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28,368,419 | 28,368,436 | 1 | 3 | 28,367,553 | train | <story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &#x27;last version of Windows&#x27; and that&#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>Within Windows 10, the updates really were versions in several significant ways.<p>- They have support end dates!<p>- Hardware support can vary between version (updates). I could not even get Windows 10 Build 1903 to boot with a newer GPU. I had to boot using the iGPU and update to 21H1, and then I could boot. Trying to install the driver on 1903, the installer said this version of Windows was not supported (!)<p>- The UI can be changed. Just one small example, early versions of Windows Hello did not support using a PIN to login. Later versions started to roll back all the pushes to use Cortana.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &#x27;last version of Windows&#x27; and that&#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>I have to assume Windows 11 basically only exists because of pressure from OEMs who want to be able to slap a big mark on the box of their new laptops highlighting that it runs a new OS that your old machine can&#x27;t run.<p>And this idea is supported by the fact that Windows 11 is only officially supported on the very latest CPUs for more or less arbitrary reasons.</text></comment> |
27,907,997 | 27,907,726 | 1 | 2 | 27,905,644 | train | <story><title>BBEdit 14</title><url>https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit14.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haroldp</author><text>&gt; We know that many of our customers create a lot of untitled documents for quick note-taking, and rely on BBEdit&#x27;s legendary stability and robust crash recovery to protect their work. We&#x27;ve added a new &quot;Notes&quot; feature in BBEdit 14...<p>Ooh, guilty as charged. I see an &quot;Untitled text 931&quot;. It&#x27;s a list of hostnames. &quot;Untitled text 107&quot; is a Beef &amp; Broccoli recipe.</text></comment> | <story><title>BBEdit 14</title><url>https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit14.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cytzol</author><text>Thanks to using BBEdit for a decade now, I get bitterly disappointed whenever I re-open an application and it doesn&#x27;t restore the windows and state it had when it closed. I&#x27;ve tried switching to both Emacs and Vim, but no amount of configuration nor third-party plugins could get them to work like this effectively. BBEdit works exactly how I want it to work out of the box, and I commend it for that.</text></comment> |
33,033,678 | 33,033,868 | 1 | 3 | 33,032,847 | train | <story><title>Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022</title><url>https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1575588277700026368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kethinov</author><text>It frustrates me that Jack seems to have genuine interest in this topic but seems to be totally averse to discussing Mastodon. It&#x27;s hard to believe he&#x27;s unaware of Mastodon, so we have to believe he thinks it&#x27;s not the solution for some reason. But how could it not be? Why doesn&#x27;t he just use his big name and significant influence to throw his weight behind Twitter&#x27;s most successful open protocol competitor if he really wants this? None of it makes sense to me and I wish he would speak more plainly on the matter.</text></item><item><author>brethil</author><text>Is he talking about ActivityPub[1, 2] and the Fediverse[3]?<p>Just look at Mastodon[4, 5] if you&#x27;re looking for something like twitter without the centralization and the corporate greed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ActivityPub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ActivityPub</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;activitypub.rocks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;activitypub.rocks</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fediverse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fediverse</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mastodon_(software)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mastodon_(software)</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;servers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;servers</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>The problem is that he is trying to monetize the distribution of content. All his talk about decentralization is pointless, because he <i>wants</i> a system where there are gatekeepers, the only difference from Twitter (or Facebook&#x2F;Google) is that in his view these gatekeepers should be baked into the protocol. It would be comical if it wasn&#x27;t diabolical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022</title><url>https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1575588277700026368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kethinov</author><text>It frustrates me that Jack seems to have genuine interest in this topic but seems to be totally averse to discussing Mastodon. It&#x27;s hard to believe he&#x27;s unaware of Mastodon, so we have to believe he thinks it&#x27;s not the solution for some reason. But how could it not be? Why doesn&#x27;t he just use his big name and significant influence to throw his weight behind Twitter&#x27;s most successful open protocol competitor if he really wants this? None of it makes sense to me and I wish he would speak more plainly on the matter.</text></item><item><author>brethil</author><text>Is he talking about ActivityPub[1, 2] and the Fediverse[3]?<p>Just look at Mastodon[4, 5] if you&#x27;re looking for something like twitter without the centralization and the corporate greed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ActivityPub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ActivityPub</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;activitypub.rocks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;activitypub.rocks</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fediverse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fediverse</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mastodon_(software)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mastodon_(software)</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;servers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;servers</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilalexander</author><text>Bluesky performed a months-long discovery exercise of existing solutions and Mastodon was amongst them.</text></comment> |
7,109,398 | 7,108,944 | 1 | 2 | 7,108,796 | train | <story><title>HTTP Security headers you should be using</title><url>http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-you-should-always-be-using</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>&gt; By default jQuery sends the X-Requested-With header. It was thought that the mere presence of this header could be used as a way to defeat Cross-Site Request Forgery.<p>By who? Who thought the mere presence of an arbitrary header made the request &quot;safe&quot;?<p>Seriously, who the fuck thought this was a good idea? I have so far seen one single use for X-Requested-With - returning a page as &quot;content only&quot; - i.e. omitting the header, nav, footers etc for XHR calls.</text></comment> | <story><title>HTTP Security headers you should be using</title><url>http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-you-should-always-be-using</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdbernard</author><text>Great article. A lot of times these &quot;you should be doing this&quot; articles are really annoying. It is rarely true that some advice is good for all situations. This article, however, takes the time to explain, list the purpose, and point out relevant caveats for each header. I was not aware of all of these headers, so thank you for bringing them up!</text></comment> |
18,843,775 | 18,843,405 | 1 | 3 | 18,837,108 | train | <story><title>The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619/soldier-weight/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sa46</author><text>Ah, an article I can comment on. I was an Infantry officer for 6 years and did all the normal schooling and a deployment.<p>This is a pretty well done article. Here&#x27;s some general ideas to keep in mind.<p>- Most dismounted missions are run from trucks or an established forward operating base, so you don&#x27;t carry a huge rucksack most of the time because you can just go back to your base.<p>- Like the article states, even a day pack with body armor gets you up to 70lbs quickly.<p>- Ammo is really heavy, it being made of lead and all. 100rds of 7.62mm ammo weighs about 7lb. You want at least 800rds per M240B.<p>- Rucksack weights are sometimes inflated because it&#x27;s a way to brag.<p>- The Marine infantry officer course requirement for 152lb load is excessive. At that weight, you can only do an admin movement on a road. All the anecdotes I found about combat loads that heavy were for an initial, short infil followed by a stationary mission.<p>I think the article nails the root cause towards heavier protective equipment. Public perception and the news cycle makes the death of American service member a bigger deal than in past conflicts.<p>It will be a long time before we get electronic mules in the Infantry. Adopting the mules adds a huge complexity budget to a simple movement. The Army decided some years ago to give every Company (~140 people) a Raven drone for recon. However, it&#x27;s a huge deal if it gets lost (if the GPS guidance were to suddenly fail), so no one ever uses them to avoid the fallout associated with losing Army equipment.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619/soldier-weight/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woodman</author><text>I actually wrote an essay that dug pretty deep into this topic, many years ago, after I finished my enlistment as a Marine infantry machinegunner - likely the most overburdened MOS. I&#x27;m surprised this didn&#x27;t get a mention in the article, especially considering the latest developments: women in combat roles. The significant difference between male and female upper body strength is going to be impossible to ignore under combat loads.</text></comment> |
13,910,720 | 13,910,848 | 1 | 2 | 13,909,365 | train | <story><title>They Used To Last 50 Years</title><url>http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psadauskas</author><text>&quot;The only explanation...&quot;? What about &quot;never attribute to malice...&quot; and Occam&#x27;s Razor.<p>I think a more likely explanation is that in the majority of cases when shopping for an appliance and your choices are a $1500 one and a $2000 one, you buy the cheaper one. This forces manufacturers to compete on price, and to cut costs wherever possible to remain profitable.<p>Additionally, I just spent 30 seconds googling and a washer&#x2F;dryer set cost $495 in 1953, which is ~$4500 in today&#x27;s buying power. You can buy a cheap washer&#x2F;dryer set these days for $500 on sale, which is pretty incredible. I don&#x27;t know what super heavy duty high end washer&#x2F;dryer you could get these days for $4500, but I bet you could find one that would last 50 years.</text></item><item><author>prodmerc</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on hundreds of domestic appliances.<p>Newer ones from any manufacturer are indeed failing more often, and are designed worse.<p>The only explanation is that this is on purpose - just like cars or laptops or smartphones, they are designed to fail faster so you buy new ones. Planned obsolescence, plain and simple.<p>The best appliances today, by the way, are made by Bosch&#x2F;Siemens and Miele. None of the other manufacturers come close, period.<p>Interestingly, the high-end machines from Bosch&#x2F;Siemens made in Germany are higher quality than the ones made in Poland, China, Spain or Turkey.<p>Same design, but it seems they use lower quality electronics and metals, as the most common failures are with the motors, control boards and bearings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M_Grey</author><text>Well that, and a home appliance doesn&#x27;t cost 1&#x2F;7th of your annual budget anymore. Some things were built to last because to justify the expense, they <i>had</i> to last.<p>James May (unusually) made a very good point that the &quot;good old days&quot; is an illusion created by survivorship bias, nostalgia, and failure to understand economics. The survivorship bias especially should be obvious:<p>Lots of cheap crap was made throughout the years, but it <i>didn&#x27;t survive</i>. We only have examples of the stuff that managed to survive, or was notable in some way. The $50 Smartphone equivalent of the 50&#x27;s was no more notable than today&#x27;s version, and no more long-lasting.</text></comment> | <story><title>They Used To Last 50 Years</title><url>http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psadauskas</author><text>&quot;The only explanation...&quot;? What about &quot;never attribute to malice...&quot; and Occam&#x27;s Razor.<p>I think a more likely explanation is that in the majority of cases when shopping for an appliance and your choices are a $1500 one and a $2000 one, you buy the cheaper one. This forces manufacturers to compete on price, and to cut costs wherever possible to remain profitable.<p>Additionally, I just spent 30 seconds googling and a washer&#x2F;dryer set cost $495 in 1953, which is ~$4500 in today&#x27;s buying power. You can buy a cheap washer&#x2F;dryer set these days for $500 on sale, which is pretty incredible. I don&#x27;t know what super heavy duty high end washer&#x2F;dryer you could get these days for $4500, but I bet you could find one that would last 50 years.</text></item><item><author>prodmerc</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on hundreds of domestic appliances.<p>Newer ones from any manufacturer are indeed failing more often, and are designed worse.<p>The only explanation is that this is on purpose - just like cars or laptops or smartphones, they are designed to fail faster so you buy new ones. Planned obsolescence, plain and simple.<p>The best appliances today, by the way, are made by Bosch&#x2F;Siemens and Miele. None of the other manufacturers come close, period.<p>Interestingly, the high-end machines from Bosch&#x2F;Siemens made in Germany are higher quality than the ones made in Poland, China, Spain or Turkey.<p>Same design, but it seems they use lower quality electronics and metals, as the most common failures are with the motors, control boards and bearings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcb0</author><text>don&#x27;t look any further, I bought a 3k washer and dryer combination from LG 4 years ago. It boasted a ten year warranty!<p>the paint, drum, motor, finish, everything looks like new. But, the controller board burned.<p>I know my way around electronics, mind you, I can see exactly what is wrong (burned transformer), but the whole board is covered in some gelatin that makes any repair impossible.<p>the power input board is also water proofed with the usual epoxy that you can chip away and do your repair. but the controller board gelatin thing makes it impossible!<p>oh, and that board not only is NOT covered by the ten year warranty (only the drum and motor) but not a single place carry it. even LG cannot provide me that part for any money in the world. discontinued they say. after 4 years.<p>if anyone want to pick it up and drive the pristine electronics with an Arduino, msg me. machine is in socal though.</text></comment> |
25,441,667 | 25,438,026 | 1 | 3 | 25,435,603 | train | <story><title>Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Okay, what does it mean “residency”? In the UK there’s no address registry where you declare your address.<p>EU citizen works in the UK for 2 years then goes to Turkey for a vacation but likes the place so much, decides to stay for longer when still remote working for the same London company.Also connects through VPN because the Turks love banning websites.<p>Where this person residence is? Are the UK, USA, EU or Turkish rules apply? How FB would know about it?<p>That’s not an extreme scenario BTW, it happens all the time.</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Citizenship matters not. Only residency.<p>Just because I&#x27;m a Britsh person living in the US doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m not subject to the death penalty or am exempt from having to buy health insurance, for example.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OOPMan</author><text>Countries generally have rules around residency that boil down to &quot;if you spend most of a year within the country you are resident in that country&quot;.<p>Tax residency is separate and the rules are a bit different and again vary by country.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Okay, what does it mean “residency”? In the UK there’s no address registry where you declare your address.<p>EU citizen works in the UK for 2 years then goes to Turkey for a vacation but likes the place so much, decides to stay for longer when still remote working for the same London company.Also connects through VPN because the Turks love banning websites.<p>Where this person residence is? Are the UK, USA, EU or Turkish rules apply? How FB would know about it?<p>That’s not an extreme scenario BTW, it happens all the time.</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Citizenship matters not. Only residency.<p>Just because I&#x27;m a Britsh person living in the US doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m not subject to the death penalty or am exempt from having to buy health insurance, for example.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stale2002</author><text>&gt; what does it mean “residency”?<p>Usually residency is self declared or based on where you have spent the majority of the year working in.<p>This is already handled, by lots of people, when they declare residency already, for where they currently live&#x2F;work&#x2F;are covered by taxes under.<p>This isn&#x27;t a new thing.</text></comment> |
21,235,725 | 21,235,010 | 1 | 2 | 21,228,194 | train | <story><title>Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjlee</author><text>Michael Crichton observed this and called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. I think he said publicly that the name was to ride on the coat tails of Gell-Mann&#x27;s public success:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray&#x27;s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the &quot;wet streets cause rain&quot; stories. Paper&#x27;s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I wish I could upvote this more. This is such a pain for me, to see a reported story and see an obvious question that any <i>serious</i> journalist could answer just sitting there, unanswered. It made me wonder what they teach in Journalism school these days.<p>As it turns out, not much about investigation. I looked through the curriculum at Berkeley[1] (a respected journalism school) and found things like J260[2] which is a seminar more on &quot;why&quot; of investigative reporting than the &quot;how&quot;. There is also a &quot;web skills&quot;[3] class, but this is just about building a web site.<p>They really should consider adding a &#x27;using the Internet to find people, corroborate sources, discover links between individuals and corporations, and to track ownership relationships.&#x27; Something that, as the author points out, is really a bunch of useful web sites and how to click them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&#x2F;curriculum&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&#x2F;curriculum&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investigativereportingprogram.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investigativereportingprogram.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&#x2F;course-section&#x2F;j215intro-to-multimedia-web-skills-section-1-1-fall-2016&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&#x2F;course-section&#x2F;j215intro-to-...</a></text></comment> |
16,704,203 | 16,701,122 | 1 | 3 | 16,700,004 | train | <story><title>Gravitational attraction of stars and cows</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/03/28/cow-astrology/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerfhammer</author><text>Next question, what is the smallest object whose gravitational field could reliably be measured by the accelerometer in your phone? We know that it can measure the field of the Earth at more or less sea level, how much less heavy&#x2F;further away could something get for your phone to feel it?<p>my attempt:<p><pre><code> diameter of earth = 12742 km
sea level = distance from earth = 12742&#x2F;2
weight of empire state building = 331000000 kg
resolution of BMA280 in the iPhone 6: 1&#x2F;4096 g
mass of earth = 5.972e+24 kg
gravity of earth = 1 g
km to m = 1000x
(12742&#x2F;2. * sqrt(331000000 &#x2F; (5.972e+24 &#x2F; 4096.))) * 1000
= 3 meters
</code></pre>
So your phone should be able to register 1 bit of resolution when the empire state building is 3 meters away or less, otherwise it would be too far away to detect. Of course the empire state building would need to be compressed into a single point but that&#x27;s a minor practical concern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gravitational attraction of stars and cows</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/03/28/cow-astrology/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I wondered whether &quot;17 miles&quot; is a good estimate for how far I am from a cow, and now I&#x27;m trying to do a sort of Fermi problem in my head and realizing I&#x27;m out of practice for bad job interviews.</text></comment> |
6,043,141 | 6,043,149 | 1 | 3 | 6,042,785 | train | <story><title>VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years experience?</title><url>http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/500friendsinc/vp-of-engineering/cWzS0cMM0r4OrNeJe4egig?detail=HackerNews&remail=&rfirst=&rlast=&sid=161</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geuis</author><text>This is going to probably bite me in the ass because I&#x27;m looking for work at the moment and occasionally apply to interesting YC companies but since this has come up, I&#x27;m going to share my story here because of the negative experience I had with the company in question.<p>I had a phone screen with 500friends recently. They were late calling me, and the person I was scheduled to talk with wasn&#x27;t even on the call. They had pulled some poor engineer off of whatever he was doing, shoved my resume in front of him, and said &quot;go&quot;.<p>The list of things that our &quot;interview&quot; contained:<p><pre><code> 1) Late in calling me at our scheduled time.
2) Scheduled person was not present on our interview call.
3) Engineer that was put on the call was ill-prepared for the conversation.
4) Questions asked of me were a combination of very basic and others being completely unrelated to the nature of the position being interviewed for.
5) The scheduled person appeared at the end of the call barely long enough to say his name before hanging up on me.
6) Hung up on me suddenly.
</code></pre>
#6 was what really got me. It was literally, &quot;Hi this is &lt;x&gt;, we&#x27;re out of time, click.&quot;<p>If you advertise a position as requiring a certain set of skills, then ask prospective employees about those skills! Go through their experiences and see if they&#x27;re a good engineer outside of the narrow scope of &quot;solves logic puzzles well&quot;. You might be surprised that someone who doesn&#x27;t normally write linked lists in javascript or implement 2500 year old prime-solving algorithms on a weekly basis actually has skills and experience to contribute.<p>My personal recommendation for anyone considering 500friends is to skip over them. There&#x27;s much better companies more deserving of your time and consideration, and you&#x27;ll certainly be treated better.<p>## Just to add on, I don&#x27;t have a problem with logic problems. But too many people <i>only</i> ask them and don&#x27;t do real interviews. Yes, I can do linked lists in javascript. Does that tell you anything useful about what kind of engineer I am? No, it doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdouble</author><text>Not to excuse that sort of behavior, but this is a pretty typical HR experience in the Bay Area. Late calls, no-shows, awkward questions, either too easy or too hard, abrupt endings, obviously haven&#x27;t read the resume, etc. Happens all the time, unfortunately.</text></comment> | <story><title>VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years experience?</title><url>http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/500friendsinc/vp-of-engineering/cWzS0cMM0r4OrNeJe4egig?detail=HackerNews&remail=&rfirst=&rlast=&sid=161</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geuis</author><text>This is going to probably bite me in the ass because I&#x27;m looking for work at the moment and occasionally apply to interesting YC companies but since this has come up, I&#x27;m going to share my story here because of the negative experience I had with the company in question.<p>I had a phone screen with 500friends recently. They were late calling me, and the person I was scheduled to talk with wasn&#x27;t even on the call. They had pulled some poor engineer off of whatever he was doing, shoved my resume in front of him, and said &quot;go&quot;.<p>The list of things that our &quot;interview&quot; contained:<p><pre><code> 1) Late in calling me at our scheduled time.
2) Scheduled person was not present on our interview call.
3) Engineer that was put on the call was ill-prepared for the conversation.
4) Questions asked of me were a combination of very basic and others being completely unrelated to the nature of the position being interviewed for.
5) The scheduled person appeared at the end of the call barely long enough to say his name before hanging up on me.
6) Hung up on me suddenly.
</code></pre>
#6 was what really got me. It was literally, &quot;Hi this is &lt;x&gt;, we&#x27;re out of time, click.&quot;<p>If you advertise a position as requiring a certain set of skills, then ask prospective employees about those skills! Go through their experiences and see if they&#x27;re a good engineer outside of the narrow scope of &quot;solves logic puzzles well&quot;. You might be surprised that someone who doesn&#x27;t normally write linked lists in javascript or implement 2500 year old prime-solving algorithms on a weekly basis actually has skills and experience to contribute.<p>My personal recommendation for anyone considering 500friends is to skip over them. There&#x27;s much better companies more deserving of your time and consideration, and you&#x27;ll certainly be treated better.<p>## Just to add on, I don&#x27;t have a problem with logic problems. But too many people <i>only</i> ask them and don&#x27;t do real interviews. Yes, I can do linked lists in javascript. Does that tell you anything useful about what kind of engineer I am? No, it doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nugget</author><text>A friend of mine had a very similar experience with this company and their C level team. Maybe some public feedback will help them reflect and improve.</text></comment> |
29,904,312 | 29,904,103 | 1 | 2 | 29,903,631 | train | <story><title>From TypeScript to ReScript</title><url>https://www.greyblake.com/blog/from-typescript-to-rescript/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsnr</author><text>&gt; TypeScript&#x27;s type system is over-complex since it tries to be a superset of JS.<p>This is exactly why it got so popular, and TypeScript support in the JS ecosystem is so good. It&#x27;s easy to just strip the TS metadata and you&#x27;re left with working JS. This is why projects like esbuild managed to ship TS support so quickly (without type-checking).
Good luck doing that with a new language.<p>I for one am &quot;all in&quot; on TypeScript, with all its shortcomings it&#x27;s just the best of both worlds, and so easy to get on board.</text></comment> | <story><title>From TypeScript to ReScript</title><url>https://www.greyblake.com/blog/from-typescript-to-rescript/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jatins</author><text>In my experience with these typed alternatives to JS, as long as you stay within that language things are good and smooth. But as soon as you need to interface with 3rd part lib, that&#x27;s when things start to get messy.<p>Providing type declarations for every third party lib you might want to use, especially in an ecosystem like Javascript&#x27;s which relies heavily on them, gets tiring pretty fast.<p>Typescript manages to get past that because it has reached a level of adoption now that most popular libraries will have a @types&#x2F;&lt;lib&gt; package also but it took a long while to reach that stage.<p>Curious if anyone has used ReScript at a larger scale (and does not have the resources of, say, Facebook) and what&#x27;s their experience been like.</text></comment> |
3,873,197 | 3,871,759 | 1 | 2 | 3,871,449 | train | <story><title>Solving FizzBuzz with C++ compiler error messages</title><url>http://www.adampetersen.se/articles/fizzbuzz.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kachuthan</author><text>How about a solution for primes below a number using Sieve of Eratosthenes:<p><pre><code> template&#60;int H=-1, typename T=void&#62;
struct tl {
enum {head=H};
typedef T tail;
};
template&#60;&#62;
struct tl&#60;&#62; {
};
template&#60;int N, typename Then, typename Else&#62;
struct if_c {
typedef Then type;
};
template&#60;typename Then, typename Else&#62;
struct if_c&#60;false, Then, Else&#62; {
typedef Else type;
};
template&#60;int N, typename SoFar&#62;
struct is_prime {
enum {value = N%SoFar::head &#38;&#38; is_prime&#60;N, SoFar::tail&#62;::value};
};
template&#60;int N&#62;
struct is_prime&#60;N, tl&#60;&#62;&#62; {
enum {value = 1};
};
template&#60;int N, int C, typename SoFar=tl&#60;&#62;&#62;
struct prime {
typedef typename prime&#60;N+1, C-1, typename if_c&#60;is_prime&#60;N, SoFar&#62;::value, tl&#60;N, SoFar&#62;, SoFar&#62;::type&#62;::type type;
};
template&#60;int N, typename SoFar&#62;
struct prime&#60;N, 0, SoFar&#62; {
typedef SoFar type;
};
template&#60;int N&#62;
struct number : prime&#60;2, N-2&#62; {
};
template&#60;&#62;
struct number&#60;0&#62; {
};
template&#60;&#62;
struct number&#60;1&#62; {
};
template&#60;typename T&#62;
struct print {
};
void main() {
typedef print&#60;number&#60;300&#62;::type&#62;::type type;
}
</code></pre>
Here is result from Visual Studio 2005:<p><pre><code> c:\console.cpp(113) : error C2039: 'type' : is not a member of 'print&#60;T&#62;' with [T=tl&#60;293,tl&#60;283,tl&#60;281,tl&#60;277,tl&#60;271,tl&#60;269,tl&#60;263,tl&#60;257,tl&#60;251,tl&#60;241,tl&#60;239,tl&#60;233,tl&#60;229,tl&#60;227,tl&#60;223,tl&#60;211,tl&#60;199,tl&#60;197,tl&#60;193,tl&#60;191,tl&#60;181,tl&#60;179,tl&#60;173,tl&#60;167,tl&#60;163,tl&#60;157,tl&#60;151,tl&#60;149,tl&#60;139,tl&#60;137,tl&#60;131,tl&#60;127,tl&#60;113,tl&#60;109,tl&#60;107,tl&#60;103,tl&#60;101,tl&#60;97,tl&#60;89,tl&#60;83,tl&#60;79,tl&#60;73,tl&#60;71,tl&#60;67,tl&#60;61,tl&#60;59,tl&#60;53,tl&#60;47,tl&#60;43,tl&#60;41,tl&#60;37,tl&#60;31,tl&#60;29,tl&#60;23,tl&#60;19,tl&#60;17,tl&#60;13,tl&#60;11,tl&#60;7,tl&#60;5,tl&#60;3,tl&#60;2,tl&#60;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;]</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Solving FizzBuzz with C++ compiler error messages</title><url>http://www.adampetersen.se/articles/fizzbuzz.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaeluka</author><text>You wouldn't pass, because you didn't read the specs!<p>"prints the numbers from <i></i>1<i></i> to 100." -- you printed 0-100! ;-)<p>Just kidding, nice solution. Show's nicely how terrible and awesome the precompiler is.</text></comment> |
36,973,023 | 36,972,356 | 1 | 2 | 36,967,594 | train | <story><title>Stopping at 90%</title><url>https://austinhenley.com/blog/90percent.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scruple</author><text>I don&#x27;t know. I don&#x27;t think people <i>actually</i> care. Maybe I&#x27;m a cynic, maybe I&#x27;m jaded. I&#x27;ve sat through a handful of interviews after submitting a resume with links to my GitHub profile, links to my (former) co-founded startup, the parents we received for our work, the projects I painstakingly polished before open sourcing, etc... At the end of all of that, I can recall exactly 1 person who even casually mentioned this stuff. He ended up being a manager and he would sometimes bring it up as a point of conversation with others on our team but it never found traction. My conclusion is simply that exceedingly few people (in the wild) give a shit about this stuff. Probably other like-minded folks.</text></item><item><author>scarface_74</author><text>I work in the cloud consulting department at BigTech. We have a very straightforward open source approval process where we can open source any code (MIT-0) that we write for a client as long as we scrub the business processes and anything proprietary to the customer.<p>It does take some work (not two months) to sanitize the project, write documentation, put the boilerplate open source documentation and go through the approval process.<p>I’ve released 8 projects to GitHub using this process over 3 years and collectively may have gotten 15 stars in total. But the way I see it, it’s a great portfolio and the only chance in my career that I could actually show production code from work I’ve done professionally along with my resume.<p>Also, how many times have we changed jobs and had to solve the same problem from scratch because we couldn’t legally or ethically use code from a previous company? This solves that problem too.<p>Your work represents you. Even if no one stars it, you now have a portfolio of work you can be proud of that you can point to when you’re interviewing instead of yet another to do app.</text></item><item><author>w-m</author><text>I put a lot of work into doing the last 10% for a project recently, and I&#x27;m not convinced yet that I&#x27;ll be getting anything out of it, other than my own satisfaction. After my colleagues and I got our paper (on real-time depth estimation with an event camera and a laser projector [0]) accepted at a workshop, we could have just dumped the convoluted, messy research code on GitHub and be done with it. For other people to figure it out, if they really cared.<p>But I sat down and completely rewrote all the scaffolding around the presented algorithm, to make for a smooth and fast demo. Wrote up documentation for the implementation, gave it a command line interface, set up a script to reproduce the measurements in the paper with a single execution (downloading the required data and comparing several methods). Broadcast in all channels available to me (institution press release, LinkedIn posts, GitHub awesome list linkings). And I actually brought the demo to the workshop, which wasn&#x27;t required at all, I could have just presented it as a poster.<p>The feedback of the people seeing the polished demo was fantastic, but now I&#x27;m sitting here with my 5 GitHub stars on the repo, after I put like 2.5 extra months of work into it. Maybe it led to more people noticing it, and finding it useful. Maybe not.<p>Getting stuff out there to be noticed is difficult, a lot of work, and going the the last 10% does not guarantee any more success.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fraunhoferhhi.github.io&#x2F;X-maps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fraunhoferhhi.github.io&#x2F;X-maps&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dxbydt</author><text>I totally agree with you. Nobody gives a fuck. I sweated 6 months on my CS Masters thesis. After the day of the presentation, I walked up to my Professor&#x27;s office. As per the rules, you are supposed to hand a printed copy of your thesis to your thesis advisor. So I handed over the printed thesis proudly. Then we chatted, I said my goodbyes &amp; left. In those days we had no github internet etc. All the C++ code for my thesis was on a 5 1&#x2F;4 floppy. When I reached home I found the floppy. I was like, God I&#x27;ve forgotten to give him my code! So I picked up the floppy and trudged back to the university. Then I walk up to my advisor&#x27;s office again &amp; knock on the door. He is ofcourse surprised to see me. I say - Sorry I forgot to give you my code. Here is the floppy. I&#x27;ll put it next to my thesis. Where is my thesis ?<p>He doesn&#x27;t say anything. I look around to see if my thesis is on his bookshelf, but no, it isn&#x27;t there. Then I turn around &amp; I find my thesis. It is in his trashcan. I was so stunned &amp; shocked. My advisor says sheepishly - look its just a Master&#x27;s thesis. Its not like you have discovered a new theorem or something. These results are well known in the literature.<p>I just put my floppy in that trashcan and walked out. Its been more than 2 decades now but I still remember that incident like it was yesterday. Literally, nobody gives a fuck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stopping at 90%</title><url>https://austinhenley.com/blog/90percent.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scruple</author><text>I don&#x27;t know. I don&#x27;t think people <i>actually</i> care. Maybe I&#x27;m a cynic, maybe I&#x27;m jaded. I&#x27;ve sat through a handful of interviews after submitting a resume with links to my GitHub profile, links to my (former) co-founded startup, the parents we received for our work, the projects I painstakingly polished before open sourcing, etc... At the end of all of that, I can recall exactly 1 person who even casually mentioned this stuff. He ended up being a manager and he would sometimes bring it up as a point of conversation with others on our team but it never found traction. My conclusion is simply that exceedingly few people (in the wild) give a shit about this stuff. Probably other like-minded folks.</text></item><item><author>scarface_74</author><text>I work in the cloud consulting department at BigTech. We have a very straightforward open source approval process where we can open source any code (MIT-0) that we write for a client as long as we scrub the business processes and anything proprietary to the customer.<p>It does take some work (not two months) to sanitize the project, write documentation, put the boilerplate open source documentation and go through the approval process.<p>I’ve released 8 projects to GitHub using this process over 3 years and collectively may have gotten 15 stars in total. But the way I see it, it’s a great portfolio and the only chance in my career that I could actually show production code from work I’ve done professionally along with my resume.<p>Also, how many times have we changed jobs and had to solve the same problem from scratch because we couldn’t legally or ethically use code from a previous company? This solves that problem too.<p>Your work represents you. Even if no one stars it, you now have a portfolio of work you can be proud of that you can point to when you’re interviewing instead of yet another to do app.</text></item><item><author>w-m</author><text>I put a lot of work into doing the last 10% for a project recently, and I&#x27;m not convinced yet that I&#x27;ll be getting anything out of it, other than my own satisfaction. After my colleagues and I got our paper (on real-time depth estimation with an event camera and a laser projector [0]) accepted at a workshop, we could have just dumped the convoluted, messy research code on GitHub and be done with it. For other people to figure it out, if they really cared.<p>But I sat down and completely rewrote all the scaffolding around the presented algorithm, to make for a smooth and fast demo. Wrote up documentation for the implementation, gave it a command line interface, set up a script to reproduce the measurements in the paper with a single execution (downloading the required data and comparing several methods). Broadcast in all channels available to me (institution press release, LinkedIn posts, GitHub awesome list linkings). And I actually brought the demo to the workshop, which wasn&#x27;t required at all, I could have just presented it as a poster.<p>The feedback of the people seeing the polished demo was fantastic, but now I&#x27;m sitting here with my 5 GitHub stars on the repo, after I put like 2.5 extra months of work into it. Maybe it led to more people noticing it, and finding it useful. Maybe not.<p>Getting stuff out there to be noticed is difficult, a lot of work, and going the the last 10% does not guarantee any more success.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fraunhoferhhi.github.io&#x2F;X-maps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fraunhoferhhi.github.io&#x2F;X-maps&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koreth1</author><text>I always look, and I&#x27;m always happy to see something meaty enough to actually talk about in an interview.<p>Somewhat to my surprise, I&#x27;ve found that at least 90% of candidates who include a GitHub username, when I go look at their repositories, either have nothing but unmodified forks of existing open-source projects or obvious &quot;go through the tutorial for technology X&quot; projects. I can totally get how, after seeing that kind of thing ten times in a row, people might give up looking.<p>But I still always look, both at the person&#x27;s public repositories and at their contribution history in other public repos.</text></comment> |
13,750,626 | 13,750,016 | 1 | 2 | 13,748,302 | train | <story><title>SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Right. SpaceX doesn&#x27;t have a craft capable of lunar orbit rendezvous<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lunar_orbit_rendezvous" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lunar_orbit_rendezvous</a><p>so they would need to return to the Earth directly from the surface of the moon<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_ascent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_ascent</a><p>Direct ascent requires a <i>much</i> larger initial launch mass, i.e., a larger rocket than has ever been built. Since it took the massive Saturn V to complete the Apollo missions using lunar rendezvous, and SpaceX&#x27;s Falcon Heavy is smaller, I don&#x27;t think they are even close to having the ability to land on the moon and return.<p>(And that&#x27;s assuming there&#x27;s not other insurmountable factors preventing Dragon from landing on the moon and taking off, which there probably are.)<p>Hopefully someone with more knowledge can chime in.</text></item><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&gt; China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they will fly someone around the moon next year?<p>I don&#x27;t want to downplay SpaceX <i>at all</i> because I&#x27;m a huge fan, but isn&#x27;t flying someone <i>to</i> the moon (and presumably back) more complicated than just flying <i>around</i> the moon and back? As I understand, apart from the challenge of achieving orbital velocity (no small feat), flying around the moon might require ~41% more velocity (assuming escape velocity to orbital velocity being a ratio of something like sqrt(2):1) and you can use the moon&#x27;s gravity to redirect you back to earth, whereas landing on the moon and returning requires even more energy (slowing down to land + escaping the moon and returning), not to mention the various other technical requirements involved with the landing itself.<p>&quot;Beyond the moon&quot; makes this sound like it&#x27;ll be a greater achievement than the Apollo moon landings, but I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s really true. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, the fact that it&#x27;s a private (ish) company doing this is incredible, just not quite &quot;moon landing&quot; incredible... yet.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Wow. This sends so many thoughts cascading through my head that I&#x27;m dizzy.<p>Some things to consider, China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they will fly someone around the moon next year? Dragon has the deltaV to land on the moon (not sure if it has enough to get off again though) and SpaceX certainly has the expertise in building spacecraft that land.<p>The next person to take a picture of the Earth from moon may not be on a government funded mission. That one really blows my mind. For so long it was only countries that could do something like that, now it is nearly within reach of individuals.<p>The UN has treaties about claiming (or not) the moon by a nation state, but there isn&#x27;t anything about a privately funded and established outpost that wants to declare independence. All this time I imagined that some country would establish a base there, and grudgingly offer up some space for non-state use, and now there is this possibility of a private facility that states have to ask permission to visit? That is priceless.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;chinarealtime&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;man-on-the-moon-china-sets-lunar-mission-date&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;chinarealtime&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;man-on-the-moo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>SpaceX is already docking with the space station which is similar difficulty as launching from the moon and docking in lunar orbit. The problem is getting a rocket with enough fuel on the surface of the moon without damaging it, not the docking in orbit. Which is even easier than doing the same thing from the surface of Mars. The only advantage of Mars is you don&#x27;t need to burn fuel slowing down but that&#x27;s more than offset by a significantly deeper gravity well.<p>On the upside, they can land an un-manned assent vehicle on the surface of Moon &#x2F; Mars before sending people there. Which can significantly increase your odds of getting back.<p>PS: Yes, NASA did get to the moon and back several times, but they also took a massive chunk of US GDP to do so. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Budget_of_NASA#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:NASA-Budget-Federal.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Budget_of_NASA#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:NAS...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Right. SpaceX doesn&#x27;t have a craft capable of lunar orbit rendezvous<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lunar_orbit_rendezvous" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lunar_orbit_rendezvous</a><p>so they would need to return to the Earth directly from the surface of the moon<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_ascent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_ascent</a><p>Direct ascent requires a <i>much</i> larger initial launch mass, i.e., a larger rocket than has ever been built. Since it took the massive Saturn V to complete the Apollo missions using lunar rendezvous, and SpaceX&#x27;s Falcon Heavy is smaller, I don&#x27;t think they are even close to having the ability to land on the moon and return.<p>(And that&#x27;s assuming there&#x27;s not other insurmountable factors preventing Dragon from landing on the moon and taking off, which there probably are.)<p>Hopefully someone with more knowledge can chime in.</text></item><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&gt; China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they will fly someone around the moon next year?<p>I don&#x27;t want to downplay SpaceX <i>at all</i> because I&#x27;m a huge fan, but isn&#x27;t flying someone <i>to</i> the moon (and presumably back) more complicated than just flying <i>around</i> the moon and back? As I understand, apart from the challenge of achieving orbital velocity (no small feat), flying around the moon might require ~41% more velocity (assuming escape velocity to orbital velocity being a ratio of something like sqrt(2):1) and you can use the moon&#x27;s gravity to redirect you back to earth, whereas landing on the moon and returning requires even more energy (slowing down to land + escaping the moon and returning), not to mention the various other technical requirements involved with the landing itself.<p>&quot;Beyond the moon&quot; makes this sound like it&#x27;ll be a greater achievement than the Apollo moon landings, but I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s really true. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, the fact that it&#x27;s a private (ish) company doing this is incredible, just not quite &quot;moon landing&quot; incredible... yet.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Wow. This sends so many thoughts cascading through my head that I&#x27;m dizzy.<p>Some things to consider, China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they will fly someone around the moon next year? Dragon has the deltaV to land on the moon (not sure if it has enough to get off again though) and SpaceX certainly has the expertise in building spacecraft that land.<p>The next person to take a picture of the Earth from moon may not be on a government funded mission. That one really blows my mind. For so long it was only countries that could do something like that, now it is nearly within reach of individuals.<p>The UN has treaties about claiming (or not) the moon by a nation state, but there isn&#x27;t anything about a privately funded and established outpost that wants to declare independence. All this time I imagined that some country would establish a base there, and grudgingly offer up some space for non-state use, and now there is this possibility of a private facility that states have to ask permission to visit? That is priceless.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;chinarealtime&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;man-on-the-moon-china-sets-lunar-mission-date&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;chinarealtime&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;man-on-the-moo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XorNot</author><text>SpaceX for a landing mission wouldn&#x27;t try and build a larger rocket, they&#x27;d definitely argue to just do multiple launches instead. Fuel tankering is within their area of interest for Mars.</text></comment> |
11,356,918 | 11,356,849 | 1 | 2 | 11,355,673 | train | <story><title>Justin Time</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/justin-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamcurious</author><text>&gt;Presidents are extremely smart<p>Interesting. Is there a part of the democatic process that guarantees electing extremely smart people?</text></item><item><author>ntumlin</author><text>Presidents are extremely smart and can quickly pick up on topics. Combine this with advisers giving you a detailed run down and you get this.</text></item><item><author>ptaffs</author><text>regarding the Obama clip, i&#x27;m impressed Obama can talk so clearly about how airBnB works, for someone who lives in a bubble of security and probably never thinks about where he&#x27;s going to stay when he goes on holiday, he can describe very well the social reputation components of airBnB.</text></item><item><author>paul</author><text>Justin doesn&#x27;t just work with the media. Justin IS the media.<p>I think it&#x27;s worth pointing out that Justin.tv led to the two largest YC exits to date, Twitch (Justin.tv pivot), and Cruise (founded by Justin.tv cofounder Kyle Vogt and Justin&#x27;s brother Dan).<p>In 2008, Justin.tv co-founder Michael Seibel found Brian Chesky crashed on the floor of a hotel in Austin, offered him space in his room, began coaching him on how to build a startup, introduced him to the rest of the Justin.tv team, and ultimately brought them into YC! (and look where he is now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8</a>)<p>I look forward to more of the same :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>A lot of the research around the evolution of intelligence suggests that some large part of what we think of as intelligence is inherently intertwined with the ability to socially signal, prevaricate, and negotiate: to assert social dominance of a group through out-thinking rivals and being better at swaying the majority <i>against</i> those rivals. (Thus why sarcasm is considered inherently witty, exactly to the extent that it&#x27;s subtle enough to trip up <i>some</i> people but not all.)<p>If you take the dual roles that a President embodies: that of &quot;managed to out-politician every other politician&quot;; and that of &quot;is believed by the technocrats of their party to be capable of <i>negotiating</i> foreign policy, trade agreements, and military conflicts&quot;—you end up with a fair proxy for that particular &#x27;evolutionary&#x27; measure of intelligence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Justin Time</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/justin-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamcurious</author><text>&gt;Presidents are extremely smart<p>Interesting. Is there a part of the democatic process that guarantees electing extremely smart people?</text></item><item><author>ntumlin</author><text>Presidents are extremely smart and can quickly pick up on topics. Combine this with advisers giving you a detailed run down and you get this.</text></item><item><author>ptaffs</author><text>regarding the Obama clip, i&#x27;m impressed Obama can talk so clearly about how airBnB works, for someone who lives in a bubble of security and probably never thinks about where he&#x27;s going to stay when he goes on holiday, he can describe very well the social reputation components of airBnB.</text></item><item><author>paul</author><text>Justin doesn&#x27;t just work with the media. Justin IS the media.<p>I think it&#x27;s worth pointing out that Justin.tv led to the two largest YC exits to date, Twitch (Justin.tv pivot), and Cruise (founded by Justin.tv cofounder Kyle Vogt and Justin&#x27;s brother Dan).<p>In 2008, Justin.tv co-founder Michael Seibel found Brian Chesky crashed on the floor of a hotel in Austin, offered him space in his room, began coaching him on how to build a startup, introduced him to the rest of the Justin.tv team, and ultimately brought them into YC! (and look where he is now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8</a>)<p>I look forward to more of the same :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>To appeal to a broad segment of the electorate, you need to a.) be able to predict what will be important to a large number of diverse groups and b.) be able to analyze &amp; synthesize that into a platform &amp; message that will bring them over to your side.<p>The combination of both is a very rare skill that correlates well with intelligence. Note that it requires both emotional &amp; analytical intelligence: you need to understand what motivates people, and you also need to understand the numbers &amp; segmentation well enough to make sure that you&#x27;re empathizing with the right group of people.<p>CEO, BTW, requires a similar skillset. I used to think that CEO was a do-nothing role that you got through political favors, and maybe in a couple dysfunctional companies that&#x27;s still the case. But in a functioning, market-leading company, being CEO requires that you first understand many different perspectives, and that you can synthesize those into a course of action that avoids pissing off any one core constituency too much.</text></comment> |
39,928,928 | 39,928,652 | 1 | 2 | 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>lrvick</author><text>I remain shocked anyone trusts Meta, Google, or Apple marketing on privacy.<p>These companies are all fundamentally similar in that their proprietary software
collects an insane amount of data that will
end up in the hands of your enemies either by sale, court order, or security compromise.<p>It is relatively easy to opt out of all of these companies and take some actual control over your privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>They are fundamentally different in that two of them derive revenue solely* from exploiting your data, and one of them doesn&#x27;t.<p>* <i>by-and-large</i></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>lrvick</author><text>I remain shocked anyone trusts Meta, Google, or Apple marketing on privacy.<p>These companies are all fundamentally similar in that their proprietary software
collects an insane amount of data that will
end up in the hands of your enemies either by sale, court order, or security compromise.<p>It is relatively easy to opt out of all of these companies and take some actual control over your privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tremarley</author><text>Apple’s PR team is remarkable. They get away with nearly everything</text></comment> |
36,529,935 | 36,529,340 | 1 | 2 | 36,519,942 | train | <story><title>Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/aspartame-artificial-sweetener-possible-cancer-risk-carcinogenic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The challenge you have here is that aspartame isn&#x27;t just one of most widely studied substances in the food chain, but that it&#x27;s also one of the most widely and vigorously consumed. People drink a <i>lot</i> of diet soda; a lot of people drink it to the exclusion of all other liquids. So it&#x27;s going to be tricky to get the epidemiology to match up with the claim here: if aspartame is meaningfully carcinogenic (meaning: more than by the trace amounts all sorts of other things in the food supply are, from small quantities of mold due to spoilage to acrylamide forming in almost anything we cook), we&#x27;d expect to see a pretty obvious effect in case rates.<p>The article mentions a French study showing a &quot;slight&quot; increase, over 100,000 pts, in an observational study that used self-reporting to control for other risk factors. I can&#x27;t find it; has anyone else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>The other big challenge is from a SAR (structure-activity relationship) point of view, it&#x27;s completely benign looking from just about any way you look at it. It&#x27;s two peptides, and a methanol (which yes, gets converted to formaldehyde, but so does fruit pectin). There&#x27;s nothing zany about its structure, it&#x27;s not particularly lipophilic, no receptor bindings of note, no spicy reactive groups, no alkylators, no intercalators, no redox sites. If it doesn&#x27;t look like a duck, doesn&#x27;t quack, doesn&#x27;t waddle, doesn&#x27;t fly, doesn&#x27;t hang out in ponds, and hasn&#x27;t shown ducklike activity over 50 years, what are the odds it&#x27;s secretly a duck?</text></comment> | <story><title>Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/aspartame-artificial-sweetener-possible-cancer-risk-carcinogenic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The challenge you have here is that aspartame isn&#x27;t just one of most widely studied substances in the food chain, but that it&#x27;s also one of the most widely and vigorously consumed. People drink a <i>lot</i> of diet soda; a lot of people drink it to the exclusion of all other liquids. So it&#x27;s going to be tricky to get the epidemiology to match up with the claim here: if aspartame is meaningfully carcinogenic (meaning: more than by the trace amounts all sorts of other things in the food supply are, from small quantities of mold due to spoilage to acrylamide forming in almost anything we cook), we&#x27;d expect to see a pretty obvious effect in case rates.<p>The article mentions a French study showing a &quot;slight&quot; increase, over 100,000 pts, in an observational study that used self-reporting to control for other risk factors. I can&#x27;t find it; has anyone else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I remember reading back in the early 90s a number of studies that showed elevated risks of certain brain cancers from aspartame. The evidence was pretty strong - it wasn&#x27;t conclusive (hence the &quot;possibly&quot; qualifier in this label), but it was enough that I was personally convinced. The link between aspartame and cancer is much stronger than the one between cyclamate (banned in 1970 but legal in the EU) and cancer. My parents never let me chug Sweet&#x27;n&#x27;Low packets the same way I chugged sugar packets because of it.<p>IIRC, the only reason aspartame was <i>not</i> banned was because saccharine had just been, and if you banned aspartame there would have been literally no artificial sweeteners on the market. That is no longer the case, with sucralose (Splenda), acesulfame potassium (Coke Zero and other diet sodas), Stevia, sorbitol, and several other sweeteners now on the market.</text></comment> |
29,030,627 | 29,028,525 | 1 | 3 | 29,027,284 | train | <story><title>The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it</title><url>https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dynm</author><text>Around a week ago, I came across this link here on HN that suggested that there&#x27;s a new form of meth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28938888" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28938888</a><p>The theory is that new meth is based on a synthesis using a chemical called P2P rather than the old synthesis that used ephedrine. There are claims that this new form of meth is chemically different in some what that started creating schizophrenia around 2017.<p>However, when I looked into it, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much support for this idea. Current meth is more pure than ever before. Some people suggest that the use of lead could be responsible, but not all P2P syntheses use that, and it wasn&#x27;t common in 2017. Instead, it seems like the explanation is just the obvious one: P2P synthesis has resulted in people doing much, much more meth than ever before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Much of the effects of any intoxicant are culturally constructed. Alcohol is widely known for causing aggression, but this effect doesn’t seem to exist in cultures without that association. Nor does it exist in double-blind studies, yet the placebo group becomes more aggressive.<p>You can start with two chemically identical intoxicants, and either by marketing or random path dependencies one gains a reputation in the subculture for making people go crazy. You can bet that large number of people are going to act wild on it.<p>This is no different than the reputation different types of alcohol have garnered. Gin makes people mean. Whisky makes people emotional. Tequila makes people party like crazy. It’s all ethanol, but those cultural preconceptions become self-fulfilling prophecies.<p>In many ways that makes these rumor filled, science light, unsubstantiated media stories about “this is the most dangerous drug ever” incredibly irresponsible. The stories themselves create the cultural preconditions around encouraging more self-destructive behavior among users. This isn’t even just drugs. Look at the moral panic over Four Loko. The same cocktail of ethanol and caffeine has been consumed as amaro and coffee by rich women since time immemorial. Yet it never caused moral panic until the “wrong type of people” started consuming it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it</title><url>https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dynm</author><text>Around a week ago, I came across this link here on HN that suggested that there&#x27;s a new form of meth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28938888" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28938888</a><p>The theory is that new meth is based on a synthesis using a chemical called P2P rather than the old synthesis that used ephedrine. There are claims that this new form of meth is chemically different in some what that started creating schizophrenia around 2017.<p>However, when I looked into it, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much support for this idea. Current meth is more pure than ever before. Some people suggest that the use of lead could be responsible, but not all P2P syntheses use that, and it wasn&#x27;t common in 2017. Instead, it seems like the explanation is just the obvious one: P2P synthesis has resulted in people doing much, much more meth than ever before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>It&#x27;s even more silly a claim because P2P based syntheses have been in common use for many decades. They were especially popular amongst the Hells Angels&#x27; chemists. I&#x27;m not sure what their final reductive amination step was, but I&#x27;d guess Al-Hg amalgam &amp; methylamine.</text></comment> |
6,609,380 | 6,609,301 | 1 | 3 | 6,609,265 | train | <story><title>uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings?</title><url>http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=139892</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>Simple: don&#x27;t use uTorrent. Use Transmission instead:<p><a href="http://www.transmissionbt.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transmissionbt.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wingman4l7</author><text>Lots of people who like uTorrent simply use older versions, like the last version right before all the contested changes of v3 (v2.2.1 Build 25302 which you can get here[1]), or even some of the older 1.8<i>x</i> versions.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/9859/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filehippo.com&#x2F;download_utorrent&#x2F;9859&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings?</title><url>http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=139892</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>Simple: don&#x27;t use uTorrent. Use Transmission instead:<p><a href="http://www.transmissionbt.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transmissionbt.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gantengx</author><text>there are other options too :)<p>Deluge - <a href="http://deluge-torrent.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deluge-torrent.org&#x2F;</a><p>Tixati - <a href="http://www.tixati.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tixati.com&#x2F;</a><p>qBittorrent - <a href="http://www.qbittorrent.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qbittorrent.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
33,693,722 | 33,692,794 | 1 | 3 | 33,688,479 | train | <story><title>Can't Unsee</title><url>https://cantunsee.space/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbalduzzi</author><text>I found most of this to be quite &quot;objective&quot; and not really related to design decisions.<p>Most of it very subtle, I agree, but I think it&#x27;s hard to argue against any of the questions being subjective.</text></item><item><author>mcint</author><text>I dislike that this elevates, canonizes, design decisions out of context.<p>However, this is how we train machine learning systems. I enjoy this as a social or artistic commentary in that way. How would you like to be trained this way, or what do you learn from being trained this way.<p>It implies, all knowledge is a convention we adopt and the ability to match or reproduce it.<p>---<p>I can do what the task asks, almost entirely, score TDB, but it reminds me of surveys with rigged questions. It&#x27;s <i>technically</i> correct, <i>technically</i> a majority of people answered questions in a predictable way, and &quot;predictable&quot; will be argued &quot;correct&quot;.<p>Searching for fallacy leading questions in surveys, I found
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cagw.org&#x2F;thewastewatcher&#x2F;fallacy-surveys-and-studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cagw.org&#x2F;thewastewatcher&#x2F;fallacy-surveys-and-stu...</a>
examining misleading net neutrality surveys cited in Congress, a mix of topics able to draw discussion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smaudet</author><text>As others mentioned there were dark patterns presented as &#x27;more correct&#x27; - there were also several stylistic choices which are entirely subjective - a major one being border radius.<p>Yeah, it looks nice, but so do nice clean rectangular edges. This test is missing context, in that sense it is pretty subjective.<p>Some of the alignment issued were fairly objective, many of them were not, e.g. some vertical alignment ones. Ofc you want consistent alignment, but you simply can&#x27;t look at two images to figure out what is &#x27;correct&#x27;. That&#x27;s a design decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can't Unsee</title><url>https://cantunsee.space/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbalduzzi</author><text>I found most of this to be quite &quot;objective&quot; and not really related to design decisions.<p>Most of it very subtle, I agree, but I think it&#x27;s hard to argue against any of the questions being subjective.</text></item><item><author>mcint</author><text>I dislike that this elevates, canonizes, design decisions out of context.<p>However, this is how we train machine learning systems. I enjoy this as a social or artistic commentary in that way. How would you like to be trained this way, or what do you learn from being trained this way.<p>It implies, all knowledge is a convention we adopt and the ability to match or reproduce it.<p>---<p>I can do what the task asks, almost entirely, score TDB, but it reminds me of surveys with rigged questions. It&#x27;s <i>technically</i> correct, <i>technically</i> a majority of people answered questions in a predictable way, and &quot;predictable&quot; will be argued &quot;correct&quot;.<p>Searching for fallacy leading questions in surveys, I found
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cagw.org&#x2F;thewastewatcher&#x2F;fallacy-surveys-and-studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cagw.org&#x2F;thewastewatcher&#x2F;fallacy-surveys-and-stu...</a>
examining misleading net neutrality surveys cited in Congress, a mix of topics able to draw discussion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threecoins</author><text>Insisting that &quot;last seen 2h ago&quot; online indicator being green and nothing else, requiring border radius for text boxes etc are not objective in any way.</text></comment> |
33,856,022 | 33,856,216 | 1 | 3 | 33,854,638 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/vrescobar/chatGPT-python-elm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Ye I signed up and tried some queries. It was quite scary.<p>&quot;Write a function that sorts the elements of a c string backwards, in C.&quot;
&quot;Add a flag to the sort function which makes it sort the string forward.&quot;
&quot;Could you write a endian swap function for double argument in PIC assembler?&quot;
&quot;Could you write a binary sort in PIC 8-bit assembler&quot;
&quot;Write a Javascript function that prints the day of the week together with some Chinese words of wisdom.&quot;<p>It had no problem doing any one those. I ran them all, except the assembler ones.<p>The question is how good it is to process larger chunks of code and makes changes to it.<p>People thinking about becoming programmers might need to rethink their plans if this one improves ...<p>EDIT:
Oh dear. I introduced bugs in its sort code and it found them and explained what they did.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>I&#x27;m sure this line of logic is very comforting, but frankly, this comfort disappears quickly when you actually <i>use</i> ChatGPT. What you find is that you can interact with it in a quite natural way, and it is able to synthesize and iterate at a level that feels easily on par with a moderately skilled human software engineer. I know it&#x27;s uncomfortable, but it doesn&#x27;t even matter if the machine is &quot;non-intelligent.&quot; Nobody gives a damn. What matters is what you can do with it, and every iteration of GPT the goal posts keep moving further, but this time it&#x27;s really difficult to deny: you really, really can describe a program at a high level and ChatGPT can implement it. You can point out an error and it can fix it. Hell, you can feed it compiler errors.<p>Is it literally as good as a human software engineer? No, but it&#x27;s also better too. I doubt ChatGPT could debug as effectively as a veteran software engineer (... In fairness, most humans can&#x27;t either.) It can debug pretty decently, but there&#x27;s still work there. That said, the breadth of knowledge encoded in a language model is stunning. I&#x27;m pretty sure you can&#x27;t just regurgitate an implementation of the discrete cosine transform in Rust without at least pulling up Wikipedia, but ChatGPT can, because well. It doesn&#x27;t have to pull it up.<p>I still don&#x27;t think ChatGPT is ready to replace human programmers. It may be a long time before we have general enough intelligence to replace knowledge work meaningfully with AI. However, if you think it&#x27;s not happening ever, because machines are not &quot;intelligent&quot; based on some set of goal posts, I&#x27;ve got bad news: that&#x27;s not part of the job listing.<p>It&#x27;s easy to laugh at MSN publishing articles written by GPT; that&#x27;s just stupid. However, at some level you have to admit that the input to ChatGPT is almost as high level as directives from project managers, and the output is almost low level enough to simply input directly into source control. That leaves very little to the imagination for how this could quickly spiral out of control.</text></item><item><author>dkjaudyeqooe</author><text>I guess we can look forward to weeks of &quot;Show HN: $X created by ChatGPT&quot; but people should be cautioned not to read to much into these results. Always remember that almost all of what is being presented here is the work of humans, regurgitated by a very much non-intelligent machine, despite its name. It&#x27;s basically:<p>Human creation -&gt; ChatGPT -&gt; Human query -&gt; Human interpretation<p>The last bit, the interpretation, is particularly important. Just like we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing faces everywhere, we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps &quot;intelligence&quot;, everywhere. In this case the meaning is very convincing since it comes from other humans, diced and sliced, but is merely presenting ourselves to ourselves in an interactive way, using our style of discourse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guiambros</author><text>Last night I entered the page-long instructions for Advent of Code day 4, and it spewed out perfectly readable code and solved it on the first try [1]. And we&#x27;re not talking about a common algorithm that has been solved many times before, but a convoluted story that is full of &quot;<i>elves cleaning up overlapping sections of the camp</i>&quot; (!), and ChatGPT was still able to understand it, write the code to solve it, and even <i>explain how it works</i>.<p>It&#x27;s nothing short of a phenomenal milestone.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GuiAmbros&#x2F;status&#x2F;1599282083838296064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GuiAmbros&#x2F;status&#x2F;1599282083838296064</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/vrescobar/chatGPT-python-elm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Ye I signed up and tried some queries. It was quite scary.<p>&quot;Write a function that sorts the elements of a c string backwards, in C.&quot;
&quot;Add a flag to the sort function which makes it sort the string forward.&quot;
&quot;Could you write a endian swap function for double argument in PIC assembler?&quot;
&quot;Could you write a binary sort in PIC 8-bit assembler&quot;
&quot;Write a Javascript function that prints the day of the week together with some Chinese words of wisdom.&quot;<p>It had no problem doing any one those. I ran them all, except the assembler ones.<p>The question is how good it is to process larger chunks of code and makes changes to it.<p>People thinking about becoming programmers might need to rethink their plans if this one improves ...<p>EDIT:
Oh dear. I introduced bugs in its sort code and it found them and explained what they did.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>I&#x27;m sure this line of logic is very comforting, but frankly, this comfort disappears quickly when you actually <i>use</i> ChatGPT. What you find is that you can interact with it in a quite natural way, and it is able to synthesize and iterate at a level that feels easily on par with a moderately skilled human software engineer. I know it&#x27;s uncomfortable, but it doesn&#x27;t even matter if the machine is &quot;non-intelligent.&quot; Nobody gives a damn. What matters is what you can do with it, and every iteration of GPT the goal posts keep moving further, but this time it&#x27;s really difficult to deny: you really, really can describe a program at a high level and ChatGPT can implement it. You can point out an error and it can fix it. Hell, you can feed it compiler errors.<p>Is it literally as good as a human software engineer? No, but it&#x27;s also better too. I doubt ChatGPT could debug as effectively as a veteran software engineer (... In fairness, most humans can&#x27;t either.) It can debug pretty decently, but there&#x27;s still work there. That said, the breadth of knowledge encoded in a language model is stunning. I&#x27;m pretty sure you can&#x27;t just regurgitate an implementation of the discrete cosine transform in Rust without at least pulling up Wikipedia, but ChatGPT can, because well. It doesn&#x27;t have to pull it up.<p>I still don&#x27;t think ChatGPT is ready to replace human programmers. It may be a long time before we have general enough intelligence to replace knowledge work meaningfully with AI. However, if you think it&#x27;s not happening ever, because machines are not &quot;intelligent&quot; based on some set of goal posts, I&#x27;ve got bad news: that&#x27;s not part of the job listing.<p>It&#x27;s easy to laugh at MSN publishing articles written by GPT; that&#x27;s just stupid. However, at some level you have to admit that the input to ChatGPT is almost as high level as directives from project managers, and the output is almost low level enough to simply input directly into source control. That leaves very little to the imagination for how this could quickly spiral out of control.</text></item><item><author>dkjaudyeqooe</author><text>I guess we can look forward to weeks of &quot;Show HN: $X created by ChatGPT&quot; but people should be cautioned not to read to much into these results. Always remember that almost all of what is being presented here is the work of humans, regurgitated by a very much non-intelligent machine, despite its name. It&#x27;s basically:<p>Human creation -&gt; ChatGPT -&gt; Human query -&gt; Human interpretation<p>The last bit, the interpretation, is particularly important. Just like we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing faces everywhere, we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps &quot;intelligence&quot;, everywhere. In this case the meaning is very convincing since it comes from other humans, diced and sliced, but is merely presenting ourselves to ourselves in an interactive way, using our style of discourse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xur17</author><text>&gt; The question is how good it is to process larger chunks of code and makes changes to it.<p>&gt; People thinking about becoming programmers might need to rethink their plans if this one improves ...<p>Very true, and this thought definitely crossed my mind as well. In the short term I imagine this is going to be like any other tool, it will increase your leverage, and make it possible for you to write code faster.<p>For example, I fed it 100 lines of a Django model and asked it to write some query code for me. Produced something that was possible faster than I could have. The few slight deficiencies it did have (optimizations) basically felt like me doing a code review.</text></comment> |
13,115,701 | 13,115,637 | 1 | 2 | 13,114,790 | train | <story><title>Anil Dash Is the New CEO of Fog Creek Software</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/06/anil-dash-is-the-new-ceo-of-fog-creek-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Wow Stack Overflow has 300 employees!!<p>So at a typical benchmark of $500,000 of revenue per employee they should be making atleast $150,000,000 per year in revenue. I have to imagine that they are making much more than that, given that I&#x27;ve seen valuations of $500 million.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;revenue-per-employee-at-apple-facebook-google-others-2016-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;revenue-per-employee-at-apple...</a><p>I&#x27;m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are still very lean and well run, I&#x27;m a big fan, but the fact that they do data dumps makes me feel much better.<p>I&#x27;ve seen too many bankruptcy&#x2F;wind downs of companies, and one thing you can usually bet on is that once that process starts, the data gets locked up and treated the same as any other asset, which is to say, sold to pay debts. Or put another way, once a company gets into trouble, releasing their data often gets taken off the table as an option.<p>Again as a reminder to startup employee&#x27;s, the company was founded in 2008 and hasn&#x27;t really had any talk about going public or selling, so always make sure you get atleast a market salary from any startup you join as your options even at a well run company could take more than a decade to provide you with liquidity.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> I can&#x27;t math</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josho</author><text>&gt; founded in 2008 and hasn&#x27;t really had any talk about going public or selling, so always make sure you get atleast a market salary from any startup you join as your options even at a well run company could take more than a decade to provide you with liquidity.<p>Best advice that I&#x27;ve read here in awhile.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anil Dash Is the New CEO of Fog Creek Software</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/06/anil-dash-is-the-new-ceo-of-fog-creek-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Wow Stack Overflow has 300 employees!!<p>So at a typical benchmark of $500,000 of revenue per employee they should be making atleast $150,000,000 per year in revenue. I have to imagine that they are making much more than that, given that I&#x27;ve seen valuations of $500 million.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;revenue-per-employee-at-apple-facebook-google-others-2016-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;revenue-per-employee-at-apple...</a><p>I&#x27;m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are still very lean and well run, I&#x27;m a big fan, but the fact that they do data dumps makes me feel much better.<p>I&#x27;ve seen too many bankruptcy&#x2F;wind downs of companies, and one thing you can usually bet on is that once that process starts, the data gets locked up and treated the same as any other asset, which is to say, sold to pay debts. Or put another way, once a company gets into trouble, releasing their data often gets taken off the table as an option.<p>Again as a reminder to startup employee&#x27;s, the company was founded in 2008 and hasn&#x27;t really had any talk about going public or selling, so always make sure you get atleast a market salary from any startup you join as your options even at a well run company could take more than a decade to provide you with liquidity.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> I can&#x27;t math</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rm999</author><text>&gt;Wow Stack Overflow has 300 employees!! So at a typical benchmark of $500,000 of revenue per employee they should be making atleast $15,000,000 per year in revenue.<p>Isn&#x27;t that 150 million a year in revenue? If so, 500M is about right assuming a 3x revenue valuation.</text></comment> |
24,328,139 | 24,323,796 | 1 | 3 | 24,323,378 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation</title><url>http://vimacapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexterleng</author><text>Hello all! I am a student from Singapore who was introduced to Vimium by a friend two years ago. Vimac is my attempt to implement Vimium on an OS level.<p>I have shared this app on Reddit about a year ago. Since then, the notable changes would be a major performance buff in webkit&#x2F;electron, force keyboard layout, and reducing the overwhelming no. of hints to what is just &quot;clickable&quot;.<p>It is open source at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;</a>.<p>Do let me know if you have any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_chendo_</author><text>Hello!<p>Glad to see more people making tools around the Accessibility API. I&#x27;ve been working on a similar app called Shortcat (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shortcatapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shortcatapp.com</a>) almost 8 years ago (wow) but haven&#x27;t had the time to properly work on it. It sounds like you&#x27;re encountering a lot of the same problems I&#x27;ve had when I was starting out (figuring what&#x27;s actionable, forcing keyboard layout etc). Let me know if you want to chat about the various problems in that space</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation</title><url>http://vimacapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexterleng</author><text>Hello all! I am a student from Singapore who was introduced to Vimium by a friend two years ago. Vimac is my attempt to implement Vimium on an OS level.<p>I have shared this app on Reddit about a year ago. Since then, the notable changes would be a major performance buff in webkit&#x2F;electron, force keyboard layout, and reducing the overwhelming no. of hints to what is just &quot;clickable&quot;.<p>It is open source at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;</a>.<p>Do let me know if you have any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikivi</author><text>One issue I had with running this aside from it taking quite a lot of CPU is that when opening Discord, I&#x27;d always get a warning that I am using a screen reader.<p>Was it solved in new versions?</text></comment> |
10,057,077 | 10,057,062 | 1 | 2 | 10,055,134 | train | <story><title>The Bail Trap</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>developer1</author><text>I sympathize with your situation, but am confused by &quot;I am out $3,000&quot;. Do you not get bail money back when your presence in court is concluded? I always thought bail was a deposit, not a payment. You only lose your bail money if you don&#x27;t show up when required, no?</text></item><item><author>bail-throw-away</author><text>OK - so I just had two experiences with a bay area law enforcement agency, and I am beside myself with disgust and anger:<p>I was accused of doing something I did not. I was taken to jail and they held me on bail - and set my court date for about three weeks from the time I was booked, but an arraignment in about 5 days.<p>I had just accepted a new job - but still had a week on my current.<p>I HAD to post bail (and I didn&#x27;t really have the money for it) so I had to get a bail bond. so I could get out and go to work!! This cost my $3,000 out of pocket.<p>So I did, and then went to my arraignment: Guess what &quot;no charges filed and case rejected for lack of any evidence at all&quot;<p>But now - I am out $3,000 and I have an arrest on my record for something that was simply a false accusation! Further, WHile I was in jail over night, the guards and police are absolute douchebags. They treat EVERYONE like crap.<p>I now hate all cops. ALL of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bail-throw-away</author><text>If I were to post the actual full bail ~33,000 myself -- I &quot;get it back&quot; - but it is legal for them to keep the full bail amount 1 Year Plus 1 Day before they return it to me...<p>Using a bail bondsman I pay some fee (could be negotiated) but in my case was 10%<p>Since I paid the bail bondsman to post a 33,000 bond on my behalf - I pay him 3,300 up front. I do not get this back - regardless of the outcome of the case... however if I resolve it at the arraignment they refund ~10% at some ambiguous future date.<p>I should be able to bill the city for this given they had no charges and no evidence.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bail Trap</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>developer1</author><text>I sympathize with your situation, but am confused by &quot;I am out $3,000&quot;. Do you not get bail money back when your presence in court is concluded? I always thought bail was a deposit, not a payment. You only lose your bail money if you don&#x27;t show up when required, no?</text></item><item><author>bail-throw-away</author><text>OK - so I just had two experiences with a bay area law enforcement agency, and I am beside myself with disgust and anger:<p>I was accused of doing something I did not. I was taken to jail and they held me on bail - and set my court date for about three weeks from the time I was booked, but an arraignment in about 5 days.<p>I had just accepted a new job - but still had a week on my current.<p>I HAD to post bail (and I didn&#x27;t really have the money for it) so I had to get a bail bond. so I could get out and go to work!! This cost my $3,000 out of pocket.<p>So I did, and then went to my arraignment: Guess what &quot;no charges filed and case rejected for lack of any evidence at all&quot;<p>But now - I am out $3,000 and I have an arrest on my record for something that was simply a false accusation! Further, WHile I was in jail over night, the guards and police are absolute douchebags. They treat EVERYONE like crap.<p>I now hate all cops. ALL of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>Laws vary by state but basically it amounts to: Bail was too expensive&#x2F;risky so he paid a fee to a bondsman to get him out. A bond is a guarantee provided by a third party, the bondsman, that you will appear in court. It is usually some fraction of your actual bail, like 10%. So if we assume 10% and $3,000 paid to the bondsman, then his bail was probably $30,000. If that&#x27;s correct then GP&#x27;s alternative would have been to post $30k with the police until the conclusion of his&#x2F;her case.</text></comment> |
4,711,976 | 4,711,984 | 1 | 2 | 4,711,786 | train | <story><title>Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/?iPad</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgespencer</author><text>There's so much about this which is disingenuous. I'm not surprised by this, but it's worth pointing out some of the tricks Amazon are employing here:<p>1. Much More for Much Less. Much More is obviously the kindle fire HD, and Much Less is the iPad Mini. Heck, if you remove the 'f' of 'for' you get to the central point here which is to turn the choice into 'Much More or Much Less'.<p>2. Kindle Fire HD branding is used (sexy typeface, orange gradient), iPad mini has some weird typeface which a cynic might argue has been deliberately spaced to make it look antiquated and unprofessional.<p>3. The Kindle Fire is "stunning" and the iPad Mini is "standard".<p>4. Just because the iPad Mini display is high definition and has 30% more pixels than the iPad Mini, it doesn't mean that the iPad Mini is a "low resolution" display.<p>5. Because the iPad Mini has a bigger screen in the same overall form factor, they make the same point a different way ("30% more pixels than the Mini" =&#62; "216 pixels per inch"). If the Kindle had a bigger screen but lower PPI they'd put the screen size in here.<p>6. "Watch HD movies and TV" "No HD movies or TV". The phrasing here is very clever. To a technically competent individual it parses as "no HD content on iPad Mini, only standard definition". But the "and TV"/"or TV" phrasing means that an average consumer might assume that you can't get any TV shows on iPad Mini.<p>7. The screen of the Kindle Fire is odd looking. The iPad Mini behind it is on its default home screen. I'm guessing that the Kindle Fire has deliberately been shown all in black (with the bg the same colour as the bezel) because it makes it unclear where the bezel ends and the screen begins. (I don't know if this is the default setting of the Kindle Fire HD or not).<p>8. The iPad Mini has been photoshopped horribly. For a start I have no idea which iOS that is, but it's not the one which ships with the iPad Mini or the one which Apple are using in any of their promotional shots. If you overlay one of Apple's promotional shots on top and adjust the size and opacity, you'll see that the iPad Mini has been warped so that the icons seem slightly smaller and the positioning is off.<p>8. Ultra-fast MIMO Wi-Fi vs. A BLANK SPACE. Not even trashing the fact that there is Wifi in the iPad but it's not as fast. It looks like they just gave up at this point.<p>Again, I'm not blaming Amazon for any of this. It's just interesting to see how much thought has gone into basically attempting to deceive consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polshaw</author><text>I hope you are aware that apple does this too (and far better). I say this because I wouldn't see this type of post after an apple keynote. They are MASTERS of setting the conversation points.<p>Take the iPhone4 launch. A new phone with a slightly higher resolution screen, but significantly smaller than the existing competition. Their framing, with retina branding, switched the existing conversation from screen size, not to resolution even (where apple had a minor lead, that would be soon overtaken) to PPI! There was almost no discussion of PPI before this. Apple competitors were now framed as 'worse' if they included a screen with the same resolution but bigger! Insane!<p>Now fast-forward to 2012, and we have a new iPad marketed as 35% bigger screen (again they have found a metric that maximises the difference, which would normally be framed as the 7" vs 7.9"), no mention of resolution.<p>Apple would never even show a competitor on their site, because they are the market leader.. but see Mac vs PC for what happens when they are not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/?iPad</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgespencer</author><text>There's so much about this which is disingenuous. I'm not surprised by this, but it's worth pointing out some of the tricks Amazon are employing here:<p>1. Much More for Much Less. Much More is obviously the kindle fire HD, and Much Less is the iPad Mini. Heck, if you remove the 'f' of 'for' you get to the central point here which is to turn the choice into 'Much More or Much Less'.<p>2. Kindle Fire HD branding is used (sexy typeface, orange gradient), iPad mini has some weird typeface which a cynic might argue has been deliberately spaced to make it look antiquated and unprofessional.<p>3. The Kindle Fire is "stunning" and the iPad Mini is "standard".<p>4. Just because the iPad Mini display is high definition and has 30% more pixels than the iPad Mini, it doesn't mean that the iPad Mini is a "low resolution" display.<p>5. Because the iPad Mini has a bigger screen in the same overall form factor, they make the same point a different way ("30% more pixels than the Mini" =&#62; "216 pixels per inch"). If the Kindle had a bigger screen but lower PPI they'd put the screen size in here.<p>6. "Watch HD movies and TV" "No HD movies or TV". The phrasing here is very clever. To a technically competent individual it parses as "no HD content on iPad Mini, only standard definition". But the "and TV"/"or TV" phrasing means that an average consumer might assume that you can't get any TV shows on iPad Mini.<p>7. The screen of the Kindle Fire is odd looking. The iPad Mini behind it is on its default home screen. I'm guessing that the Kindle Fire has deliberately been shown all in black (with the bg the same colour as the bezel) because it makes it unclear where the bezel ends and the screen begins. (I don't know if this is the default setting of the Kindle Fire HD or not).<p>8. The iPad Mini has been photoshopped horribly. For a start I have no idea which iOS that is, but it's not the one which ships with the iPad Mini or the one which Apple are using in any of their promotional shots. If you overlay one of Apple's promotional shots on top and adjust the size and opacity, you'll see that the iPad Mini has been warped so that the icons seem slightly smaller and the positioning is off.<p>8. Ultra-fast MIMO Wi-Fi vs. A BLANK SPACE. Not even trashing the fact that there is Wifi in the iPad but it's not as fast. It looks like they just gave up at this point.<p>Again, I'm not blaming Amazon for any of this. It's just interesting to see how much thought has gone into basically attempting to deceive consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neya</author><text>I recently read an article on HN wherein a user posted asking all of us to be 'civil'. This is the reason why HN isn't so civil. You like a product, you try to support as if you created it and as if the company cares for you, while in reality the company doesn't care about you and you're just doing free marketing for them.<p>Not to say that you can't defend what you like, but most of what you've written here is very very subjective. One could argue otherwise too, and which is what is happening right here - You're adding subjectivity to your claims and provoking a 'fanboy' war. This is unacceptable.<p>For example, if I were to counter you, I would then say the entire of Apple's presentations and Marketing is just plain BS. For example they frequently market saying "The world's best Operating System (referring to Mac OS)" or "The fastest phone ever" etc. while these are not true. The iPhone for instance, still runs on a dual core processor. How the fuck can it be the 'fastest' while high-performance quadcore chips were long released even before this phone came into existence?<p>Where were you during Apple's presentations? I never saw you arguing "Hey that's not true, this is disingenuous" while they marketed their products in a similar fashion.<p>So may I kindly request you to cut the crap and stop the bias and avoid provoking people into such techno-wars?<p>Thanks</text></comment> |
35,239,119 | 35,238,463 | 1 | 3 | 35,237,830 | train | <story><title>Why use Rust on the back end?</title><url>https://blog.adamchalmers.com/why-rust-on-backend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>&gt; I really like using Diesel because it generates all your SQL queries for you, from a typed SQL schema that it generates from your SQL migrations.<p>Fair that the author says that this is their opinion, however... I can&#x27;t agree.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m too stupid, but for me SQLx is the real killer crate when it comes to databases.<p>Everything, from the migrate macro, to the way it validates at compile-time the types in the DB, feels (to me) very ergonomic.<p>Diesel, by contrast, I spent so long trying to set up and I never really understood the three different files that need to somehow be in sync and generated. I just never really grokked the <i>split</i> of these files and when to run the diesel-cli commands...<p>but SQLx is great, I often lament that there isn&#x27;t anything comparable in Golang.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>necubi</author><text>We originally used SQLx but eventually moved away for a couple of reasons:<p>* The sqlx::query! macro is a neat hack, but the fact that it calls out to a database in a proc macro is pretty insane. It significantly slows down compilation with a lot of queries, and doesn&#x27;t work reliably with rust-analyzer.<p>* Inconsistent handling of nullability that would regularly break compilation<p>We now use Cornucopia (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cornucopia-rs.netlify.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cornucopia-rs.netlify.app&#x2F;</a>) which I think is a much better approach. You write your queries in a separate SQL file, alongside annotations that let you specify nullability. A standard build.rs integration performs codegen from that, which means compilation itself doesn&#x27;t require a DB and IDE features work well. It also lets you share data types between queries which reduces boilerplate significantly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why use Rust on the back end?</title><url>https://blog.adamchalmers.com/why-rust-on-backend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>&gt; I really like using Diesel because it generates all your SQL queries for you, from a typed SQL schema that it generates from your SQL migrations.<p>Fair that the author says that this is their opinion, however... I can&#x27;t agree.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m too stupid, but for me SQLx is the real killer crate when it comes to databases.<p>Everything, from the migrate macro, to the way it validates at compile-time the types in the DB, feels (to me) very ergonomic.<p>Diesel, by contrast, I spent so long trying to set up and I never really understood the three different files that need to somehow be in sync and generated. I just never really grokked the <i>split</i> of these files and when to run the diesel-cli commands...<p>but SQLx is great, I often lament that there isn&#x27;t anything comparable in Golang.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adamch</author><text>Hello, author here. My coworker Olivia (of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;losslessbits.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;losslessbits.com&#x2F;</a>) really likes SQLx, I haven&#x27;t personally used it though. I&#x27;d love to try it for a future project, as long as it can help typecheck my SQL queries.</text></comment> |
35,771,778 | 35,769,657 | 1 | 2 | 35,769,203 | train | <story><title>Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema</title><url>https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akwizgran</author><text>Briar developer here. We weren&#x27;t contacted by the Indian government and we haven&#x27;t received a copy of the blocking order.<p>If anyone reading this works at Google or has a contact there, please put us in touch ([email protected]). We&#x27;d love to know whether Google has received a blocking order, and if possible get a copy of the order so we can challenge it in court.<p>In the meantime, the app remains available from our website and F-Droid (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;briarproject.org&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;briarproject.org&#x2F;download</a>). The app can also create a wi-fi hotspot to share the APK with people nearby.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema</title><url>https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rogers18445</author><text>These things are typically bureaucratic security theater. Terrorists can sideload. The decision makers just care to be seen doing something, whether it&#x27;s useful or not is not their problem.</text></comment> |
35,032,559 | 35,031,382 | 1 | 2 | 35,030,205 | train | <story><title>Building a new functional programming language</title><url>https://www.onebigfluke.com/2023/03/a-new-functional-programming-language.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>I&#x27;ve been programming for 35 years or more, and I&#x27;ve yet to come across situations where the hard problem was <i>the language</i>.<p>Sure, there are situations where I&#x27;ve been grateful for the ability to use Python (because everything is so easy), or Perl (because sometimes its the right tool for the job) or Lisp (because its slippery fluidity just feels right) rather than the C&#x2F;C++ that I&#x27;ve generally used during that time.<p>But the hard problems I&#x27;ve faced writing code would (almost?) never be made easier by using functional programming, or Rust, or Go or Swift or Brainfuck. The problems are hard because the problems are hard, and typically for me over the last 23+ years, it has been the combination of generically tough programming problems with performance requirements that ultimately make the choice of language mostly irrelevant.<p>Sure, someone could offer me a thread-safe sparse integer-to-integer mapping container in another language, but then I have to wonder about what design assumptions were made and how performant it is, and if the language was clearly created to prevent me from ever doing such things myself, then I&#x27;m going to be deeply suspicious from the outset that it could possibly have my (coding) interests at heart.<p>I understand that I&#x27;m not the typical programmer these days, and I don&#x27;t work on entirely typical problems, but I can&#x27;t help but feel that sometimes the focus on &quot;languages to help programmers&quot; comes from programmers who just don&#x27;t enjoy their work enough and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t have enough to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chris_Newton</author><text><i>I&#x27;ve been programming for 35 years or more, and I&#x27;ve yet to come across situations where the hard problem was</i> the language.<p>The hardest problem is usually something else, but IME some languages make it much easier to solve a given hard problem than others. Some languages are qualitatively safer. Some languages are much more expressive, in the sense that I can implement my solution with far less code&#x2F;time&#x2F;cost without compromising anywhere else.<p>There is a difference between whether I can solve a problem and how efficiently and pleasantly I can solve a problem. I find choice of language rarely affects the former but often profoundly affects the latter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a new functional programming language</title><url>https://www.onebigfluke.com/2023/03/a-new-functional-programming-language.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>I&#x27;ve been programming for 35 years or more, and I&#x27;ve yet to come across situations where the hard problem was <i>the language</i>.<p>Sure, there are situations where I&#x27;ve been grateful for the ability to use Python (because everything is so easy), or Perl (because sometimes its the right tool for the job) or Lisp (because its slippery fluidity just feels right) rather than the C&#x2F;C++ that I&#x27;ve generally used during that time.<p>But the hard problems I&#x27;ve faced writing code would (almost?) never be made easier by using functional programming, or Rust, or Go or Swift or Brainfuck. The problems are hard because the problems are hard, and typically for me over the last 23+ years, it has been the combination of generically tough programming problems with performance requirements that ultimately make the choice of language mostly irrelevant.<p>Sure, someone could offer me a thread-safe sparse integer-to-integer mapping container in another language, but then I have to wonder about what design assumptions were made and how performant it is, and if the language was clearly created to prevent me from ever doing such things myself, then I&#x27;m going to be deeply suspicious from the outset that it could possibly have my (coding) interests at heart.<p>I understand that I&#x27;m not the typical programmer these days, and I don&#x27;t work on entirely typical problems, but I can&#x27;t help but feel that sometimes the focus on &quot;languages to help programmers&quot; comes from programmers who just don&#x27;t enjoy their work enough and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t have enough to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bslatkin</author><text>I love to swing a hammer as much as the next programmer. But if you offer me a nail gun, even with slightly lower precision, I will happily use it the majority of the time and revert to my hand tools when it&#x27;s most appropriate. This is about developing force multipliers and producing leverage, not avoiding the craft.</text></comment> |
16,156,742 | 16,156,043 | 1 | 3 | 16,154,943 | train | <story><title>Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person</title><url>http://dariusforoux.com/impatience/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of both Robert Greene&#x27;s <i>Mastery</i> and Leonardo da Vinci, but I think using da Vinci as an example of patience is fairly misleading. After having read numerous biographies on the man, my conclusion is that it&#x27;s remarkable that he managed to get as much done as he did. He was the ultimate dabbler, interested in and curious about virtually everything. His works took a long time to complete because he generally was distracted by some minor detail for years on end. If the ideal is productivity, then surely Michelangelo is a far better role model.<p>Of course, the <i>real</i> question here is whether productivity is what one should be ultimately aiming at. Doing <i>very few things very well</i> (alternatively, <i>creating a small number of high-quality things</i>) is a better ideal, to my mind.<p><i>&#x27;It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.&#x27;</i> - Friedrich Nietzsche</text></comment> | <story><title>Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person</title><url>http://dariusforoux.com/impatience/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>On the one hand - I agree you have to be patient in order to execute at the right times. On the other hand, that&#x27;s only in terms of timing...<p>You can&#x27;t be patient and wait for opportunities. You have to be consistently searching for them, and execute as you find them - staying as nimble as possible.<p>For instance, I am always 100% invested, but always in various types of assets. Some investments I can get my money out in 24 hours, others take weeks or months to divest. That enables me to execute quickly when I see opportunity, but only in a limited fashion.<p>I don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s &quot;impatience&quot; that keeps me invested at that level. It&#x27;s the fact that, being idol does nothing.<p>Hell, I&#x27;m even platform around identifying new opportunities. I didn&#x27;t &#x2F; don&#x27;t want to be patient, so now I&#x27;m building something to enable faster decisions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectpiglet.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectpiglet.com</a><p>Kind of reminds me of a similar parable from the story Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein, in it there was a man &quot;too lazy to fail&quot;[1]. The idea is summed up by a quote:<p>&gt; Progress isn&#x27;t made by early risers. It&#x27;s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.<p>Ambition is just trying to accomplish things. In my opinion, it&#x27;s impatience that pushes us to solve problems, else we&#x27;d all settle for the way things are. The trick, is learning to solve them in a way that mitigates risk. Which is really what the author is trying to get at. Arrogance (or over confidence) might be a better description of the pitfall, than impatience.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Time_Enough_for_Love#&quot;The_Tale_of_the_Man_Who_Was_Too_Lazy_to_Fail&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Time_Enough_for_Love#&quot;The_Tale...</a></text></comment> |
38,223,096 | 38,222,960 | 1 | 3 | 38,222,596 | train | <story><title>How Git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/10/how-cherry-pick-and-revert-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>juped</author><text>You can set the config option `merge.conflictStyle` to `diff3` to see all three inputs to a merge conflict (left, base, and right, rather than just left and right); this lets you actually resolve them, because you can see the changes left made to base, and the changes right made to base, and make both changes, rather than having to guess at what&#x27;s going on.<p>I wish this were the default. (It&#x27;s not broadly because it displays certain arcane recursive merges in a really bizarre way; see the mailing list for discussion.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/10/how-cherry-pick-and-revert-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forkerenok</author><text>Very insightful read, thanks for sharing!<p>I remember many cases when I was cherry-picking things on a slightly changed (with overlaps) HEAD and it just worked. So I had this intuition that it&#x27;s smarter than a flat patch, but had no idea that it is a legit 3-way merge!<p>Slightly OT: I noticed that the git source code links in the article are referencing master branch. I think it would be better for longevity to fix a commit hash.</text></comment> |
39,759,994 | 39,759,314 | 1 | 2 | 39,757,368 | train | <story><title>The New Inflection</title><url>https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabakin</author><text>I have some serious issues with this company&#x27;s PR.<p>They say their Inflection-2.5 model is the world&#x27;s best personal AI[0] which is a dumb claim to make considering it is done off of automated benchmarks which we know are flawed and even if you assume automated benchmarks are good enough to claim that title, it would be held by dozens of other open weight models on HF, not Inflection-2.5.<p>They said their Inflection-2 model was the second best in the world[1] while comparing it to Palm-2 which no one considers close to the best in the world. They again, based their claim on automated benchmarks which anyone knowledgeable in the space would know can be gamed and is not representative of actual conversational performance. (take a look at the Lmsys Arena Leaderboard for a better metric)<p>They list other models they consider good while failing to mention or compare to Mixtral 8x7b, the best open model that exists.<p>And they introduce buzzwords no one in the area uses like IQ and EQ as if they are innovative concepts.<p>Making big, bold claims without evidence is the exact kind of manipulative PR speak I&#x27;d expect from a company with little to no substance.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2-5</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bevekspldnw</author><text>I just skimmed and came away with “Satya is dumping more Azure credits on some AI thing to screw with Big G again”. The rest was noise.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New Inflection</title><url>https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabakin</author><text>I have some serious issues with this company&#x27;s PR.<p>They say their Inflection-2.5 model is the world&#x27;s best personal AI[0] which is a dumb claim to make considering it is done off of automated benchmarks which we know are flawed and even if you assume automated benchmarks are good enough to claim that title, it would be held by dozens of other open weight models on HF, not Inflection-2.5.<p>They said their Inflection-2 model was the second best in the world[1] while comparing it to Palm-2 which no one considers close to the best in the world. They again, based their claim on automated benchmarks which anyone knowledgeable in the space would know can be gamed and is not representative of actual conversational performance. (take a look at the Lmsys Arena Leaderboard for a better metric)<p>They list other models they consider good while failing to mention or compare to Mixtral 8x7b, the best open model that exists.<p>And they introduce buzzwords no one in the area uses like IQ and EQ as if they are innovative concepts.<p>Making big, bold claims without evidence is the exact kind of manipulative PR speak I&#x27;d expect from a company with little to no substance.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2-5</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inflection.ai&#x2F;inflection-2</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RaftPeople</author><text>&quot;After just 3 days of being incorporated and just 2 days of actual work performed, we have now created the best AI on the planet with trillions of active subscribers, per second.<p>The quality of our product is so high, it is being compared to a perfect diamond the size of the entire solar system. But, we are humble, and while we think our tech is pretty darn good, we know that we can do better. That&#x27;s why we are introducing v2 in just 2 business days from today, which will render all other forms of intelligence (human and artificial) irrelevant.&quot;</text></comment> |
35,736,742 | 35,736,517 | 1 | 3 | 35,735,076 | train | <story><title>Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balloob</author><text>Founder Home Assistant here. Let me know if anyone has any questions.<p>Edit: if you want to keep in the loop of the work we&#x27;re doing, subscribe to our free monthly newsletter @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;building.open-home.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;building.open-home.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bioemerl</author><text>No questions, only a comment, you kick ass.</text></comment> | <story><title>Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balloob</author><text>Founder Home Assistant here. Let me know if anyone has any questions.<p>Edit: if you want to keep in the loop of the work we&#x27;re doing, subscribe to our free monthly newsletter @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;building.open-home.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;building.open-home.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>First of all, thank you so much for HA. My family uses it daily and despite some of them being at first resistant to anything smart they now can’t imagine life without it.<p>I have a general question about HA: the main issues I’ve had with it have had to do with specifically only two points.<p>1. The recorder module has brought the system to a crawl when a single rogue device on my network kept spamming MQTT with status updates about power consumption and eventually killed the SD card it was running on. Some aggressive ignore statements in the config fixed the issue but I still see this as a major pain point as there is no indication of anything happening. Is there any plan to introduce any kind of housekeeping into the recorder module besides periodic purges (which in my case were not enough to actually keep the system running)?<p>2. I like to have control over my computers so I did not want to use a pre-installed image of HA for RPi. But the alternative is a cumbersome process of installing it in a Python virtual env and keeping things updated which is not ideal. Are there any plans for improving this installation path? Or alternatively some sort of advanced version of the HA image which would allow someone like me full control over the base OS while keeping the benefits of the cohesive self-updating HA distribution?</text></comment> |
30,893,011 | 30,893,120 | 1 | 3 | 30,892,081 | train | <story><title>Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)</title><url>https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vikingcaffiene</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure a lot people know that Albini ended up washing his hands of his work with Nirvana. After the recordings were wrapped and the mixes were done, Kurt was really unhappy with some of the sounds. If memory serves it was the vocals and the bass. They ended up doing some overdubs and sharpening things up in the low end in mastering. The very thing Albini specifically said he didn&#x27;t want them to do. I personally think the results speak for themselves. In Utero is a FANTASTIC rock record. I can&#x27;t help but wonder what the original would have sounded like though...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daydream</author><text>In addition to bootlegs of the rough mixes you can also check out the official 20th anniversary vinyl reissue, remixed by Albini from the original masters. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nirvana.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;in-utero-2013-mix-2lp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nirvana.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;in-utero-2013-mix-2lp&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)</title><url>https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vikingcaffiene</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure a lot people know that Albini ended up washing his hands of his work with Nirvana. After the recordings were wrapped and the mixes were done, Kurt was really unhappy with some of the sounds. If memory serves it was the vocals and the bass. They ended up doing some overdubs and sharpening things up in the low end in mastering. The very thing Albini specifically said he didn&#x27;t want them to do. I personally think the results speak for themselves. In Utero is a FANTASTIC rock record. I can&#x27;t help but wonder what the original would have sounded like though...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strunz</author><text>Not surprising considering Nevermind is one of the best sounding albums of all time. I personally give Butch Vig a large part of the. refit for getting the best out of the band and really making an incredible album. Hard to believe it&#x27;s the same band as Bleach.</text></comment> |
7,150,477 | 7,150,515 | 1 | 2 | 7,150,158 | train | <story><title>PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/29/paypal-denies-providing-payment-information-hacker-hijacked-50000-twitter-username/#!tXHD5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lipanski</author><text>In my opinion, the hacker who hijacked this guy&#x27;s Twitter account didn&#x27;t have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention. Just think about it, in just one email he puts the blame on both GoDaddy, for doing phone validation over unsecure criteria (like credit card numbers), and PayPal (for giving out the last digits of the card number to a complete stranger). There might be some truth to it (GoDaddy&#x27;s phone validation sucks and GoDaddy sucks altogether), but I&#x27;ve read the original HN thread and the majority of comments are directed against GoDaddy or PayPal, rather than the real perpetrator. There are a million ways to hijack someone&#x27;s account - including but not necessary by exploiting flaws of GoDaddy &#x2F; PayPal - but I wouldn&#x27;t trust the hijacker to kindly explain to me how he <i>actually</i> did it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jader201</author><text><i>&gt; didn&#x27;t have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention.</i><p>Would the story have gone viral, though, had he just said, &quot;I&#x27;m not going to say anything about how I did it.&quot;? The story would have just been another &quot;I got hacked&quot; story.<p>If the hacker were really clever enough to fabricate such an elaborate hoax, I think he would have been clever enough to realize the best way to divert attention from the story, would have been to just keep quiet.</text></comment> | <story><title>PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/29/paypal-denies-providing-payment-information-hacker-hijacked-50000-twitter-username/#!tXHD5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lipanski</author><text>In my opinion, the hacker who hijacked this guy&#x27;s Twitter account didn&#x27;t have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention. Just think about it, in just one email he puts the blame on both GoDaddy, for doing phone validation over unsecure criteria (like credit card numbers), and PayPal (for giving out the last digits of the card number to a complete stranger). There might be some truth to it (GoDaddy&#x27;s phone validation sucks and GoDaddy sucks altogether), but I&#x27;ve read the original HN thread and the majority of comments are directed against GoDaddy or PayPal, rather than the real perpetrator. There are a million ways to hijack someone&#x27;s account - including but not necessary by exploiting flaws of GoDaddy &#x2F; PayPal - but I wouldn&#x27;t trust the hijacker to kindly explain to me how he <i>actually</i> did it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickyc091</author><text>I could be wrong, but wasn&#x27;t there a story a while back where someone explained how they could hack into any apple ID account with a similar process? Didn&#x27;t linode&#x27;s servers get hacked and the hacker explained the whole process?</text></comment> |
16,157,383 | 16,155,973 | 1 | 3 | 16,155,155 | train | <story><title>Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing</title><url>https://jitsi.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>me_bx</author><text>Every year, the Jitsi team gathers at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, and there are presentations about some technical aspects of the project.<p>They are very lively, and do useful work.<p>This year, there will be a talk about Speech-to-Text in Jitsi Meet &gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;event&#x2F;jitsi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;event&#x2F;jitsi&#x2F;</a><p>Happening in Brussels, Belgium on 3 &amp; 4 February 2018 ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing</title><url>https://jitsi.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shams93</author><text>I looked at this for my project but we need to be able to do server side recording so we went with Janus gateway instead. It&#x27;s a lean and mean c program that now supports plugins in rust. The one downside of jitsi is that it&#x27;s a large java application. I can run Janus on a raspberry pi.</text></comment> |
18,309,112 | 18,309,261 | 1 | 2 | 18,307,708 | train | <story><title>Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45971538</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SideburnsOfDoom</author><text>&gt; help diversify the tech ecosystem in Berlin and give them access to facilities and other resources.<p>Another way of looking at that, is &quot;gentrify the vibrant neighbourhood by trucking in techbros to displace the artists&quot;. It&#x27;s not new (1)<p>I don&#x27;t necessarily agree with that framing, but it is understandable and coherent, not a misunderstanding<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18282143" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18282143</a></text></item><item><author>jschuur</author><text>If I read the article correctly, this wasn&#x27;t about building a new &#x27;Google campus&#x27; (i.e. a huge building to house a large number of Google employees as their main regional HQ). This was about building Campus Berlin, an incubator for startups like they pioneered first in London and then brought to other cities.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;berlin&#x2F;de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;berlin&#x2F;de</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;london&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;london&#x2F;en</a>.<p>It&#x27;s easy to misunderstand this because of what the term &#x27;campus&#x27; is typically associated with. I live in London, and when I say &#x27;I&#x27;m going to Google&#x27;s Campus&#x27;, I often need to qualify that I&#x27;m not going to their main office complex at King&#x27;s Cross.<p>There may still be very valid reasons to protest Google in Berlin, but I wonder if the people objecting understood the distinction: that this wasn&#x27;t a hub for all of Google&#x27;s employees, but rather a place that would help diversify the tech ecosystem in Berlin and give them access to facilities and other resources.<p>The kind of smaller startups that would be home at a Campus style incubator would not be fueling high paid Google salaries and would be a lot less likely to drive up rents e.g..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pteredactyl</author><text>The mutual exclusivity is naive at best.<p>To me, it shows haters&#x27; level of intellect. And perhaps explains why they feel left out. They&#x27;re attached to an ideal of what &#x27;art&#x27; (additionally, activism[1]) should be. An outdated, 20th century one.<p>I personally don&#x27;t like Google. And I understand your framing is hypothetical.<p>But why is tech framed the opposite of art?<p>Why is tech equal to techbro?<p>Yea there are always bad apples. But I wonder what Da Vinci would think about holding art in the opposite category as tech?<p>I&#x27;d argue they&#x27;re more synonymous than opposite. To me, there&#x27;s creativity. Both art and tech are creative. Applied creativity pertains to both code or a paint canvas.<p>Either way, the best, most valuable work to society is often never been done before.<p>Can anyone name an art piece (or if I&#x27;m being generous, an art movement) in the last 15 years that&#x27;s made the level of impact as Google? Or cryptocurrency?<p>Ultimately, to me, the &#x27;artists&#x27; need to up their game. Big time.<p>[1] Protest city hall if you feel gentrified. Especially in SF where it&#x27;s largely illegal to build housing. Also, regarding gentrification, you don&#x27;t hear the positive stories of immigrant families whose businesses flourish because of increased capital in an area, or those who feel safer, or even those who cashed out and sold their 50k house for 1.2 million. Again you hear a largely misdirected, dated and one-sided argument.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45971538</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SideburnsOfDoom</author><text>&gt; help diversify the tech ecosystem in Berlin and give them access to facilities and other resources.<p>Another way of looking at that, is &quot;gentrify the vibrant neighbourhood by trucking in techbros to displace the artists&quot;. It&#x27;s not new (1)<p>I don&#x27;t necessarily agree with that framing, but it is understandable and coherent, not a misunderstanding<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18282143" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18282143</a></text></item><item><author>jschuur</author><text>If I read the article correctly, this wasn&#x27;t about building a new &#x27;Google campus&#x27; (i.e. a huge building to house a large number of Google employees as their main regional HQ). This was about building Campus Berlin, an incubator for startups like they pioneered first in London and then brought to other cities.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;berlin&#x2F;de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;berlin&#x2F;de</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;london&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.campus.co&#x2F;london&#x2F;en</a>.<p>It&#x27;s easy to misunderstand this because of what the term &#x27;campus&#x27; is typically associated with. I live in London, and when I say &#x27;I&#x27;m going to Google&#x27;s Campus&#x27;, I often need to qualify that I&#x27;m not going to their main office complex at King&#x27;s Cross.<p>There may still be very valid reasons to protest Google in Berlin, but I wonder if the people objecting understood the distinction: that this wasn&#x27;t a hub for all of Google&#x27;s employees, but rather a place that would help diversify the tech ecosystem in Berlin and give them access to facilities and other resources.<p>The kind of smaller startups that would be home at a Campus style incubator would not be fueling high paid Google salaries and would be a lot less likely to drive up rents e.g..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>The building was originally renovated by ID Media, one of the largest digital media&#x2F;web development companies in Berlin at the end of the nineties. It’s been filled with IT companies ever since they went bankrupt and currently has an incubator as one of the renters. It’s never been full of artists for the last 20 years.<p>So while I’m not surprised (and very much not sad) that the plans didn’t work out for a host of reasons I really don’t think that the campus would have led to substantial gentrification in that region.<p>Disclosure: we (still) have our office in the complex.</text></comment> |
15,029,734 | 15,029,986 | 1 | 3 | 15,029,279 | train | <story><title>Casually removing root files</title><url>https://ervinb.github.io/2017/08/16/casually-removing-root-files/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgang42</author><text><i>&gt; The only requirement is to have write permissions on the parent directory (and the execute flag on the parent directory).</i><p><i>&gt; The $HOME directory naturally fulfills both of these requirements from the user’s perspective.</i><p>Note that there&#x27;s nothing special about the user&#x27;s home directory here, it just happens to normally have u+wx. It&#x27;s entirely possible to have the user&#x27;s home <i>not</i> owned by themselves; you might want to do this for example if you have a restricted user who you don&#x27;t want messing around with their dotfiles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Casually removing root files</title><url>https://ervinb.github.io/2017/08/16/casually-removing-root-files/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alethiophile</author><text>My use case for `chattr +i`: an rsync backup, on a cronjob, into an external drive mounted at a given point. Make the mountpoint directory `+i` so that the root-run rsync doesn&#x27;t blindly fill up your root filesystem with the backup target, if it gets run while the external drive isn&#x27;t mounted.</text></comment> |
14,489,087 | 14,488,670 | 1 | 2 | 14,487,887 | train | <story><title>Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals</title><url>https://www.manualslib.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>This looks like a great resource. I buy a lot of used tools on Craigslist, and of course, nobody ever keeps the manuals. So it&#x27;s always the same time-consuming task:<p>1. Go to the manufacturer&#x27;s web site, if they still exist, and see if they have a manual there<p>2. Search Google for &quot;MODEL# pdf&quot;. Wade through pages of pond scum search engine spam and paid sites for a half hour. Apparently, enough people search for manuals to make this profitable.<p>3. Do some web research to find similar product model numbers (maybe 8029A manual would cover 8029B too?) and repeat 1-2 above.<p>4. Start searching through forums and other hard-to-index parts of the web.<p>5. Check torrent sites? (now I&#x27;m getting desperate!)<p>It&#x27;s crazy how tough it can be to find a user manual. In many cases, I end up finding one scanned by another end-user and posted online to be helpful. It&#x27;s also a shame that 1&#x2F;2 the comments here are about copyright. I can&#x27;t see how taking a site like this down would in any way benefit a manufacturer whose manual is available. Unless the manufacturer is trying to make money selling their user manual, in which case to hell with that shitty company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals</title><url>https://www.manualslib.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I&#x27;ve started saving electronic copies of manuals, assembly instructions, etc for anything that I purchase. If there&#x27;s no electronic copy available, I&#x27;ll scan the paper manual. In all cases, I&#x27;m putting the documents into an instance of Mayan EDMS[0]. Mayan also automatically does OCR on everything that comes in, so even if the PDFs are non-OCR&#x27;d scans they&#x27;re still searchable.<p>This is part of a larger project to significantly reduce the amount of paper that I&#x27;m keeping, which is why I&#x27;m using a document management system as opposed to a Dropbox folder. My goal is to divide the mounds of paper into things I need to keep for a long time (e.g., tax documents), and things that I can shred after a year (e.g., bills, receipts, etc). In all cases, I want the documents searchable and backed up.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mayan-edms.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mayan-edms.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
24,872,573 | 24,872,157 | 1 | 3 | 24,871,348 | train | <story><title>Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software</title><url>https://labcodes.com.br/blog/articles/tech-debt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve learned is that what often looks like overengineering is actually <i>under</i>engineering -- it&#x27;s much &quot;easier&quot; to throw together a complicated system than really think things through and develop something that accomplishes the same objectives in a simpler (but possibly more <i>complex</i>) manner.</text></item><item><author>solomatov</author><text>In my experience, I have seen much more problems because of over engineering by well meaning people than because of technical debt.<p>Simple but under engineered systems are much easier to rewrite than to simplify over engineered ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>A blogger I read when people still did such things asserted that this sort of overengineering is fear. It&#x27;s really dreadfully obvious once you know to look for it.<p>People are so afraid of making a bad decision that they refuse to make any decision at all, and then make a giant mess in the process. What you should do is spend your energy on finding reversible decisions, and then not spend a lot of effort on actually making them. We know where the paint store is, we know they can make up paint in 15 minutes, fuck it, paint it blue, we can always paint over it later. Hard no to black, though, since you can&#x27;t paint over that shit.<p>People are so used to avoiding decisions that on a few occasions I&#x27;ve entirely flustered someone who wanted to tear into me (sometimes with an audience) but cutting them off and saying, &quot;Yeah that was a mistake, and here&#x27;s how we&#x27;re going to fix it.&quot; None of them had any idea how to recover from someone saying &quot;I was wrong&quot; and going on to try to fix the problem. I still have a little video in my head of one guy&#x27;s eyes bugging out when he realized what I just said.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software</title><url>https://labcodes.com.br/blog/articles/tech-debt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve learned is that what often looks like overengineering is actually <i>under</i>engineering -- it&#x27;s much &quot;easier&quot; to throw together a complicated system than really think things through and develop something that accomplishes the same objectives in a simpler (but possibly more <i>complex</i>) manner.</text></item><item><author>solomatov</author><text>In my experience, I have seen much more problems because of over engineering by well meaning people than because of technical debt.<p>Simple but under engineered systems are much easier to rewrite than to simplify over engineered ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coddle-hark</author><text>I think poorly engineered is a better term than under engineered in this case, but I agree with you.<p>Logging is my go-to example for this sort of behaviour. People write stupid amounts of log statements in their code, so much that it’s hard to even read the code to understand what it does, in the hopes that it’ll make debugging easier. Use a damned debugger! Take a traffic dump! Use strace!<p>What’s more, it’s extremely rare that libraries provide logs themselves. So the actual complex parts of your application, like say the HTTP library or (God forbid) the TCP stack, can’t be debugged this way.<p>If you find yourself writing a bunch of statements like “DEBUG: updating balance from 1 to 2”, stop and write some tests instead.</text></comment> |
32,707,168 | 32,705,153 | 1 | 2 | 32,702,117 | train | <story><title>Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/167263/amazons-global-quest-crush-unions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>Amazon’s game is squeezing out every ounce of value they can.<p>I worked in one of the Seattle buildings. It was still a culture of people crying at their desks, incompetent managers being checked out or just stressing out everyone around them.<p>Then you had the more seasoned people who figured out how to play the game. Something is broken or had some outage?<p>Find a way to blame another team. Think of the most sleezy used car sales manager you’ve met in the finance office of a car dealership. Now give them a “Sr. software development manager” role. That’s Amazon for ya.<p>Managers going on vacations to Hawaii while their teams are slaving away over the weekend to meet unrealistic deadlines. Utter lack of leadership. A house of cards held together by H1Bs and other visa situations where people put up with it out of fear of losing their jobs and having to leave the country.<p>I pray the government breaks up that scam. It’s a stain on humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>Just to give a minor counter point, I&#x27;ve been at Amazon for 5 years. In that time, I&#x27;ve been in two different orgs and 4 different teams. All in Seattle. I&#x27;m yet to see people crying at their desks.<p>The trick to happiness at Amazon is staying the hell away from anything tier 1 -- or, hell, just anything with direct lines to external customers. Those &quot;9s&quot; we give are delivered on the backs of engineers. I&#x27;d for sure break down and cry too if I was getting paged 50 times per week because the response time of some subsystem went outside SLA by 5ms.<p>Chill org, chill life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/167263/amazons-global-quest-crush-unions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>Amazon’s game is squeezing out every ounce of value they can.<p>I worked in one of the Seattle buildings. It was still a culture of people crying at their desks, incompetent managers being checked out or just stressing out everyone around them.<p>Then you had the more seasoned people who figured out how to play the game. Something is broken or had some outage?<p>Find a way to blame another team. Think of the most sleezy used car sales manager you’ve met in the finance office of a car dealership. Now give them a “Sr. software development manager” role. That’s Amazon for ya.<p>Managers going on vacations to Hawaii while their teams are slaving away over the weekend to meet unrealistic deadlines. Utter lack of leadership. A house of cards held together by H1Bs and other visa situations where people put up with it out of fear of losing their jobs and having to leave the country.<p>I pray the government breaks up that scam. It’s a stain on humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s3r3nity</author><text>And yet, Amazon continues to be a highly ranked employer [1] consistently.<p>Last I checked, these employees don&#x27;t _have_ to work for Amazon.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;amazon-is-the-no-1-company-to-work-for-in-2022-according-to-linkedin.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;amazon-is-the-no-1-company-t...</a></text></comment> |
28,099,193 | 28,097,323 | 1 | 3 | 28,096,019 | train | <story><title>An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning</title><url>https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>It&#x27;s good that you&#x27;re principled enough to do that but you guys will be rounding errors in Apple&#x27;s revenue. Most people don&#x27;t even know about this and those that do, most wont care. Even of those who do know and do care, most aren&#x27;t motivated enough to change their habits beyond writing a few angry words on a forum Apple are never going to read anyway. Those that do change their buying habits, yourselves, are by far in the minority. And while you might have some influence over what tech your friends, family and significant other might buy, let&#x27;s be completely honest, it&#x27;s not going to be enough to sway them into using an unbranded phone over a feature that they themselves likely don&#x27;t care much about but happily assume the role of outrage when around you because we are generally social animals.<p>This is companies consistently get away with pissing off their customers. It&#x27;s the same reason politicians get away with pissing off their electorate. Even in a crowded space people seldom get outraged enough to change their buying habits. But in an industry where the options are already limited (Android or iOS) and where people only buy products, at most, once every two years...? Sorry but literally nobody outside your social circle will notice if you stopped buying Apple products.<p>I get this is a depressing response and I&#x27;m not suggesting that you shouldn&#x27;t follow through with your threat. But I hear this threat posted unironically a lot and it seems to me that people think they have the power to invoke change simply by moaning on a few message boards or buying a competitors products for a couple of years (then that competitor does something to earn our outrage and we&#x27;re back to the first company again). But <i>real</i> change takes effort. A lot of effort. More effort than most are willing to commit. Hence why the GP rightfully commented that in a months time people will have moved on to their next outrage.</text></item><item><author>brigandish</author><text>&gt; I am currently planning the migration away from the Apple ecosystem<p>Me too. I told my wife today that I&#x27;ll be looking at a feature phone as I&#x27;m not sure I can be bothered with jumping through all the hoops required to de-Google an Android phone. I remember a time before mobile phones, I was just fine without one - smartphones aren&#x27;t <i>that</i> good, just convenient.</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>Can’t speak for everybody of course, but I am currently planning the migration away from the Apple ecosystem and I’m heavily invested (watch, phone, MacBook, Mac Pro, Apple TV).<p>I’ve also been recommending to friends and family to move to droids with microG.<p>The largest concern I have for them is that they’re stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.<p>Most people aren’t going to run a droid without google, or Linux on the desktop.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>&gt; a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously<p>We&#x27;re all here to make ourselves feel good saying we Took A Stand.<p>In reality, four weeks from now, do you think anybody will still be talking about it?<p>I made this same mistake. I was pretty convinced that people were taking Copilot seriously, and that there was possibly going to be ramifications for Microsoft. I wasn&#x27;t particularly looking <i>forward</i> to it, but I rated it as plausible.<p>One stonewall and a few weeks later, here we are. Hardly a word anymore about it.<p>I think if there&#x27;s going to be any real, long-term change, we <i>have</i> to find a way to combat the real threat: life goes on.<p>(Made me smile to phrase it like that, actually. That wasn&#x27;t the combat I had in mind...)<p>It&#x27;s true, though. Ask anyone in a month whether they take this seriously. They&#x27;ll say yes. And what&#x27;s it worth?<p>It&#x27;s all we can do, of course. But that&#x27;s just another way of saying we&#x27;re powerless.<p>Like it or not, we aren&#x27;t in control. And unless we can figure a way to get some measure of control, then what are we doing here, really?<p>Your three bullet points are wonderful, and I agree entirely with them. And it won&#x27;t change a damn thing.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what to do about it.</text></item><item><author>bArray</author><text>Honestly I&#x27;m glad to see a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously, especially when the goal Apple announces appears to be for the greater good. It can be hard to stand on the side that doesn&#x27;t immediately appear to be correct. We have already lost so many freedoms for &#x27;national security&#x27; and other such blanket terminology.<p>Just be warned, there will be those that unfairly try to cast this as helping the distribution of CP. Expect a headline tomorrow: &quot;Edward Snowden et al Supports Child Porn&quot; - or some other hot take.<p>A few other things:<p>1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values.<p>2. Actively support projects you align with - If you use some open source hardware&#x2F;software, try to help out (financially or time).<p>3. Make others aware - Reach out to those around you and inform them, only then they can make an informed choice themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdale</author><text>The best you can do is raise tech awareness, take apple interviews and cite this reason for not moving forward. Facebook faced constraint not just after a avalanche of bad press but also as the tech workers (employees and applicants) pushed back and worked to improve things. The biggest asset in information economy is the people; the employees can enact change. See many examples in how Google direction has been influenced in military contracts or what not.</text></comment> | <story><title>An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning</title><url>https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>It&#x27;s good that you&#x27;re principled enough to do that but you guys will be rounding errors in Apple&#x27;s revenue. Most people don&#x27;t even know about this and those that do, most wont care. Even of those who do know and do care, most aren&#x27;t motivated enough to change their habits beyond writing a few angry words on a forum Apple are never going to read anyway. Those that do change their buying habits, yourselves, are by far in the minority. And while you might have some influence over what tech your friends, family and significant other might buy, let&#x27;s be completely honest, it&#x27;s not going to be enough to sway them into using an unbranded phone over a feature that they themselves likely don&#x27;t care much about but happily assume the role of outrage when around you because we are generally social animals.<p>This is companies consistently get away with pissing off their customers. It&#x27;s the same reason politicians get away with pissing off their electorate. Even in a crowded space people seldom get outraged enough to change their buying habits. But in an industry where the options are already limited (Android or iOS) and where people only buy products, at most, once every two years...? Sorry but literally nobody outside your social circle will notice if you stopped buying Apple products.<p>I get this is a depressing response and I&#x27;m not suggesting that you shouldn&#x27;t follow through with your threat. But I hear this threat posted unironically a lot and it seems to me that people think they have the power to invoke change simply by moaning on a few message boards or buying a competitors products for a couple of years (then that competitor does something to earn our outrage and we&#x27;re back to the first company again). But <i>real</i> change takes effort. A lot of effort. More effort than most are willing to commit. Hence why the GP rightfully commented that in a months time people will have moved on to their next outrage.</text></item><item><author>brigandish</author><text>&gt; I am currently planning the migration away from the Apple ecosystem<p>Me too. I told my wife today that I&#x27;ll be looking at a feature phone as I&#x27;m not sure I can be bothered with jumping through all the hoops required to de-Google an Android phone. I remember a time before mobile phones, I was just fine without one - smartphones aren&#x27;t <i>that</i> good, just convenient.</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>Can’t speak for everybody of course, but I am currently planning the migration away from the Apple ecosystem and I’m heavily invested (watch, phone, MacBook, Mac Pro, Apple TV).<p>I’ve also been recommending to friends and family to move to droids with microG.<p>The largest concern I have for them is that they’re stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.<p>Most people aren’t going to run a droid without google, or Linux on the desktop.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>&gt; a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously<p>We&#x27;re all here to make ourselves feel good saying we Took A Stand.<p>In reality, four weeks from now, do you think anybody will still be talking about it?<p>I made this same mistake. I was pretty convinced that people were taking Copilot seriously, and that there was possibly going to be ramifications for Microsoft. I wasn&#x27;t particularly looking <i>forward</i> to it, but I rated it as plausible.<p>One stonewall and a few weeks later, here we are. Hardly a word anymore about it.<p>I think if there&#x27;s going to be any real, long-term change, we <i>have</i> to find a way to combat the real threat: life goes on.<p>(Made me smile to phrase it like that, actually. That wasn&#x27;t the combat I had in mind...)<p>It&#x27;s true, though. Ask anyone in a month whether they take this seriously. They&#x27;ll say yes. And what&#x27;s it worth?<p>It&#x27;s all we can do, of course. But that&#x27;s just another way of saying we&#x27;re powerless.<p>Like it or not, we aren&#x27;t in control. And unless we can figure a way to get some measure of control, then what are we doing here, really?<p>Your three bullet points are wonderful, and I agree entirely with them. And it won&#x27;t change a damn thing.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what to do about it.</text></item><item><author>bArray</author><text>Honestly I&#x27;m glad to see a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously, especially when the goal Apple announces appears to be for the greater good. It can be hard to stand on the side that doesn&#x27;t immediately appear to be correct. We have already lost so many freedoms for &#x27;national security&#x27; and other such blanket terminology.<p>Just be warned, there will be those that unfairly try to cast this as helping the distribution of CP. Expect a headline tomorrow: &quot;Edward Snowden et al Supports Child Porn&quot; - or some other hot take.<p>A few other things:<p>1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values.<p>2. Actively support projects you align with - If you use some open source hardware&#x2F;software, try to help out (financially or time).<p>3. Make others aware - Reach out to those around you and inform them, only then they can make an informed choice themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cinquemb</author><text>What you are saying isn&#x27;t that depressing, I think it makes a lot of sense. But perceived abuses do take time for people to eventually take action that can actually effect companies&#x2F;states bottom lines.<p>I can imagine at some point a 0day targeting iOS devices that when they connect to a public wifi network with a compromised router, it distributes CP malware&#x2F;botnet on to their device and then everyone else that connects to that device in the future (muddying the waters).<p>Similar actions could also be taken against other companies and state entities systems.<p>And these actions don&#x27;t need to rely on most of the population to take them.<p>The more these &quot;kill chain&quot; like systems become automated and cheap to deploy, the more incentive individuals will have to pursue these types of attacks.</text></comment> |
7,430,858 | 7,430,856 | 1 | 2 | 7,429,774 | train | <story><title>Welcome to Unreal Engine 4</title><url>https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devindotcom</author><text>I&#x27;ve been saying there will be a huge middle man market for assets for years. A whole studio specializing in different models for boxes - every era, every state of decay, every material. A studio dedicated to the most realistic rain effects possible - at the lowest price and graphics overhead. You don&#x27;t have to worry about the &quot;Wilhelm Scream&quot; of boxes or rain effects though because there will be a lot of choice, a lot of options, and probably a tracking system for which assets are being used by which projects. Oh, Crysis 4 bought up all the high-def palm fronds? Sounds like there&#x27;s a market for a tropics-based object studio!<p>I got carried away. But yeah, an asset marketplace will be essential in the future if only to keep art team sizes manageable.</text></item><item><author>rkalla</author><text>Everyone seems pretty focused on the pricing - I thought the inclusion of an asset-marketplace directly into the editing environment was brilliant.<p>You could imagine Adobe following suit very shortly here withs something similar and invalidate all those graphic&#x2F;template&#x2F;icon&#x2F;texture&#x2F;animation sites. You just open the &quot;marketplace&quot; inside of Photoshop and browse around for the assets you might want.<p>Same would go for video-editing. No more buying Action Essentials, just load up Final Cut and look for the perfect blood animation.<p>You could imagine at some point your IDE having a marketplace inside of it to allow you to purchase proprietary platforms directly and integrate them into your project without much hassle.<p>It&#x27;s a really cool proposition, ripe for monopolization unfortunately, but surely convenient if executed on well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nacs</author><text>Unity3d has this already ( <a href="https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assetstore.unity3d.com&#x2F;</a> ). I&#x27;m pretty sure the reason why they made their engine&#x2F;IDE free is because they&#x27;re making so much money from their asset store.</text></comment> | <story><title>Welcome to Unreal Engine 4</title><url>https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devindotcom</author><text>I&#x27;ve been saying there will be a huge middle man market for assets for years. A whole studio specializing in different models for boxes - every era, every state of decay, every material. A studio dedicated to the most realistic rain effects possible - at the lowest price and graphics overhead. You don&#x27;t have to worry about the &quot;Wilhelm Scream&quot; of boxes or rain effects though because there will be a lot of choice, a lot of options, and probably a tracking system for which assets are being used by which projects. Oh, Crysis 4 bought up all the high-def palm fronds? Sounds like there&#x27;s a market for a tropics-based object studio!<p>I got carried away. But yeah, an asset marketplace will be essential in the future if only to keep art team sizes manageable.</text></item><item><author>rkalla</author><text>Everyone seems pretty focused on the pricing - I thought the inclusion of an asset-marketplace directly into the editing environment was brilliant.<p>You could imagine Adobe following suit very shortly here withs something similar and invalidate all those graphic&#x2F;template&#x2F;icon&#x2F;texture&#x2F;animation sites. You just open the &quot;marketplace&quot; inside of Photoshop and browse around for the assets you might want.<p>Same would go for video-editing. No more buying Action Essentials, just load up Final Cut and look for the perfect blood animation.<p>You could imagine at some point your IDE having a marketplace inside of it to allow you to purchase proprietary platforms directly and integrate them into your project without much hassle.<p>It&#x27;s a really cool proposition, ripe for monopolization unfortunately, but surely convenient if executed on well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmyr</author><text>This sounds nice from the point-of-view of somebody looking to put something together in a hurry, but this sounds awful from the point-of-view of the guy getting hired to model boxes all day.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s not a huge difference from what a lot of people are doing at AAA studios anyway, but my god.</text></comment> |
12,693,200 | 12,693,257 | 1 | 3 | 12,692,552 | train | <story><title>Facebook React.js License</title><url>http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjg59</author><text>Version 2 of the Apple Public Source License includes the following termination clause:<p>12.1 Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate:<p>…<p>(c) automatically without notice from Apple if You, at any time during the term of this License, commence an action for patent infringement against Apple; provided that Apple did not first commence an action for patent infringement against You in that instance.<p>Like the React patent grant, this applies to <i>any</i> patent suit, not just ones that allege that the covered software infringes. The Open Source Initiative considers APSLv2 an Open Source license, and the Free Software Foundation considers it a Free Software license. Note that this clause terminates your <i>copyright</i> license, not merely your patent license - it&#x27;s significantly stronger than the React rider.<p>So I think the claim that it&#x27;s not open source is a bit strong, even though I find this sort of language pretty repugnant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Microsoft is not necessarily a paragon of open source, but many of their open source projects use unadulterated OS licenses.<p>Typescript is Apache 2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;TypeScript&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;TypeScript&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE....</a><p>Visual Studio Code is MIT: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;vscode&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;vscode&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE.txt</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook React.js License</title><url>http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjg59</author><text>Version 2 of the Apple Public Source License includes the following termination clause:<p>12.1 Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate:<p>…<p>(c) automatically without notice from Apple if You, at any time during the term of this License, commence an action for patent infringement against Apple; provided that Apple did not first commence an action for patent infringement against You in that instance.<p>Like the React patent grant, this applies to <i>any</i> patent suit, not just ones that allege that the covered software infringes. The Open Source Initiative considers APSLv2 an Open Source license, and the Free Software Foundation considers it a Free Software license. Note that this clause terminates your <i>copyright</i> license, not merely your patent license - it&#x27;s significantly stronger than the React rider.<p>So I think the claim that it&#x27;s not open source is a bit strong, even though I find this sort of language pretty repugnant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WildUtah</author><text>It does not apply to <i>any</i> patent suit. A petition for DJ against a demand letter, for instance, would not be included. A PGR at the PTO, even when appealed to courts is not included. An interference proceeding at court against Apple is not included.</text></comment> |
31,638,128 | 31,637,740 | 1 | 2 | 31,636,657 | train | <story><title>Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos</title><url>https://github.com/3b1b/manim</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raydiatian</author><text>Grant Sanderson (the guy behind 3Blue1Brown on YouTube), and by extension Manim, has done so much for increasing the accessibility of math and computer science.<p>Like, it’s hard to over-state how enriching it is to have engaging animated visuals if you’re just the average schmuck trying to make it through an engineering undergrad at university.<p>Seriously: Thanks to Grant, I was able to pick up my Quantum Mechanics textbook again and actually know what the fuck was going on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos</title><url>https://github.com/3b1b/manim</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rg111</author><text>Manim, as maintained by Grant Sanderson has many rough edges and he discoirages its use by other people.<p>There&#x27;s a more stable downstream known as Manim Community. One can use it, it has somewhat good documentation.<p>But even this leads to poor code, the API design and architecture decisions are very poor.<p>I don&#x27;t like the hodgepodge produced for even the simplest animation.</text></comment> |
30,450,624 | 30,450,254 | 1 | 3 | 30,449,794 | train | <story><title>Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”</title><url>https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1496680828285460490</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exikyut</author><text>From the perspective of someone completely naive to the situation: what&#x27;s going on, and WHY is this happening?<p>I partially ask &quot;why?!&quot; plaintively, because this is senseless. But I do also want to understand the... rationalization (&quot;logic&quot; is the <i>wrong</i> word) behind this action so I can be better informed, and I guess form some predictions about what might happen next, and maybe even get an idea about when this might end (?) :(<p>To be clear, I already don&#x27;t agree with what&#x27;s going on, this is not how to solve disputes and disagreements (especially when the attacker has nuclear capability). I&#x27;m just looking for facts and positions on the countries involved here - something something editorialization and signal-to-noise ratio.<p>The one mildly good thing I can think of right now is that the general commoditization of technology (TV, radio, phone, internet) hopefully means lot of people are aware of what&#x27;s going on and, also hopefully, able to take decisive action and even collaborate and work together. Hopefully Ukraine prioritizes reinforcing the cell network :&#x2F;. And if this is all-out war then hopefully extraordinary maneuvers are acceptable and supported to help innocent people stay far away from the line of fire. This doesn&#x27;t feel like when the US occupied Afghanistan :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>The &quot;why&quot; is a complicated question that goes to the core character of the nations involved.<p>Russia by nature feels insecure about her borders, and always has. There&#x27;s a long history of invasion that has left a trauma to this day. The one thing that Russia fears more than anything else is encirclement.<p>To this end they have over the centuries embarked on numerous territorial expansions and treaties to create buffer zones between themselves and potential enemies, the most recent of which was the USSR (which proved too costly to maintain).<p>When the Russians couldn&#x27;t keep their &quot;union&quot; going, they entered into negotiations with Western powers about what would happen with these now-free states. This is where things get a little murky, because the Russians insist that they&#x27;d received assurances that NATO would not expand into former Soviet states, whereas the West emphatically maintains that no such assurances were given. The higher ups in the Kremlin firmly believe that the West broke its word, and is thus untrustworthy.<p>As NATO expanded further and further Eastward, Russia&#x27;s insecurities intensified, and the Ukraine was considered to be the last bastion of resistance to encirclement. This is why Russia has spent the past decade meddling in Ukrainian affairs, and why they&#x27;ve stepped up meddling in American politics (Trump is an isolationist and nationalist, which is why Russia favored him).<p>As to what triggered this latest move, that&#x27;s anyone&#x27;s guess. Maybe they got some intel that the Ukraine really was going to gain full NATO membership. Maybe not, and they just got a little too worried about it... We&#x27;ll probably never know. But either way, this current invasion is a drastic effort to keep the Ukraine out of any military alliances with the West.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”</title><url>https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1496680828285460490</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exikyut</author><text>From the perspective of someone completely naive to the situation: what&#x27;s going on, and WHY is this happening?<p>I partially ask &quot;why?!&quot; plaintively, because this is senseless. But I do also want to understand the... rationalization (&quot;logic&quot; is the <i>wrong</i> word) behind this action so I can be better informed, and I guess form some predictions about what might happen next, and maybe even get an idea about when this might end (?) :(<p>To be clear, I already don&#x27;t agree with what&#x27;s going on, this is not how to solve disputes and disagreements (especially when the attacker has nuclear capability). I&#x27;m just looking for facts and positions on the countries involved here - something something editorialization and signal-to-noise ratio.<p>The one mildly good thing I can think of right now is that the general commoditization of technology (TV, radio, phone, internet) hopefully means lot of people are aware of what&#x27;s going on and, also hopefully, able to take decisive action and even collaborate and work together. Hopefully Ukraine prioritizes reinforcing the cell network :&#x2F;. And if this is all-out war then hopefully extraordinary maneuvers are acceptable and supported to help innocent people stay far away from the line of fire. This doesn&#x27;t feel like when the US occupied Afghanistan :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; I partially ask &quot;why?!&quot; plaintively, because this is senseless<p>Neither imperialist conquest nor the manufacturing of external crisis and conflict as an attempt to rally domestic support behind a leader are <i>senseless</i>; they both have internal logic and a whole lot of historic precedent of usefulness to the faction pursuing them.</text></comment> |
18,296,354 | 18,296,335 | 1 | 2 | 18,295,585 | train | <story><title>Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations</title><url>https://www.citusdata.com/newsroom/press/citus-data-donates-1-percent-equity-to-non-profit-postgresql-organizations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Bucephalus355</author><text>Fun fact: Ingres was the brainchild of the brilliant Professor Michael Stonebraker. After the company went under after being beaten by Oracle in the RDBMS marketplace, he open-sourced the DB as a shot against Larry Ellison. Hence it’s name, “Post-Ingres”, or Postgres.<p>Also, I believe his version of SQL was called QUEL, and we would have been using that term today had Ingres won out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations</title><url>https://www.citusdata.com/newsroom/press/citus-data-donates-1-percent-equity-to-non-profit-postgresql-organizations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>garyclarke27</author><text>Well done Citus, comendable and inspiring.
I’m betting most of my wealth and my new company on Postgres, if it succeeds, I hope to emulate you.
Postgres is an incredible data platform, that just gets better and better every year with more functionality AND better performance (unlike most software where more features = slower) AND consistent rock solid reliability AND the best documentation of any product I have seen.</text></comment> |
13,699,741 | 13,699,438 | 1 | 2 | 13,697,580 | train | <story><title>Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus group</title><url>http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/21/dear-mark-zuckerberg-democracy-not-facebook-focus-group</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caconym_</author><text>I admit that I haven&#x27;t read the &quot;manifesto&quot; but it seems strange to me that the guy in charge of a platform that is arguably doing significant damage to our culture and democracy, all in the name of advertising profits, could be considered as an authority on how to fix the problems in question.<p>One preliminary solution seems fairly simple, and Zuckerberg is in a somewhat unique position in that he has the power to implement it on a large scale: stop feeding people an endless stream of ad-stuffed trash media selected by an algorithm maximizing for clickbait factor and nothing else. I genuinely believe that it&#x27;s poisoning people&#x27;s minds and doing significant damage to our society. Of course, it is making them money, so it will not change (in fact it will probably get worse).<p>It is not written in stone that a profitable enterprise must be compatible with the &quot;greater good&quot; (for lack of a better term). Some things are inherently destructive. Facebook takes a lot and gives nothing back. The idea of handing over the reins of our society to some outgrowth of its current model is as terrifying as it is hilarious in its blind arrogance and ignorance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosalinekarr</author><text>&gt; stop feeding people an endless stream of ad-stuffed trash media selected by an algorithm maximizing for clickbait factor and nothing else. I genuinely believe that it&#x27;s poisoning people&#x27;s minds and doing significant damage to our society.<p>I&#x27;ve been hearing this from a lot of people lately, but every time I do, I can&#x27;t help but think we&#x27;ve got it backwards. People aren&#x27;t becoming worse because of clickbait and fake news. Clickbait and fake news are becoming worse because of people.<p>Long before there was Facebook, plenty of people bought and read magazines and newspapers like the National Enquirer and the Daily Mail. The only difference now is that those people, just like everyone else, have access to much more of that content thanks to the internet. Taking that content away from those people isn&#x27;t going to make them smarter. It&#x27;s just going to make them angrier and more determined to seek that stuff out.<p>In my opinion, the only real solution is improving education, but no one wants to talk about that because that&#x27;s the hard way. It&#x27;s much easier to demand that certain news sources be censored or that certain news aggregators impose a bias against them, but that&#x27;s a very dangerous road to travel down. Today, people are talking about sources like banning Breitbart and The Daily Caller, which is well-meaning, but how long will it be before people start talking about banning sources like The Intercept or The Guardian? There are certainly plenty of people in both political parties that would gladly slap the labels of &quot;clickbait&quot; and &quot;fake news&quot; on them as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus group</title><url>http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/21/dear-mark-zuckerberg-democracy-not-facebook-focus-group</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caconym_</author><text>I admit that I haven&#x27;t read the &quot;manifesto&quot; but it seems strange to me that the guy in charge of a platform that is arguably doing significant damage to our culture and democracy, all in the name of advertising profits, could be considered as an authority on how to fix the problems in question.<p>One preliminary solution seems fairly simple, and Zuckerberg is in a somewhat unique position in that he has the power to implement it on a large scale: stop feeding people an endless stream of ad-stuffed trash media selected by an algorithm maximizing for clickbait factor and nothing else. I genuinely believe that it&#x27;s poisoning people&#x27;s minds and doing significant damage to our society. Of course, it is making them money, so it will not change (in fact it will probably get worse).<p>It is not written in stone that a profitable enterprise must be compatible with the &quot;greater good&quot; (for lack of a better term). Some things are inherently destructive. Facebook takes a lot and gives nothing back. The idea of handing over the reins of our society to some outgrowth of its current model is as terrifying as it is hilarious in its blind arrogance and ignorance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WWKong</author><text>&quot;stop feeding people an endless stream of ad-stuffed trash media selected by an algorithm maximizing for clickbait factor and nothing else&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this is the core of the problem, if at all. Most of what you see on facebook are links shared by your network. If your &quot;friends&quot; are sharing and re-sharing clickbait fake news, you see clickbait fake news. This is evident in groups on whatsapp where there is no algorithmic intervention and it is still an endless stream of misinformation (in most diverse groups). This also mirrors real world echo chambers.<p>If you do have have some suggestions for solving this problem, it would be great to discuss here.</text></comment> |
5,677,663 | 5,677,625 | 1 | 2 | 5,677,126 | train | <story><title>Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloudwalking</author><text>This is the first of many profitable quarters for Tesla. The Model S is a better car <i>in every single regard</i> (except for range), than any other car on the market. It is safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, has more storage, quieter, more convenient, and less polluting.<p>Electric vehicles will displace combustion vehicles. Everything that makes a car, the electric car does better.<p>Right now the electric vehicle market is small, but soon (one decade?) it will eclipse the combustion market. Tesla is ahead of ALL other vehicle manufacturers, and that lead will translate into significant market share. As the electric vehicle market grows, so will Tesla's value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>&#62; in every single regard (except for range)<p>And price, and convenience.<p>&#62; more convenient<p>No it's not. The lower range, low number of charging stations, and long charging times make it quite inconvenient for long trips.<p>I bought a used car 3 years ago for less than the cost Tesla charges for replacing the batteries on its car (which you are estimated to need to do after about 8 years). This car is a station wagon, so has much more storage space than a Tesla. I go camping every year, about 550 miles from where I live. I can make that trip in about 10 hours including food and gas stops. For the same trip, I would need to make at least two hour long charging stops at Supercharger stations along the way (if I had the highest-end battery option). But there are no Supercharger stations along my route; so I would need to find places to charge with ordinary power sources. If I used ordinary 10 kW 240 V sources, it would charge at a rate of about 30 miles of range per hour, effectively tripling the length of the trip; now what was a long 10 hour drive has turned into a 30 hour trip, which means finding places to stop and sleep overnight (which hopefully can give you a charge).<p>Furthermore, I live in an apartment, without a dedicated parking space. I need to park on street. So there's nowhere I could charge my car at home; I can't exactly run a power cord down and across the sidewalk to my car. Neither is there anywhere to charge my car at work. There's no way I could even use a Tesla for commuting right now, let alone longer trips.<p>With a gasoline powered car, I just fill up at any gas station, my car holds the gasoline overnight so it doesn't matter where I park, and for the above describe trip, I need to stop for gas once before leaving and once on the trip, each a 5 minute stop.<p>The Tesla Model S is an amazing car. But claiming that it's more convenient, or is a better car in every way but range, is a vast overstatement. It would be absolutely awful for me, and many other people with similar needs.<p>Some of these problems are solvable; there will be more Superchargers installed, the price will probably come down, there will probably be more electric vehicle infrastructure. But it's still a gamble to say that they will completely eliminate all of these advantages that a gas powered car has over an electric car, at least unless the price of gas spikes dramatically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloudwalking</author><text>This is the first of many profitable quarters for Tesla. The Model S is a better car <i>in every single regard</i> (except for range), than any other car on the market. It is safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, has more storage, quieter, more convenient, and less polluting.<p>Electric vehicles will displace combustion vehicles. Everything that makes a car, the electric car does better.<p>Right now the electric vehicle market is small, but soon (one decade?) it will eclipse the combustion market. Tesla is ahead of ALL other vehicle manufacturers, and that lead will translate into significant market share. As the electric vehicle market grows, so will Tesla's value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>Woah, stop that zero-emissions hyperbole engine before it runs away from you.<p>Seriously, it's "safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, more convenient, etc," than "any other car on the market?" Really?<p>Some of that is true. But there's also a lot of opinion there and a few total inventions. The Model S is the safest car on the market? My Mercedes stops itself if I don't see traffic in front of me hit its brakes. It gives me night vision. It will nudge me back into my lane if I drift. There's about 100 more cool safety features I can talk about, and all this in a car that costs less than the 80kwh Model S. And there's even more safety tech on the S Class which is just another 10-15k on the top Model S price tag. And of course BMW and other manufacturers have similar.</text></comment> |
15,262,386 | 15,262,418 | 1 | 2 | 15,261,771 | train | <story><title>Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/09/14/its-okay-to-prosecute-minors-for-child-porn-for-distributing-sexual-pictures-of-themselves/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This is hard to do in practice. I&#x27;ve heard someone vehemently defend a relationship they had at 14 with an older fellow. They categorized it as a positive experience that helped them discover themselves. It may have even been 13; I forget.<p>Was it a crime? It might. be tempting to say no, but laws do exist as a deterrent.</text></item><item><author>rothbardrand</author><text>No victim means no crime. (Morally, I&#x27;m using the word &quot;crime&quot; here to refer to a moral crime.) But it also means that the prosecution of such non-crimes is itself a crime, meaning the &quot;guilty&quot; party here is the victim and everyone involved in their prosecution, up to and including the supreme court, is criminal.</text></item><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>Because of the potential for selective or punitive prosecution I&#x27;m in favour of legalising teen sexting. Obviously the law needs to be carefully drafted to avoid allowing child exploitation, but it should absolutely not be possible to prosecute normal sexually-active teens under child pornography statutes. “Trust us, we&#x27;d never use it against the people it&#x27;s supposed to protect” isn&#x27;t enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>The idea that informed consent is a characteristic that magically appears in full at 18 or 20 is ridiculous. Obviously some people acquire it earlier. Some much later.<p>Problem is, judges and police have yet to design an objective maturity test, so instead they use an age threshold, easy to test, objective but arbitrary.<p>Like the map is not the territory, the law is not a perfect match to our moral landscape. It works with constraints of fairness, neutrality and enforceability.<p>It is clear that there are couples for which some illegal relationships are actually harmless or even positive and done with mutual consent. It is also clear that some relationships are abusive and extremely dangerous.<p>The balancing between protection of the abused and individual freedom is easy to make: on one hand, you have children being raped, on the other hand, you have young lovers that may have to wait a few years before fucking. I would say the first goal has priority.<p>If we open the pandora box of consent under 18, we will have to tread very carefully.</text></comment> | <story><title>Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/09/14/its-okay-to-prosecute-minors-for-child-porn-for-distributing-sexual-pictures-of-themselves/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This is hard to do in practice. I&#x27;ve heard someone vehemently defend a relationship they had at 14 with an older fellow. They categorized it as a positive experience that helped them discover themselves. It may have even been 13; I forget.<p>Was it a crime? It might. be tempting to say no, but laws do exist as a deterrent.</text></item><item><author>rothbardrand</author><text>No victim means no crime. (Morally, I&#x27;m using the word &quot;crime&quot; here to refer to a moral crime.) But it also means that the prosecution of such non-crimes is itself a crime, meaning the &quot;guilty&quot; party here is the victim and everyone involved in their prosecution, up to and including the supreme court, is criminal.</text></item><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>Because of the potential for selective or punitive prosecution I&#x27;m in favour of legalising teen sexting. Obviously the law needs to be carefully drafted to avoid allowing child exploitation, but it should absolutely not be possible to prosecute normal sexually-active teens under child pornography statutes. “Trust us, we&#x27;d never use it against the people it&#x27;s supposed to protect” isn&#x27;t enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zak</author><text>Those laws generally punish the older person, not the younger person they&#x27;re supposedly there to protect. Prosecuting underage sexting as child pornography under laws supposedly meant to protect children from exploitation further harms the supposed victim.<p>Laws where the victim <i>is</i> the offender are problematic in a way that enforcing the law when the victim doesn&#x27;t always want the offender punished is not.</text></comment> |
25,927,181 | 25,926,272 | 1 | 2 | 25,923,301 | train | <story><title>A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime</title><url>https://www.ventscape.life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VentScape</author><text>Hey, creator of the site here, thank you so much for the tip!<p>Unfortunately I&#x27;m quite new to full stack. ~1.5 months ago I didn&#x27;t know a lick of HTML (let alone CSS, JS, any backend framework, AWS, etc), and I&#x27;m making lots of mistakes along the way. Currently trying to figure out how to improve my DB performance as Spring&#x27;s default pagination seems to be quite slow and my site is getting hugged to death at the moment. If anyone has any tips for that especially I&#x27;m all ears.<p>At any rate, your suggestion seems easy enough to put in, so I&#x27;ll put it in ASAP! Thanks again</text></item><item><author>szhu</author><text>The safe, proper way to do this is both shorter and more readable!<p>Both with jQuery:<p><pre><code> const $newdiv = $(&#x27;&lt;div&gt;&#x27;)
.addClass(messageDivClass)
.text(inputTextBox.value)
.css({&#x27;opacity&#x27;: &#x27;0.95&#x27;});
</code></pre>
and without:<p><pre><code> const newdiv = document.createElement(&#x27;div&#x27;);
newdiv.classList.add(messageDivClass);
newdiv.innerText = inputTextBox.value;
newdiv.style.opacity = &#x27;0.95&#x27;;</code></pre></text></item><item><author>raggi</author><text>You&#x27;re warned:<p><pre><code> const messageText = inputTextBox.value.replace(&#x2F;&lt;\&#x2F;?[^&gt;]+(&gt;|$)&#x2F;g, &quot;&quot;);
var $newdiv = $(&#x27;&lt;div class=&quot;&#x27; + messageDivClass + &#x27;&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#x27; + messageText + &#x27;&lt;p&#x2F;&gt;&lt;div&#x2F;&gt;&#x27;).css({
&#x27;opacity&#x27;: &#x27;0.95&#x27;
});</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlis</author><text>You could also benefit from using websockets instead of sending the message to a DB and fetching it from there. This way, you&#x27;d have instant communication between the users and there&#x27;s no need to store anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime</title><url>https://www.ventscape.life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VentScape</author><text>Hey, creator of the site here, thank you so much for the tip!<p>Unfortunately I&#x27;m quite new to full stack. ~1.5 months ago I didn&#x27;t know a lick of HTML (let alone CSS, JS, any backend framework, AWS, etc), and I&#x27;m making lots of mistakes along the way. Currently trying to figure out how to improve my DB performance as Spring&#x27;s default pagination seems to be quite slow and my site is getting hugged to death at the moment. If anyone has any tips for that especially I&#x27;m all ears.<p>At any rate, your suggestion seems easy enough to put in, so I&#x27;ll put it in ASAP! Thanks again</text></item><item><author>szhu</author><text>The safe, proper way to do this is both shorter and more readable!<p>Both with jQuery:<p><pre><code> const $newdiv = $(&#x27;&lt;div&gt;&#x27;)
.addClass(messageDivClass)
.text(inputTextBox.value)
.css({&#x27;opacity&#x27;: &#x27;0.95&#x27;});
</code></pre>
and without:<p><pre><code> const newdiv = document.createElement(&#x27;div&#x27;);
newdiv.classList.add(messageDivClass);
newdiv.innerText = inputTextBox.value;
newdiv.style.opacity = &#x27;0.95&#x27;;</code></pre></text></item><item><author>raggi</author><text>You&#x27;re warned:<p><pre><code> const messageText = inputTextBox.value.replace(&#x2F;&lt;\&#x2F;?[^&gt;]+(&gt;|$)&#x2F;g, &quot;&quot;);
var $newdiv = $(&#x27;&lt;div class=&quot;&#x27; + messageDivClass + &#x27;&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#x27; + messageText + &#x27;&lt;p&#x2F;&gt;&lt;div&#x2F;&gt;&#x27;).css({
&#x27;opacity&#x27;: &#x27;0.95&#x27;
});</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>C4stor</author><text>Reduce the refresh rate drastically, augment the number of messages fetched at once (let&#x27;s say 200), and display them slowly. Should reduce 20 times the load on DB while making no sensible difference for end users anyway.</text></comment> |
2,189,560 | 2,189,656 | 1 | 3 | 2,189,393 | train | <story><title>Andrew Warner is out of the hospital</title><url>http://mixergy.com/thanks-support-out-of-hospital/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abstractbill</author><text><i>I kept trying to explain to Olivia why disappearing for even a few days would kill my momentum and lead the world to move on to other people, other sites, other things.</i><p>I really admire your sense of urgency Andrew, but it would take a <i>lot</i> more than a few days to kill your momentum.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andrew Warner is out of the hospital</title><url>http://mixergy.com/thanks-support-out-of-hospital/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>I've suffered through a gastric obstruction before. It is the most painful thing I've ever experienced (even the kidney stones I've had didn't compare). It's also incredibly scary if you know anything about the sepsis that can be caused by an intestinal tear.<p>It says something about Andrew's commitment that, in the midst of that, he was worried about Mixergy. That's is truly the "founder focus."</text></comment> |
4,286,685 | 4,286,282 | 1 | 2 | 4,285,531 | train | <story><title>The Mystery of 355/113</title><url>http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/03/14/the_mystery_of_355113.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CoreDumpling</author><text>In Chinese the fraction 355/113 has been known as the 密率 ("detailed ratio") and 22/7 as the 约率 ("approximate ratio"). It is documented in the Book of Sui, volume 16:<p>宋末，南徐州從事史祖沖之，更開密法，以圓徑一億為一丈，圓周盈數三丈一尺四寸一分五厘九毫二秒七忽，朒數三丈一尺四寸一分五厘九毫二秒六忽，正數在盈朒二限之間。密率，圓徑一百一十三，圓周三百五十五。約率，圓徑七，週二十二。 [1]<p>While it suggests that the value was calculated around the end of the Liu Song Dynasty (~479 CE) by Zu Chongzhi to have an upper bound of 3.1415927 and lower bound of 3.1415926, the 密法 method is not explained.<p>It has been thought that Zu may have used a "method of averaging days" to calculate an intermediate value between two prior known approximations of 22/7 and 157/50 [2]. Not a very satisfying result for anyone who wants to find something special in the numbers 355 and 113.<p>[1] <a href="https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%9A%8B%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B716" rel="nofollow">https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%9A%8B%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B71...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QlbzjN_5pDoC&#38;lpg=PA34&#38;ots=bLTzciZHz4&#38;dq=zu%20chongzhi&#38;pg=PA30#v=onepage&#38;q&#38;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=QlbzjN_5pDoC&#38;lpg=PA34&#...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Mystery of 355/113</title><url>http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/03/14/the_mystery_of_355113.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StefanKarpinski</author><text>There is no mystery here. If you pick a random real number and find the best quality approximation of it — as calculated by log_b 1/|x-a/b| — then the median quality of the best such approximations within a tolerance of 1/1024 is around 3.19. So with respect to the measure this article is talking about, pi is completely normal and 355/113 is a completely unexceptional best approximation with a denominator of at most nine binary digits (about 3 decimal digits). 355/113 isn't even the best quality approximation of pi by the given criterion — that would be 22/7, which, as mentioned in the article, has a quality measure of 3.429288337281781.<p>Julia code to figure this out can be found here:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/3170899" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/3170899</a></text></comment> |
2,601,720 | 2,601,229 | 1 | 3 | 2,601,045 | train | <story><title>Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP</title><url>http://www.nashcoding.com/2011/05/31/building-a-startup-12-priceless-tools-for-launching-your-mvp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phugoid</author><text>Something he left out was CRM, and I would love some suggestions.<p>My marketing involves contacting individuals at various companies. I need to capture all the information I know about them, track email conversations, and record meeting minutes. I also need to keep lots of comments about the strategy for each customer.<p>So far, I don't know of any easy way to access this data in one place without lots of steps and clicks. I've been using the file system; one directory per company, and one text file per person. I paste emails and type meeting minutes into each file.<p>I dream of a simple time-line based view of all the interactions with a given customer. Inside that dream, I also dream of Gmail and Skype integration.
Suggestions, please?</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP</title><url>http://www.nashcoding.com/2011/05/31/building-a-startup-12-priceless-tools-for-launching-your-mvp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtogo</author><text>| This almost goes without saying these days, but Git is the clear winner in the battle of the source control versioning systems.<p>It is? How so, exactly? It has a small lead over other systems as far as number of users goes, but i'd hardly call it a "clear winner".</text></comment> |
27,313,915 | 27,313,899 | 1 | 3 | 27,313,284 | train | <story><title>Safari tries to fill username</title><url>https://github.com/livewire-ui/spotlight/issues/25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; I still can&#x27;t believe that whole business managed to interpret 2FA for whole EU as &quot;you MUST use SMS for 2FA!&quot;.<p>Weeeeeelll...<p>I&#x27;m familiar with two (2) common kinds of &quot;2FA&quot; implementations. TOTP and SMS.<p>Of those two, only SMS is actually a second factor, albeit not a particularly secure one. TOTP is fundamentally a password, and two passwords are no different than one password.</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>Oh man, enterprise &quot;security&quot; firms used by banks and other old behemoths are a cancer for users. If you want your website to actively abuse users (especially one with special needs and pretty much anyone that doesn&#x27;t fit into an &quot;made up average person mold&quot;) get those people on board and listen to the dumb things they say.<p>I still can&#x27;t believe that whole business managed to interpret 2FA for whole EU as &quot;you MUST use SMS for 2FA!&quot;.</text></item><item><author>airza</author><text>The nuance here is that brain-damaged appsec pentesters reported this as a vulnerability for years, and so tons of websites followed that advice and dutifully disabled the functionality.
But autocomplete has advantages: it lets users easily specify long, random, per-site passwords without ever having to worry about that. And when they can&#x27;t do that, a pretty large percentage of them just give up and write the password down somewhere.<p>In the end, i find a lot of chrome&#x27;s decision to implement spec-breaking behavior awful in the context of having a website that works forever (Looking at you, samesite). But this behavior rarely breaks functionality and on the whole makes the web a <i>lot</i> more secure.</text></item><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>Related, there is a &quot;bug&quot; in chrome that disabled autocomplete=&quot;off&quot; on input elements, marked as won&#x27;t fix<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>&gt; <i>TOTP is fundamentally a password</i><p>I see this view a lot. It&#x27;s wrong. TOTP is fundamentally different to a password, as the stored &quot;password&quot; (by which I presume you mean the key) is never transmitted anywhere.<p>TOTP in fact has one property that makes it potentially* the most secure of all 2FA methods: it can be used airgapped. As the credential you type into the 2FA form is not the saved secret.<p>* I say &quot;potentially&quot; because the relative inconvenience + human factors conspire to make it less secure than e.g. U2F in most cases. But assuming hypothetical perfect conditions, there would be nothing more secure than TOTP for 2FA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Safari tries to fill username</title><url>https://github.com/livewire-ui/spotlight/issues/25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; I still can&#x27;t believe that whole business managed to interpret 2FA for whole EU as &quot;you MUST use SMS for 2FA!&quot;.<p>Weeeeeelll...<p>I&#x27;m familiar with two (2) common kinds of &quot;2FA&quot; implementations. TOTP and SMS.<p>Of those two, only SMS is actually a second factor, albeit not a particularly secure one. TOTP is fundamentally a password, and two passwords are no different than one password.</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>Oh man, enterprise &quot;security&quot; firms used by banks and other old behemoths are a cancer for users. If you want your website to actively abuse users (especially one with special needs and pretty much anyone that doesn&#x27;t fit into an &quot;made up average person mold&quot;) get those people on board and listen to the dumb things they say.<p>I still can&#x27;t believe that whole business managed to interpret 2FA for whole EU as &quot;you MUST use SMS for 2FA!&quot;.</text></item><item><author>airza</author><text>The nuance here is that brain-damaged appsec pentesters reported this as a vulnerability for years, and so tons of websites followed that advice and dutifully disabled the functionality.
But autocomplete has advantages: it lets users easily specify long, random, per-site passwords without ever having to worry about that. And when they can&#x27;t do that, a pretty large percentage of them just give up and write the password down somewhere.<p>In the end, i find a lot of chrome&#x27;s decision to implement spec-breaking behavior awful in the context of having a website that works forever (Looking at you, samesite). But this behavior rarely breaks functionality and on the whole makes the web a <i>lot</i> more secure.</text></item><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>Related, there is a &quot;bug&quot; in chrome that disabled autocomplete=&quot;off&quot; on input elements, marked as won&#x27;t fix<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatzsky</author><text>TOTP is no more a password than whatever one-time code you&#x27;d get by SMS. In fact, TOTP is arguably more secure, since it isn&#x27;t nearly as vulnerable to hijacking as SMS is.</text></comment> |
7,849,901 | 7,849,693 | 1 | 2 | 7,849,381 | train | <story><title>How my school rejected an app made for students</title><url>http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>was_hellbanned</author><text>&quot;In the real world I&#x27;d be sued&quot;<p>Well, maybe, in the real world, if anyone even noticed, you might get sued. It would be baseless, but you wouldn&#x27;t have the resources for a court battle, so you&#x27;d just tuck your tail and run.<p>The lesson here is that institutions can be pointlessly authoritative assholes. Between the offended IT schmucks who were churning out their own, awful app, and the administrative types who are seeking to cover their own asses, legally speaking, it really couldn&#x27;t work out any other way.<p>Oh, and since they can just kick you out of school, with no meaningful recourse, you&#x27;re <i>really</i> getting a lesson in what it&#x27;s like to be the little innovator.</text></comment> | <story><title>How my school rejected an app made for students</title><url>http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dethstar</author><text>&quot;This goes to show that as much as schools attempt to mask the image of a great environment for students to thrive, learn enterpreneurism and so on (mine does that a lot), they’re traditionalists to the point that it doesn’t make any sense. What do they have to lose with my app? How is that classification as copyright infringement even pertinent? They apparently just must have control of anything that has anything to do with the school.&quot;<p>Biggest problem with education. It is not about learning how to learn, enterpreneurism or any other fun thing you could think of. Is about learning how to obey, and letting those in charge take care of things (even if they&#x27;re done terribly by people who actually don&#x27;t like&#x2F;care for it).<p>edit to add something else: I think more schools should allow for software to be made by the students. They understand the needs of the other students better.</text></comment> |
10,430,370 | 10,429,703 | 1 | 2 | 10,427,212 | train | <story><title>Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/twitter-ceo-dorsey-apologizes-to-developers-says-he-wants-to-reset-relations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Oh, so another cycle starts. Here&#x27;s a note I took back earlier, around the time of the original Twitter fiasco, pasted straight from my quotes file:<p><pre><code> * Sovereign from Mass Effect on using someone else&#x27;s technology
&quot;Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays,
our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths
we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You
exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.&quot;
Strangely, it seems to describe recent (2012&#x2F;2013) situation with
API of Twitter perfectly.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blantonl</author><text>And this is exactly how it should be. If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting, then don&#x27;t be surprised when they rear up and no longer let you ride.<p>I still don&#x27;t understand why people feel they are <i>entitled</i> to perpetual API access.<p>Maybe Twitter should follow the lead that I do - those that license and use many of my APIs pay on a royalty model - they pay a certain percentage of all revenue that their platform generates. Period.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/twitter-ceo-dorsey-apologizes-to-developers-says-he-wants-to-reset-relations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Oh, so another cycle starts. Here&#x27;s a note I took back earlier, around the time of the original Twitter fiasco, pasted straight from my quotes file:<p><pre><code> * Sovereign from Mass Effect on using someone else&#x27;s technology
&quot;Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays,
our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths
we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You
exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.&quot;
Strangely, it seems to describe recent (2012&#x2F;2013) situation with
API of Twitter perfectly.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>Twitter could avoid this sentiment by making a fiscally-binding statement:<p>&quot;We have opened up our API, and have placed $5B in escrow with the Gates Foundation, who will return 70% of the investment income to Twitter. If we deny API access to developers before 2020, the Gates Foundation will keep the principal.&quot;<p>Someone sufficiently clever could make a similar, but perpetual, statement.</text></comment> |
32,441,085 | 32,440,462 | 1 | 2 | 32,439,934 | train | <story><title>Excel is pretty dang cool</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/excel-is-pretty-dang-cool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasajian</author><text>I quote, &quot;Excel has actual programming affordances now&quot;...
Range names &quot;fixes one of the biggest problems that makes spreadsheets illegible&quot;<p>&quot;Instead of writing the formula =A1<i>B1, you can do =Width</i>Height like you should have been able to 30 years ago.&quot;<p>Not sure what this dude is talking about. Range names have been in Excel for decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andylynch</author><text><i>but</i> it’s somehow underused. Often people don’t even realise they should be creating tables at all. Power query and friends are black magic at that point.<p>It sounds slightly absurd but advanced Excel training is something I think many people should do. At $oldfinancejob the guys who ran the client professional development business clearly picked up on this and ran a very nice ‘Excel for financial modelling’ course as a free intro kind of thing - after using Excel for decades there were plenty of things I didn’t know about and now use. Excel is an incredibly deep product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Excel is pretty dang cool</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/excel-is-pretty-dang-cool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasajian</author><text>I quote, &quot;Excel has actual programming affordances now&quot;...
Range names &quot;fixes one of the biggest problems that makes spreadsheets illegible&quot;<p>&quot;Instead of writing the formula =A1<i>B1, you can do =Width</i>Height like you should have been able to 30 years ago.&quot;<p>Not sure what this dude is talking about. Range names have been in Excel for decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>listenallyall</author><text>It&#x27;s like a TIL post on the front page of Reddit that states something you assumed everybody knew, yet has 30,000 upvotes.</text></comment> |
20,461,840 | 20,459,439 | 1 | 2 | 20,458,772 | train | <story><title>Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hateful</author><text>I think it would happen this way: firstly you would automate things that go on a track - like trains - which I think we already have. Then secondly you could have certain lanes or roads that are designed for specific self-driving vehicles. This could help buses and trucks (in certain areas) get around. Then you would keep adding more of those, until many roads have those and very few manual lanes. It wouldn&#x27;t immediately work in a big established city, but some existing highways or interstates can be fitted easily. Anywhere that has an HOV&#x2F;Carpool&#x2F;EV lane can be refitted to be an automated driving lane. Think of it like the Cash Only vs. Easy Pass toll lanes. At first there was 1-2 Easy Pass lanes, then the cash lane was just 1-2 - now we automate them reading license plates.<p>So to sum up, I think that the self driving will start in very specific areas, and then those specific areas would be expanded until they are the only areas. Especially if those roads contain automated taxi (Uber, Lyft, etc) which you can call with your mobile device. The main reason a lot of people drive is because public transportation in their area is junk and you have to go by it&#x27;s schedule and route. But having a point-point self-driving option is way more convenient. It&#x27;s like the subway, but it doesn&#x27;t need tracks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>Seriously, please automate highway driving first. You get all the benefits for shipping and efficiency and logistics, so the money is there. The problem is so much more simple, and there can be convergent infrastructure (embedded sensors, mesh network updates, higher standards of road quality).<p>On long trips on highways it just kills me that I have to stare at the same image for hours basically, and that a program couldn&#x27;t do that more safely than me.<p>And if this happens, the airlines and all their fees and cramping and security and bad customer service can be brutally competed against for any trip under 800 miles, and probably longer.<p>Even a one hour 500 mile trip in a plane is really 3-4 hours, and you don&#x27;t get a car at your destination, while driving there is about 5-6 hours. If I could surf that whole time or nap, then I&#x27;ll drive.<p>If I can sleep overnight, then 8-10 hour drives become far preferable to flying.<p>If I have friends along the way to visit, or interesting places to vacation in, two or three day trips are more preferable than 1500-2000 mile flights, especially if you have a family and it is way way way cheaper.<p>Airlines have been reorienting themselves to shorter hops over the last couple decades. Self driving on highways will decimate that business, and only long haul&#x2F;overseas will remain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hateful</author><text>I think it would happen this way: firstly you would automate things that go on a track - like trains - which I think we already have. Then secondly you could have certain lanes or roads that are designed for specific self-driving vehicles. This could help buses and trucks (in certain areas) get around. Then you would keep adding more of those, until many roads have those and very few manual lanes. It wouldn&#x27;t immediately work in a big established city, but some existing highways or interstates can be fitted easily. Anywhere that has an HOV&#x2F;Carpool&#x2F;EV lane can be refitted to be an automated driving lane. Think of it like the Cash Only vs. Easy Pass toll lanes. At first there was 1-2 Easy Pass lanes, then the cash lane was just 1-2 - now we automate them reading license plates.<p>So to sum up, I think that the self driving will start in very specific areas, and then those specific areas would be expanded until they are the only areas. Especially if those roads contain automated taxi (Uber, Lyft, etc) which you can call with your mobile device. The main reason a lot of people drive is because public transportation in their area is junk and you have to go by it&#x27;s schedule and route. But having a point-point self-driving option is way more convenient. It&#x27;s like the subway, but it doesn&#x27;t need tracks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>I think your prediction will turn out to be as closer or closer than any other. Certainly more on the money than the breathless “won’t be a problem in a few years when self-driving...”<p>But as I read your probably-on-the-money prediction, I was thinking “here we go again, dumping money for the two-ton wheelchairs while alternative transportation goes begging again.” Where’s my fucking barrier-protected bike lane? Or any bike lane at all?<p>Frankly, if that’s how it goes, I wonder if it happens at all. “Separate lanes for wealthy tech workers” is how that’s going to go. You know why we can’t even get bike lanes? Because people bitch and moan because they don’t personally use it. Expand that to an empty lane of moving traffic while the plebs sit in traffic.</text></comment> |
40,590,381 | 40,587,584 | 1 | 2 | 40,586,587 | train | <story><title>Managing my motivation as a solo dev</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ezekg</author><text>&gt; Leave tasks unfinished<p>I also do this. I learned that if I leave a failing test for myself in the morning, I&#x27;ll think about it on and off and jump right in next session without wasting time on HN or YT for an hour or 2 in the mornings. Sometimes this ends up causing me to work a little bit late, trying to make sure I actually have a failing test written for the problem (sometimes I have an issue without an accompanying test yet), but it&#x27;s worth the extra effort&#x2F;time. A failing test gives me something 100% actionable to jump into in the morning, as opposed to leaving e.g. a feature half written which can have an ambiguous starting point in terms of jumping back into it. I can&#x27;t recommend this enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djcannabiz</author><text>Ive heard a similar idea, from Hemingway.
&quot;Learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. I always worked until I had something done, and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.&quot; — Ernest Hemmingway&quot;<p>I really agree, and I also thinks it can be helpful to do something similar when taking breaks (have lunch&#x2F;take a walk while leaving a failing test).</text></comment> | <story><title>Managing my motivation as a solo dev</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ezekg</author><text>&gt; Leave tasks unfinished<p>I also do this. I learned that if I leave a failing test for myself in the morning, I&#x27;ll think about it on and off and jump right in next session without wasting time on HN or YT for an hour or 2 in the mornings. Sometimes this ends up causing me to work a little bit late, trying to make sure I actually have a failing test written for the problem (sometimes I have an issue without an accompanying test yet), but it&#x27;s worth the extra effort&#x2F;time. A failing test gives me something 100% actionable to jump into in the morning, as opposed to leaving e.g. a feature half written which can have an ambiguous starting point in terms of jumping back into it. I can&#x27;t recommend this enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tnolet</author><text>I was super in the other camp. Could not sleep if something wasn’t finished. Especially for coding. For marketing I found a (good) blog post can take a couple of days.</text></comment> |
31,400,329 | 31,398,549 | 1 | 2 | 31,396,909 | train | <story><title>Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership</title><url>https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/finland-ger-natobesked</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>We have profound respect for other languages, but HN is an English-language site and articles here need to be in English.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by%3Adang%20english-language%20site&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership</title><url>https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/finland-ger-natobesked</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>So does everyone here speak Swedish except me, or are we all chatting about an article we can&#x27;t read? Here&#x27;s an English article saying the same, just to maintain the illusion.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;europe&#x2F;sweden-finland-nato-next-steps-intl&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;europe&#x2F;sweden-finland-nato-ne...</a></text></comment> |
36,075,422 | 36,075,416 | 1 | 3 | 36,074,646 | train | <story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I&#x27;m unfamiliar with what&#x27;s going on here. It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously? I&#x27;ve gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked and would be wildly outside of Google&#x27;s terms. How does this thingy work?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranger207</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s correct, and yes it&#x27;s a massive violation of the terms. Aurora Store also lets you use your own Google account, which is also outside of Google&#x27;s terms. But the only way to get apps from the Google Play Store without installing the entire set of Google Play Services is this, so the entire setup is outside of Google&#x27;s terms</text></comment> | <story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I&#x27;m unfamiliar with what&#x27;s going on here. It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously? I&#x27;ve gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked and would be wildly outside of Google&#x27;s terms. How does this thingy work?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>branon</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s exactly how it works, and yes, I install my banking app this way. It&#x27;s not an issue from my perspective but I can see why Google doesn&#x27;t like it.<p>I don&#x27;t have a Google account and am unable to obtain Play Store APKs any other way, so Aurora Store fills an important niche for me.<p>I guess I will hold off on updating any Play Store apps until this is fixed or I can find another software&#x2F;workaround.</text></comment> |
21,619,983 | 21,619,353 | 1 | 2 | 21,604,850 | train | <story><title>Clojure-flavored WASM text format</title><url>https://github.com/roman01la/clj-wasm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roman01la</author><text>Author here. The library is a toy project, it&#x27;s far from being complete. Many things including macros are missing. Implementation style is derived from ClojureScript&#x27;s compiler</text></comment> | <story><title>Clojure-flavored WASM text format</title><url>https://github.com/roman01la/clj-wasm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arijun</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what this is, the readme is very sparse. Is it a compiler of Clojure targeting WASM?</text></comment> |
11,311,664 | 11,311,524 | 1 | 3 | 11,310,187 | train | <story><title>That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway</title><url>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/that-time-an-sr-71-made-an-emergency-landing-in-norway-1765436508</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how familiar this story is. I fly gliders and have landed in a few fields after being unable to make it back to the airport. There&#x27;s the same desire to get back home if it&#x27;s possible, and procedures drilled into you to make sure you don&#x27;t push that too hard and get yourself killed. The alternate landing field is selected well in advance (although in my case, selected by eye some minutes before while I&#x27;m higher up). After landing, there&#x27;s the same call back to base to tell them what happened and note the time. (We always want to track flight times, so the landing time is required for record-keeping.) There&#x27;s the meeting of and with luck making friends with the locals. There&#x27;s waiting for the cavalry to appear with your support equipment and whisk you away.<p>Obviously, their situation was about a million times more complex and interesting, but it&#x27;s neat to see this sort of commonality from one end of aviation to the other.</text></comment> | <story><title>That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway</title><url>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/that-time-an-sr-71-made-an-emergency-landing-in-norway-1765436508</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>My favorite: &quot;what is the slowest you ever flew?&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.planeandpilotmag.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;speed-is-life&#x2F;#.Vuv56kX3bv4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.planeandpilotmag.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;speed-is-life&#x2F;#.Vuv5...</a></text></comment> |
26,270,926 | 26,261,285 | 1 | 2 | 26,242,495 | train | <story><title>One Way to Represent Things</title><url>https://macwright.com/2021/02/23/one-way-to-represent-things.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmm</author><text>Being able to build good representations of things is important. So many programming languages lack something as basic as sum types, which puts them behind the state of the art in the 1970s. Yes, Haskell has some fancier stuff in it as well, but a lot of the value comes from simply having a good way to represent &quot;this or that&quot; and applying it properly.<p>The other thing that we do all the time in everyday life is a quotient, and as far as I know no programming language has a good way to represent that: something as basic as a fraction (i.e. a pair of integers, but two pairs are equivalent when ...) can&#x27;t be expressed except in an ad-hoc way.<p>I appreciate the author&#x27;s enthusiasm for offering a large standard library of datatypes - I certainly think things like decimals and trees ought to be more available than they are - but I don&#x27;t think we can even start on that until we actually have good tools for defining datatypes. And actually the best way to get there might be to have <i>fewer</i> built-in datatypes, and force ourselves to go through the work of defining numbers and strings and so on &quot;in userspace&quot;, using the normal language facilities. That would quickly highlight a lot of quite basic things that a lot of languages are missing - e.g. literals for user-defined types are incredibly painful in a lot of algol-family languages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; The other thing that we do all the time in everyday life is a quotient, and as far as I know no programming language has a good way to represent that: something as basic as a fraction<p>Er, fractions are a directly-supported (core or stdlib) type in many languages. Including:<p>Scheme family languages (numbers work this way by default, unless you introduce irrational numbers), Ruby (doesn&#x27;t default to rational math by default generally for numbers, but has syntax for rational literals and rationals use rational math), Raku, Python, Clojure, Go, Haskell, and, well, lots of languages have core&#x2F;stdlib support even if they don&#x27;t have a literal syntax or Scheme-style default-to-exact-rational behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>One Way to Represent Things</title><url>https://macwright.com/2021/02/23/one-way-to-represent-things.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmm</author><text>Being able to build good representations of things is important. So many programming languages lack something as basic as sum types, which puts them behind the state of the art in the 1970s. Yes, Haskell has some fancier stuff in it as well, but a lot of the value comes from simply having a good way to represent &quot;this or that&quot; and applying it properly.<p>The other thing that we do all the time in everyday life is a quotient, and as far as I know no programming language has a good way to represent that: something as basic as a fraction (i.e. a pair of integers, but two pairs are equivalent when ...) can&#x27;t be expressed except in an ad-hoc way.<p>I appreciate the author&#x27;s enthusiasm for offering a large standard library of datatypes - I certainly think things like decimals and trees ought to be more available than they are - but I don&#x27;t think we can even start on that until we actually have good tools for defining datatypes. And actually the best way to get there might be to have <i>fewer</i> built-in datatypes, and force ourselves to go through the work of defining numbers and strings and so on &quot;in userspace&quot;, using the normal language facilities. That would quickly highlight a lot of quite basic things that a lot of languages are missing - e.g. literals for user-defined types are incredibly painful in a lot of algol-family languages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Smaug123</author><text>Quotients are a bit of an unsolved problem even in Agda. Cubical Agda makes the definition easier but makes it <i>much</i> harder to work with the resulting datatype, while if you don&#x27;t use higher inductive types you end up in setoid hell where the language can&#x27;t do any of the obvious things you should be able to do automatically.</text></comment> |
11,655,153 | 11,654,939 | 1 | 3 | 11,654,617 | train | <story><title>Living Only on Bitcoins</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/05/08/Hacking-Yourself-out-of-the-Banking-System-and-Live-only-on-BitCoins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>I spent five years fruitlessly trying to improve the current banking system (actually, the current money transfer system) so I am more intimately aware of its shortcomings than most people. Considering how many things are wrong with it, it&#x27;s astonishing to me that it works at all. And yet, most of the time, it does.<p>There are two things that make the current banking system robust: first, because anonymity is limited, most of the actors in the system are honest. Trying to pull a fast one is risky, and that prevents most people from trying. And second, there are humans in the loop that you can appeal to when things go wrong. Most of the time this keeps the system humming along despite the fact that under the hood it&#x27;s all held together with spit and baling wire.<p>Bitcoin is the exact opposite. Because it provides greater anonymity than the traditional banking system, it attracts dishonest actors. For example, bitcoin has made ransomware more economically viable than it was before. And second, if something goes wrong with a bitcoin transaction, you are totally hosed. Your bitcoin payment is only as safe as your ability to reliably bind a bitcoin address to an intended recipient. If you get it wrong, there&#x27;s no recourse. If you accidentally send some bitcoin to the wrong address, you are hosed. If you lose your private key, you are hosed. Period, end of story.<p>If I have to choose between bitcoin and traditional banking I&#x27;ll take the latter simply because it&#x27;s generally more robust and forgiving of everyday human foibles. But I&#x27;ll continue to wish for (and work towards) a system that gives us the best of both worlds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Living Only on Bitcoins</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/05/08/Hacking-Yourself-out-of-the-Banking-System-and-Live-only-on-BitCoins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cesarb</author><text>&gt; I do not accept the concept of “trust”, I don’t know those guys, why should I trust them? On the other hand, with BTC trust is not even considered to be a factor.<p>That is a strange argument. The value of Bitcoin comes from the trust people have on Bitcoin. If nobody trusts Bitcoin, it&#x27;s worthless except as a mathematical curiosity.<p>And after just a few more paragraphs, we see another instance of trust. The author describes leaving most of the money in a hardware wallet. That is, the author is trusting that the hardware is neither malicious nor buggy. A malicious hardware wallet could use kleptographic attacks to exfiltrate the private keys, or derive them from an attacker-controlled seed. A buggy hardware wallet could, for instance, have a &quot;stuck&quot; RNG (like a well-known OpenSSL fiasco), such that the generated private keys are predictable.<p>The author is trusting people he doesn&#x27;t know: the designers of the hardware wallet, the manufacturers of the hardware wallet (including workers at whichever factory manufactures the hardware), and even the postmen. Moreover, the author is not only trusting them to not be malicious, but also to not make mistakes (with crypto, even small mistakes can be deadly).<p>And there&#x27;s also at least one other problem the author didn&#x27;t consider, or at least didn&#x27;t mention: inheritance. If the author has an accident, what happens to the money? And what if the accident is not fatal, but leads to neurological sequels which render the author unable to access the hardware wallets?</text></comment> |
31,186,929 | 31,185,076 | 1 | 3 | 31,180,737 | train | <story><title>Fintech App Switch Leaks Users’ Transactions and Personal IDs</title><url>https://vpnoverview.com/news/fintech-app-switch-leaks-users-transactions-personal-ids/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvtrn</author><text>Boxes: Checked.<p>I&#x27;ve grown a bit cynical as time goes on about this sort of stuff; not the need for the kinds of controls and checks behind SOC2, but cynical towards the lip service I continue to hear about it from the executives and leaders I find in many shops.<p>The &quot;InfoSec&#x2F;CyberSecurity&#x2F;DevSecOps&quot; director is often a glorified send button. &quot;The SIEM said do this, send to Devops, the auditor said do this, send to Dvops, the vulnerability monitor noticed this, send to Devops, we were asked to provide evidence of this, send to Devops&quot;...etc.<p>3 of the last 5 jobs I&#x27;ve been in since 2016 have had dedicated personnel with the words &quot;Information Security&quot; in their job titles, and all 3 of them were really good at sending me shit to do, talking about what they read in some infosec blog, and a CVE they read about.<p>But here&#x27;s the thing, I think I have a really good reason for this cynicism and I don&#x27;t know what how to resolve it:<p>I don&#x27;t know how confident I would be if these individuals were actually expected to build and contribute to the security effort beyond &quot;send to Devops&quot;, but maybe they&#x27;re not supposed to? Are &quot;DevSecOps&quot; people expected to actually...be involved in engineering too? Or do they just sit at the periphery throwing vulnerability assessments and threat modeling work? I&#x27;ve honestly only ever had the latter.<p>Tried having this conversation with a friend who just finished an MSc in Cybersecurity and he seemed a bit offended by my inquiry, so I dropped it...but I am still insanely curious to know because I really doubt this experience is unique.</text></item><item><author>jgaa</author><text>They are soc 2 compliant - so it must be OK ;)<p>I mean, they can prove on paper that they are secure. Who cares about reality any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking that the problem can only begin to be addressed when security becomes a first class citizen in the complete tech stack.<p>I don&#x27;t know of many developers, that in their day job, who pro- actively consider security. It&#x27;s always &quot;it&#x27;s behind a firewall&quot;, or &quot;it&#x27;s for internal purposes&quot;, etc. Security practices need to be built in.<p>The best way I can think of to remedy this is to make university lecturers care as much about full stack security as say using goto or raw pointers or serverless or &lt;insert flavour of the month&gt;.
I don&#x27;t think a class on security would do it either.<p>A good way to fast track security practices in the universities would be to have actual hackathons that attempt to breach cs and it department computers... with extra points if you can make a clown of the head of the it dept or professor of security.<p>It&#x27;ll take a few years, I admit, but things would eventually change. I can&#x27;t see any other way, other than the general populace getting so sick of this stuff that legislation would be written to heavily penalise companies that are breached.<p>2c</text></comment> | <story><title>Fintech App Switch Leaks Users’ Transactions and Personal IDs</title><url>https://vpnoverview.com/news/fintech-app-switch-leaks-users-transactions-personal-ids/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvtrn</author><text>Boxes: Checked.<p>I&#x27;ve grown a bit cynical as time goes on about this sort of stuff; not the need for the kinds of controls and checks behind SOC2, but cynical towards the lip service I continue to hear about it from the executives and leaders I find in many shops.<p>The &quot;InfoSec&#x2F;CyberSecurity&#x2F;DevSecOps&quot; director is often a glorified send button. &quot;The SIEM said do this, send to Devops, the auditor said do this, send to Dvops, the vulnerability monitor noticed this, send to Devops, we were asked to provide evidence of this, send to Devops&quot;...etc.<p>3 of the last 5 jobs I&#x27;ve been in since 2016 have had dedicated personnel with the words &quot;Information Security&quot; in their job titles, and all 3 of them were really good at sending me shit to do, talking about what they read in some infosec blog, and a CVE they read about.<p>But here&#x27;s the thing, I think I have a really good reason for this cynicism and I don&#x27;t know what how to resolve it:<p>I don&#x27;t know how confident I would be if these individuals were actually expected to build and contribute to the security effort beyond &quot;send to Devops&quot;, but maybe they&#x27;re not supposed to? Are &quot;DevSecOps&quot; people expected to actually...be involved in engineering too? Or do they just sit at the periphery throwing vulnerability assessments and threat modeling work? I&#x27;ve honestly only ever had the latter.<p>Tried having this conversation with a friend who just finished an MSc in Cybersecurity and he seemed a bit offended by my inquiry, so I dropped it...but I am still insanely curious to know because I really doubt this experience is unique.</text></item><item><author>jgaa</author><text>They are soc 2 compliant - so it must be OK ;)<p>I mean, they can prove on paper that they are secure. Who cares about reality any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdfgjhs</author><text>Same experience. It is so hard to have a conversation about any of the security requirements with our security team because they have no idea what they are asking.<p>They only know to press some buttons and then send some reports.</text></comment> |
13,092,782 | 13,092,713 | 1 | 2 | 13,092,387 | train | <story><title>Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98</title><url>http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3042881</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dopamean</author><text>I&#x27;m going to use the word literally here and actually mean literally. I have literally never ordered any other combo meal at a Chinese restaurant than General Tso&#x27;s chicken. I had it once when I was a kid and never yearned to try anything else. I love that damn dish and I will eat some tonight in honor of this great, great man.<p>On a related noted: I once watched a TED talk given by a woman whose name I cannot recall that was about how all Chinese restaurants in the US serve basically the exact same menus. She pointed out that General Tso&#x27;s chicken is funny because General Tso, a real person, lived in a time where it was highly unlikely that he ever saw broccoli let alone had it cooked in a dish. And now today a dish that prominently features broccoli is named after him.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98</title><url>http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3042881</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skykooler</author><text>I often wonder about General Tso - someone who was once a great military leader, but is now known for a dish of chicken.</text></comment> |
11,670,102 | 11,669,936 | 1 | 2 | 11,669,768 | train | <story><title>Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?</title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crusso</author><text>While we&#x27;re at it - thanks, Dang. You do a lot of hard work keeping HN a place worth visiting. I even appreciated the time or two you corrected me personally.<p>The comments sections of most online forums are about useless and I know that places like HN don&#x27;t stay this way by accident.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?</title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure. Probably a few hundred.</text></comment> |
20,653,367 | 20,653,452 | 1 | 2 | 20,652,695 | train | <story><title>America’s social-media addiction is getting worse</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/08/americas-social-media-addiction-is-getting-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchequate</author><text>&gt;I wonder what makes people believe that the internet should be this sort of &quot;law free&quot; place where anyone can implement all the exploitative behaviour which is otherwise forbidden elsewhere?<p>Violent crime doesnt happen on the internet. The only thing to prevent is fraud. And that weirdly isnt huge, at least in my life.<p>Not everyone subscribes to the thought that government makes better decisions than individuals. Having laws are often used for corrupt purposes.</text></item><item><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Why is it shocking?<p>The government has always had a say in the UI if it was for the greater benefit of it&#x27;s citizen:<p>- Off putting images printed on cigarette packages<p>- Warning stickers put on microwaves to prevent people from drying their house cats in the microwave<p>- Forcing speed meters in cars<p>- Forcing head lights of cars to be turned on after a certain hour of the day<p>- Lot&#x27;s of &quot;UX&quot; regulations in casinos and other addictive establishments<p>- Licenses to sell alcohol which basically influences where people can find and shop alcohol<p>- Recently the UK has drafted a law which prohibits supermarkets to stock and display addictive unhealthy food close to the checkout tilts (Mars, Snickers, fat crisps, etc.)<p>Why should it be different on the internet? Social media has a damaging and addictive negative impact on society, so it need&#x27;s to be regulated to protect citizens from the exploitative patterns which these companies purposefully implement to hook vulnerable people into their system.<p>I wonder what makes people believe that the internet should be this sort of &quot;law free&quot; place where anyone can implement all the exploitative behaviour which is otherwise forbidden elsewhere?</text></item><item><author>malvosenior</author><text>&gt; <i>On July 30th the junior senator from Missouri unveiled the “Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act”, or SMART Act. The bill would limit social-media usage to half an hour a day (users would be able to bypass the limit by adjusting their app settings). It would also ban addictive features, such as “infinite scroll” (when a user’s entire feed can be seen in one visit) and “autoplay” (when online videos load automatically one after another).</i><p>We should never let the government dictate UI through laws. It’s shocking that it’s even being proposed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheBranca18</author><text>&gt;Violent crime doesn&#x27;t happen on the internet. The only thing to prevent is fraud.<p>I couldn&#x27;t disagree more with these statements. Human and sex trafficking occur through the net, hell you can hire hitmen! Then there&#x27;s the grooming of underage kids, etc. To say only fraud happens on the net just seems wild.<p>&gt;Not everyone subscribes to the thought that government makes better decisions than individuals. Having laws are often used for corrupt purposes.<p>This is a pretty general statement. What specifically in the proposed law are you against?</text></comment> | <story><title>America’s social-media addiction is getting worse</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/08/americas-social-media-addiction-is-getting-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchequate</author><text>&gt;I wonder what makes people believe that the internet should be this sort of &quot;law free&quot; place where anyone can implement all the exploitative behaviour which is otherwise forbidden elsewhere?<p>Violent crime doesnt happen on the internet. The only thing to prevent is fraud. And that weirdly isnt huge, at least in my life.<p>Not everyone subscribes to the thought that government makes better decisions than individuals. Having laws are often used for corrupt purposes.</text></item><item><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Why is it shocking?<p>The government has always had a say in the UI if it was for the greater benefit of it&#x27;s citizen:<p>- Off putting images printed on cigarette packages<p>- Warning stickers put on microwaves to prevent people from drying their house cats in the microwave<p>- Forcing speed meters in cars<p>- Forcing head lights of cars to be turned on after a certain hour of the day<p>- Lot&#x27;s of &quot;UX&quot; regulations in casinos and other addictive establishments<p>- Licenses to sell alcohol which basically influences where people can find and shop alcohol<p>- Recently the UK has drafted a law which prohibits supermarkets to stock and display addictive unhealthy food close to the checkout tilts (Mars, Snickers, fat crisps, etc.)<p>Why should it be different on the internet? Social media has a damaging and addictive negative impact on society, so it need&#x27;s to be regulated to protect citizens from the exploitative patterns which these companies purposefully implement to hook vulnerable people into their system.<p>I wonder what makes people believe that the internet should be this sort of &quot;law free&quot; place where anyone can implement all the exploitative behaviour which is otherwise forbidden elsewhere?</text></item><item><author>malvosenior</author><text>&gt; <i>On July 30th the junior senator from Missouri unveiled the “Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act”, or SMART Act. The bill would limit social-media usage to half an hour a day (users would be able to bypass the limit by adjusting their app settings). It would also ban addictive features, such as “infinite scroll” (when a user’s entire feed can be seen in one visit) and “autoplay” (when online videos load automatically one after another).</i><p>We should never let the government dictate UI through laws. It’s shocking that it’s even being proposed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>Why do some people have to jump from<p>Person A: I think in these situations the government action has been effective<p>To<p>“Person A thinks thst government makes better decisions than individuals”.<p>There is literally (and I mean this literally) not a single non crazy person in the world who thinks the government makes better decisions than individuals in general. For one thing, we don’t have AI yet and government is made of individuals. Yet this is your counter argument, and probably what you think people who disagree with you believe and rest their philosophies on.</text></comment> |
4,811,156 | 4,810,813 | 1 | 3 | 4,809,986 | train | <story><title>US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/us-patent-chief-to-software-patent-critics-give-it-a-rest-already/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manaskarekar</author><text>Maybe we should. Exhaust all combinations and verify them for time when this "idea" was conceived, then dump out the list on a website and have people come up with uses for it (and actually use them.)<p>Boom! Prior art to invalidate future bullshit.</text></item><item><author>IanDrake</author><text>Innovation?<p>The problem is that people are patenting non-innovative stuff. At this point one could write an automatic patent generator, much like domain name generators.<p>Or we could have the Patent-libs (like ad-libs).<p>Software that runs on [DeviceType] that has [ShapeOfCorner] and allows the user to [DigitalVersionOfNaturallyOccurringAction] which produces [ObviousOutcome].</text></item><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>&#62; He noted that during a time of growing litigation in the smartphone industry, "innovation continues at an absolutely breakneck pace. In a system like ours in which innovation is happening faster than people can keep up, it cannot be said that the patent system is broken," he said.<p>Metric X is high, therefore disputed policy Y is boosting metric X.<p>If more people understood the inanity of this line of argument, the world would be a much better place.<p>The head of the USPTO isn't even willing to have an intellectually honest debate on the subject. It's pretty clear that change is not going to come from within.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>&#62; In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he's the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to evade licensing encumbrances. <i>He's the guy who patented using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain – not just a better mousetrap, but the set of all possible better mousetraps.</i> Roughly a third of his inventions are legal, a third are illegal, and the remainder are legal but will become illegal as soon as the legislatosaurus wakes up, smells the coffee, and panics. There are patent attorneys in Reno who swear that Manfred Macx is a pseudo, a net alias fronting for a bunch of crazed anonymous hackers armed with the Genetic Algorithm That Ate Calcutta: a kind of Serdar Argic of intellectual property, or maybe another Bourbaki math borg. There are lawyers in San Diego and Redmond who swear blind that Macx is an economic saboteur bent on wrecking the underpinning of capitalism, and there are communists in Prague who think he's the bastard spawn of Bill Gates by way of the Pope.<p>Excerpt from Accelerando by Charles Stross (cstross). Emphasis added.<p>I would love to see some sort of legal patent pool that grants free licenses only to entities that either do not have patents themselves, or which have granted licenses for all of their patents to other members of the pool. The trick of course is getting such a pool to a critical mass that joining it and licensing all your patents to it becomes worth it.</text></comment> | <story><title>US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/us-patent-chief-to-software-patent-critics-give-it-a-rest-already/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manaskarekar</author><text>Maybe we should. Exhaust all combinations and verify them for time when this "idea" was conceived, then dump out the list on a website and have people come up with uses for it (and actually use them.)<p>Boom! Prior art to invalidate future bullshit.</text></item><item><author>IanDrake</author><text>Innovation?<p>The problem is that people are patenting non-innovative stuff. At this point one could write an automatic patent generator, much like domain name generators.<p>Or we could have the Patent-libs (like ad-libs).<p>Software that runs on [DeviceType] that has [ShapeOfCorner] and allows the user to [DigitalVersionOfNaturallyOccurringAction] which produces [ObviousOutcome].</text></item><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>&#62; He noted that during a time of growing litigation in the smartphone industry, "innovation continues at an absolutely breakneck pace. In a system like ours in which innovation is happening faster than people can keep up, it cannot be said that the patent system is broken," he said.<p>Metric X is high, therefore disputed policy Y is boosting metric X.<p>If more people understood the inanity of this line of argument, the world would be a much better place.<p>The head of the USPTO isn't even willing to have an intellectually honest debate on the subject. It's pretty clear that change is not going to come from within.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4rgento</author><text>I know you are joking, but I don't think this is a bad idea nor an imposible one.</text></comment> |
1,954,958 | 1,954,259 | 1 | 2 | 1,954,180 | train | <story><title>Oracle in conflict with another open source project?</title><url>http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewisham</author><text>For a little bit of context, I've done some plug-in commits in my time and met the important guys in this project.<p>Unlike some categorizations in the comments here, I wouldn't say that the devs are anti-Oracle, they're <i>pro-Hudson</i>. I think they've tried to work with Oracle as much as they can, and certainly shown more patience than I think I would have. Once it became clear Oracle didn't necessarily have Hudson's best intentions at heart, things started to go downhill.<p>Oracle has not been especially communicative, and it's not especially respectful to literally pull the plug on a project's infrastructure without decent prior warning. For all the failings of java.net, when it was run by Sun, they did at least make sure people knew ahead of time of planned outages (the unplanned we don't discuss).<p>From my POV, it looks like Oracle has two heads: there's the nasty, legal head that is happy to sue everyone with Sun's patent arsenal, and there's the plain incompetent head that doesn't have a clue how to interact with open-source development. We're seeing the latter here, and I guess the community is just fortunate that Hudson isn't patent-encumbered (as far as I know). I don't think there's any particular malice here, just a general level of incompetence and hubris.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle in conflict with another open source project?</title><url>http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brown9-2</author><text>As someone who has been only a light user of java.net (attempting to checkout code, navigate source repositories online, etc.) I cannot imagine how anyone could have much faith that a new architecture for this service would be any better.<p>Very odd that the Oracle VP states that in order to remain a part of the "Java community", Hudson should remain hosted on java.net. There is no way to quantify this but it seems like a very, very tiny minority of OSS Java projects use this service for hosting.</text></comment> |
5,436,375 | 5,436,424 | 1 | 3 | 5,436,236 | train | <story><title>‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today</title><url>https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avparker</author><text>I took the course last year, and really enjoyed it a lot. It's a very good introduction to functional programming.<p>For anyone unsure about taking the course, I wrote about my experience on my blog [1], maybe that will be of use. I posted more technical details of the course contents on google+ (links in the blog post).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.avparker.com/2012/11/25/functional-programming-principles-in-scala/" rel="nofollow">http://www.avparker.com/2012/11/25/functional-programming-pr...</a> .</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today</title><url>https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvillega</author><text>To anyone doing the course or interested in Scala, 2 recommendations:<p>* the blog of Daniel Westheide (<a href="http://danielwestheide.com/" rel="nofollow">http://danielwestheide.com/</a>) has a series of posts (starting at <a href="http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2012/11/21/the-neophytes-guide-to-scala-part-1-extractors.html" rel="nofollow">http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2012/11/21/the-neophytes-gui...</a> and currently at lesson 15) which may be worth reading to complement/expand on the course lectures. Probably not useful for the course itself until you’ve finished week 2 or 3, but relevant anyway.<p>* the book “Scala for the impatient”, probably the best book out there about Scala from beginner to advanced level</text></comment> |
40,944,685 | 40,944,502 | 1 | 2 | 40,943,460 | train | <story><title>Arm Accuracy Super Resolution</title><url>https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/graphics-gaming-and-vr-blog/posts/introducing-arm-accuracy-super-resolution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>Graphical fidelity isn&#x27;t the reason I don&#x27;t play mobile games. I don&#x27;t play mobile games because touchscreens are terribly deficient compared to a controller, and because the monetization of mobile games is invariably psychotic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arm Accuracy Super Resolution</title><url>https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/graphics-gaming-and-vr-blog/posts/introducing-arm-accuracy-super-resolution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rendaw</author><text>The article lists two methods:<p>* Spatial - Inferring data from nearby pixels in a single frame (?)
* Temporal - Inferring data from a point on previous and next frames<p>I guess this is super resolution in the statistical sense, rather than &quot;AI super resolution&quot; which would infer data from similar data in other photos&#x2F;videos.<p>I&#x27;m surprised, I thought this was a dead area for research and AI super resolution had fully supplanted it. Are there any open source implementations of this, ex: for photography? I was digging into this a few years ago and all I could find was the commercial &quot;PhotoAcute&quot; which is basically dead but I somehow managed to get a key for and it... barely works.</text></comment> |
24,501,073 | 24,499,422 | 1 | 3 | 24,498,678 | train | <story><title>AWS IAM is having issues again</title><url>https://twitter.com/RyanGartin/status/1306352941964701696</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>igetspam</author><text>Wherever possible, don&#x27;t use us-east-1. It&#x27;s one of the older regions and parts are aging. Yes, I know there are things that are only available in the old regions but most services are globally available. I&#x27;ve worked with a few ex AWS SWEs and SREs. They drink the kool-aid and won&#x27;t say anything bad about us-east-1 but they also won&#x27;t launch net-new services there. YMMV</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS IAM is having issues again</title><url>https://twitter.com/RyanGartin/status/1306352941964701696</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaaames</author><text>I guess I&#x27;m going outside today.</text></comment> |
5,880,166 | 5,879,703 | 1 | 2 | 5,879,203 | train | <story><title>Javapocalypse</title><url>http://jz13.java.no</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StavrosK</author><text>This is irrelevant, but I just had my first Java experience yesterday. I decided to make an Android app, it&#x27;s a simple remote control for hobby projects (Raspberry Pi&#x2F;etc) that gives you a customizable UI with buttons that perform API calls. It&#x27;d be pretty simple to do in Python, which is the language I am proficient in, but Android development sounds fun so I wanted to get started in that.<p>Creating the UI was easy enough, but making an HTTP response was hell. The simplest HTTP GET took around 30 lines of code, and the compiler kept complaining about unhandled exceptions (I know the URL is fine, it&#x27;s a fixed string I can see, it&#x27;s not going to throw MalformedURLException, I don&#x27;t want to catch it, thank you. What? I can&#x27;t compile without it?). Wrapping the calls up in try&#x2F;catch blocks was easy enough (if a bit verbose), but now the variable only existed in that scope.<p>I know I&#x27;m new enough that I can&#x27;t form an opinion about the language, but I know that something that has as simple an interface as an HTTP GET call shouldn&#x27;t take 30 lines of boilerplate to do. I&#x27;m wondering how people deal with this issue (I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s a lack of a good standard library?). What attracts people to the Java world? Is it the tooling (Eclipse was, admittedly, very good about auto-fixing my mistakes). Is the verbosity just &quot;the way it is&quot;, or am I doing something wrong?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>The standard method for getting around this in the java world is to create &#x27;sane&#x27; libraries (in the case of android http, something like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;loopj.com&#x2F;android-async-http&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;loopj.com&#x2F;android-async-http&#x2F;</a> ) and then just use the library. The strong point of Java is just how many libraries there are - you often don&#x27;t need to touch the actual built in Java APIs. On the server side (non-android) this has gone even further through the use of new annotation based libraries that generally autodiscover classes in your code, removing a lot of boilerplate.<p>One area in Java that is still incredibly annoying, however, is the ubiquitous getter&#x2F;setter pattern that bloats all Java code for zero benefit to anyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Javapocalypse</title><url>http://jz13.java.no</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StavrosK</author><text>This is irrelevant, but I just had my first Java experience yesterday. I decided to make an Android app, it&#x27;s a simple remote control for hobby projects (Raspberry Pi&#x2F;etc) that gives you a customizable UI with buttons that perform API calls. It&#x27;d be pretty simple to do in Python, which is the language I am proficient in, but Android development sounds fun so I wanted to get started in that.<p>Creating the UI was easy enough, but making an HTTP response was hell. The simplest HTTP GET took around 30 lines of code, and the compiler kept complaining about unhandled exceptions (I know the URL is fine, it&#x27;s a fixed string I can see, it&#x27;s not going to throw MalformedURLException, I don&#x27;t want to catch it, thank you. What? I can&#x27;t compile without it?). Wrapping the calls up in try&#x2F;catch blocks was easy enough (if a bit verbose), but now the variable only existed in that scope.<p>I know I&#x27;m new enough that I can&#x27;t form an opinion about the language, but I know that something that has as simple an interface as an HTTP GET call shouldn&#x27;t take 30 lines of boilerplate to do. I&#x27;m wondering how people deal with this issue (I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s a lack of a good standard library?). What attracts people to the Java world? Is it the tooling (Eclipse was, admittedly, very good about auto-fixing my mistakes). Is the verbosity just &quot;the way it is&quot;, or am I doing something wrong?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AYBABTME</author><text>Java is verbose. Tooling is great, however.<p>For exceptions, there are two types. Checked exceptions and runtime exceptions.<p>* Checked exceptions need to be explicitly handled in your code, or it doesn&#x27;t compile.
* Runtime exceptions can just happen, you don&#x27;t need to check them. I personally don&#x27;t really like the runtime exceptions because they can hide in thousands of place and throw when you don&#x27;t expect it. However, you don&#x27;t need to check them so it makes for less verbose code... but it&#x27;s like putting your head in the sand.<p>To reduce verbosity of exception handling, I find a pseudo-solution is to just propagate the exception up the stack and deal with it later. It depends for what exception, but for instance, a MalformedUrlException for which you KNOW the Url is fine, can be checked much higher in the call stack. You will save yourself the local verbosity, which hides meaning, and really if the Url is malformed, you might not want the app to keep running; if it&#x27;s hard-coded you should expect it to be right. It&#x27;s in the same spirit of Go&#x27;s `regexp.MustCompile(string)` that makes a compile error if the hardcoded string you give it is not a valid regex.<p>That being said, Java is a daily pain, but the extensive tooling makes it usable.</text></comment> |
25,828,964 | 25,828,956 | 1 | 2 | 25,816,753 | train | <story><title>The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20000829071343/http://www2.jsonline.com/news/state/may00/katz21052000a.asp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taw2212121</author><text>He has my empathy. Never had a problem for most of my life, then got sick in a way that I was given hydrocodone for 8 months. I took more than the label said, a lot more, and at some point a switch clicked over in my head. After the hydrocodone was gone, I switched to alcohol only because it was easy to get. I&#x27;ve been sober a while now, but stopping the drinking was MUCH harder than stopping the hydrocodone. Alcohol is a beast once that circuit breaker trips in your head and you start drinking large quantities daily.<p>It&#x27;s very hard to explain to someone that hasn&#x27;t gone through it. Suffice it to say that quitting isn&#x27;t really about willpower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voicedYoda</author><text>Kudos on the quit. After my child passed away, i went through a similar spiral. It took my spouse, our community, and a new life to save me. I&#x27;m not great, but doing better</text></comment> | <story><title>The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20000829071343/http://www2.jsonline.com/news/state/may00/katz21052000a.asp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taw2212121</author><text>He has my empathy. Never had a problem for most of my life, then got sick in a way that I was given hydrocodone for 8 months. I took more than the label said, a lot more, and at some point a switch clicked over in my head. After the hydrocodone was gone, I switched to alcohol only because it was easy to get. I&#x27;ve been sober a while now, but stopping the drinking was MUCH harder than stopping the hydrocodone. Alcohol is a beast once that circuit breaker trips in your head and you start drinking large quantities daily.<p>It&#x27;s very hard to explain to someone that hasn&#x27;t gone through it. Suffice it to say that quitting isn&#x27;t really about willpower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chillwaves</author><text>&gt; Suffice it to say that quitting isn&#x27;t really about willpower.<p>I found this to be my experience as well, which is why I was so interested when I heard about naltrexone therapy. More specifically, a course known as The Sinclair Method. [1]<p>The idea is to use the drug an hour prior to drinking (and only then, so if you abstained from drinking that day, you would abstain from naltrexone -- this is where it differs from standard naltrexone therapy that would have you take it every morning regardless of your plans to drink). Naltrexone blocks endorphins associated with drinking and helps to reprogram your brain to no longer seek that neurochemical response.<p>I found it to be highly successful the first week -- I didn&#x27;t even want to finish 2 drinks. After the first week, it still worked but not as well. And I also realized that the anticipation of drinking was almost as powerful as drinking itself, in that I would feel a &quot;rush&quot; even on my way to buy alcohol.<p>It took about 6 months of naltrexone therapy to finally quit. The funny part is, during that time and when under emotional distress, sometimes I would drink without the medication but it still seemed effective in that I never quite got the pleasure I used to have.<p>I&#x27;m coming up on 3 months sober, but unlike past attempts to quit, I have no urge to fight and no desire to drink again (and I am going to keep it that way).<p>I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice, just my story. The other interesting part to me is how rarely naltrexone is used for problem drinking (vs something like AA, which is faith based in more ways than one), and even more rarely is it deployed the way The Sinclair Method instructs (deliberately, right before drinking).<p>&gt; Over time, your brain learns not to associate alcohol with pleasure, resulting in reduced cravings and improved control over alcohol use.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sinclairmethod.org&#x2F;what-is-the-sinclair-method-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sinclairmethod.org&#x2F;what-is-the-sinclair-method-2...</a></text></comment> |
26,710,918 | 26,708,242 | 1 | 2 | 26,688,091 | train | <story><title>NASA Startup Studio</title><url>https://www.fedtech.io/nasastartupstudio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ArtWomb</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; NASA Startup Studio is intentionally designed to be completed alongside a full-time job or MBA program, as participants need to commit an average of 15 hours per week<p>Makes it sound more like an engineering co-op, than a full-time accelerator. NASA has the iTech program targeting aeronautics this cycle. And Space Apps Challenge Hackathon in the fall ;)<p>Ignite the Night AERONAUTICS, a virtual event<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasaitech.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasaitech.org&#x2F;</a><p>Space Apps Challenge 2021: Oct 2-3, 2021<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceappschallenge.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceappschallenge.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Startup Studio</title><url>https://www.fedtech.io/nasastartupstudio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mNovak</author><text>Odd that this one makes you sign up first, then apparently assigns you a technology. Normally these federal IP commercialization competitions let you pick the IP you&#x27;re interested in.</text></comment> |
1,398,154 | 1,398,007 | 1 | 3 | 1,397,941 | train | <story><title>Android developer on Slashdot detailing the Android "fragmentation"</title><url>http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1671914&cid=32426078</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buster</author><text>In using OpenGL he is basically giving up all the features Android offers him to stay platform independent.
I think it is clear, when you write a whole, complete rendering engine that doesn't use the android stack, you'll eventually have to deal with different screensizes, input methods, etc.<p>Most apps i use have been running on my G1 from day 1 and now on Android 2.2 on the Nexus One and i've had no big problems between android 1.5, 1.6, 2.1 and 2.2.<p>I guess the only thing for games to remain relatively platform independent is to use another intermediate layer (to substitute for a not used android "layer") like the unity3d engine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android developer on Slashdot detailing the Android "fragmentation"</title><url>http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1671914&cid=32426078</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DrSprout</author><text>Is there really a way to make OpenGL development simple and consistent across a wide range of GPUs and screens? It sounds to me like he's complaining more about how hard low-level cross-platform graphics programming is, not Android itself.</text></comment> |
14,548,095 | 14,548,119 | 1 | 2 | 14,547,797 | train | <story><title>Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/06/13/june-2017-security-update-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DuskStar</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but feel that Microsoft providing these security updates long past XP&#x27;s stated EOL date will only decrease security in the long run. After all, if any &quot;big enough&quot; vulnerability results in getting a patch anyways, why upgrade&#x2F;firewall that old XP system running your equipment? And I&#x27;d bet that people will expect the same treatment for Windows 7, too.<p>People never learn when disaster is narrowly averted. People learn when their decisions mean everything is on fire.</text></comment> | <story><title>Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/06/13/june-2017-security-update-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text>Kudos to Microsoft for doing this. Who else in the world is patching 16-year-old code well past it&#x27;s EOL, for free?</text></comment> |
20,849,185 | 20,848,118 | 1 | 3 | 20,845,327 | train | <story><title>What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>One thing I don&#x27;t see argued very much is that lowering barriers to entry and providing more frictionless access usually inevitably leads to <i>more</i> consolidation, not less. When there is very open access (e.g. &quot;Anyone with a computer can spin up a website!&quot;) it means that users will choose services that even have small improvements or advantages, until those services build up so much market share that they inevitably have huge moats to competition. I&#x27;ve heard lots of comments along the lines of &quot;I wish Amazon had more competition!&quot;, but then those same folks will choose a service if it&#x27;s 10c cheaper or if a product can arrive an hour faster.<p>On the contrary, if you look at businesses where there is <i>not</i> huge consolidation, it is often because there is &quot;market unfriendly&quot; regulation. E.g. there are many rich car dealers spread throughout the US because they&#x27;ve put in place so many anti-competitive regulations. While I&#x27;d love it if Tesla could sell direct everywhere, it also means a lot of this wealth that currently stays relatively local would get sucked up by a Silicon Valley corporation. Same thing goes for Realtors and the real estate business.<p>As a consumer I love more open markets, but I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ve fully addressed the consequences of how this leads to greater inequality and consolidation of services.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Yes, this. It&#x27;s a realisation I&#x27;ve had in the past few years and am starting to discuss myself.<p>It&#x27;s a key reason why technological improvements tend to <i>increase</i> rather than decrease inequality. Technology, generally, appears to serve wealth and power.<p>I&#x27;m not fully convinced this is a universal rule, though it seems at the very least a strong bias. It seems to fall from the observation that &quot;all machines are amplifiers&quot;, which means that all machines are <i>force multipliers</i>.<p>It may be that there are technologies which are <i>dissipators</i> and can be used to deflect or divert attacks, though these <i>still</i> seem to favour the more heavily-capitalised party. Shields rather than swords or range weapons, or perhaps distracting &#x2F; obscuring capabilities.<p>What makes for <i>decentralised systems</i> is increased frictions, whether physical, political, cultural, or social.<p>Where transport is expensive, materials are locally sourced, talent participates locally, government and business operate locally.<p>It was the factory system, mass production, transport, and advertising which allowed <i>one</i> factory or manufacturer to serve the whole world. Mind: specialisation means that there are probably many individual niches which can be filled, though horizontal and veritical integration may carve into this as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>One thing I don&#x27;t see argued very much is that lowering barriers to entry and providing more frictionless access usually inevitably leads to <i>more</i> consolidation, not less. When there is very open access (e.g. &quot;Anyone with a computer can spin up a website!&quot;) it means that users will choose services that even have small improvements or advantages, until those services build up so much market share that they inevitably have huge moats to competition. I&#x27;ve heard lots of comments along the lines of &quot;I wish Amazon had more competition!&quot;, but then those same folks will choose a service if it&#x27;s 10c cheaper or if a product can arrive an hour faster.<p>On the contrary, if you look at businesses where there is <i>not</i> huge consolidation, it is often because there is &quot;market unfriendly&quot; regulation. E.g. there are many rich car dealers spread throughout the US because they&#x27;ve put in place so many anti-competitive regulations. While I&#x27;d love it if Tesla could sell direct everywhere, it also means a lot of this wealth that currently stays relatively local would get sucked up by a Silicon Valley corporation. Same thing goes for Realtors and the real estate business.<p>As a consumer I love more open markets, but I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ve fully addressed the consequences of how this leads to greater inequality and consolidation of services.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>The car dealer model is extremely bad for consumers. It seems weird to herald it as some kind of achievement.</text></comment> |
9,962,712 | 9,962,285 | 1 | 2 | 9,961,613 | train | <story><title>Stop pushing the web forward</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text><i>We need a break. We need an opportunity to learn to the features we already have responsibly — without tools! Also, we need the time for a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to.</i><p>How about this.. YOU take a break. Stop trying to keep up with every little new thing that comes out. Wait a while.<p>And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want.<p>The tools that it turns out were a bad idea will die. And those that are good will thrive.<p>And you&#x27;ll get more time to learn the actually useful ones... and you&#x27;ll get to learn from the mistakes others made early on.<p>Yes, you&#x27;ll be a bit behind.. but you&#x27;re apparently already ok with that anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Do you know PPK and his work? He&#x27;s been at the cutting edge of web-standards and implementations for at least 12 years if my memory serves me correctly.<p>&gt;And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>If he wants to avoid the web being badly negatively effected by short term views of current browser companies and standards bodies then he won&#x27;t get what he wants by sticking his head in the sand and ignoring the direction he sees things going.<p>If this were the writing of a small time web-dev (like myself) then I think your comment would work; but I&#x27;m assuming PPK is coming from a position of experience that&#x27;s given him an almost unique overview of the direction of browser and standards development vs. the historic &quot;feel&quot; and integrity of the web.<p>PPK is doing the equivalent of saying &quot;let&#x27;s stop and ask for directions [on our car journey]&quot; and you&#x27;re saying &quot;no, let&#x27;s just keep driving I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll get to where we want to go&quot;.<p>He&#x27;s up against it as, to my mind, cautious development doesn&#x27;t serve the needs of corporations and so won&#x27;t happen.<p>&gt;&quot;We’re pushing the web forward to emulate native more and more, but we can’t out-native native.&quot; (OP) &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>I find it funny that web pages are trying to be native apps and many mobile apps are shipping when they&#x27;re ostensibly just web pages.<p>tl;dr I think the OP has more to say, and that it&#x27;s more important, than you&#x27;re giving credit for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop pushing the web forward</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text><i>We need a break. We need an opportunity to learn to the features we already have responsibly — without tools! Also, we need the time for a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to.</i><p>How about this.. YOU take a break. Stop trying to keep up with every little new thing that comes out. Wait a while.<p>And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want.<p>The tools that it turns out were a bad idea will die. And those that are good will thrive.<p>And you&#x27;ll get more time to learn the actually useful ones... and you&#x27;ll get to learn from the mistakes others made early on.<p>Yes, you&#x27;ll be a bit behind.. but you&#x27;re apparently already ok with that anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjt</author><text>This is the part that feels the most misguided to me:<p>&gt; a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to.<p>There&#x27;s no such thing as a &quot;conversation&quot; between the billions of people with a stake in this. Or even the few million people building websites and web apps. Or even the few thousand people building web browsers. Attempting to have that conversation just means open-ended delay. There will never be a clear consensus on where we want to push the web forward to. And that&#x27;s OK.</text></comment> |
33,845,208 | 33,844,415 | 1 | 3 | 33,844,010 | train | <story><title>Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672221104927</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>As with everything else, it seems, my anecdotal experience suggests a balance is usually the best overall answer. People with diarrhea of the mouth aren&#x27;t much fun to talk to, but either are people who won&#x27;t say more than three words at a time.<p>Same with <i>what</i> you talk about. People like to talk about themselves, but many of them are interested in hearing about you too. Just keep it under control, and lob that conversation topic ball back and forth regularly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672221104927</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yamrzou</author><text>An overview of the paper by the author: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theconversation.com&#x2F;people-think-they-should-talk-less-to-be-liked-but-new-research-suggests-you-should-speak-up-in-conversations-with-strangers-188196" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theconversation.com&#x2F;people-think-they-should-talk-le...</a></text></comment> |
18,477,902 | 18,477,358 | 1 | 3 | 18,475,518 | train | <story><title>Amazon Web Services in Plain English</title><url>https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sadok</author><text>You are missing the whole point. As a designer that dabbles a bit in code and servers, I literally have NO idea what most of the words you just used mean.<p>I know that S3 has nothing to do with FTP, but it&#x27;s a nice analogy that I can relate to. Get off your high horse.</text></item><item><author>lukev</author><text>Sure, a lot of AWS services could have been named better. But a lot of these are terrible, downright misleading names.<p>Some examples:<p>S3 as &quot;Amazon Unlimited FTP Server&quot;: S3 has nothing to do with the FTP protocol.<p>VPC as &quot;Amazon Virtual Collocated Rack&quot;: VPCs don&#x27;t have anything to do with either collocation (they can span AZs), much less physical racks.<p>Lambda as &quot;AWS App Scripts&quot;: <i>really</i> disagree with this one. Their intent is to be microservices or event handling functions, not scripts. &quot;Scripts&quot; isn&#x27;t really descriptive but usually implies a manually invoked automation that modifies some kind of stateful resource (such as files). Lambda is basically the exact opposite.<p>There are lots more that are problematic or overly simplified as well.<p>I don&#x27;t say this to crap on the effort, just... be careful if you&#x27;re relying on this for your understanding of what AWS does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukev</author><text>Here are some better names for S3 that aren&#x27;t misleading:<p>- Binary Storage<p>- Blob Storge<p>- File Storage<p>- Reliable Storage<p>FTP is a specific protocol. Hard drives (as a sibling comment mentions) are a specific technology. Our discipline is confusing enough that names should be precise, not analogical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Web Services in Plain English</title><url>https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sadok</author><text>You are missing the whole point. As a designer that dabbles a bit in code and servers, I literally have NO idea what most of the words you just used mean.<p>I know that S3 has nothing to do with FTP, but it&#x27;s a nice analogy that I can relate to. Get off your high horse.</text></item><item><author>lukev</author><text>Sure, a lot of AWS services could have been named better. But a lot of these are terrible, downright misleading names.<p>Some examples:<p>S3 as &quot;Amazon Unlimited FTP Server&quot;: S3 has nothing to do with the FTP protocol.<p>VPC as &quot;Amazon Virtual Collocated Rack&quot;: VPCs don&#x27;t have anything to do with either collocation (they can span AZs), much less physical racks.<p>Lambda as &quot;AWS App Scripts&quot;: <i>really</i> disagree with this one. Their intent is to be microservices or event handling functions, not scripts. &quot;Scripts&quot; isn&#x27;t really descriptive but usually implies a manually invoked automation that modifies some kind of stateful resource (such as files). Lambda is basically the exact opposite.<p>There are lots more that are problematic or overly simplified as well.<p>I don&#x27;t say this to crap on the effort, just... be careful if you&#x27;re relying on this for your understanding of what AWS does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thekelvinliu</author><text>the original comment offers some constructive criticism because the article does have the potential to misinform novice users about what certain services do and the technologies they use. yours is more of a directed personal attack; keep in mind that this is hn. good on you for knowing a priori s3 is not ftp. but i wouldn&#x27;t expect someone new to development to necessarily know this. as a result, they could have an even harder time figuring out how to do things if, for example, they search for advice on how to connect to the s3 ftp server.</text></comment> |
26,010,350 | 26,008,722 | 1 | 3 | 26,006,138 | train | <story><title>Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/01/dante-descendant-seeks-to-overturn-poets-1302-corruption-conviction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>x86ARMsRace</author><text>This causes some interesting questions about continuity of accountability for governments. I wonder how long you can hold a government accountable for the actions of its previous administrations. How many years can you go back? How many iterations of a state can you hold accountable too?</text></item><item><author>orblivion</author><text>I mean they did this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;9b6f6f5ba5be2408ff0502c7fb8abd5b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;9b6f6f5ba5be2408ff0502c7fb8abd5b</a><p>Seems silly. Should they overturn Jesus&#x27; conviction too? At a certain point the conviction is part of their story.</text></item><item><author>delecti</author><text>Is this necessary? This article from 2008 seems to indicate that his sentence had been rescinded.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20111230060902&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;newstopics&#x2F;howaboutthat&#x2F;2145378&#x2F;Dantes-infernal-crimes-forgiven.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20111230060902&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegr...</a><p>Also, it looks like he was convicted under the Holy Roman Empire, which doesn&#x27;t really exist anymore. I&#x27;m not sure who there is to overturn his conviction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glitchc</author><text>If we had a statute of limitations like this, treaties with other countries would cease to hold all meaning.<p>Humanity has already walked down this path before: The kings of England would routinely invalidate treaties made by predecessors.<p>Let’s not retread our steps, yes? The world is much calmer and safer for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/01/dante-descendant-seeks-to-overturn-poets-1302-corruption-conviction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>x86ARMsRace</author><text>This causes some interesting questions about continuity of accountability for governments. I wonder how long you can hold a government accountable for the actions of its previous administrations. How many years can you go back? How many iterations of a state can you hold accountable too?</text></item><item><author>orblivion</author><text>I mean they did this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;9b6f6f5ba5be2408ff0502c7fb8abd5b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;9b6f6f5ba5be2408ff0502c7fb8abd5b</a><p>Seems silly. Should they overturn Jesus&#x27; conviction too? At a certain point the conviction is part of their story.</text></item><item><author>delecti</author><text>Is this necessary? This article from 2008 seems to indicate that his sentence had been rescinded.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20111230060902&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;newstopics&#x2F;howaboutthat&#x2F;2145378&#x2F;Dantes-infernal-crimes-forgiven.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20111230060902&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegr...</a><p>Also, it looks like he was convicted under the Holy Roman Empire, which doesn&#x27;t really exist anymore. I&#x27;m not sure who there is to overturn his conviction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>Empty gestures like this do not hold any one accountable. The people responsible for whatever injustice occurred are long dead and there is nothing you can do to them. This is a waste of time and energy that could be better spent improving life for people who are alive today in some tangible way.<p>Is this going to feed someone who&#x27;s hungry? Shelter someone who&#x27;s homeless? Do anything that will make any actual difference in the life of any living person? No? Then why are we wasting time on it?</text></comment> |
30,951,194 | 30,948,761 | 1 | 2 | 30,945,444 | train | <story><title>Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/canada-to-ban-some-foreigners-from-buying-homes-as-prices-soar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CountSessine</author><text>You&#x27;re fighting scarcity. You still won&#x27;t win the bidding war - it just won&#x27;t be as one-sided.<p>Stop championing scarcity by blaming scapegoats. Either we limit Canada&#x27;s crazy-high immigration rate (1% of population every year) or we build more homes which is mostly gated by illiberal zoning laws passed by municipalities. But both of these policies are very popular so you&#x27;ll be swimming upstream, politically.<p>While you&#x27;re at it, you could go after other wildly popular policies that lead to high housing prices, like the primary homeowner capital gains tax exemption (probably, by value, the biggest tax dodge in the industrialized world), and Canadian cities&#x27; extremely low property tax rates (0.3% of assessed value in Vancouver, for example).</text></item><item><author>boplicity</author><text>&gt; During last year’s election campaign, Trudeau’s party also proposed a ban on “blind bidding” for houses -- the prevailing system by which offers are kept secret when someone is auctioning a home.<p>This is such a huge deal. Anyone who has had to go through the process of buying a home through a bidding war knows how unfair and one-sided this process is. It take a high-pressure emotional situation, and gives all of the information to one side (the sellers), while leaving the buyer stuck guessing at what the real price for the house is supposed to be. An absolutely horrible process that <i>should</i> be banned. Banning this is such a simple reform. I sincerely hope it happens, though I doubt it it will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;re fighting scarcity.<p>No, they&#x27;re fighting market inefficiency. A free market requires accurate and timely information to be efficient. This is literally people putting constraints on the market for what they are selling so the information is not available to one side, and the price is inflated.<p>A rational actor should walk away from a system like this, but if that&#x27;s all that&#x27;s available around you because of scarcity, you&#x27;re forced to work at a disadvantage.<p>Banning this is akin to banning other anticomptitive behavior, such as collusion and monopolies. That is, it&#x27;s up to the government to decide whether the harm outweighs the problems regulation introduces (regulation always introduces some level of friction and problems, you just hope to minimize them and maximize the benefits it brings) and is thus worth pursuing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/canada-to-ban-some-foreigners-from-buying-homes-as-prices-soar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CountSessine</author><text>You&#x27;re fighting scarcity. You still won&#x27;t win the bidding war - it just won&#x27;t be as one-sided.<p>Stop championing scarcity by blaming scapegoats. Either we limit Canada&#x27;s crazy-high immigration rate (1% of population every year) or we build more homes which is mostly gated by illiberal zoning laws passed by municipalities. But both of these policies are very popular so you&#x27;ll be swimming upstream, politically.<p>While you&#x27;re at it, you could go after other wildly popular policies that lead to high housing prices, like the primary homeowner capital gains tax exemption (probably, by value, the biggest tax dodge in the industrialized world), and Canadian cities&#x27; extremely low property tax rates (0.3% of assessed value in Vancouver, for example).</text></item><item><author>boplicity</author><text>&gt; During last year’s election campaign, Trudeau’s party also proposed a ban on “blind bidding” for houses -- the prevailing system by which offers are kept secret when someone is auctioning a home.<p>This is such a huge deal. Anyone who has had to go through the process of buying a home through a bidding war knows how unfair and one-sided this process is. It take a high-pressure emotional situation, and gives all of the information to one side (the sellers), while leaving the buyer stuck guessing at what the real price for the house is supposed to be. An absolutely horrible process that <i>should</i> be banned. Banning this is such a simple reform. I sincerely hope it happens, though I doubt it it will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>&gt; Stop championing scarcity by blaming scapegoats. Either we limit Canada&#x27;s crazy-high immigration rate (1% of population every year) or we build more homes which is mostly gated by illiberal zoning laws passed by municipalities. But both of these policies are very popular so you&#x27;ll be swimming upstream, politically.<p>I&#x27;m all for building more houses in cities&#x2F;high demand areas, but doesn&#x27;t Canada only have a population growth rate of around 1%&#x2F;yr? It seems like you could easily build your way past that without giving up the advantages of immigration and a little population growth.</text></comment> |
24,693,094 | 24,692,925 | 1 | 2 | 24,692,637 | train | <story><title>For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305750X86900434</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>&gt;This paper uses international cross-section data to provide a simple test of this hypothesis. Despite the crudeness of the test, the small size of the sample and possible ambiguities in interpretation, the results provide a tentative confirmation of the hypothesis.</i><p>Doesn’t sound very reliable, especially being from 1986 when we generally had a much less sophisticated understanding of the intricacies of statistics and hypothesis testing.<p>Conversely to the paper’s implication, too many lawyers can also be seen as evidence of a society based on the rule of the law, with strong legal institutions, processes, separation of powers and other patterns of integrity, and lack of rule by decree in any form, all of which are valuable and possibly necessary components of sustainable economic growth. In such a society, law will naturally be one of the more prestigious and attractive professions.<p>I’m sure there’s some optimal ratio of lawyers to scientists|engineers|teachers|builders and other productive professions, where exceeding that ratio results in lower than optimal growth. But even a society with too many lawyers probably has stronger growth than one with none.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>The bigger issue is whether this is cause or correlation. As in, I believe that the figure is correct, and that more lawyers do cause less economic growth, but most of the correlation is not caused by the lawyers.<p>A less developed country probably doesn&#x27;t have solid rule of law, and so has fewer lawyers. A less developed country also can generate fast economic growth by transferring knowledge from more advanced ones.<p>By contrast advanced countries have solid rule of law, and so lots of lawyers. They also can&#x27;t easily grow through knowledge transfer, because there is nobody to transfer knowledge from. They have to generate new knowledge themselves.<p>I would therefore suggest removing GDP&#x2F;capita as a confounding factor first.<p>That said, lawyers are economic sand. The main purpose of lawyers is to make other lawyers be needed. And lawyers are good at convincing themselves that they were needed. We would be better off with fewer lawyers. If you don&#x27;t believe me, consider the phenomena of patent trolls. What do they add to anyone other than themselves?</text></comment> | <story><title>For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305750X86900434</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>&gt;This paper uses international cross-section data to provide a simple test of this hypothesis. Despite the crudeness of the test, the small size of the sample and possible ambiguities in interpretation, the results provide a tentative confirmation of the hypothesis.</i><p>Doesn’t sound very reliable, especially being from 1986 when we generally had a much less sophisticated understanding of the intricacies of statistics and hypothesis testing.<p>Conversely to the paper’s implication, too many lawyers can also be seen as evidence of a society based on the rule of the law, with strong legal institutions, processes, separation of powers and other patterns of integrity, and lack of rule by decree in any form, all of which are valuable and possibly necessary components of sustainable economic growth. In such a society, law will naturally be one of the more prestigious and attractive professions.<p>I’m sure there’s some optimal ratio of lawyers to scientists|engineers|teachers|builders and other productive professions, where exceeding that ratio results in lower than optimal growth. But even a society with too many lawyers probably has stronger growth than one with none.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&gt; Conversely to the paper’s implication, too many lawyers can also be seen as evidence of a society based on the rule of the law, with strong legal institutions, processes, separation of powers and other patterns of integrity, and lack of rule by decree in any form<p>Well, it means strong legal institutions. But...<p>Take criminal law, for example. Lots of lawyers mean that each criminal gets their day in court. That&#x27;s good. But a law-abiding society would be better.<p>Or take contract law. Lots of lawyers mean that, if the other party violates the contract, you can sue them. But wouldn&#x27;t it be better to have a society where more people just did what the contract said, instead of trying to find ways to weasel out of it?<p>Even with respect to the government, yes, when they overstep their bounds, we can take them to court, and we can even win and make them stop doing whatever they&#x27;re not supposed to. But really, it would be better if they just stayed within the constitutional parameters of what they&#x27;re allowed to do.<p>In all these cases, it&#x27;s good (really!) that we can have our day in court, in a system that is at least relatively fair. The lawyers are the sign of a healthy legal system. But they&#x27;re also the sign of an <i>un</i>healthy society, that is restrained by court cases rather than by doing the right thing.</text></comment> |
6,918,777 | 6,918,727 | 1 | 2 | 6,918,180 | train | <story><title>I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam</title><url>http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/i-am-an-idiot-0000167-v20n12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbig</author><text>&quot;I’m superstitious, so one night I told myself, All right, if I win a game of hearts with less than 15 points, I’ll do it. I’d never scored that low in my life, so when I landed at 11 points, I thought it was a sign and decided to buy a ticket.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s your problem right there. People like this are prone to other irrational thinking. I would bet that the vast majority of people who fall for this stuff are also deeply religious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jscheel</author><text>This was self-confirmation and had nothing to do with religion. Please take your hate to &#x2F;r&#x2F;atheism.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam</title><url>http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/i-am-an-idiot-0000167-v20n12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbig</author><text>&quot;I’m superstitious, so one night I told myself, All right, if I win a game of hearts with less than 15 points, I’ll do it. I’d never scored that low in my life, so when I landed at 11 points, I thought it was a sign and decided to buy a ticket.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s your problem right there. People like this are prone to other irrational thinking. I would bet that the vast majority of people who fall for this stuff are also deeply religious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>You know there&#x27;s a difference between being religious and asking Hearts game to tell you if you should participate in the 419 scam? Most religions actually frown very hard of those kind of things. For Avraamic religions, there&#x27;s a direct prohibition of such practices in Leviticus 19:26.</text></comment> |
2,674,751 | 2,674,573 | 1 | 3 | 2,674,369 | train | <story><title>New security issue at Dropbox</title><url>http://pastebin.com/yBKwDY6T</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jasber</author><text>A slight tangent...<p>I recently looked into password managers myself after the MtGox leak. I tried 1Password and LastPass. While both do what they say--I found them cumbersome to use.<p>I settled on a scheme like this:<p>E-mail: Very strong, completely unique. 2-factor auth. If you have my e-mail, it's game over.<p>Bank: Very strong, completely unique.<p>The rest of the passwords I've broken down into tiers. I've memorized a password for each tier combined with a hashing algorithm stored in my head.<p>The theory here being if an entire tier gets compromised (someone figures out my hashing scheme), at the very worst I lose the entire tier.<p>This does keep me safe from automated attacks, but not if someone singled me out individually. Which in that case, I've got other problems.<p>This isn't perfect, but it gives me a couple of things I really value:<p>- Keep all passwords in my head<p>- Unique passwords on each site<p>- Tiered passwords so if someone figures out my hashing scheme, they only get that tier<p>I like the idea of password managers, but in practice they were too much hassle for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>New security issue at Dropbox</title><url>http://pastebin.com/yBKwDY6T</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>"<i>there was a very brief glitch and this should never happen/be possible again. thanks for the email.</i>"<p>Yikes</text></comment> |
12,027,565 | 12,027,496 | 1 | 2 | 12,027,270 | train | <story><title>Tesla's 'Autopilot' Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overreact</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-01/tesla-s-autopilot-will-make-mistakes-humans-will-overreact</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s part of the problem.<p>Tesla has two basic problems with their &quot;autopilot&quot;. One is hype, and one is bad technical design.<p>Tesla&#x27;s &quot;autopilot&quot; is just automatic lane keeping and automatic cruise control. Mercedes and BMW have been shipping that for years. The other car companies have hardware to check if the driver&#x27;s hands are on the wheel. Tesla not only didn&#x27;t do that, they hyped those basic functions as being an &quot;autopilot&quot;, as if they had something comparable to what Google has. Tesla has significantly overhyped their technology, to a dangerous level.<p>Here&#x27;s another Tesla crash, from yesterday.[1] This is a Tesla rear-ending the corner of a stalled van on a highway. This may be an &quot;automation in wrong mode&quot; error, and complicated excuses from Tesla will probably be forthcoming. That&#x27;s not good enough. Airline pilots get into &quot;wrong mode&quot; errors, and they get extensive training, including simulator time. Drivers don&#x27;t get that. This driver presumably thought the automation would do something sensible in that situation. It didn&#x27;t.<p>The other big Tesla problem is a pure technical design error - the bumper-mounted radar is blind at windshield height. This is the immediate cause of the fatal accident involving under-running the semitrailer. It&#x27;s also the cause of the parking accident with the truck with overhanging load sticking out the back.[2] Tesla&#x27;s implementation has deadly blind spots. They need a radar at windshield-top height. It&#x27;s quite likely, now that the NHTSA is looking into this crash, that Tesla will have to do a recall and retrofit one. (Along with hands-on-wheel sensors.)<p>Tesla was relying on stereo cameras too much. Depth from stereo is always iffy; there needs to be some detail on the target to get range. You can&#x27;t range a uniform surface with stereo vision. (Human flyers have the same problem flying over ice.) A big white truck under some lighting conditions has that property. Cameras are useful, but backed only by today&#x27;s algorithms, not enough. Teslas come with a sensor suite inadequate for the job.<p>From a software perspective, Tesla&#x27;s software seems to be overoptimistic that there&#x27;s no problem ahead. 3D vision systems know when they don&#x27;t have range info for a large area. Tesla&#x27;s software was willing to drive into that. It didn&#x27;t note the absence of range info for the road surface; it may not even be profiling the road ahead. (We all had to do that in the DARPA Grand Challenge because we were operating off-road. That&#x27;s a solved problem. Google does it with their roof-mounted LIDAR.) Tesla owners have asked for &quot;pothole detection&quot; as a feature. Lack of this may eventually take someone off a cliff.<p>The press is gradually picking up on this. Until recently, Tesla&#x27;s autopilot was treated as a magic black box in the press. Now some automotive writers are starting to ask the right questions.<p>This is not a setback for automatic driving. This is just a Tesla problem.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roadandtrack.com&#x2F;new-cars&#x2F;car-technology&#x2F;news&#x2F;a29133&#x2F;tesla-self-driving-crash-summon-autonomous&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roadandtrack.com&#x2F;new-cars&#x2F;car-technology&#x2F;news&#x2F;a29...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla's 'Autopilot' Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overreact</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-01/tesla-s-autopilot-will-make-mistakes-humans-will-overreact</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshdickson</author><text>I used to work on the radar systems in these vehicles. It&#x27;s a problem that the feature is called &quot;autopilot,&quot; yes, but the larger issue is that the car does not <i>enforce</i> what the company often says in press releases, which is that you need to remain alert and with your hands on the wheel. There have been similar systems in other vehicles for years - I&#x27;m most familiar with those in Mercedes vehicles that are not as advanced but perform similar actions. Those systems will <i>automatically turn off</i> after just a few seconds of removing your hands from the wheel. That is what the Tesla should do. The autopilot feature is a toy; it&#x27;s not to be used in place of a human driver, nor would a human driver be able to step in quickly and take over for the system were it to suddenly fail had the person not been paying attention. It should not be possible to watch a Youtube video of someone driving completely hands free for minutes at a time.<p>Yes, Tesla should not call it &quot;autopilot,&quot; but if you want to really prevent people from using the system in a way in which it&#x27;s not intended, you need to enforce it in hardware.</text></comment> |
3,784,292 | 3,784,205 | 1 | 2 | 3,783,812 | train | <story><title>Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrgb</author><text>Sprouts is great! I gave a talk and did a project on it in my combinatorics class in college. I was thinking about doing an iPhone version in Obj-c or a web version. Anyone interested in this or know of an existing version?</text></comment> | <story><title>Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>farnsworth</author><text>This is interesting. Does anyone know of a way to play this game against a computer, besides the windows-only programs mentioned in WP? And how do you decide how many dots to start with?</text></comment> |
30,726,312 | 30,724,631 | 1 | 3 | 30,720,565 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?</title><text>Hello HN, I&#x27;ve been at my current company for the past 15 years. I&#x27;ve taken on different roles where I started as a software engineer, before being promoted to lead, and then to staff engineer. I know my current company by heart. I know how to get things done. I know who to talk to and how to talk to the right people. I know the processes of my company in and out.<p>I decided to get out of my comfort zone. Try something new, I told myself on and on for the past 3 years. And I finally did it. I&#x27;m changing jobs.<p>I&#x27;m going to a new company, where I&#x27;ll be doing something slightly similar to my previous role, but in a totally new field. I don&#x27;t know anyone there. The people seem extremely friendly and fun to work with. This is what I felt in the hiring process.<p>It feels like I forgot how I got good at this. Technically, I have no doubts to get things done. However, on the people level, I have no clue how to get started. How do I make &quot;new friends&quot; at work?<p>What do you usually do when you switch to a new company? How do you go from the &quot;new clueless person at work&quot; to &quot;oh hey Mike, I&#x27;ll need your help this afternoon&quot;?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ativzzz</author><text>&gt; focus on developing superficial relationships with lots of people<p>Any tips for doing this in a remote company? Just be more active in random slack channels? Reach out to random individuals?</text></item><item><author>hluska</author><text>My Dad was a police officer and I moved around a lot as a kid, so I had more than a decade of experience being the new kid before I graduated high school. I figured out some things and still use them when I’m new in organizations.<p>1.) Learn names.<p>2.) Avoid tribes at first. It’s tempting to latch onto the first group that welcomes you, but try to avoid this. For at least the first few weeks, focus on developing superficial relationships with lots of people over deep relationships with few.<p>3.) Find the cool. Starting something new often triggers something like mourning. Give yourself space to mourn the old, but force yourself space to find extremely cool things in the new place. You’re closing one door and opening another. Hunt the cool! It’s easier to do this if you form lots of relationships early on.<p>4.) Everyone is shy.<p>5.) I got to know two types of cops’ kids:<p>- “The place I lived two moves ago was the best.”<p>- “Whatever town I live in now is the best.”<p>Guess who had an easier time making friends.<p>6.) DIY. Your new town might suck and the place you lived last move may have actually been the best town on earth. It got that way because people had ideas and did it themselves. You got the idea from someone else so 5% of the hard work is already done…:)<p>7.) Once you’ve been the new person, your most important task is to always help new people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spangry</author><text>This will sound counter-intuitive, but calling individuals to ask for small favours is a good way to build rapport and to learn more about your colleagues. Most people are very happy to help out the new guy, and asking a small favour is a good pretext for starting broader conversations about the topic they&#x27;re an expert in or, even better, are passionate about.<p>For example: &quot;Hey John, I&#x27;m spangry and I just started this week in team foo. So and so tells me that you&#x27;re the resident expert on x. I&#x27;m planning to do some work related to x and figured, given I&#x27;m new and all, I should talk to you before starting. Have you got a moment to talk about x?&quot; Then ask your favour and they will likely oblige. After you&#x27;ve thanked them, that&#x27;s your opportunity to launch into a more general conversation where you show interest in their background or subject of interest (e.g. &#x27;So how long have you been at [company] for? Got any tips for a new starter?&#x27; or &#x27;I did a little research on x before calling and read that y is a big issue at the moment. Just curious, what&#x27;s your take on y issue?&#x27;)<p>It goes without saying that being genuinely interested and curious about them helps greatly. I think the above works because (1) most people want to help, and they remember what it was like to be new (2) it&#x27;s respectful, even flattering, that you&#x27;re coming to them for their expertise and (3) broadening the conversation (but still keeping it on safe ground) generates additional conversation paths and further opportunities for building rapport.<p>Lastly, asking for small favours (which are obliged) may actually make people like you more as a post-hoc rationalisation for why they did you the favour (this is known as the Ben Franklin effect: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ben_Franklin_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ben_Franklin_effect</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?</title><text>Hello HN, I&#x27;ve been at my current company for the past 15 years. I&#x27;ve taken on different roles where I started as a software engineer, before being promoted to lead, and then to staff engineer. I know my current company by heart. I know how to get things done. I know who to talk to and how to talk to the right people. I know the processes of my company in and out.<p>I decided to get out of my comfort zone. Try something new, I told myself on and on for the past 3 years. And I finally did it. I&#x27;m changing jobs.<p>I&#x27;m going to a new company, where I&#x27;ll be doing something slightly similar to my previous role, but in a totally new field. I don&#x27;t know anyone there. The people seem extremely friendly and fun to work with. This is what I felt in the hiring process.<p>It feels like I forgot how I got good at this. Technically, I have no doubts to get things done. However, on the people level, I have no clue how to get started. How do I make &quot;new friends&quot; at work?<p>What do you usually do when you switch to a new company? How do you go from the &quot;new clueless person at work&quot; to &quot;oh hey Mike, I&#x27;ll need your help this afternoon&quot;?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ativzzz</author><text>&gt; focus on developing superficial relationships with lots of people<p>Any tips for doing this in a remote company? Just be more active in random slack channels? Reach out to random individuals?</text></item><item><author>hluska</author><text>My Dad was a police officer and I moved around a lot as a kid, so I had more than a decade of experience being the new kid before I graduated high school. I figured out some things and still use them when I’m new in organizations.<p>1.) Learn names.<p>2.) Avoid tribes at first. It’s tempting to latch onto the first group that welcomes you, but try to avoid this. For at least the first few weeks, focus on developing superficial relationships with lots of people over deep relationships with few.<p>3.) Find the cool. Starting something new often triggers something like mourning. Give yourself space to mourn the old, but force yourself space to find extremely cool things in the new place. You’re closing one door and opening another. Hunt the cool! It’s easier to do this if you form lots of relationships early on.<p>4.) Everyone is shy.<p>5.) I got to know two types of cops’ kids:<p>- “The place I lived two moves ago was the best.”<p>- “Whatever town I live in now is the best.”<p>Guess who had an easier time making friends.<p>6.) DIY. Your new town might suck and the place you lived last move may have actually been the best town on earth. It got that way because people had ideas and did it themselves. You got the idea from someone else so 5% of the hard work is already done…:)<p>7.) Once you’ve been the new person, your most important task is to always help new people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wara23arish</author><text>I need help with this badly. I recently started at a remote company. I think do a better than average job at socializing and meeting people in person.<p>But definitely worse on slack, I overthink my messages that I type and end up not participating since I feel it can be misunderstood. I also feel that I dont want to be seen as a “time-waster”.<p>Fwiw, i also struggle with this with my american friends on discord, i just dont know how to navigate this sort of stuff and whats okay and not okay.</text></comment> |
2,044,288 | 2,044,160 | 1 | 3 | 2,044,075 | train | <story><title>Low Skills Cause Procrastination</title><url>http://chestergrant.posterous.com/low-skills-causes-procrastination</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidu</author><text>Strong disagree. I procrastinate out of boredom, not insecurity.<p>When I'm engaged, even if it's new territory, I'm on fire.<p>When I'm bored, it's painful to get through certain things, and it makes doing the dishes or laundry look appealing!<p>For most people, procrastination is a lack of will power to do that which we do not wish to do even though we know we must.<p>As an side, for just about all people, drugs like adderall and friends WILL help you be more productive, though it comes with its own consequences (lack of creativity in some, jitters, easily agitated, loss of apetite, etc.). And I do mean it would help just about anyone who took it, not just those diagnosed with ADD.</text></comment> | <story><title>Low Skills Cause Procrastination</title><url>http://chestergrant.posterous.com/low-skills-causes-procrastination</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dillon</author><text>I respect your reasoning but I have to disagree. As a programmer when I am stressed or worried then I am working on the issue non stop until it's solved.<p>When something is easy you aren't stressed thus you aren't going to work on it immediately. When the issue becomes something stressful, because of time, that's when you begin working on it.<p>Therefore I'd have to say that we are pushed to work hard when we are stressed whether it's having low skills or having very little time.<p>I'd say when you are able to finish your project in a short amount of time, that shows you have a high level of skill, but if you have low skills and start it immediately and give the same results that shows a high level of skill in the form of determination.</text></comment> |
24,260,768 | 24,260,757 | 1 | 3 | 24,260,004 | train | <story><title>Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/why-you-will-marry-the-wrong-person.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phoe-krk</author><text>&gt; because marriage is not something you &quot;do&quot;, it&#x27;s something you make.<p>This is a bold assumption that will not hold in many countries and regions that consider marriage as something that is &quot;done&quot;, especially if the act that proclaims it as &quot;done&quot; it&#x27;s performed in the presence of some holy man, in a holy building, and if the marriage is, in any way, legally or morally &quot;irreversible&quot; or impossible to effectively unmake even for strongest and most plausible reasons to do so.<p>Such rules, counter-intuitively, make it much harder for marriages to be happy. If a marriage is &quot;done&quot;, then there&#x27;s no point in trying to &quot;make&quot; it - whether it means to make it better, make it worthwhile, or even make it happen with someone better-suited for the role.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>The framework given in the first paragraph (which both I and de Botton reject) is fundamentally wrong because marriage is not something you &quot;do&quot;, it&#x27;s something you make. One of the foremost requirements going in to a marriage is that both partners understand this. You will marry the right person if you change your axioms.<p>de Botton <i>kind of</i> alludes to this here but in a wordy and deeply pessimistic way, but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a good framing for it.<p>&gt; It might sound odd, but pessimism relieves the excessive imaginative pressure that our romantic culture places upon marriage<p>&gt; Romanticism has been unhelpful to us; it is a harsh philosophy. It has made a lot of what we go through in marriage seem exceptional and appalling.<p>I disagree, contrary to what he says a Romantic (in the literary sense) view always <i>allows us to be flawed,</i> because it always contains room for redemption. Thinking that marriage will be some kind of perfect union is rationalist thinking, like designing a system of gears. Thinking of marriage as union of two people who work together for something greater that both can share the fruits of is irrational thinking we need and can easily intuit. We&#x27;re just really good at shunning this kind of thinking, these days.<p>In the end we both agree, he says: &quot;Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.&quot; I just think his framing here is needlessly pessimistic and dismissive of the romantic forces, and probably a terrible way to approach most of life&#x27;s difficulties, never-mind marriage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>I can only really speak in much detail about Christianity and Judaism but this is a pretty big misinterpretation of how marriage is supposed to work in both of these religions. While both are generally against divorce they also specify guidelines for how one should behave in a marriage. These guidelines are ways that a marriage is &quot;made&quot; over time.<p>I would imagine that this holds for other religions as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/why-you-will-marry-the-wrong-person.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phoe-krk</author><text>&gt; because marriage is not something you &quot;do&quot;, it&#x27;s something you make.<p>This is a bold assumption that will not hold in many countries and regions that consider marriage as something that is &quot;done&quot;, especially if the act that proclaims it as &quot;done&quot; it&#x27;s performed in the presence of some holy man, in a holy building, and if the marriage is, in any way, legally or morally &quot;irreversible&quot; or impossible to effectively unmake even for strongest and most plausible reasons to do so.<p>Such rules, counter-intuitively, make it much harder for marriages to be happy. If a marriage is &quot;done&quot;, then there&#x27;s no point in trying to &quot;make&quot; it - whether it means to make it better, make it worthwhile, or even make it happen with someone better-suited for the role.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>The framework given in the first paragraph (which both I and de Botton reject) is fundamentally wrong because marriage is not something you &quot;do&quot;, it&#x27;s something you make. One of the foremost requirements going in to a marriage is that both partners understand this. You will marry the right person if you change your axioms.<p>de Botton <i>kind of</i> alludes to this here but in a wordy and deeply pessimistic way, but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a good framing for it.<p>&gt; It might sound odd, but pessimism relieves the excessive imaginative pressure that our romantic culture places upon marriage<p>&gt; Romanticism has been unhelpful to us; it is a harsh philosophy. It has made a lot of what we go through in marriage seem exceptional and appalling.<p>I disagree, contrary to what he says a Romantic (in the literary sense) view always <i>allows us to be flawed,</i> because it always contains room for redemption. Thinking that marriage will be some kind of perfect union is rationalist thinking, like designing a system of gears. Thinking of marriage as union of two people who work together for something greater that both can share the fruits of is irrational thinking we need and can easily intuit. We&#x27;re just really good at shunning this kind of thinking, these days.<p>In the end we both agree, he says: &quot;Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.&quot; I just think his framing here is needlessly pessimistic and dismissive of the romantic forces, and probably a terrible way to approach most of life&#x27;s difficulties, never-mind marriage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>I disagree. The irreversible nature makes the case for &quot;making&quot; it (work) stronger.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of GK Chesterton, in Heretics: &quot;Posting a letter and getting married are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic a thing must be irrevocable.&quot;</text></comment> |
24,737,751 | 24,737,729 | 1 | 3 | 24,737,409 | train | <story><title>UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”</title><url>https://www.exberliner.com/features/julian-assange-trial-2020/nils-melzer-assange/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>&gt; 17 out of the 18 charges that Julian Assange has been indicted for are for espionage. Espionage is the quintessential, textbook example of a political offence<p>Could someone explain this to me? It seems to me ridiculous to claim espionage is a textbook example of a political offence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shoo</author><text>&gt; political crime or political offence is an offence involving overt acts or omissions, which prejudice the interests of the state, its government, or the political system<p>&gt; States will define as political crimes any behaviour perceived as a threat, real or imagined, to the state&#x27;s survival, including both violent and non-violent oppositional crimes. A consequence of such criminalisation may be that a range of human rights, civil rights, and freedoms are curtailed, and conduct which would not normally be considered criminal per se (in other words, that is not antisocial according to those who engage in it) is criminalised at the convenience of the group holding power.<p>&gt; At one extreme, crimes such as treason, sedition, and terrorism are political because they represent a direct challenge to the government in power. Espionage is usually considered a political crime. But offenders do not have to aim to overthrow the government or to depose its leaders to be acting in a way perceived as &quot;political&quot;. A state may perceive it threatening if individuals advocate change to the established order, or argue the need for reform of long-established policies, or engage in acts signifying some degree of disloyalty, e.g. by burning the nation&#x27;s flag in public.<p>&gt; Because a political offender may be fighting against a tyrannical government, treaties have usually specified that a person cannot be extradited for a political offense.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Political_crime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Political_crime</a></text></comment> | <story><title>UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”</title><url>https://www.exberliner.com/features/julian-assange-trial-2020/nils-melzer-assange/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>&gt; 17 out of the 18 charges that Julian Assange has been indicted for are for espionage. Espionage is the quintessential, textbook example of a political offence<p>Could someone explain this to me? It seems to me ridiculous to claim espionage is a textbook example of a political offence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>Espionage is often used like that. It&#x27;s the charge North Korea, China and Iran use to imprison European or US-tourists and journalists.</text></comment> |
22,984,114 | 22,984,105 | 1 | 3 | 22,983,894 | train | <story><title>Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Coming to the realization that our economic crisis (primarily massive number of newly unemployed) was largely avoidable with a scheme like this vs the PPP loan program and multi-trillion money printing we got instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronblohowiak</author><text>BoJ’s money printer has been going since well before cv19. They pioneered central banks buying ETFs (its even called Japanification..) I don’t believe the crisis would have been avoidable since salaries are only one part of the economy (ex:how does debt work?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Coming to the realization that our economic crisis (primarily massive number of newly unemployed) was largely avoidable with a scheme like this vs the PPP loan program and multi-trillion money printing we got instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>10 millions laid off workers in Japan IS an economic crisis regardless.<p>This is the equivalent of all the workers from the top 20-30+ companies in Japan no longer working.</text></comment> |
15,026,415 | 15,026,385 | 1 | 3 | 15,024,261 | train | <story><title>Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11722/intel-reveals-ice-lake-core-architecture-10nm-plus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majidazimi</author><text>Hmmm. It seems Atom&#x2F;Electron devs need to work hard to slow down new generation processors...</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11722/intel-reveals-ice-lake-core-architecture-10nm-plus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitL</author><text>In retrospective, Intel should have bought NVidia when they had the chance; GPUs is the only area making huge progress year to year now.</text></comment> |
9,764,409 | 9,763,245 | 1 | 2 | 9,762,412 | train | <story><title>Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/21/dollar-shave-club-valued-at-615-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobleach</author><text>I liked their branding. It had that hip internet company feel. The little leaflets and stuff that they sent with each razor pack were just fun. After time, their razors began to hurt and feel like they were pulling hair more than I remember at the beginning. One Saturday I did an A&#x2F;B test with a store-bought Gillette 5 blade against the DSC ultimate 6 blade. I lathered up and shaved with a brand new DSC blade and it was just a little painful. Brand new Gillette, smooth as silk. I decided that even though the Dollar Shave Club was cheaper (Gillette from a drugstore is 15-20 bucks for refills) I couldn&#x27;t have a painful shave experience. I had my phone in hand to take pics of the experience and thought... hey, I&#x27;ll just cancel right now. I could not find a way to do it. I could only pause my delivery. Finally a couple of months later, I hunted around their website a bit and didn&#x27;t immediately see anything related to &quot;quitting the club&quot;. After a google search, I finally met with success.... only to start receiving plenty of email from them. I unsubscribed and so far I haven&#x27;t heard from them again. I doubt I&#x27;ll try Gillette&#x27;s shave club as I&#x27;ve heard they just send out their &quot;not as sharp&quot; razors for the reduced price. Maybe I should just grow a beard....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Consider a simple old-fashioned safety razor with double-edged razor blades. They&#x27;re not quite as fast and effective as the 4 (+1) bladed razors, but for the $30 you&#x27;d pay for a four-pack of the Mach 5 blades you can also get ~100 Feather blades off Amazon (Prime) so even if you replace the blade <i>every single time</i> they&#x27;ll last you <i>four months</i> or so. and if you do that, they <i>will</i> be sharp enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/21/dollar-shave-club-valued-at-615-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobleach</author><text>I liked their branding. It had that hip internet company feel. The little leaflets and stuff that they sent with each razor pack were just fun. After time, their razors began to hurt and feel like they were pulling hair more than I remember at the beginning. One Saturday I did an A&#x2F;B test with a store-bought Gillette 5 blade against the DSC ultimate 6 blade. I lathered up and shaved with a brand new DSC blade and it was just a little painful. Brand new Gillette, smooth as silk. I decided that even though the Dollar Shave Club was cheaper (Gillette from a drugstore is 15-20 bucks for refills) I couldn&#x27;t have a painful shave experience. I had my phone in hand to take pics of the experience and thought... hey, I&#x27;ll just cancel right now. I could not find a way to do it. I could only pause my delivery. Finally a couple of months later, I hunted around their website a bit and didn&#x27;t immediately see anything related to &quot;quitting the club&quot;. After a google search, I finally met with success.... only to start receiving plenty of email from them. I unsubscribed and so far I haven&#x27;t heard from them again. I doubt I&#x27;ll try Gillette&#x27;s shave club as I&#x27;ve heard they just send out their &quot;not as sharp&quot; razors for the reduced price. Maybe I should just grow a beard....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Funny how their strategy seems to be based on annoying ads and locking people to their service<p>About shaving: after I got an electrical one I never looked back</text></comment> |
22,750,784 | 22,748,338 | 1 | 3 | 22,746,764 | train | <story><title>Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script</title><url>https://twitter.com/DanAmodio/status/1245329512889487361</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Puts</author><text>Some more shadiness from this company. The Zoom.us-website is explicitly allowing the browser with its content security policy-headers to load scripts from these domains:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;*.50million.club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;*.50million.club</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apiurl.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apiurl.org</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.myshopcouponmac.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.myshopcouponmac.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serve2.cheqzone.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serve2.cheqzone.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ad.lkqd.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ad.lkqd.net</a><p>Doing a fast google for these domains shows they are mostly known for being associated with malware...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cricalix</author><text>I saw somewhere on Twitter, possibly as a reply to Scott Helme, that they possibly added these URLs to their CSP because they were getting errors in their CSP logs from machines that had adware&#x2F;malware loaded. Can&#x27;t find the tweet though, so maybe it wasn&#x27;t him (but I&#x27;m reasonably sure it was a discussion of CSP, ReportURI, and the fact the CSP changes depending on logged in&#x2F;out of zoom&#x27;s site).<p>Pretty bad solution if that was indeed the case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script</title><url>https://twitter.com/DanAmodio/status/1245329512889487361</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Puts</author><text>Some more shadiness from this company. The Zoom.us-website is explicitly allowing the browser with its content security policy-headers to load scripts from these domains:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;*.50million.club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;*.50million.club</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apiurl.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apiurl.org</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.myshopcouponmac.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.myshopcouponmac.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serve2.cheqzone.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serve2.cheqzone.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ad.lkqd.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ad.lkqd.net</a><p>Doing a fast google for these domains shows they are mostly known for being associated with malware...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badrabbit</author><text>Yeah...about that: ad sites are contacted by malware a lot so google results will show as such. Adware is technically malware.</text></comment> |
32,383,574 | 32,382,757 | 1 | 2 | 32,381,448 | train | <story><title>Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell</title><url>https://jpieper.com/2022/08/05/debugging-bare-metal-stm32-from-the-seventh-level-of-hell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matrix_overload</author><text>&gt;It seems that the ADCs on the STM32G4 do not like to be turned on in rapid succession, and if they do, bad things can happen like having the prescaler flipped to a different value without it showing in the corresponding register.<p>This sounds very, VERY much like an incorrectly configured clock where some of the peripherals would end up with a clock frequency slightly above what they were designed for. Will work 99% of the time and will give you hell for the remaining 1%. Much more likely than stumbling upon an undiscovered errata in a fairly popular device family with 10+ years of history.<p>Could also be flakey power (check your decoupling capacitors) or an outright b0rked chip&#x2F;board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpieper</author><text>For what it is worth, the G0&#x2F;4 family is relatively new. I&#x27;m pretty sure it has unique ADC IP too, since the published errata (which I&#x27;m very familiar with) are different from any other ST chip I know of.<p>The clock should of course have been suspect (as noted in the writeup). The &quot;bad state&quot; in this problem was basically indistinguishable from running the ADC at too high a clock rate. In fact, the default rate when I first encountered this problem does ever so slightly overclock the ADC. It is rated for 60MHz for single ADC operation, but only 26MHz for multiple ADCs. The firmware used to run the ADCs at ~28MHz, purposefully going a tiny bit above that.<p>I didn&#x27;t include it in the writeup since it was somewhat of a diversion, but this particular problem occurred even with the ADCs configured to be clocked slower. As mentioned, I think that their clock configuration became mis-set as a result of the underlying problem.<p>And while poor decoupling is also a likely problem, I&#x27;m 95% sure it is about as good as it can get. A high quality cap of appropriate size is immediately next to the chip on every supply pin with vias directly to the ground plane. This is a low pin count QFN part, so the only ground on the chip is the center pad, which is also via&#x27;ed directly to the ground plane.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell</title><url>https://jpieper.com/2022/08/05/debugging-bare-metal-stm32-from-the-seventh-level-of-hell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matrix_overload</author><text>&gt;It seems that the ADCs on the STM32G4 do not like to be turned on in rapid succession, and if they do, bad things can happen like having the prescaler flipped to a different value without it showing in the corresponding register.<p>This sounds very, VERY much like an incorrectly configured clock where some of the peripherals would end up with a clock frequency slightly above what they were designed for. Will work 99% of the time and will give you hell for the remaining 1%. Much more likely than stumbling upon an undiscovered errata in a fairly popular device family with 10+ years of history.<p>Could also be flakey power (check your decoupling capacitors) or an outright b0rked chip&#x2F;board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhallenworld</author><text>Maybe, anyway it&#x27;s worth opening a case with ST support. I found a bug in STM32L0 a few years ago, and they did help (they found a software workaround which was not yet documented- had to do with waking up from deep sleep).</text></comment> |
1,513,095 | 1,513,107 | 1 | 2 | 1,512,876 | train | <story><title>The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money.</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+pros+and+cons+of+%27fuck+you%27+money.</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikumetz</author><text>Looking at the crisis of social security and "performance" of my modest 401k funds I sometimes feel that my own successful startup (with a modest exit) may be my only way to escape extreme poverty at older age. I doubt that anyone will hire a 65 year old programmer and I just don't see how SS+401k will be enough to deal with living/medical expenses. In that sense I'm desperate: starting a successful project is matter of survival.<p>Is it just me who is having similar thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrFoof</author><text>I've a similar mindset, though where I'll deviate is I'm 28.<p>For me I think the reality is that I expect computer literacy to continue to increase, while some slick abstractions will be developed in the next 25 years. Granted, software developers will still be in demand, yet there'll be more labor available in the market, and much of it will be more accessible which will drive down salaries a bit as the labor supply starts to catch up with demand. I also lack a formal degree, though real-world experience and self-teaching myself most of a CS and Mathematics undergrad curriculum has prevented that from becoming a problem.<p>Also, I'm watching my 60+ year-old parents go through it. They sold their house to free up cash. I had to bail them out (for 18 months) when I was 22-23 for a non-trivial amounts of money, since no one else could've helped them out. My uncle and aunt are in the same boat. My sister is ridden with debt. Parents of neighborhood kids are going through similar motions (selling the house to free up cash).<p>My plan?<p>* Save at least 35% of my net pay every year. Already done, shooting for 40% now. Goal is 50% (at current income level/standard of living). Credit is a tool that I do use to my advantage at times, but it's rare. Most everything is cash, including major purchases (i.e. car).<p>* Develop something to provide a 2nd income stream of at least $850/mo that only can go into savings. That's real money over the long haul.<p>* Minimize purchases of durable goods. I expect 15 years out of the car (only buy a car that makes you smile every time you get in it). My furniture will outlive me. I get 5-ish years out of clothing (and don't own much). Electronics either need to last 10+ years or have high resale value.<p>* Plan to change careers in 17-20 years, especially if there's tangible demand in a new field. Mostly since I expect to be bored. Barring that, time to get a "real" engineering degree.</text></comment> | <story><title>The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money.</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+pros+and+cons+of+%27fuck+you%27+money.</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikumetz</author><text>Looking at the crisis of social security and "performance" of my modest 401k funds I sometimes feel that my own successful startup (with a modest exit) may be my only way to escape extreme poverty at older age. I doubt that anyone will hire a 65 year old programmer and I just don't see how SS+401k will be enough to deal with living/medical expenses. In that sense I'm desperate: starting a successful project is matter of survival.<p>Is it just me who is having similar thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SMrF</author><text>If your startup projects have failed you, you don't think your 401k plus social security are enough, you are within two decades or so of retirement and you are still "just a coder" I know exactly what you should do:<p>1. Pick a company you don't hate
2. Get hired
3. learn their codebase inside and out
4. DON'T QUIT<p>Pretty soon you will be the only person around who knows about system "X" and they will be glad to keep you around past 65. My office is filled with COBOL programmers that took this path. Hell, we even recently hired a guy in his 60's, because that's just how old COBOL programmers are.<p>Alternatively you could get your MBA and go the CTO/VP of engineering route. This seems better to me, (as a backup plan to startup failure).</text></comment> |
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