In every lunch-gathering with close relatives, or close friends, at least one or two person take a short nap on the couch after the lunch, while the rest are having a relaxed and low voice chat. Usually the persons who fall asleep are males.</text></item><item><author>gurtwo</author><text>As a spaniard myself, I can confirm this is an accurate description of what siesta looks like on most cases. Short nap on the couch after a coffee, for those who take lunch at home, or just on the weekends otherwise.</text></item><item><author>pqs</author><text>This is a well known practise in Spain. I com from Spain and I have always seen my family (parents and grandparents) drinking coffee after lunch and, then, doing a nap on the couch. Usually, we sit on the couch, take the coffee together and then every person takes a newspaper or magazine and after a few minutes of pseudo-reading everybody is sleeping or in a state of deep relaxation. We sleep for 20 minutes. That&#x27;s all. I guess this is very common in Spain.<p>This works well because we often take lunch at home. But, now that I have lunch at the office, I do the same. I have a 1 hour pause. The first half hour I have lunch, then I take the coffee and I go to the office to sleep on the floor, on a very thin mattress. If my brain is too active, I listen to a foreign radio station with my iPhone. I like to listen to ICI Radio Canada (in French). When I have lunch here, they broadcast the morning news and commentary. The news are about stuff happening in Quebec. It is interesting enough for me to forget the work stuff, and dull enough to induce me into a deeper relaxation state, which allows me to fall sleep fast. Being the broadcast in a foreing language, also helps to fall sleep. I often dream during this 20-30 minutes naps.<p>An interesting detail is that I had to learn this habit. I remember being a child and being pissed off because I wasn&#x27;t allowed to make noise after lunch. Now, that I&#x27;m a father, the roles are changing and I&#x27;m the one sleeping after lunch.<p>By the way, at night, in order to fall sleep, I never take phones, tablets or computers to my bedroom. Instead, I take a shortwave radio and I tune the BBC world service news (fortunately, in Spain we can hear the broadcast directed to Africa). I put a 30 minutes timer on the radio and I almost never hear it stopping, because I fall sleep before. The day that the BBC will shut the SW broadcast, I guess I will take a bluetooth headset or speaker to my bedroom, but not the iPhone. It is very important to avoid computers in the bedroom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>how does anyone get anything done in that country!</i><p>By not confusing actually doing work with being kept busy for 16 hours to please the &quot;company&quot; &#x2F; &quot;boss&quot;.<p>Plus, it&#x27;s not like this happens everytime and for everyone. People in Greece work longer hours than most of Europeans.<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/16/greeks-work-harder-than-germans-who-knew/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;morning-mix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;16...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>wow, how does anyone get anything done in that country! Compare it to the asian countries that work 16 hour days....</text></item><item><author>aeire</author><text>hmm.. i believe this is pretty the same in Greece, at least during weekends, holidays and work-free days.<p>In every lunch-gathering with close relatives, or close friends, at least one or two person take a short nap on the couch after the lunch, while the rest are having a relaxed and low voice chat. Usually the persons who fall asleep are males.</text></item><item><author>gurtwo</author><text>As a spaniard myself, I can confirm this is an accurate description of what siesta looks like on most cases. Short nap on the couch after a coffee, for those who take lunch at home, or just on the weekends otherwise.</text></item><item><author>pqs</author><text>This is a well known practise in Spain. I com from Spain and I have always seen my family (parents and grandparents) drinking coffee after lunch and, then, doing a nap on the couch. Usually, we sit on the couch, take the coffee together and then every person takes a newspaper or magazine and after a few minutes of pseudo-reading everybody is sleeping or in a state of deep relaxation. We sleep for 20 minutes. That&#x27;s all. I guess this is very common in Spain.<p>This works well because we often take lunch at home. But, now that I have lunch at the office, I do the same. I have a 1 hour pause. The first half hour I have lunch, then I take the coffee and I go to the office to sleep on the floor, on a very thin mattress. If my brain is too active, I listen to a foreign radio station with my iPhone. I like to listen to ICI Radio Canada (in French). When I have lunch here, they broadcast the morning news and commentary. The news are about stuff happening in Quebec. It is interesting enough for me to forget the work stuff, and dull enough to induce me into a deeper relaxation state, which allows me to fall sleep fast. Being the broadcast in a foreing language, also helps to fall sleep. I often dream during this 20-30 minutes naps.<p>An interesting detail is that I had to learn this habit. I remember being a child and being pissed off because I wasn&#x27;t allowed to make noise after lunch. Now, that I&#x27;m a father, the roles are changing and I&#x27;m the one sleeping after lunch.<p>By the way, at night, in order to fall sleep, I never take phones, tablets or computers to my bedroom. Instead, I take a shortwave radio and I tune the BBC world service news (fortunately, in Spain we can hear the broadcast directed to Africa). I put a 30 minutes timer on the radio and I almost never hear it stopping, because I fall sleep before. The day that the BBC will shut the SW broadcast, I guess I will take a bluetooth headset or speaker to my bedroom, but not the iPhone. It is very important to avoid computers in the bedroom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nux</author><text>I think that&#x27;s actually more optimal. After lunch I&#x27;m usually brain dead for around one hour or so and I don&#x27;t really get much done.<p>I could as well take a nap and then get back to work with renewed energy.</text></comment> |
29,935,350 | 29,935,323 | 1 | 2 | 29,933,516 | train | <story><title>YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly</title><url>https://twitter.com/evilksandr/status/1479507618066571268</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>Free speech isn’t just something that can be encoded into law, it’s an ideology. A great ideology, imo.<p>That said, with COVID-19 it really became apparent that these platforms have basically become a new public square, putting everyone in an awkward position. You can basically be ousted from the internet by just a couple entities like Facebook or Twitter and have your entire online presence torpedoed. IRL I can just go to a different bar, gym, whatever. On the internet, everything consolidates rapidly. It’s hard to argue that companies should be forced to allow things they don’t want on their platforms, but it’s clear that something has to be done here if platforms are going to consolidate this badly.</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I think you&#x27;ve incorrectly invoked &quot;free speech&quot; here, IMO this isn&#x27;t a free speech issue. It may be a TOS issue and it does sound like Google are being a bit unreasonable but &quot;free speech&quot; isn&#x27;t really something Google ever promised to permit on their platforms</text></item><item><author>megumax</author><text>After Grammarly spent millions of dollars on Google ads, I expect them not to accept valid criticism on Google platforms.<p>But it&#x27;s unfair to block a guy that talked about a real flaw in Grammarly&#x27;s plagiarism checker, at least pretend that you allow free speech and take down that video for a random reason specified in your ToS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>My point is not that &quot;free speech&quot; as a concept is bad (though I do mention in another comment here that it does raise thorny issues). My point is that tying this complaint and &quot;free speech&quot; together is pointless because it directs attention at the wrong thing.<p>It&#x27;s the difference between saying &quot;$person got kicked off Google in a violation of their free speech&quot; and &quot;$person got kicked off Google for a totally specious reason that doesn&#x27;t even violate Google&#x27;s TOS&quot;.<p>The first one gets <i>immediately</i> shut down because they didn&#x27;t violate anyone&#x27;s free speech. If you try to make that argument it&#x27;s a total non-starter. We can have a big fun discussion about free speech online some time - and that does happen here on HN - but that&#x27;s not the issue here.<p>The second one gets at the <i>actual</i> issue - Google have just booted someone even though they didn&#x27;t apparently violate their TOS. They just arbitrarily did so to appease a paying client.<p>I hope this is clear.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly</title><url>https://twitter.com/evilksandr/status/1479507618066571268</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>Free speech isn’t just something that can be encoded into law, it’s an ideology. A great ideology, imo.<p>That said, with COVID-19 it really became apparent that these platforms have basically become a new public square, putting everyone in an awkward position. You can basically be ousted from the internet by just a couple entities like Facebook or Twitter and have your entire online presence torpedoed. IRL I can just go to a different bar, gym, whatever. On the internet, everything consolidates rapidly. It’s hard to argue that companies should be forced to allow things they don’t want on their platforms, but it’s clear that something has to be done here if platforms are going to consolidate this badly.</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I think you&#x27;ve incorrectly invoked &quot;free speech&quot; here, IMO this isn&#x27;t a free speech issue. It may be a TOS issue and it does sound like Google are being a bit unreasonable but &quot;free speech&quot; isn&#x27;t really something Google ever promised to permit on their platforms</text></item><item><author>megumax</author><text>After Grammarly spent millions of dollars on Google ads, I expect them not to accept valid criticism on Google platforms.<p>But it&#x27;s unfair to block a guy that talked about a real flaw in Grammarly&#x27;s plagiarism checker, at least pretend that you allow free speech and take down that video for a random reason specified in your ToS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>It is refreshing to see someone who diagnoses the issue here correctly.<p>The root problem people are complaining about is the moderation policies, and the truth is that services like Facebook et al are simply <i>too large</i> to be effectively moderated. Appealing to (US ideas of) free speech would propose that the solution to bad moderation is <i>no moderation whatsoever</i> (speech restrictions must be content-neutral, and moderation by definition is not content-neutral)--and I think most people would rapidly find that no moderation is <i>worse</i> than bad moderation.<p>The most effective solution is to do what ought to have been done a decade ago and prevent further social media consolidation and consider breaking up the current oligopoly of social media.</text></comment> |
25,382,389 | 25,382,368 | 1 | 2 | 25,381,889 | train | <story><title>Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an EV with a solid-state battery</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/content/4c8b11d1c65d83d23ba9aeb11030a947</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>&gt; The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions<p>500km = 310 miles. That&#x27;s not even remotely twice the range of a Tesla. Heck, it&#x27;s not even that much more than my Chevrolet Bolt gets.<p>Everything else about this sounds great, especially the charge times. That takes a lot out of the hassles of a long distance trip in an electric car. ~250 miles is a fine point for getting out, taking a restroom break, stretching legs etc. Get back and the car is all topped up? Sounds perfect.<p>The main problem here is that it&#x27;s still dependent on Lithium, and we&#x27;ve really got to get off that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xbmcuser</author><text>Why do we need to get off Lithium its an abundant mineral. If its about dirty mining there is not guarantee other minerals will be mined cleanly either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an EV with a solid-state battery</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/content/4c8b11d1c65d83d23ba9aeb11030a947</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>&gt; The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions<p>500km = 310 miles. That&#x27;s not even remotely twice the range of a Tesla. Heck, it&#x27;s not even that much more than my Chevrolet Bolt gets.<p>Everything else about this sounds great, especially the charge times. That takes a lot out of the hassles of a long distance trip in an electric car. ~250 miles is a fine point for getting out, taking a restroom break, stretching legs etc. Get back and the car is all topped up? Sounds perfect.<p>The main problem here is that it&#x27;s still dependent on Lithium, and we&#x27;ve really got to get off that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>Just to clarify that the solid-state battery still uses Lithium (but not Lithium-Ion): the article states:<p>&gt; <i>The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions</i><p>and<p>&gt; <i>Because solid-state batteries use lithium, an element with limited global reserves, the government will assist in procuring the material.</i><p>It seems that Lithium will be the next oil crisis, especially if governments will be directly involved in the procurement...and I agree with parent, we must do better than Lithium. Perhaps good &#x27;ol Hydrogen? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sP-ZPM0nKkk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sP-ZPM0nKkk</a>)</text></comment> |
24,066,028 | 24,066,195 | 1 | 2 | 24,059,149 | train | <story><title>Gold price rises above $2k for first time</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53660052</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obayesshelton</author><text>Might be a good time to sell then.<p>&quot;While sitting in the shoeshine chair, Kennedy Sr. was alarmed to have the shoeshine boy gift him with several tips on which stocks he should own — yes, a shoeshine boy playing the stock market.<p>This unsolicited advice resulted in a life-changing moment for Kennedy Sr. who promptly went back to his office and started unloading his stock portfolio.<p>In fact, he didn’t just get out of the market, he aggressively shorted it — and got filthy rich because of it during the epic crash that soon followed.<p>They don’t ring bells at the top, but apparently when shoeshine boys start giving stock advice it is time to head for the exits.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;how-to-spot-stock-market-bubbles-2017-10?international=true&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;how-to-spot-stock-market-bub...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ta1234567890</author><text>This anecdote illustrates how the market could be seen as a big society-level pump and dump scheme. The guys at the top invest early at a low price, then pump the investment downstream as much as possible, then dump when things start looking too much like a bubble (i.e. &quot;the shoeshine boys start giving stock advice&quot;). If enough people at the top dump at the same time, the bubble bursts and there&#x27;s a crisis.<p>Even if some of the guys at the top couldn&#x27;t get out in time, they are unlikely to get ruined by playing the game. The guys at the bottom on the other hand, usually end up literally paying the price for their risk-taking.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gold price rises above $2k for first time</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53660052</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obayesshelton</author><text>Might be a good time to sell then.<p>&quot;While sitting in the shoeshine chair, Kennedy Sr. was alarmed to have the shoeshine boy gift him with several tips on which stocks he should own — yes, a shoeshine boy playing the stock market.<p>This unsolicited advice resulted in a life-changing moment for Kennedy Sr. who promptly went back to his office and started unloading his stock portfolio.<p>In fact, he didn’t just get out of the market, he aggressively shorted it — and got filthy rich because of it during the epic crash that soon followed.<p>They don’t ring bells at the top, but apparently when shoeshine boys start giving stock advice it is time to head for the exits.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;how-to-spot-stock-market-bubbles-2017-10?international=true&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;how-to-spot-stock-market-bub...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmmayer1</author><text>By your logic, this is precisely the time to sell non-gold equities -- with comments like Portnoy&#x27;s &quot;put any 3 letters together and buy that&quot;[1], not the time to sell gold, which is behaving exactly as you would expect it to behave when confidence in other asset classes (especially the US dollar) is sinking.<p>Disclosure: I own gold.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stoolpresidente&#x2F;status&#x2F;1272886621030014979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stoolpresidente&#x2F;status&#x2F;12728866210300149...</a></text></comment> |
5,189,435 | 5,189,461 | 1 | 3 | 5,189,141 | train | <story><title>In Defense of Copy and Paste</title><url>http://zacharyvoase.com/2013/02/08/copypasta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomim</author><text>I love copy &#38; paste! I also defended it in this scholarly article: <a href="http://harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/toomim-linked-editing.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/toomim-linked-editing...</a>
with a video: <a href="http://youtu.be/1wo_7MTdWWI" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/1wo_7MTdWWI</a></text></comment> | <story><title>In Defense of Copy and Paste</title><url>http://zacharyvoase.com/2013/02/08/copypasta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>That example under the <i>When Tools Make It Worse</i> section - uggghhhhh. Why would anyone actually <i>do</i> that? That isn't DRY refactoring, that's cargo cult refactoring.<p>DRY is not, was never, and should never be about unnecessarily replacing clean, well-factored code with @$2!% shared mutable state. The goal is to normalize your code, not to micro-optimize for keystroke count. No. Nonononononono. Just no.</text></comment> |
14,356,018 | 14,355,865 | 1 | 3 | 14,355,051 | train | <story><title>The Boring Company FAQ</title><url>https://www.boringcompany.com/faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sAuronas</author><text>Cities like LA will become denser over time. It might seem counterintuitive but increasing density alleviate traffic (people walk).<p>You can&#x27;t clean a hotel or flip a burger remote.<p>Public transit has failed to solve the problem despite a 100-year head start.<p>Cycling... in LA...<p>I don&#x27;t think the Boring Company is trying to solve the gridlock. They will, however, provide an option for those who can afford to pop down into a Teslalane [sic] for a trip to the airport. And that&#x27;s fine. It&#x27;s [Teslalanes] infrastructure that ultimately helps the city thrive until the time that the land use patterns rebalance. There will always be traffic - but it won&#x27;t always have the same overall impact.</text></item><item><author>discodave</author><text>The old strategy of hiding your outlandish claim in an assertion in the first sentence!<p>&quot;To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D&quot;<p>The word &quot;must&quot; is a very strong one here, there are other options:<p>* Reduce the amount of travel that people need to do (remote work, online shopping).<p>* Reduce the density of cities (enabled by remote work or longer commutes with better internet access).<p>* Increase public transport options (higher passenger density).<p>* Encourage cycling.<p>I feel like only somebody who lives in LA would make the &quot;must&quot; assertion and not think about all the other options... oh wait:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b87d-c73fb8bb1750" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>so33</author><text>&gt;Public transit has failed to solve the problem despite a 100-year head start.<p>I take objection to this because, aside from other cities where public transit is the norm, the interurban system in LA [0] was dismantled, partially because it was forced out by cars that increased congestion to the point that streetcars could no longer run on time, and partially because of car companies advocating that buses could replace the streetcars (they didn&#x27;t).<p>Things don&#x27;t exist in a vacuum, and LA decided to make itself a city where you could only be comfortable getting from place to place inside a car.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pacific_Electric" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pacific_Electric</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Boring Company FAQ</title><url>https://www.boringcompany.com/faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sAuronas</author><text>Cities like LA will become denser over time. It might seem counterintuitive but increasing density alleviate traffic (people walk).<p>You can&#x27;t clean a hotel or flip a burger remote.<p>Public transit has failed to solve the problem despite a 100-year head start.<p>Cycling... in LA...<p>I don&#x27;t think the Boring Company is trying to solve the gridlock. They will, however, provide an option for those who can afford to pop down into a Teslalane [sic] for a trip to the airport. And that&#x27;s fine. It&#x27;s [Teslalanes] infrastructure that ultimately helps the city thrive until the time that the land use patterns rebalance. There will always be traffic - but it won&#x27;t always have the same overall impact.</text></item><item><author>discodave</author><text>The old strategy of hiding your outlandish claim in an assertion in the first sentence!<p>&quot;To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D&quot;<p>The word &quot;must&quot; is a very strong one here, there are other options:<p>* Reduce the amount of travel that people need to do (remote work, online shopping).<p>* Reduce the density of cities (enabled by remote work or longer commutes with better internet access).<p>* Increase public transport options (higher passenger density).<p>* Encourage cycling.<p>I feel like only somebody who lives in LA would make the &quot;must&quot; assertion and not think about all the other options... oh wait:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b87d-c73fb8bb1750" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>objclxt</author><text>&gt; Public transit has failed to solve the problem despite a 100-year head start.<p>So the question here really is &quot;which would improve LA more: tunnels that carry trains, or tunnels that carry carts that hold single cars?&quot;<p>There is plenty of strong evidence that shows adding additional road capacity increases overall traffic. I&#x27;m not sure that adding ways to move cars around faster wouldn&#x27;t have the same impact, versus a train.</text></comment> |
17,925,998 | 17,925,067 | 1 | 2 | 17,924,840 | train | <story><title>There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (2013)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikstarck</author><text>The book &quot;Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies&quot; (phew, long name!) is a fascinating read about how the lifespan of whales, humans and shrews are connected and all mammals are basically the same type of system only scaled to various degrees. Example: the number of heartbeats during the full lifespan of a whale and a shrew is more or less the same. Bigger body =&gt; longer lifespan.<p>It then goes on to analyse how cities and companies grow using the same system thinking. Why do cities survive for centuries while companies typically go under after a few decades?<p>Highly recommended.</text></comment> | <story><title>There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (2013)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I am currently reflecting on the passage of time - the last two (working) decades have seemed like a flash of missed opportunities and amazing opportunities grasped and children born and growing<p>But to have two centuries of children and companions ... well that&#x27;s just amazing.<p>(On the other hand the whales are probably thinking something like &quot;you harpoon wielding ape bastards, wait till our spaceship returns we&#x27;ll have you then&quot;)</text></comment> |
38,626,860 | 38,627,065 | 1 | 2 | 38,626,078 | train | <story><title>Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-fights-autopilot-false-advertising-claim-with-free-speech-argument/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codedokode</author><text>It is interesting how widely Constinution and laws can be interpreted. Why not regulate speech that criticizes the government because it causes harm, seeds distrust in government institutions and misleads voters to make the wrong choice.</text></item><item><author>pizza234</author><text>Correct, this is the part of the article expressing this concept:<p>&gt; Despite Tesla&#x27;s free speech claim, the US and state governments can enforce laws banning deceptive practices that harm consumers. &quot;Beyond the category of common-law fraud, the Supreme Court has also said that false or misleading commercial speech may be prohibited,&quot; a Congressional Research Service report last year stated. &quot;For constitutional purposes, commercial speech is speech that does no more than propose a commercial transaction or that relates solely to the speaker&#x27;s and audience&#x27;s economic interests. Accordingly, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can regulate deceptive commercial speech without violating the First Amendment.&quot;</text></item><item><author>Akronymus</author><text>Even if it falls under free speech, which it definitely doesn&#x27;t AFAICT, it&#x27;d be essentially the same as allowing any food producer to just forego an ingredients list. Because surely, accurate ingredients are compelled speech and thus a free speech violation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andsoitis</author><text>A good starting point for understanding First Amendment constraints on government power to regulate deception is the U.S. Supreme Court&#x27;s declaration of &quot;common ground&quot; in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.:<p><i>Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas. But there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact. Neither the intentional lie nor the careless error materially advances society&#x27;s interest in &quot;uninhibited, robust, and wide-open&quot; debate on
public issues.</i><p>You can read more about Deception and the First Amendment in this UCLA Law Review article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uclalawreview.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;34_53UCLALRev11072005-2006.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uclalawreview.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;34_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-fights-autopilot-false-advertising-claim-with-free-speech-argument/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codedokode</author><text>It is interesting how widely Constinution and laws can be interpreted. Why not regulate speech that criticizes the government because it causes harm, seeds distrust in government institutions and misleads voters to make the wrong choice.</text></item><item><author>pizza234</author><text>Correct, this is the part of the article expressing this concept:<p>&gt; Despite Tesla&#x27;s free speech claim, the US and state governments can enforce laws banning deceptive practices that harm consumers. &quot;Beyond the category of common-law fraud, the Supreme Court has also said that false or misleading commercial speech may be prohibited,&quot; a Congressional Research Service report last year stated. &quot;For constitutional purposes, commercial speech is speech that does no more than propose a commercial transaction or that relates solely to the speaker&#x27;s and audience&#x27;s economic interests. Accordingly, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can regulate deceptive commercial speech without violating the First Amendment.&quot;</text></item><item><author>Akronymus</author><text>Even if it falls under free speech, which it definitely doesn&#x27;t AFAICT, it&#x27;d be essentially the same as allowing any food producer to just forego an ingredients list. Because surely, accurate ingredients are compelled speech and thus a free speech violation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanbond</author><text>&gt; Why not regulate speech that criticizes the government because it causes harm, seeds distrust in government institutions and misleads voters to make the wrong choice.<p>The answer is extremely, extremely simple actually: because the outcome of that would be bad, while the outcome of controlling misleading advertising is good.<p>It really is that simple.</text></comment> |
33,002,205 | 33,001,941 | 1 | 2 | 32,999,133 | train | <story><title>Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/09/27/closing-pixel-gap-native-web-window-controls-overlay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolpoli</author><text>I actually wish programs do not put content in the Title bar area. The title bar area is meant for users to move the Window around.<p>Try opening Microsoft Word, make the window narrow and drag the window. You have to hunt for a small bit of empty space in the title bar or you have to understand you could drag on the Title text, Search box and the Sign in Username, but not the Auto Save text, Upcoming Features icon, or the Ribbon Display Options icon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1necone</author><text>I much prefer what a lot of Linux desktop environments support, which is holding down alt and clicking anywhere on a window to move it. With that + a keyboard shortcut for closing a window you can get rid of title bars on apps entirely if you want. Sadly Windows doesn&#x27;t support it natively, although there&#x27;s another comment on this thread talking about ways to make it work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/09/27/closing-pixel-gap-native-web-window-controls-overlay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolpoli</author><text>I actually wish programs do not put content in the Title bar area. The title bar area is meant for users to move the Window around.<p>Try opening Microsoft Word, make the window narrow and drag the window. You have to hunt for a small bit of empty space in the title bar or you have to understand you could drag on the Title text, Search box and the Sign in Username, but not the Auto Save text, Upcoming Features icon, or the Ribbon Display Options icon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david2ndaccount</author><text>I also dislike how apps are now disabling the classic win32 app icon in the top left corner. If you click on it, you get a menu with window management options and double clicking it closes the window. It’s so burned into my muscle memory as the way to close a window I get frustrated when apps hide it.</text></comment> |
24,466,183 | 24,465,998 | 1 | 2 | 24,464,933 | train | <story><title>Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations-11600039821</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rladd</author><text>Here&#x27;s what I am guessing it is:<p>- Bytedance retains some ownership and control of the app and the algorithms<p>- Oracle runs the entire back end on their infrastructure<p>- Oracle guarantees to the US government that no data is going back to China (because they control the release of the app and control the back end)<p>- This satisfies the USA&#x27;s (supposed) national security concerns and also satisfies China because TikTok is not actually being &quot;sold&quot; to a US company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>If it was that simple, Google would have been the obvious choice. They have already started migrating to GCP and signed an $800 million dollar three year deal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;tiktok-agreed-to-buy-more-than-800-million-in-cloud-services-from-google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;tiktok-agreed-to-buy...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations-11600039821</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rladd</author><text>Here&#x27;s what I am guessing it is:<p>- Bytedance retains some ownership and control of the app and the algorithms<p>- Oracle runs the entire back end on their infrastructure<p>- Oracle guarantees to the US government that no data is going back to China (because they control the release of the app and control the back end)<p>- This satisfies the USA&#x27;s (supposed) national security concerns and also satisfies China because TikTok is not actually being &quot;sold&quot; to a US company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fej</author><text>This is a fantastic idea - the only thing missing (that I see) is that Oracle would need to see the source code and verify that the checksum of the apps built from that code matches the downloads from the Google Play Store and App Store.<p>Otherwise the guarantee that no data is being sent to China is not airtight. Oracle could audit the app every time it gets an update and watch network traffic, but this would miss anything sent by code activated remotely after the fact. It wouldn&#x27;t work for long, but the US government will look for any reason to deny this deal. I don&#x27;t think Oracle will audit the app constantly anyway. Come to think of it, that could apply to the source code too, if the malicious code was extremely well hidden.</text></comment> |
35,781,423 | 35,781,087 | 1 | 2 | 35,778,735 | train | <story><title>I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing</title><url>https://evhaste.com/blog/silenced-no-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biomcgary</author><text>My first job was at a unionized workplace. I ended up doing more work to cover the guy that was loafing around under the protection of the union. Who protects you from the protectors? Rational or not, since that time, I am suspicious of the personal work ethic of those arguing for unions.</text></item><item><author>yamtaddle</author><text>&gt; if you don’t like your manager, taking the view that if you escalate a formal complaint to HR (in doing so lose all trust you manager and HR may have in you), you’ll be vindicated and live on happily ever after… it’s a fairytale. Go work somewhere that makes you happy. Leave toxic environments - it’s not your job to fix them&#x2F;right wrongs.<p>Know where it&#x27;s not a fairytale? Unionized workplaces. Source: I know several people who work at such places—raising all sorts of issues and having them addressed reasonably-fairly is downright <i>normal</i> at them, and a manager trying to retaliate for that kind of thing is likely in for a bad time.</text></item><item><author>wiredone</author><text>Honestly, while I believe a lot of the perspective shared, there always seems to be a huge lack of objective assessment of options for these folks.<p>In tech there are many incredibly high paying jobs - taking control over your situation has a low bar.<p>if you don’t like your manager, taking the view that if you escalate a formal complaint to HR (in doing so lose all trust you manager and HR may have in you), you’ll be vindicated and live on happily ever after… it’s a fairytale. Go work somewhere that makes you happy. Leave toxic environments - it’s not your job to fix them&#x2F;right wrongs.<p>There are certainly real victims in these environments.<p>There are also in my personal experience a lot of people who make noise&#x2F;complain about immaterial incidents in the hope of claiming some group control over their situation or with some sense of justice around fixing things. This thrashing can create a toxic environment for those around in itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theteapot</author><text>It&#x27;s true, you never have to wonder about the work ethic of the unskilled and de-unionized worker. They have so little job security these days you can practically get the whip out on the poor, desperate little plebs.</text></comment> | <story><title>I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing</title><url>https://evhaste.com/blog/silenced-no-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biomcgary</author><text>My first job was at a unionized workplace. I ended up doing more work to cover the guy that was loafing around under the protection of the union. Who protects you from the protectors? Rational or not, since that time, I am suspicious of the personal work ethic of those arguing for unions.</text></item><item><author>yamtaddle</author><text>&gt; if you don’t like your manager, taking the view that if you escalate a formal complaint to HR (in doing so lose all trust you manager and HR may have in you), you’ll be vindicated and live on happily ever after… it’s a fairytale. Go work somewhere that makes you happy. Leave toxic environments - it’s not your job to fix them&#x2F;right wrongs.<p>Know where it&#x27;s not a fairytale? Unionized workplaces. Source: I know several people who work at such places—raising all sorts of issues and having them addressed reasonably-fairly is downright <i>normal</i> at them, and a manager trying to retaliate for that kind of thing is likely in for a bad time.</text></item><item><author>wiredone</author><text>Honestly, while I believe a lot of the perspective shared, there always seems to be a huge lack of objective assessment of options for these folks.<p>In tech there are many incredibly high paying jobs - taking control over your situation has a low bar.<p>if you don’t like your manager, taking the view that if you escalate a formal complaint to HR (in doing so lose all trust you manager and HR may have in you), you’ll be vindicated and live on happily ever after… it’s a fairytale. Go work somewhere that makes you happy. Leave toxic environments - it’s not your job to fix them&#x2F;right wrongs.<p>There are certainly real victims in these environments.<p>There are also in my personal experience a lot of people who make noise&#x2F;complain about immaterial incidents in the hope of claiming some group control over their situation or with some sense of justice around fixing things. This thrashing can create a toxic environment for those around in itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chownie</author><text>I&#x27;d rather work with lazy people than bullies, YMMV.</text></comment> |
16,941,779 | 16,941,733 | 1 | 2 | 16,939,619 | train | <story><title>EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>From a family of hive owners: Not sure this will have any sort of meaningful impact except raise prices elsewhere... It&#x27;s a grand gesture, but the science just isn&#x27;t there. The real problems are mites, which we do not have any sort of effective treatment for, and decreased biodiversity as African bees continue to push into North America.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>What would convince you that neonicotinoids kill bees? A study recently done at Purdue University perhaps?[1]<p>Pesticides are absurdly politicized. The amount of ridicule and PR flak pesticide critics get is insane.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pollinatorstewardship.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;Krupke-et-al-2017-neonic-corn-seeds.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pollinatorstewardship.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>From a family of hive owners: Not sure this will have any sort of meaningful impact except raise prices elsewhere... It&#x27;s a grand gesture, but the science just isn&#x27;t there. The real problems are mites, which we do not have any sort of effective treatment for, and decreased biodiversity as African bees continue to push into North America.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olliej</author><text>Varroa are the big problem for &#x2F;honey bees&#x2F;. Honey bees are not the most significant pollinators (they’re technically fairly innefficient pollinators compared to other bees - bumble, carpenter etc)<p>The vast majority of pollination is via non-bee insects, but just reducing the destruction of wild bees will help at least.<p>As for mite treatment you may want to look into oxalic acid, although it’s not technically approved for use in hives (despite being less harmful than regular mite pads)</text></comment> |
22,313,069 | 22,313,139 | 1 | 2 | 22,297,812 | train | <story><title>Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing</title><url>https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/examples/visual_testing/ReadMe.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Afton</author><text>These examples show the system being very tightly coupled to the actual html. IME this leads to very brittle tests that fail due to restructoring&#x2F;reorganizing&#x2F;redesigning.<p>My two cents: I&#x27;ve never seen automated visual regression testing that wasn&#x27;t terrible to work with, and where the most common result (by a large margin) of a test failing was someone would update the expected file&#x2F;image so it would pass with the new visuals. It&#x27;s a hard problem, and one that I&#x27;ve personally decided isn&#x27;t worth doing for the customer facing software that I&#x27;ve been involved with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing</title><url>https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/examples/visual_testing/ReadMe.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>luhego</author><text>I remember writing tests in Selenium in the past. Writing them was a horrible experience and some tests were not deterministic. The same test could fail or pass randomly.</text></comment> |
10,812,881 | 10,811,700 | 1 | 2 | 10,808,804 | train | <story><title>Introduction to the Math of Computer Graphics</title><url>http://codeofthedamned.com/index.php/introduction-to-the-math-of</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>Small thing, but some of the examples have some pretty bad undefined behavior bugs. For instance:<p><pre><code> Matrix&amp; operator*( const double scalar,
const Matrix&amp; rhs)
{
Matrix result(rhs);
result *= scalar;
return result;
}
</code></pre>
(Returning a reference to a stack variable is undefined behavior, but realistically you&#x27;re probably either looking at a hard crash or a really hard to track down bug)</text></comment> | <story><title>Introduction to the Math of Computer Graphics</title><url>http://codeofthedamned.com/index.php/introduction-to-the-math-of</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djhworld</author><text>What I&#x27;m failing to understand is how do matrices relate to 3D graphics. What is a matrix representing?<p>I think I get the idea of a vertex, as that can be used to represent a point on a shape, like a 3d model.</text></comment> |
13,693,264 | 13,689,191 | 1 | 2 | 13,688,844 | train | <story><title>Running Costs of a SaaS app</title><url>https://cushionapp.com/running-costs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Worth noting: costs for people blow costs for software&#x2F;services out of the water. I was notoriously spendthrift with regards to SaaS services (&quot;gotta catch them all!&quot;) and spent ~$3 on people last year for every $1 on services. (And if I had had any FTEs that would have been substantially higher.)<p>Over ~10 years running SaaS apps I generally managed to pretty consistently find ways to spend 40% of revenue.<p>Also worth noting: as you get further from &quot;things which are made by devs-running-businesses-as-hobbies-for-devs-running-businesses-as-hobbies&quot; towards &quot;business inputs sold by businesses to businesses&quot; costs <i>skyrocket</i>. You&#x27;re going to spend plural thousands of dollars on bookkeeping and tax compliance every year. You will eventually need a contract reviewed; that will probably cost you a few hundred bucks. You&#x27;re going to get a business insurance policy; you&#x27;ll find the bidding starts at a grand. etc, etc</text></comment> | <story><title>Running Costs of a SaaS app</title><url>https://cushionapp.com/running-costs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>destroytoday</author><text>:waves: Hi, I&#x27;m the founder of Cushion. I&#x27;d be happy to answer any questions about our running costs or transparency. (Thanks for posting, @Sujan!)</text></comment> |
34,237,144 | 34,236,942 | 1 | 2 | 34,235,888 | train | <story><title>Arizona inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will</title><url>https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/01/02/arizona-inducing-labor-of-pregnant-prisoners-against-their-will/69768038007/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>It is important to mention that inducing birth before term increases the incidence of respiratory problems in the baby (beyond the abhorrent ethical issues).</text></comment> | <story><title>Arizona inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will</title><url>https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/01/02/arizona-inducing-labor-of-pregnant-prisoners-against-their-will/69768038007/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>It seems to me like this is a crime. Why are there not more formalized procedures and criminal penalties for those in the justice system for the state choosing to turn a blind eye to documented crimes within its ranks?</text></comment> |
14,988,550 | 14,988,694 | 1 | 2 | 14,988,086 | train | <story><title>How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://huyenchip.com/2017/08/09/sexism-in-silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imartin2k</author><text>&quot;I have the feeling that we’ve been only addressing one side of the story. It’s the side where women are victims. I’m here to tell the story of how I, as a woman in tech, benefited from sexism and that men can be victims too.&quot;<p>Something that keeps bugging me - and this is in no way limited to tech - how being a victim has become an identity to many, which is almost worn as a badge. While I do what I can to emphasize with every individual who has been exposed to discrimination, harassment (and while as a white man I experienced most likely much less of this, although not nothing), a scenario in which everyone walks around all day long feeling as the victim (followed by the inevitable selective perception and confirmation bias) cannot function.<p>I recently listened to a philosophy podcast which started with a line which has since been stuck in my head &quot;In a time in which being a victim offers so much social capital...&quot;. (edit: I recalled the quote slightly inaccurately, but the point was the same: &quot;In a culture in which there is so much social currency connected to being a victim...&quot; In case you are curious, it&#x27;s episode #105 of philosophizethis.org)<p>I don&#x27;t know what to do
about it and I in no way want to diminish the harm that those who feel like victims experienced. But whenever victimhood is becoming an identity, things are getting out of hand.<p>(the feeling of being a systemic&#x2F;structural victim can be found on all sides of the political&#x2F;ideological&#x2F;gender spectrum of course).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjbwork</author><text>Here&#x27;s an article that has some links talking about this phenomenon a few years ago.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;victimhood-culture-in-america-beyond-dig" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;victimhood-culture-in-amer...</a><p>TL;DR There are traditionally 2 kinds of culture - honor, and dignity. The west tends to be predominantly Dignity culture. Asia and Africa tend to be predominantly Honor cultures. This idea is that we are seeing a shift into a culture that combines both of these - the victim culture.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://huyenchip.com/2017/08/09/sexism-in-silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imartin2k</author><text>&quot;I have the feeling that we’ve been only addressing one side of the story. It’s the side where women are victims. I’m here to tell the story of how I, as a woman in tech, benefited from sexism and that men can be victims too.&quot;<p>Something that keeps bugging me - and this is in no way limited to tech - how being a victim has become an identity to many, which is almost worn as a badge. While I do what I can to emphasize with every individual who has been exposed to discrimination, harassment (and while as a white man I experienced most likely much less of this, although not nothing), a scenario in which everyone walks around all day long feeling as the victim (followed by the inevitable selective perception and confirmation bias) cannot function.<p>I recently listened to a philosophy podcast which started with a line which has since been stuck in my head &quot;In a time in which being a victim offers so much social capital...&quot;. (edit: I recalled the quote slightly inaccurately, but the point was the same: &quot;In a culture in which there is so much social currency connected to being a victim...&quot; In case you are curious, it&#x27;s episode #105 of philosophizethis.org)<p>I don&#x27;t know what to do
about it and I in no way want to diminish the harm that those who feel like victims experienced. But whenever victimhood is becoming an identity, things are getting out of hand.<p>(the feeling of being a systemic&#x2F;structural victim can be found on all sides of the political&#x2F;ideological&#x2F;gender spectrum of course).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>It&#x27;s a new modality of getting the upper hand if you wish.<p>In some contexts showing how wealthy or strong one is works, but in other contexts that doesn&#x27;t work, so showing how much of victim one is works well. Even more, the interesting phenomenon is if the person can&#x27;t really swing looking like a victim, they&#x27;ll gain the upper hand by claiming to deeply care about other victims.</text></comment> |
8,108,741 | 8,107,973 | 1 | 3 | 8,107,447 | train | <story><title>Immutable Data Collections for Javascript</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leebyron</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m the author of this library. It&#x27;s definitely inspired by mori (and clojure and Haskell) and the reason I ended up building something different was to present a more JavaScript friendly API (and academically, to learn about HAMT). I&#x27;ve built this over the last couple weeks, and we are not using it internally yet - but I wanted to ensure development of it happened in public.</text></comment> | <story><title>Immutable Data Collections for Javascript</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abaco</author><text>Bit confused (ignorant actually) here.
Can someone give a &#x27;real world&#x27; example of the benefits of immutabile objects in js?</text></comment> |
12,976,240 | 12,899,317 | 1 | 2 | 12,894,588 | train | <story><title>Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/07/googles-firebase-developer-platform-gets-better-analytics-crash-reports-and-more?1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>This is great news. My last few web projects have all been based on Firebase because I focus on the front-end these days and I don&#x27;t have to worry about scaling, databases, API endpoints and other nonsense which consumes a lot of my day. The pain of even getting a VPS deployed with support for Node.js, database and then figuring out some kind of redundancy to keep Node and my database running can also consume your day.<p>I used to favour Node.js for my REST API backend, but you can&#x27;t beat the pricing for Firebase and generous free tier. One of the lesser known features is the cloud configuration service which gives you an SDK, it allows me to remotely turn settings on and off, syndicating them in realtime across all devices.<p>Oh, and the authentication functionality that Firebase offers with the painless SDK is absolutely fantastic. It&#x27;s crazy easy to add Google&#x2F;Facebook login functionality to my application and not worry about dealing with the pain of JSON Web Tokens, oAuth authentication and the other pain points of integrating social login. Implementing authentication used to be painful, fortunately services like Auth0 and Firebase are making it easier.<p>To those wondering who would use Firebase, I am a prime example. I am a front-end developer, but I come from a full-stack background. As I focus on the front-end, I&#x27;ve lost interest in configuring API&#x27;s and backends, so Firebase handling this for me without needing to really do anything is a huge plus. I have no want, need or desire to ever touch a backend if I can avoid it.<p>For prototyping, you can&#x27;t beat Firebase&#x27;s cloud hosted database which utilises a JSON format to store data aka NoSQL without the scaling pain like MongoDB inflicted upon us. The rules engine that sits ontop of it allows you to configure it however you want, support for indexes and more.<p>Makes me happy to see that Google is doubling down on Firebase, it truly is a great product and I would be sad to see it discontinued.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alantrum</author><text>I developed my first SWA with angular 2 + firebase database&#x2F;hosting.
In one hand, the dev process is really easy and fast (firebase deploy to upload your website).<p>In the other end, if you want to be fully serverless it&#x27;s start to getting more complicated. Using external service to manage form (form.io), page pre-rendering (prerender.io), notification...<p>I don&#x27;t know why analytic, crash report are only available on Android&#x2F;iOS because when you are able to do your sdk on 2 platforms. 1 more shouldn&#x27;t be that hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/07/googles-firebase-developer-platform-gets-better-analytics-crash-reports-and-more?1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>This is great news. My last few web projects have all been based on Firebase because I focus on the front-end these days and I don&#x27;t have to worry about scaling, databases, API endpoints and other nonsense which consumes a lot of my day. The pain of even getting a VPS deployed with support for Node.js, database and then figuring out some kind of redundancy to keep Node and my database running can also consume your day.<p>I used to favour Node.js for my REST API backend, but you can&#x27;t beat the pricing for Firebase and generous free tier. One of the lesser known features is the cloud configuration service which gives you an SDK, it allows me to remotely turn settings on and off, syndicating them in realtime across all devices.<p>Oh, and the authentication functionality that Firebase offers with the painless SDK is absolutely fantastic. It&#x27;s crazy easy to add Google&#x2F;Facebook login functionality to my application and not worry about dealing with the pain of JSON Web Tokens, oAuth authentication and the other pain points of integrating social login. Implementing authentication used to be painful, fortunately services like Auth0 and Firebase are making it easier.<p>To those wondering who would use Firebase, I am a prime example. I am a front-end developer, but I come from a full-stack background. As I focus on the front-end, I&#x27;ve lost interest in configuring API&#x27;s and backends, so Firebase handling this for me without needing to really do anything is a huge plus. I have no want, need or desire to ever touch a backend if I can avoid it.<p>For prototyping, you can&#x27;t beat Firebase&#x27;s cloud hosted database which utilises a JSON format to store data aka NoSQL without the scaling pain like MongoDB inflicted upon us. The rules engine that sits ontop of it allows you to configure it however you want, support for indexes and more.<p>Makes me happy to see that Google is doubling down on Firebase, it truly is a great product and I would be sad to see it discontinued.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doczoidberg</author><text>I also like firebase. Unfortunately the updates are all for mobile development and not for the web. Also there is no support for angular universal in angularfire?</text></comment> |
38,910,838 | 38,909,690 | 1 | 2 | 38,899,183 | train | <story><title>What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)</title><url>https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/million.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scarblac</author><text>&gt; &quot;Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.&quot;<p>-- Terry Pratchett<p>Making fun of the fact that if someone says &quot;it&#x27;s a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!&quot; in fiction, you know it&#x27;s going to work.<p>In _Guards! Guards!_ this is taken to the point that they reckon that it&#x27;s not enough to hit the dragon with the arrow at the soft spot, they also have to try a whole bunch of improbable circumstances to get the chance to exactly 1 in a million. Because exactly 1 in a million is hard to achieve, as the article shows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomK32</author><text>The cheese-loving aviators have the Swiss-cheese-model to visualize how small unimportant errors can stack up to a catastrophic outcome. Though in my opinion there&#x27;s a flaw in this thinking as no sane cheese seller would shuffle their layers of cheese after cutting them: Hence 1-in-million chances happen all the time. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aviationfile.com&#x2F;swiss-cheese-model&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aviationfile.com&#x2F;swiss-cheese-model&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)</title><url>https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/million.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scarblac</author><text>&gt; &quot;Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.&quot;<p>-- Terry Pratchett<p>Making fun of the fact that if someone says &quot;it&#x27;s a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!&quot; in fiction, you know it&#x27;s going to work.<p>In _Guards! Guards!_ this is taken to the point that they reckon that it&#x27;s not enough to hit the dragon with the arrow at the soft spot, they also have to try a whole bunch of improbable circumstances to get the chance to exactly 1 in a million. Because exactly 1 in a million is hard to achieve, as the article shows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eesmith</author><text>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.lspace.org&#x2F;Million-to-one_chance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.lspace.org&#x2F;Million-to-one_chance</a> and more generally <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tvtropes.org&#x2F;pmwiki&#x2F;pmwiki.php&#x2F;Main&#x2F;MillionToOneChance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tvtropes.org&#x2F;pmwiki&#x2F;pmwiki.php&#x2F;Main&#x2F;MillionToOneChan...</a> .</text></comment> |
35,165,378 | 35,164,731 | 1 | 2 | 35,159,447 | train | <story><title>We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1635672262903750662</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Art is not the same as potato’s or furniture.<p>What is the market price for a potato?<p>What is the market price for a chair?<p>What is the price of developing an art career over 40 years? Unless you believe that art, music, poetry, literature, and the rest have no value to society then IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school…<p>…instead of you know doing the “responsible” thing and getting a CS degree so you can one day get an AI gig stealing “training data” in the name of profit</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>I think we mostly agree here, since for your brother those 10-30 years would work perfectly for him! China breaking copyright is NOT an argument that copyright is good, quite the opposite, it&#x27;s a statement of how broken it is.<p>About the inheritance I disagree, when you are a farmer and sell a potato you sell it once and then it&#x27;s gone, if you are a carpenter you make a furniture piece and sell it and its gone. Why should art be a &quot;legacy&quot; that can be kept selling forever?</text></item><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>I disagree completely.<p>My older brother decided to go to art school.<p>It wasn’t until he was 40 that his artwork started to be noticed and worth something.<p>His images have been bootlegged endlessly by Asian companies placing them on t-shirts and selling them for $5 on Etsy and every other marketplace.<p>Fortunately for him, he’s designed a very popular set of kids books that have allowed him to move out of my parents, get a place of his own, pay down debt and buy a house.<p>Intellectual property is how he takes care of his family. He should be able to at least provide for his kids college after his death if his IP still has value in the marketplace.<p>…And so should other creators.<p>Not everyone is Disney.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>&quot;Intellectual property rights&quot; is a concept made by greedy proprietors to build monopolies and keep competition out. It&#x27;s no chance it was strongly pushed by Disney, and in its current form goes against the society interests as a whole. It is sold maliciously as &quot;it incentivizes creative work&quot;, but how does &quot;life of the author + 50 years&quot; incentivize the author to keep creating? It just incentivizes them to keep exploiting.<p>Now I think we&#x27;d all agree to something more realistic to actually protect authors, like 10-30 years protection from publication. But every time someone brings &quot;copyright! IP!&quot; to ML I just laugh since it&#x27;s one of the more corrupt laws that we have currently.</text></item><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>Nobody is going to &quot;generate training data&quot; if they get precisely nothing out of it.<p>The complete disregard for intellectual property rights being exhibited by the &quot;AI&quot; community will inevitably come back to bite them in the arse one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>I purposefully put furniture because it can be a utilitarian box, or a custom carpentry art piece. Why is your brother art more valuable than a custom table? Or a delicious dish? Or the portrait I buy from the street artist that cannot rent-seek from it? With the best intention, it seems you are biased because we are talking about your brother&#x27;s lifehood (but I&#x27;m still happy to discuss politely).<p>&gt; IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school<p>Hard disagree, most of the art fields are first a passion and then a profession. People who go to art school is normally because they love it so much that they cannot imagine themselves doing something else, even though they already know it pays little. I&#x27;ve never ever heard of someone going to art school &quot;because of IP protections&quot;.<p>One of the reasons it&#x27;s so hard to make money is because there&#x27;s many people doing it as a hobby that are already great at it, and so would jump at the chance of getting <i>some</i> money for it, leaving people who want to make <i>livable</i> wages outcompeted. Which is fine, this way society as a whole benefits greatly, sure it&#x27;s unfortunate there are no more people living off it, but in exchange there are many, many amateurs experimenting and doing art, and from time to time one finds a formula that allows them to live off it (or &quot;shills&quot; to corporate).</text></comment> | <story><title>We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1635672262903750662</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Art is not the same as potato’s or furniture.<p>What is the market price for a potato?<p>What is the market price for a chair?<p>What is the price of developing an art career over 40 years? Unless you believe that art, music, poetry, literature, and the rest have no value to society then IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school…<p>…instead of you know doing the “responsible” thing and getting a CS degree so you can one day get an AI gig stealing “training data” in the name of profit</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>I think we mostly agree here, since for your brother those 10-30 years would work perfectly for him! China breaking copyright is NOT an argument that copyright is good, quite the opposite, it&#x27;s a statement of how broken it is.<p>About the inheritance I disagree, when you are a farmer and sell a potato you sell it once and then it&#x27;s gone, if you are a carpenter you make a furniture piece and sell it and its gone. Why should art be a &quot;legacy&quot; that can be kept selling forever?</text></item><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>I disagree completely.<p>My older brother decided to go to art school.<p>It wasn’t until he was 40 that his artwork started to be noticed and worth something.<p>His images have been bootlegged endlessly by Asian companies placing them on t-shirts and selling them for $5 on Etsy and every other marketplace.<p>Fortunately for him, he’s designed a very popular set of kids books that have allowed him to move out of my parents, get a place of his own, pay down debt and buy a house.<p>Intellectual property is how he takes care of his family. He should be able to at least provide for his kids college after his death if his IP still has value in the marketplace.<p>…And so should other creators.<p>Not everyone is Disney.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>&quot;Intellectual property rights&quot; is a concept made by greedy proprietors to build monopolies and keep competition out. It&#x27;s no chance it was strongly pushed by Disney, and in its current form goes against the society interests as a whole. It is sold maliciously as &quot;it incentivizes creative work&quot;, but how does &quot;life of the author + 50 years&quot; incentivize the author to keep creating? It just incentivizes them to keep exploiting.<p>Now I think we&#x27;d all agree to something more realistic to actually protect authors, like 10-30 years protection from publication. But every time someone brings &quot;copyright! IP!&quot; to ML I just laugh since it&#x27;s one of the more corrupt laws that we have currently.</text></item><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>Nobody is going to &quot;generate training data&quot; if they get precisely nothing out of it.<p>The complete disregard for intellectual property rights being exhibited by the &quot;AI&quot; community will inevitably come back to bite them in the arse one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>If we go by the average income of a creator, then society indeed considers most of it less valuable than flipping burgers. The average writer for example earns well below minimum wage from their writing.<p>If you want to encourage more creative work, maybe look for other mechanisms, because going into creative work in the hope of making it is pretty much gambling with awful odds.</text></comment> |
34,276,096 | 34,276,120 | 1 | 2 | 34,275,644 | train | <story><title>Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art</title><url>https://www.thetechdeviant.com/2023/01/06/artist-banned-told-to-find-a-different-style-since-his-style-is-too-similar-to-ai-made-art/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>What do you think would be a better model? I have a hard time imagining one.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem all that different to me than whoever is first to claim a company name, a domain name, or when we go back further in time, land.</text></item><item><author>tazjin</author><text>Reddit&#x27;s weird setup where essentially random people who were first &quot;own&quot; entire categories (= subreddits) of discussion is totally absurd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>IRC Network administrators tend to enforce &quot;official&quot; names (owned by a particular group) vs &quot;unofficial&quot; names. For example, &quot;#Ubuntu&quot; is owned by the Ubuntu devs. While the unofficial ##Ubuntu is just fan owned.<p>This already is a huge step forward compared to Reddit, where you aren&#x27;t even sure which subreddits are owned by the corporation &#x2F; official groups, or if they&#x27;re &quot;fan run&quot;. Are you sure &#x2F;r&#x2F;Ubuntu is a fan-run subreddit, or does it have official Ubuntu communications?</text></comment> | <story><title>Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art</title><url>https://www.thetechdeviant.com/2023/01/06/artist-banned-told-to-find-a-different-style-since-his-style-is-too-similar-to-ai-made-art/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>What do you think would be a better model? I have a hard time imagining one.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem all that different to me than whoever is first to claim a company name, a domain name, or when we go back further in time, land.</text></item><item><author>tazjin</author><text>Reddit&#x27;s weird setup where essentially random people who were first &quot;own&quot; entire categories (= subreddits) of discussion is totally absurd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>richbell</author><text>The problem this is that historically a person will create a subreddit, add other moderators, and then vanish. The other moderators will build up the community and culture of the subreddit, and then one day years down the road the top moderator returns and decides they want to make unilateral changes that the <i>actual</i> moderators are powerless to contest.</text></comment> |
36,609,013 | 36,608,847 | 1 | 2 | 36,608,530 | train | <story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>&gt;&gt;Threads is available on iOS and Android<p>I hate that computer has become a second tier citizen. My phone is a great little computing device, but my computer is an even better, large, comfortable, multitasking, ergonomic computing device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koyote</author><text>I hate this new trend with a passion.<p>A new low-cost airline just launched in Australia. The only way to book? By installing their app...<p>I am not sure how the non-tech masses book their trips, but I usually have a dozen tabs open, comparing prices and flight times across a range of aggregators&#x2F;airlines.<p>Even if I know which airlines I am flying I often have several tabs open to compare prices across dates.<p>All of this is not possible with an app.</text></comment> | <story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>&gt;&gt;Threads is available on iOS and Android<p>I hate that computer has become a second tier citizen. My phone is a great little computing device, but my computer is an even better, large, comfortable, multitasking, ergonomic computing device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>I&#x27;ve shrugged off a lot of mobile computing limitations because, well, if I wanted to do that I&#x27;d just use a computer. But it occurs to me that for a lot of people they don&#x27;t actually have a regular computer now.</text></comment> |
30,095,164 | 30,095,231 | 1 | 3 | 30,093,281 | train | <story><title>Rancher Desktop 1.0</title><url>https://www.suse.com/c/rancher_blog/rancher-desktop-1-0-0-has-arrived/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrwawy283</author><text>It feels like we&#x27;re late to create the desktop experience where most things run in containers. My wish is to run something like Proxmox as a &quot;stable base&quot;, and within it have a VM for my firewall (pfsense), my primary Linux OS (Fedora&#x2F;Arch), a VM for services (Docker &amp; k8s), and a VM for Windows gaming. I like the separation of concerns. I&#x27;ve wanted to do all of this on a laptop but I can&#x27;t get a VM to exclusively take control of the GPU &amp; display controller (overtake the laptop display panel).<p>For a long while now I&#x27;ve wanted a stable, slim base OS. I actually thought Rancher Desktop was a rebirth of RancherOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancher.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancher.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;os&#x2F;</a><p>I really liked the concept of a &quot;system docker&quot; and a &quot;user docker&quot;. I thought Fedora CoreOS had potential to be the first Linux &quot;Desktop&quot; container distro.<p>Oh well, maybe a desktop distro that aims to containerize all apps is a 2023 thing. Still remember that Steam bug?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkmassive</author><text>Fedora Silverblue is a Linux desktop container distro
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;silverblue.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;silverblue.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rancher Desktop 1.0</title><url>https://www.suse.com/c/rancher_blog/rancher-desktop-1-0-0-has-arrived/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrwawy283</author><text>It feels like we&#x27;re late to create the desktop experience where most things run in containers. My wish is to run something like Proxmox as a &quot;stable base&quot;, and within it have a VM for my firewall (pfsense), my primary Linux OS (Fedora&#x2F;Arch), a VM for services (Docker &amp; k8s), and a VM for Windows gaming. I like the separation of concerns. I&#x27;ve wanted to do all of this on a laptop but I can&#x27;t get a VM to exclusively take control of the GPU &amp; display controller (overtake the laptop display panel).<p>For a long while now I&#x27;ve wanted a stable, slim base OS. I actually thought Rancher Desktop was a rebirth of RancherOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancher.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancher.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;os&#x2F;</a><p>I really liked the concept of a &quot;system docker&quot; and a &quot;user docker&quot;. I thought Fedora CoreOS had potential to be the first Linux &quot;Desktop&quot; container distro.<p>Oh well, maybe a desktop distro that aims to containerize all apps is a 2023 thing. Still remember that Steam bug?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moondev</author><text>You can do exactly this with proxmox or esxi. Create a main &quot;gaming vm&quot; to autostart with GPU + USB passthrough. Then you can manage your other vms from the web browser on your gaming vm.</text></comment> |
34,506,091 | 34,506,125 | 1 | 2 | 34,503,888 | train | <story><title>Make a Resume in LaTeX</title><url>https://drshika.me/2022/04/15/latex-resumes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KMag</author><text>Back in school, I remember mentioning to a friend that &quot;Don&#x27;t the Microsoft Research CS papers look a bit different? Whenever I feel like a paper looks a bit off, I look up and see the authors have Microsoft email addresses.&quot; and he pointed out to me that MS creates their papers in Word and pretty much all of the other papers I read were in LaTeX.<p>If your CV is generated from LaTeX -&gt; PDF and all of the others are Word -&gt; PDF, your CV will subtly stand out. Depending on the reader, the subconscious&#x2F;conscious connection with CS papers may be a plus or a minus.<p>It&#x27;s hard to say if having my CV in LaTeX has actually helped me, but this is the reason I use LaTeX for my CV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>I worked for MSR for ~7 years and all of the papers I worked on were in LaTeX, all the papers I saw from my colleagues were written in LaTeX as well. The only people who wrote papers in Word were from academic communities where that already happened often (e.g. lots of Word papers in HCI conferences; I was in the PL and OS communities where it was very rare to see papers written in Word).<p>But yes, a paper written in MS Word is glaring by how it handles kerning and hyphenation. You&#x27;d be surprised how much products teams don&#x27;t care about type setting (and Google Docs at Google where I work now is about the same).</text></comment> | <story><title>Make a Resume in LaTeX</title><url>https://drshika.me/2022/04/15/latex-resumes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KMag</author><text>Back in school, I remember mentioning to a friend that &quot;Don&#x27;t the Microsoft Research CS papers look a bit different? Whenever I feel like a paper looks a bit off, I look up and see the authors have Microsoft email addresses.&quot; and he pointed out to me that MS creates their papers in Word and pretty much all of the other papers I read were in LaTeX.<p>If your CV is generated from LaTeX -&gt; PDF and all of the others are Word -&gt; PDF, your CV will subtly stand out. Depending on the reader, the subconscious&#x2F;conscious connection with CS papers may be a plus or a minus.<p>It&#x27;s hard to say if having my CV in LaTeX has actually helped me, but this is the reason I use LaTeX for my CV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SnooSux</author><text>I&#x27;ve handed my resume at career fairs and I twice they noticed and pointed out that it was LaTeX and it impressed them a little bit.<p>But I was a EE student so maybe it&#x27;d be different in another field.</text></comment> |
20,539,484 | 20,539,253 | 1 | 2 | 20,538,614 | train | <story><title>Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/texas-wind-energy-trnd/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>How difficult is it to build transmission lines in the US? In Germany we have enormous problems building a transmission line from the offshore windparks in the north to the industrial centers in the south. NIMBYs are opposing it fiercly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6thaccount2</author><text>It depends on the region, but most of the US doesn&#x27;t have too much of a problem.<p>There is always pushback from locals (understandable), but there has been billions in transmission built in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and West Texas regions to name a few areas. A lot of this is to help with the existing (ageing) infrastructure as well as helping make sure the ~22GW of currently built wind capacity can actually serve load and not be curtailed 24&#x2F;7. In fact, a lot of that wind wouldn&#x27;t have been built without the necessary transmission. Keep in mind that there is greater than a ~2:1 return on investment from these projects (difference in production cost in a year with the projects there and then not there) if I recall correctly.<p>The Western Interconnect of the US seems to favor using RAS and phase-shifting transformers in order to avoid as many transmission projects. A Remedial Action Scheme is basically an automated system that keeps certain catastrophic events from happening when a certain triggering event happens. Phase shifting transformers can help push back on certain interregional flows. I think this makes more sense in the Western Interconnect as it isn&#x27;t as much of a dense network as the Eastern Interconnect. You have dense load centers in Denver, California, and Oregon&#x2F;Washington with a dessert and mountain range in the middle (forms a donut). It is very rural over the vast majority of the distance, so I imagine transmission is pretty expensive and harder to justify. They do have interregional planning groups in the West though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/texas-wind-energy-trnd/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>How difficult is it to build transmission lines in the US? In Germany we have enormous problems building a transmission line from the offshore windparks in the north to the industrial centers in the south. NIMBYs are opposing it fiercly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>Similar in the US.. but will vary greatly depending on where you&#x27;re going to&#x2F;from. Of course, the NIMBYs are really against expansion of nuclear power, which by all means should be <i>much</i> more common than coal at this point. Especially in relatively stable locations like inland Texas, for example (and most of the non-coastal southwest us).<p>A little NIMBY&#x2F;FUD goes a long way.</text></comment> |
7,967,712 | 7,967,780 | 1 | 2 | 7,964,848 | train | <story><title>Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality</title><url>http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140624-fluid-tests-hint-at-concrete-quantum-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>So please explain in a few sentences what is that that Yudkowski writes, did he make any new contribution to the standard model or made something else or do you agree that the standard model is the most researched and most usable model up to now, and he just made a lot of posts where he just writes a lot of text?<p>I see a lot of links in the article you gave, but I don&#x27;t understand what we&#x27;re supposed to discover in Yudkowski&#x27;s writings after trying to follow most of them. There&#x27;s a lot of free text, not much physics. The standard model is a lot of smart formulas supported by the decades of expensive elaborate measurements (and vice versa), however his texts look more like writings of some philosophy student who knows a little of the math than like a physicist&#x27;s material. I&#x27;d also really welcome opinions of professional physicists.<p>Edit: Wikipedia entry about him seems to fit my impression: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eliezer_Yudkowsky</a> &quot;Yudkowsky (...) is an American blogger, writer, and advocate for Friendly artificial intelligence (...) Largely self-educated.&quot;</text></item><item><author>spacehome</author><text>Yes! But the best theory is not Copenhagen or Pilot Wave.<p>Eliezer Yudkowski has a brilliant treatise on the Many Worlds interpretation here: <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;r5&#x2F;the_quantum_physics_sequence&#x2F;</a> that really should be required reading for anyone that wants to talk intelligently on the subject.<p>Edit: seriously, don&#x27;t even bother reading the article. It (like most science journalism) is garbage. Take the time to work through Eliezer&#x27;s sequence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sharlin</author><text>The Standard Model does not concern itself with the various interpretations of quantum mechanics. It can, as of now, neither verify or falsify any of the interpretations which, consequently, are not scientific theories or even hypotheses, but firmly on the side of philosophy of physics. The interpretations are attempts to answer <i>why</i> Nature works as it does, <i>within</i> the framework of the Standard Model which only appears to answer the question <i>how</i>.<p>Yudkowsky certainly hasn&#x27;t <i>invented</i> the many worlds interpretation, which was originally formulated by the physicist Hugh Everett in 1957. Even though originally scorned, in the more recent times it has gained popularity among physicists. The series of blog posts by Yudkowsky are (in my opinion, at least) a persuasive argument in its favor against the competing interpretations, and are very much recommended reading for anyone who would like to better understand the issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality</title><url>http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140624-fluid-tests-hint-at-concrete-quantum-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>So please explain in a few sentences what is that that Yudkowski writes, did he make any new contribution to the standard model or made something else or do you agree that the standard model is the most researched and most usable model up to now, and he just made a lot of posts where he just writes a lot of text?<p>I see a lot of links in the article you gave, but I don&#x27;t understand what we&#x27;re supposed to discover in Yudkowski&#x27;s writings after trying to follow most of them. There&#x27;s a lot of free text, not much physics. The standard model is a lot of smart formulas supported by the decades of expensive elaborate measurements (and vice versa), however his texts look more like writings of some philosophy student who knows a little of the math than like a physicist&#x27;s material. I&#x27;d also really welcome opinions of professional physicists.<p>Edit: Wikipedia entry about him seems to fit my impression: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eliezer_Yudkowsky</a> &quot;Yudkowsky (...) is an American blogger, writer, and advocate for Friendly artificial intelligence (...) Largely self-educated.&quot;</text></item><item><author>spacehome</author><text>Yes! But the best theory is not Copenhagen or Pilot Wave.<p>Eliezer Yudkowski has a brilliant treatise on the Many Worlds interpretation here: <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;r5&#x2F;the_quantum_physics_sequence&#x2F;</a> that really should be required reading for anyone that wants to talk intelligently on the subject.<p>Edit: seriously, don&#x27;t even bother reading the article. It (like most science journalism) is garbage. Take the time to work through Eliezer&#x27;s sequence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>Have you read Feynman&#x27;s QED? It&#x27;s a bit like that, in that it&#x27;s meant for a layman, but with more algebra. Instead of abstract arrows, EY goes straight to complex numbers. It goes through a basic approach to quantum mechanics (taking diagrams from here for instance: <a href="http://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/node/60" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;node&#x2F;60</a>) in a modern way and tries to build an intuitive understanding of the subject, especially demolishing a lot of confusions one may have gained through popular media. He then departs from the basic theory to elaborate on why the collapse interpretation is ridiculous and why Many-Worlds makes more sense. You can stop when you get to the Timeless stuff.<p>You&#x27;re not really going to find anything ground-breaking, but it may help your intuitions about QM even if you&#x27;re a physicist. As a chapter from the Aaronson book (<a href="http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;democritus&#x2F;lec9.html</a>) I linked to in a cousin comment says in the first two paragraphs:<p><i>There are two ways to teach quantum mechanics. The first way -- which for most physicists today is still the only way -- follows the historical order in which the ideas were discovered. So, you start with classical mechanics and electrodynamics, solving lots of grueling differential equations at every step. Then you learn about the &quot;blackbody paradox&quot; and various strange experimental results, and the great crisis these things posed for physics. Next you learn a complicated patchwork of ideas that physicists invented between 1900 and 1926 to try to make the crisis go away. Then, if you&#x27;re lucky, after years of study you finally get around to the central conceptual point: that nature is described not by probabilities (which are always nonnegative), but by numbers called amplitudes that can be positive, negative, or even complex.<p>Today, in the quantum information age, the fact that all the physicists had to learn quantum this way seems increasingly humorous. For example, I&#x27;ve had experts in quantum field theory -- people who&#x27;ve spent years calculating path integrals of mind-boggling complexity -- ask me to explain the Bell inequality to them. That&#x27;s like Andrew Wiles asking me to explain the Pythagorean Theorem.</i><p>(And on EY himself, just read the million or so words of the Sequences and you&#x27;ll see he is actually really smart across multiple domains. ;))</text></comment> |
32,465,866 | 32,465,849 | 1 | 3 | 32,465,516 | train | <story><title>AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title><url>https://badshah.io/guardduty-good-bad-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>&gt; The Ugly
&gt; Cost can get sky-high<p>Is there _any_ service on AWS where you feel like you&#x27;re getting more value than the dollars you&#x27;re paying with (other than IAM and Free tier services)? It&#x27;s no secret that AWS is one of the most successful and profitable modern businesses, but perhaps there&#x27;s a hidden offering that does something, does it well, and costs very little compared to the value it brings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>czbond</author><text>Most if not all services, I feel are a good enough value...when I consider my &quot;time&quot; or hiring consultants time to do the same, etc.<p>A single example was GuardDuty above. I know how expensive similar to GuardDuty services are per month when you have to have a well planned strategy, implementation, execution, operations for threats... no matter if one does it &quot;in house&quot; or with &quot;consultants&quot; - the cost is very high to implement anything similar to GuardDuty. No matter if it is duct taped open source or enterprise offerings.<p>And then you have to do that same iterative business process loop across infrastructure (servers&#x2F;database), data centers, code deployment, DevOps, security, etc etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title><url>https://badshah.io/guardduty-good-bad-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>&gt; The Ugly
&gt; Cost can get sky-high<p>Is there _any_ service on AWS where you feel like you&#x27;re getting more value than the dollars you&#x27;re paying with (other than IAM and Free tier services)? It&#x27;s no secret that AWS is one of the most successful and profitable modern businesses, but perhaps there&#x27;s a hidden offering that does something, does it well, and costs very little compared to the value it brings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>RDS is one for me. I’ve set up a regionally replicated, point-in-time backuped DB cluster and have no desire to run one again.</text></comment> |
16,253,009 | 16,251,420 | 1 | 2 | 16,249,955 | train | <story><title>Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases</title><url>https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957317886112124928</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iser</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kevinkiklee&#x2F;status&#x2F;957629856518459392" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kevinkiklee&#x2F;status&#x2F;957629856518459392</a><p>I just created an overlay of Google Maps and Strava Heatmap of the forward operating base I was at in Afghanistan. The heatmap clearly shows the layout of the base.<p>That base has been in operation for at least 6-8 years, and it is well-developed. The up-to-date satellite imagery of the area is not available on Google Maps for a good reason, and Strava just released it.<p>I imagine that this heatmap has been thoroughly scraped already.<p>* I was deployed to Afghanistan from 2011-2012.<p>edit: initially mis-typed &#x27;2011-2102&#x27; =D<p>edit2: A well-established military base, even in a combat zone, has access to wifi and cellphone network.
We are constantly training physically, and we like to keep track of ourselves. We were early adopters of fitness trackers, and I used a couple of them myself also.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>&gt;Strava just released it.<p>Strava didn&#x27;t release it. It&#x27;s not strava&#x27;s job to stop you from uploading sensitive information. Strava does not have a security clearance. Military personell released it to strava. Surely the military already has rules about not uploading GPS tracks of their bases to random websites?</text></comment> | <story><title>Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases</title><url>https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957317886112124928</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iser</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kevinkiklee&#x2F;status&#x2F;957629856518459392" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kevinkiklee&#x2F;status&#x2F;957629856518459392</a><p>I just created an overlay of Google Maps and Strava Heatmap of the forward operating base I was at in Afghanistan. The heatmap clearly shows the layout of the base.<p>That base has been in operation for at least 6-8 years, and it is well-developed. The up-to-date satellite imagery of the area is not available on Google Maps for a good reason, and Strava just released it.<p>I imagine that this heatmap has been thoroughly scraped already.<p>* I was deployed to Afghanistan from 2011-2012.<p>edit: initially mis-typed &#x27;2011-2102&#x27; =D<p>edit2: A well-established military base, even in a combat zone, has access to wifi and cellphone network.
We are constantly training physically, and we like to keep track of ourselves. We were early adopters of fitness trackers, and I used a couple of them myself also.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>So what other internet services have deployed soldiers sent sensitive location data to?<p>Does each internet service need to proactively hire someone with clearance and coordinate hiding of sensitive information with the US military?</text></comment> |
15,092,193 | 15,092,146 | 1 | 2 | 15,089,916 | train | <story><title>Feather: Open-source icons</title><url>https://feathericons.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vforgione</author><text>There&#x27;s a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome?<p>&#x2F;rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>It&#x27;s open source... Why don&#x27;t you make one?</text></comment> | <story><title>Feather: Open-source icons</title><url>https://feathericons.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vforgione</author><text>There&#x27;s a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome?<p>&#x2F;rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vntok</author><text>This is not a conspiracy, you know.<p>There is a reason the set contains a Twitter icon and not a Mastodon icon, a Facebook icon and not a Diaspora* icon, a CodePen icon and not a Dabblet icon, etc. Like it or not, these are the products that the people elected.</text></comment> |
11,412,223 | 11,412,257 | 1 | 2 | 11,410,809 | train | <story><title>Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a Cause for Concern</title><url>http://uploadvr.com/facebook-oculus-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Can we wait until they actually do or talk about doing something bad before making a stink about them doing bad things? This is kind of jumping at phantoms, and doing that too much will mean losing the ability to do it for real.<p>Here&#x27;s what&#x27;s going on. OVRServer_x64 is, conceptually, a device-driver component for Oculus. It does things like handle the orientation sensor input and controls which app appears on the Oculus&#x27; display. This has been around since the very first prototypes, and since it is a piece of hardware, it&#x27;s not like they could have gone without.<p>None of the current titles in the Oculus store have in-game advertising. There&#x27;s none in the first-party titles, nor in any of the third-party titles that I&#x27;ve tried. Instead, they use the traditional business model: pay up front. They&#x27;re running a store, called Oculus Home, which competes with Steam. They know which games and experiences you buy on the store, and are probably measuring how many hours you spend in each, like Steam does.<p>And that&#x27;s it. This statement from the article is straight up false:<p>&gt; &quot;An ad executive at Coke, for instance, could tell just how long you stared at the Coke bottle cleverly placed inside your favorite game as an in-game ad and use that data to better place it in the game for you next time.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s false because the Oculus Rift does not contain eye-tracking (only head-orientation tracking); because the software infrastructure for measuring that doesn&#x27;t exist (though I suppose someone could write it); and because that isn&#x27;t Oculus&#x27; business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sir_Substance</author><text>&gt;because the software infrastructure for measuring that doesn&#x27;t exist (though I suppose someone could write it);<p>What the hell are you talking about? The endermen in minecraft change behavior based on whether you are looking at them or not, and minecraft has hardly a bastion of bleeding edge game engine technology. The difference between making an enderman attack if you look at it for more then 2 seconds and firing a metric if you look at a coke bottle for more than two seconds is pretty minimal.<p>A metric tool that sends data on how long you keep certain objects within the center of your FOV can be backed with off the shelf free software[1]. The infrastructure is commonplace, well tested and used daily for a myriad of metric related tasks all over the world.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a Cause for Concern</title><url>http://uploadvr.com/facebook-oculus-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Can we wait until they actually do or talk about doing something bad before making a stink about them doing bad things? This is kind of jumping at phantoms, and doing that too much will mean losing the ability to do it for real.<p>Here&#x27;s what&#x27;s going on. OVRServer_x64 is, conceptually, a device-driver component for Oculus. It does things like handle the orientation sensor input and controls which app appears on the Oculus&#x27; display. This has been around since the very first prototypes, and since it is a piece of hardware, it&#x27;s not like they could have gone without.<p>None of the current titles in the Oculus store have in-game advertising. There&#x27;s none in the first-party titles, nor in any of the third-party titles that I&#x27;ve tried. Instead, they use the traditional business model: pay up front. They&#x27;re running a store, called Oculus Home, which competes with Steam. They know which games and experiences you buy on the store, and are probably measuring how many hours you spend in each, like Steam does.<p>And that&#x27;s it. This statement from the article is straight up false:<p>&gt; &quot;An ad executive at Coke, for instance, could tell just how long you stared at the Coke bottle cleverly placed inside your favorite game as an in-game ad and use that data to better place it in the game for you next time.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s false because the Oculus Rift does not contain eye-tracking (only head-orientation tracking); because the software infrastructure for measuring that doesn&#x27;t exist (though I suppose someone could write it); and because that isn&#x27;t Oculus&#x27; business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrevorJ</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s not like they could have gone without.<p>Then explain to me why this driver needs to phone home.<p>Your comment completely ignores the context as well: the predilection of companies, Facebook included, has trended <i>towards</i> surveilling their customers at an alarming rate.<p>The Coke example <i>is</i> possible on the current hardware because head orientation leaks largely the same data.</text></comment> |
18,633,135 | 18,632,577 | 1 | 2 | 18,629,450 | train | <story><title>Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-westwoods-dune/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tempodox</author><text>I can&#x27;t help being reminded of Astral Projection:<p><pre><code> The spice extends life, the spice expands consciousness.
The spice is vital to space travel.
Travel without moving.
</code></pre>
Dune &amp; the Spice surely made their impact on pop culture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-westwoods-dune/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmarin</author><text>Dune I has one the best soundtrack for the adlib card<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FjHon6yg-r8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FjHon6yg-r8</a></text></comment> |
25,760,610 | 25,760,786 | 1 | 2 | 25,760,353 | train | <story><title>YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55643774</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonlfunk</author><text>Are we really okay with the big tech companies having this much power? We just saw Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon collective destroy a competitor and censor a sitting President. Perhaps in these specific cases, they are justified. But these are actions that ought to be taken by governments, not businesses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rzz3</author><text>As someone who works in “big tech”, I don’t think we should have this power, especially when so selectively and reactively applied. We’ve all already heard all of the debates and I don’t wish to rehash it all. I’ve heard a lot of great arguments on all sides of the issue (and there are more than two), but the purpose of my comment is just to say that opinions within our community are not uniform. Not many of us speak our minds about it, unless we agree with the mainstream perspective of “this is fine ”.<p>I’d like to see more of a constitutional framework establishing some type of due process and equal access, personally.<p>We’re currently the sole arbitrators of who is allowed to speak to the world and who is not. And for all those who say “they’re welcome to go use a different platform”, well they did, and look what happens. Apple, Google, and Amazon can simply destroy a community within minutes, and we all applaud because we detest this particular community.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55643774</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonlfunk</author><text>Are we really okay with the big tech companies having this much power? We just saw Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon collective destroy a competitor and censor a sitting President. Perhaps in these specific cases, they are justified. But these are actions that ought to be taken by governments, not businesses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rzwitserloot</author><text>&gt; We just saw Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon collective destroy a competitor<p>Highly problematic.<p>&gt; We just saw Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon censor a sitting President<p>What are you talking about? He&#x27;s the president. If he has something to say, there are a million ways for him to get the message out.<p>&gt; But these are actions that ought to be taken by governments<p>A government compelling a person (or a private company) to publish something is in violation of the law in many countries, often a constitutional law (Example: That violates the first amendment quite clearly, in the USA). I also think most folks would find that highly suspect.<p>Bigger companies shutting out smaller ones is highly problematic, but then laws do exist to stop this (anti-trust laws). These probably need an update. Whatever update they get, if they prevent Parler&#x27;s shutdown they went too far. I&#x27;m pretty sure that shutdown wasn&#x27;t about &#x27;eliminating&#x27; a competitor at all.</text></comment> |
7,865,047 | 7,865,101 | 1 | 2 | 7,864,765 | train | <story><title>Valve sponsors Mesa development</title><url>http://lunarg.com/glassymesa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pachydermic</author><text>I don&#x27;t quite understand how Mesa and device drivers play together... can someone explain this for me? I read the wiki (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mesa_(computer_graphics)</a>) and this (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_kernel_and_OpenGL_video_games.svg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Linux_kernel_and_OpenGL_vi...</a>) graphic makes it clear that Mesa is the implementation of the OpenGL specification... what I don&#x27;t get is the relationship between drivers and Mesa. Why aren&#x27;t the drivers the implementation of the OpenGL specification? Is pushing bits from the GPU to the screen the only thing that the drivers do?</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve sponsors Mesa development</title><url>http://lunarg.com/glassymesa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>base698</author><text>If you were in the market for new hardware and wanted the purchase to support initiatives such as this--what would you buy?<p>I don&#x27;t really game any more but like to support the ecosystem.</text></comment> |
22,461,051 | 22,460,960 | 1 | 2 | 22,460,630 | train | <story><title>Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Leary</author><text>The US has 12 million N95 in stockpile, another 5 million N95 that expired.<p>The US has 30 million surgical masks in stockpile.<p>The US needs 300 million N95 masks for medical professionals. [1]<p>[1]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-mulls-using-sweeping-powers-to-ramp-up-production-of-coronavirus-protective-gear.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-mulls-using-sweeping-powe...</a><p>Therefore it is rational for public health policy to reserve high quality masks for medical professionals, regardless of their effectiveness for the general public.<p>I wonder how many masks they can manufacture a week in this emergency.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristanj</author><text>More here: Study finds N95 masks reduce risk of coronavirus infection <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;respirators-prevent-coronavirus-infection-study.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;respirators-prevent-coronavirus-...</a><p><i>As Wang&#x27;s study revealed, rates of infection differed between doctors and nurses with [N95] respirators and those without.</i><p><i>Specifically, the authors examined data collected from Jan. 2-22 at six departments within the Zhongnan Hospital. Within the 10-day period, the hospital treated 28 individuals with confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 58 &quot;suspicious&quot; cases. The medical staff in each department followed different safety protocols when treating the patients.</i><p><i>About 280 medical staff in the hospital&#x27;s Respiratory, ICU and Infectious Diseases departments wore N95 respirators and washed their hands frequently, while about 215 in the departments of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Trauma and Microsurgery, and Urology wore no masks and disinfected their hands less frequently. Although the respirator group encountered confirmed cases more often than the unmasked group — more than 730% more often — no one in the respirator group became infected.</i><p><i>In comparison, 10 people in the unmasked group contracted the novel disease, despite treating fewer infected patients.</i><p><i>&quot;It would appear that N95 respirators, no surprise, protect against health care acquisition of the virus,&quot; said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, who was not involved in the current study. The small study is &quot;reassuring in that sense,&quot; although there was no reason to think that N95 respirators wouldn&#x27;t block out the novel coronavirus effectively, he added.</i></text></comment> |
16,232,618 | 16,232,373 | 1 | 2 | 16,230,944 | train | <story><title>Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation</title><url>https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text><i>Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane. You can’t watch a network football game without seeing commercials about it. It is an exponentially-growing new industry built atop ride-hailing infrastructure, which itself only emerged a few years ago. The driver network can pick up food from literally anywhere and deliver it anywhere within a city-sized radius.</i><p>When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Food is really, insanely important. Way more important than 99% of Americans give it dues for. In fact food is <i>more important</i> than a cure for cancer. Bad food will kill and maim more Americans long before they get the <i>opportunity</i> to be struck down by cancer.<p>And for that matter, &quot;Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity Make up 40 percent of Cancers Diagnosed in the United States&quot;, CDC 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2017&#x2F;p1003-vs-cancer-obesity.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2017&#x2F;p1003-vs-cancer-obes...</a><p>And look at this graph (my own work, for something I&#x27;m writing): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;KUyUwQy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;KUyUwQy</a><p>(Does America have an opioid crisis, or a food crisis?)<p>Anything that gets more quality food availability to Americans, especially healthier cooked food delivered in lieu of microwaving a frozen processed thing, is an improvement to celebrate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation</title><url>https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text><i>Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane. You can’t watch a network football game without seeing commercials about it. It is an exponentially-growing new industry built atop ride-hailing infrastructure, which itself only emerged a few years ago. The driver network can pick up food from literally anywhere and deliver it anywhere within a city-sized radius.</i><p>When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t trivialize food delivery. Eating is literally something everyone has to do, multiple times a day. Improving it by eg making it cheaper, or healthier, is an enormous benefit to society.<p>I mean, I didn&#x27;t think about it much before, but now that I have a child, the days of just throwing together random things from the fridge doesn&#x27;t cut it, and ordering takeout is too expensive. It&#x27;s either cook every few days or spend tons of money.<p>If the market starts giving me cheaper, healthier options than ordering pizza, then I&#x27;d consider it a huge quality of life improvement, not to mention a huge time saver.</text></comment> |
20,609,136 | 20,607,211 | 1 | 3 | 20,604,595 | train | <story><title>8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/el-paso-8chan-4chan-mass-shootings-manifesto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>I think that technology has brought us some truly marvelous things. But they also enable us to avoid casual social contact while enabling us to withdraw from meaningful social contact.<p>Online anonymity permits endless Sybil attacks -- helping turn communities&#x27; frustration from anger and rage into violence. I&#x27;m guessing&#x2F;assuming that 8chan is an anything goes censorship free community (like 4chan was&#x2F;is?). And maybe it&#x27;s not explicitly in support of racist ideals but instead refuses to condemn any ideologies or discussion. But because of other communities&#x27; moderation, they likely become one of the bastions of the racists. So even if their ownership never had any interest in hate speech, their platform becomes a de facto mechanism for its spread.<p>As much problems as anonymity causes I sure don&#x27;t think that some new Real World Identity driven Internet would be a good idea. But sites with next to no content moderation seem like a bad idea. Not that I can imagine a resolution, really.<p>~~<p>I imagine how frustrated I might feel if I didn&#x27;t have some kind of daily work or creative task to keep me busy and fill me with purpose. If I felt depressed I might be willing to blame it on someone. If everything I read said that in fact there is someone to blame, I wonder: would I be able to see through that? Would I stand up and say &#x27;no, that&#x27;s wrong: those people aren&#x27;t the source of our problems&#x27;? I like to think I would. But I&#x27;ve definitely caught myself (long after the fact) buying into BS groupthink&#x2F;hivemind conspiracy hogwash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adwi</author><text>“In a Sybil attack, the attacker subverts the reputation system of a peer-to-peer network by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sybil_attack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sybil_attack</a></text></comment> | <story><title>8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/el-paso-8chan-4chan-mass-shootings-manifesto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>I think that technology has brought us some truly marvelous things. But they also enable us to avoid casual social contact while enabling us to withdraw from meaningful social contact.<p>Online anonymity permits endless Sybil attacks -- helping turn communities&#x27; frustration from anger and rage into violence. I&#x27;m guessing&#x2F;assuming that 8chan is an anything goes censorship free community (like 4chan was&#x2F;is?). And maybe it&#x27;s not explicitly in support of racist ideals but instead refuses to condemn any ideologies or discussion. But because of other communities&#x27; moderation, they likely become one of the bastions of the racists. So even if their ownership never had any interest in hate speech, their platform becomes a de facto mechanism for its spread.<p>As much problems as anonymity causes I sure don&#x27;t think that some new Real World Identity driven Internet would be a good idea. But sites with next to no content moderation seem like a bad idea. Not that I can imagine a resolution, really.<p>~~<p>I imagine how frustrated I might feel if I didn&#x27;t have some kind of daily work or creative task to keep me busy and fill me with purpose. If I felt depressed I might be willing to blame it on someone. If everything I read said that in fact there is someone to blame, I wonder: would I be able to see through that? Would I stand up and say &#x27;no, that&#x27;s wrong: those people aren&#x27;t the source of our problems&#x27;? I like to think I would. But I&#x27;ve definitely caught myself (long after the fact) buying into BS groupthink&#x2F;hivemind conspiracy hogwash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HoveringOrb</author><text>&gt;maybe it&#x27;s not explicitly in support of racist ideals<p>Let me stop you right there...</text></comment> |
24,496,529 | 24,496,371 | 1 | 2 | 24,491,584 | train | <story><title>The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents</title><url>https://www.axios.com/working-from-parents-home-82414f13-156f-43c2-aafa-733bd7541146.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I really love the quote at the end:<p><i>&gt; I&#x27;m a dad who is happy to have his daughter and fiancé living with me. They pay the utilities and make me nice meals, and it makes it a lot less lonely here. ... I like the multi-generational thing. I know it won&#x27;t last forever, but it makes life better for now.</i><p>It&#x27;s so easy to get into that cold statistical mindset about these large-scale trends, but it&#x27;s good to remember that these statistics are the aggregation of a large number of very human stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>It&#x27;s also useful to note that the &quot;nuclear family&quot; is a very Western thing, and the US takes it to an extreme. In other parts of the world it&#x27;s <i>abnormal</i> for adults in their 20s to be living anywhere but with their parents, often even with a fiance or new spouse in the mix.<p>The idea that having a multi-generational household means that the younger members haven&#x27;t &quot;grown up&quot; and need to &quot;learn to live on their own&quot; is a completely manufactured attitude. I think many American families would have much stronger, more healthy inter-generational relationships if we lived together (at least for a bit) as adults. As it is now, most US kids leave home just when they&#x27;re starting to be able to meaningfully contribute to the household as equals.<p>(Having said that, I definitely feel the pull of childhood and societal expectations. When I was a new adult I was <i>thrilled</i> to be out of my parents&#x27; house, and could never have imagined moving back there. I&#x27;m nearly 40 now, and thinking about the possibility of living in my parents&#x27; house during my 20s still feels weird to me.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents</title><url>https://www.axios.com/working-from-parents-home-82414f13-156f-43c2-aafa-733bd7541146.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I really love the quote at the end:<p><i>&gt; I&#x27;m a dad who is happy to have his daughter and fiancé living with me. They pay the utilities and make me nice meals, and it makes it a lot less lonely here. ... I like the multi-generational thing. I know it won&#x27;t last forever, but it makes life better for now.</i><p>It&#x27;s so easy to get into that cold statistical mindset about these large-scale trends, but it&#x27;s good to remember that these statistics are the aggregation of a large number of very human stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>I agree.<p>I don&#x27;t like what the title tries to suggest that living with your parents is something wrong&#x2F;abnormal?<p>Why is that? I understand for many it is not a choice, but it doesn&#x27;t necessarily meaning people are suffering as a result.</text></comment> |
38,326,378 | 38,325,606 | 1 | 2 | 38,324,486 | train | <story><title>A software epiphany</title><url>https://johnwhiles.com/posts/programming-as-theory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>Title is a bit overblown for the actual epiphany which is more about the necessity of programmers having a robust mental model of a system to be able to maintain, let alone improve the system. I don&#x27;t see anything particularly unique to software in this thesis, as complex physical systems also have the same characteristic.<p>I also think this is way off base:<p>&gt; <i>It means that the code base we create is not the true product of our work. The real product is the mental theory of that code base which</i><p>This is manifestly not the case. The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum. As a programmer, your mental theory of the code base has value to its owners, but it&#x27;s not the product. The code base is also not the product. The product is whatever output is created and consumed by the relevant stakeholders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naasking</author><text>&gt; As a programmer, your mental theory of the code base has value to its owners, but it&#x27;s not the product<p>If you lost all of the code today, with the right understanding you could build it again relatively quickly. If you lost all that understanding, say all the developers quit, the program will no longer be adapted to customer needs potentially for years until that understanding is rebuilt.<p>I agree that &quot;product&quot; is probably not the right word, probably &quot;asset&quot; fits better. Losing that knowledge is like losing a manufacturing plant for your product. The plant isn&#x27;t the product but it&#x27;s a key asset for producing the product.</text></comment> | <story><title>A software epiphany</title><url>https://johnwhiles.com/posts/programming-as-theory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>Title is a bit overblown for the actual epiphany which is more about the necessity of programmers having a robust mental model of a system to be able to maintain, let alone improve the system. I don&#x27;t see anything particularly unique to software in this thesis, as complex physical systems also have the same characteristic.<p>I also think this is way off base:<p>&gt; <i>It means that the code base we create is not the true product of our work. The real product is the mental theory of that code base which</i><p>This is manifestly not the case. The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum. As a programmer, your mental theory of the code base has value to its owners, but it&#x27;s not the product. The code base is also not the product. The product is whatever output is created and consumed by the relevant stakeholders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nurple</author><text>But you might argue the fact that most software is always adding features and changes is because it really is never a perfect representation of some target theory. In that case, the theory inside the heads of each person behind the software may even be incomplete compared to some perfect representation, and the work done by a company in the user&#x2F;feature iteration cycle is the process of reconciling the drift between each of them towards some shared theory.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s uncommon for parts of the theory already enshrined in implementation to be forgotten to time as it passes, if it&#x27;s not regularly revisited and cogitated on.</text></comment> |
11,013,253 | 11,012,477 | 1 | 2 | 11,009,956 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Any time I catch myself complaining about my career I do my best to jolt myself out of it. That&#x27;s not to say I have nothing to complain about or that aspects of my career and my job can&#x27;t be improved, but my god, is there really any other profession in the world that is as lucrative, open, and challenging as programming? There are no bullshit certifications to go through, the best tools and resources are free and open, and the more technology advances the more important it becomes. In no other field can someone start a company with basically zero capital and have a realistic shot at becoming profitable. I am absolutely addicted to programming and the only real downside is that there aren&#x27;t enough hours in the day to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>Indeed.<p>But what about everyone else? The longer I work in this field and the more I understand about optimization and physical processes, the worse I feel about the work I do and the work of most programmers. Not &quot;but it&#x27;s just a social app?!&quot; people, but the people in medicine, law, education, small business, hardware, logistics, etc, all pushing business forward bit by bit, automating away the repetitive pieces and making it easier for those in monetarily advantageous positions to capture the flag.<p>It&#x27;s hard for me to be too happy when I see ubiquitous animal suffering in a system I&#x27;m helping to persist, seemingly towards the end of life on earth altogether. Why do I do it? I need money, and I&#x27;m only so strong for now. How can I cooperate when the biggest and greatest are of a world of defectors? Selfishness wins? It&#x27;s all too easy to conclude, &quot;I can&#x27;t make a difference, not really&quot;, and the probability of making a difference drops to 0, prophesy fulfilled. After all, rent is due, student loan is due.<p>Count me in as someone who, given the support of basic income, can and will live frugally and give my working self 100% towards ethical objectives, as I understand them. In the meantime, this whole &quot;but we have it so great compared to everyone else!!&quot; just makes me feel even worse, over-burdened. If I can&#x27;t make a difference with all these advantages, without seemingly herculean efforts, then who?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Any time I catch myself complaining about my career I do my best to jolt myself out of it. That&#x27;s not to say I have nothing to complain about or that aspects of my career and my job can&#x27;t be improved, but my god, is there really any other profession in the world that is as lucrative, open, and challenging as programming? There are no bullshit certifications to go through, the best tools and resources are free and open, and the more technology advances the more important it becomes. In no other field can someone start a company with basically zero capital and have a realistic shot at becoming profitable. I am absolutely addicted to programming and the only real downside is that there aren&#x27;t enough hours in the day to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ck425</author><text>I agree with this, except for the last line. Software Engineering is a great career in a lot of ways (interesting subject, smart people, flexible, relatively less bureaucratic, good pay etc) and sometimes I forget how damn good I have it compared to most folk. But at the same time there are lots of other things I enjoy and want to do in life beyond just software engineering.<p>I think as an industry we get a bit obsessed about wanting rockstar programmers who want to do nothing but make software. I enjoy my work, I&#x27;m grateful for it and I want to get better at it, but there are also lots of other things I want to do, so personally I&#x27;m not going to spend all my free time programming and I think that&#x27;s ok.</text></comment> |
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