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27,212,522 | 27,212,670 | 1 | 2 | 27,211,583 | train | <story><title>Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.<p>(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)<p>Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don&#x27;t wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.<p>(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)<p>Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don&#x27;t wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silicon2401</author><text>Agreed. As a huge customization fan, accessibility features oftentimes are the only way to get customization options that aren&#x27;t exposed otherwise. One that comes to mind is setting your display to black and white, disabling animations, etc. Thankfully I don&#x27;t have any disabilities, but I hate animations and other things like that, so I&#x27;m also a huge fan of accessibility features.</text></comment> |
27,589,513 | 27,588,806 | 1 | 3 | 27,588,047 | train | <story><title>Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M</title><url>https://finbold.com/hyundai-acquires-controlling-stake-in-u-s-robotics-firm-boston-dynamics-for-880-million/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eric4smith</author><text>These are one of the few times I can say that I don&#x27;t care if Boston Dynamics are making money as yet.<p>Boston Dynamics are one of the few real serious players in the robotics space worldwide doing deep R&amp;D.<p>Hyundai are basically paying for the BD Labs research. And they are well positioned to reap the products and techniques from the lab with their own manufacturing and engineering prowess and experience over the next decade.<p>And it won&#x27;t be walking dogs.<p>It will be things like a little flexi-joint in a car that you buy without knowing (or caring) it&#x27;s in there. Or some industrial machine that Hyundai builds that gives them a 5% competitive edge in the manufacturing of it that 99.9999% of us never hear about.<p>But for that it&#x27;s worth it.<p>Very happy to see people put good money into this Lab.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M</title><url>https://finbold.com/hyundai-acquires-controlling-stake-in-u-s-robotics-firm-boston-dynamics-for-880-million/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcgough</author><text>They&#x27;ve gone from Google -&gt; Softbank -&gt; Hyundai in a few years.<p>Does anyone know where their revenue is coming from currently? For all the flashy videos they put out, you so rarely see them that I&#x27;m not sure if they&#x27;re just doing well on the B2B side (warehouse automation? military contracts?), or if they&#x27;ve been in the red for the last decade.</text></comment> |
10,519,465 | 10,519,427 | 1 | 2 | 10,519,031 | train | <story><title>TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of software</title><url>http://keionline.org/node/2363</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stingraycharles</author><text>Playing the devil&#x27;s advocate here, but you shouldn&#x27;t need access to a car&#x27;s source code to measure its emissions. The test is broken, not the software.</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>It also would prevent government agencies from demanding i.e. the source code of a car&#x27;s ECU to verify its safety and emissions behavior.<p>The only way out of this would be to declare car ECUs (or other systems) as &quot;critical infrastructure&quot;, the definition of which I&#x27;m sure will be subject to many political tug-of-wars once this is implemented.</text></item><item><author>dak1</author><text>These are rules for States. It has no bearing whatsoever on the GPL.<p>This prevents a country from forcing somebody like Microsoft or Apple to give up their source code for &quot;inspection&quot; in order to access their market. It also helps to prevent States from demanding and acquiring encryption or other private keys (there&#x27;s a separate section that also explicitly forbids mandating backdoors be added).<p>Not everything in the TPP is bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>But you can imagine an internal AI that can tell whether it&#x27;s being watched by the government with arbitrarily sophisticated means. In fact, that&#x27;s just an extreme example of how VW broke rules. It wasn&#x27;t, as I think you might be imagining, a case where the emission measuring device was lazy and just took the car&#x27;s word for it. Rather, the car&#x27;s software determined that it was being tested (based, I think, on various cues from how it was being driven), and lowers emissions in those situations.</text></comment> | <story><title>TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of software</title><url>http://keionline.org/node/2363</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stingraycharles</author><text>Playing the devil&#x27;s advocate here, but you shouldn&#x27;t need access to a car&#x27;s source code to measure its emissions. The test is broken, not the software.</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>It also would prevent government agencies from demanding i.e. the source code of a car&#x27;s ECU to verify its safety and emissions behavior.<p>The only way out of this would be to declare car ECUs (or other systems) as &quot;critical infrastructure&quot;, the definition of which I&#x27;m sure will be subject to many political tug-of-wars once this is implemented.</text></item><item><author>dak1</author><text>These are rules for States. It has no bearing whatsoever on the GPL.<p>This prevents a country from forcing somebody like Microsoft or Apple to give up their source code for &quot;inspection&quot; in order to access their market. It also helps to prevent States from demanding and acquiring encryption or other private keys (there&#x27;s a separate section that also explicitly forbids mandating backdoors be added).<p>Not everything in the TPP is bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>15155</author><text>Expounding further - what government agency has the time or money to actually sift through mountains of source code?<p>From a pure financial standpoint, there&#x27;s no possible way that it isn&#x27;t cheaper to just measure real emissions than attempt some kind of software analysis for every version of every vehicle on the market.<p>Furthermore, an agency inspecting source code has absolutely no way to tell whether or not that the source they&#x27;ve been given is actually what&#x27;s running on a car.</text></comment> |
31,417,439 | 31,417,160 | 1 | 3 | 31,381,563 | train | <story><title>Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/picasso-self-portraits-photos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>You know the movie &quot;Yesterday&quot; where everyone except a small handful of people forget The Beatles ever existed?<p>Well, I sometimes wonder... if everyone in the whole world forgot about artists like Picasso, could the masses still be convinced his art is good in modern times? I for one would be pretty unimpressed with most of his work (&quot;is this some random grade schooler&#x27;s work you are showing me?&quot;).<p>Meanwhile if the whole world forgot about Michelangelo, my mind would still be blown if I saw any number of his works for the first time. The first time I saw The David up close I was astonished at the level of detail carved into the marble. Like... you could see individual veins in the hands and forearms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>People are ragging on you for this question, but it is an important, and not an uncommon one at all. Thanks for being brave enough to ask it publicly.<p>I have wondered this myself. People <i>think</i> they recognize great art because of its inherent qualities, ignoring the hard to dispute fact that culture, fashion, and economics influences a lot of what we consider great in art. Tastes change over time, and the pantheon is always in flux, even though the art itself is still the same. So, of course people can look at something and &quot;fail&quot; to recognize its genius!<p>That&#x27;s not to say that some things aren&#x27;t better than other things, or that everything is relative. Only that the relationship between aesthetics and culture is complicated and woven together in a way we struggle to untangle in ourselves, let alone more broadly.<p>In the particular case of Picasso, I <i>think</i> I can look at paintings like Guernica and Man with a Guitar and say &quot;well, shit, there&#x27;s something going on here that deserves my attention&quot;. But there are other widely-hailed artists I don&#x27;t respond to in this way. I think they&#x27;re garbage, and people are crazy for paying millions of dollars for their work. Maybe I&#x27;m deluding myself.<p>The only thing I&#x27;d challenge you on is your confidence that you&#x27;d always recognize certain Michelangelo works as genius (with the implication that they are universally and timelessly good, not just that <i>you</i> would happen to personally like them). All I can say is that I&#x27;m not sure I am confident that I would pass that test.<p>I guess there&#x27;s no accounting for taste.</text></comment> | <story><title>Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/picasso-self-portraits-photos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>You know the movie &quot;Yesterday&quot; where everyone except a small handful of people forget The Beatles ever existed?<p>Well, I sometimes wonder... if everyone in the whole world forgot about artists like Picasso, could the masses still be convinced his art is good in modern times? I for one would be pretty unimpressed with most of his work (&quot;is this some random grade schooler&#x27;s work you are showing me?&quot;).<p>Meanwhile if the whole world forgot about Michelangelo, my mind would still be blown if I saw any number of his works for the first time. The first time I saw The David up close I was astonished at the level of detail carved into the marble. Like... you could see individual veins in the hands and forearms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bglazer</author><text>One way to appreciate a piece of art is to recognize the technical skill that was applied in creating it. The David&#x27;s veins and or Jesus&#x27;s musculature and Mary&#x27;s flowing robes in the Pieta are virtuosic demonstrations of Michelangelo&#x27;s skill in representing lifelike human scenes.<p>That said, skill in creating realistic representation is not the only measure of art&#x27;s value. Consider Starry Night by Van Gogh. What is it that makes this such a striking and stirring vision of the night sky? It is certainly not a photo-realistic rendering of the stars and moon. Instead, I think it represents a radically different perspective and I find beauty in art that allows me to have a different vision of the world. A more extreme example of the same idea is Islamic art, which strictly forbids representations of life, but still strives to express a vision of god&#x2F;allah. Consider the mosque ceilings in this twitter thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BaytAlFann&#x2F;status&#x2F;1517074277312389121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BaytAlFann&#x2F;status&#x2F;1517074277312389121</a>. There is absolutely no representation of any recognizable form, no people, no animals. Only geometry. Yet, they are undeniably beautiful. Why is that?<p>For Picasso, I would make a similar argument. No, his art doesn&#x27;t immediately strike one through its technical skill. This is not the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. However, what it provides is a completely different perspective. Faces are inverted and laid flat, arms are arranged in strange configurations. Try to look at a scene around you, right now, and imagine how Picasso would see it. Then, I think you&#x27;ll see how extremely peculiar and valuable his art is.</text></comment> |
40,567,288 | 40,565,529 | 1 | 2 | 40,564,639 | train | <story><title>Why YC went to DC</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/why-yc-went-to-dc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>This new essay by Jack Clark, who was at OpenAI when they made the decision not to release GPT-2 for safety reasons five years ago, feels relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;importai.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-years-later" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;importai.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-yea...</a><p>&gt; [...] history shows that once we assign power to governments, they&#x27;re loathe to subsequently give that power back to the people. Policy is a ratchet and things tend to accrete over time. That means whatever power we assign governments today represents the floor of their power in the future - so we should be extremely cautious in assigning them power because I guarantee we will not be able to take it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yqx</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what history Jack Clark is referring to here.<p>If I think of the last thirty years of policy in most of Europe and the US I&#x27;m thinking of a strong trend of deregulation and giving more powers to markets, removing international trade barriers and so on.<p>That seems to be a dynamic opposite to the one the quoted article is suggesting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why YC went to DC</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/why-yc-went-to-dc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>This new essay by Jack Clark, who was at OpenAI when they made the decision not to release GPT-2 for safety reasons five years ago, feels relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;importai.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-years-later" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;importai.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-yea...</a><p>&gt; [...] history shows that once we assign power to governments, they&#x27;re loathe to subsequently give that power back to the people. Policy is a ratchet and things tend to accrete over time. That means whatever power we assign governments today represents the floor of their power in the future - so we should be extremely cautious in assigning them power because I guarantee we will not be able to take it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>no_wizard</author><text>I don’t disagree with this assessment but it’s also a narrow view[0] that allows the problem to persist in the first place.<p>Rather, I’d like to see what positive oversight would look like, but that has <i>not</i> been put forth by any of these organizations thus far. It all comes down to “trust us” which is also hard to stomach<p>[0]: most often but not exclusively held by Americans (of which i am one). We collectively fail to imagine government being a positive force and what that would look like.</text></comment> |
17,263,939 | 17,263,938 | 1 | 2 | 17,262,643 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds on aliasing</title><url>http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/06/07/torvalds-on-aliasing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralfn</author><text>When it comes to being oversensitive needy little things there is no true Scottsman.<p>As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for &#x27;professionalism&#x27;.<p>So let&#x27;s chalk this to cultural differences. We wouldn&#x27;t hire someone like you and you wouldn&#x27;t hire someone like him.</text></item><item><author>mosselman</author><text>I would go out of my way to avoid people who communicate like this with me. People put time and energy in making software better, at least in their own eyes, for others and then they get textually abused like this by someone who has his fame to protect himself with.<p>He also does no service to his own arguments by peppering them with childish swearing because things like &quot;So standards are not some kind of holy book that has to be revered. Standards too need to be questioned.&quot; can&#x27;t be said enough to some people in the industry.<p>If his reply were written with more tact and less swearing it would be a lot more powerful. We as an industry should demand this of each other, but also of our &#x27;celebrity&#x27; colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mosselman</author><text>What nonsense. I am Dutch and live in the Netherlands, we are very direct and take little to no heed to hierarchy.<p>I never said that Linus should be fake friendly. I am saying that swearing does damage to moral and the power of his arguments.<p>Also, Steve Jobs was a notorious asshole and he is revered in the US despite this. There are countless other examples of CEOs and managers who are more than unfriendly in the US who are looked at as examples of how one should behave to be &#x27;professional&#x27;.<p>Your being &#x27;northern European&#x27; has nothing to do with any of what we are talking about. Maybe you can chalk your reaction to your apparent false sense of superiority over friendliness and, it seems, Americans.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds on aliasing</title><url>http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/06/07/torvalds-on-aliasing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralfn</author><text>When it comes to being oversensitive needy little things there is no true Scottsman.<p>As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for &#x27;professionalism&#x27;.<p>So let&#x27;s chalk this to cultural differences. We wouldn&#x27;t hire someone like you and you wouldn&#x27;t hire someone like him.</text></item><item><author>mosselman</author><text>I would go out of my way to avoid people who communicate like this with me. People put time and energy in making software better, at least in their own eyes, for others and then they get textually abused like this by someone who has his fame to protect himself with.<p>He also does no service to his own arguments by peppering them with childish swearing because things like &quot;So standards are not some kind of holy book that has to be revered. Standards too need to be questioned.&quot; can&#x27;t be said enough to some people in the industry.<p>If his reply were written with more tact and less swearing it would be a lot more powerful. We as an industry should demand this of each other, but also of our &#x27;celebrity&#x27; colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>&gt; As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for &#x27;professionalism&#x27;.<p>This is a false dichotomy.<p>Most of what Linus says would run foul of HN&#x27;s guidelines - which I&#x27;ll paraphrase here as &quot;don&#x27;t call someone an asshole before making your real point&quot;, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that everyone on HN is a &#x27;smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck&#x27;.</text></comment> |
19,490,103 | 19,489,284 | 1 | 2 | 19,488,561 | train | <story><title>Convert Markdown to PDF only using browser</title><url>https://md2pdf.netlify.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neatcoder</author><text>Similar topics are coming up often on HN recently. I think it&#x27;s time Markdown should be supported natively by browsers. Until then, there are things like:<p>TeXMe (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;susam&#x2F;texme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;susam&#x2F;texme</a>): This is my personal favorite because it supports the CommonMark standard of Markdown and also LaTeX via MathJax. I like standards so that I know that the Markdown I write (especially nested lists, code within nested lists, etc.) get rendered the same way everywhere. I write some math too, so MathJax support is useful. If you are looking for something where you can just slap together Markdown and LaTeX and turn the document instantly into a paper-like finish, this is a good choice. The output can be saved as PDF or printed too just like you would print any paper.<p>MdMe (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;susam&#x2F;mdme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;susam&#x2F;mdme</a>): This is pretty much TeXMe without MathJax support.<p>Markdeep (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casual-effects.com&#x2F;markdeep&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casual-effects.com&#x2F;markdeep&#x2F;</a>): This is like TeXMe but it supports a lot of features like diagrams, tables, etc. But it comes at the cost of standard conformance. Markdeep does not conform to CommonMark. I don&#x27;t need these additional features for most of my writing but I care about standard conformance, so I go with TeXMe but if you need these features then Markdeep is a good choice.<p>Comparison of TeXMe vs. Markdeep by the author: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18314175" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18314175</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Convert Markdown to PDF only using browser</title><url>https://md2pdf.netlify.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asicsp</author><text>See also markdeep[1] (extension of markdown) and remarkable[2] (desktop app)<p>Personally, I use pandoc and customize using xelatex [3] to generate beautiful pdfs for self publishing<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casual-effects.com&#x2F;markdeep&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casual-effects.com&#x2F;markdeep&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remarkableapp.github.io&#x2F;linux.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remarkableapp.github.io&#x2F;linux.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;ebook-generation&#x2F;customizing-pandoc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;ebook-generation&#x2F;c...</a></text></comment> |
19,013,559 | 19,013,596 | 1 | 2 | 19,013,445 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform</title><url>https://notepin.co/blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FreeKill</author><text>Would be nice to see an example of an actual blog using the platform, on that page, without having to sign up first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform</title><url>https://notepin.co/blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keb_</author><text>Looks nice so far. I&#x27;m a fan of these new minimal blogging alternatives to Medium.<p>Also, check out WriteFreely for an open-sourced blogging platform that is federated with ActivityPub, that you can also deploy yourself. Write.as is the main instance.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writefreely.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writefreely.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.as&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.as&#x2F;about</a></text></comment> |
9,286,051 | 9,285,591 | 1 | 3 | 9,285,363 | train | <story><title>Racing goes electric: At the track with Formula E, the first e-racing series</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/03/racing-goes-electric-at-the-track-with-formula-e-the-first-e-racing-series/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremyrwelch</author><text>Excellent interview with Formula E founder:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jrTbdKe0XTo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jrTbdKe0XTo</a><p>Best quote, when asked if he thought we could end our dependence on oil:
&quot;The stone age didn&#x27;t end because we ran out of stones.&quot;<p>Really important to understand that this is just the first iteration of their plan. Goal is to get to single car for a full hour race within a few years. Agag says they now have many major cities approaching them about participating in the second year of Formula E, including San Francisco.<p>Also, the cars are louder than most people realize, at 80 decibels.</text></comment> | <story><title>Racing goes electric: At the track with Formula E, the first e-racing series</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/03/racing-goes-electric-at-the-track-with-formula-e-the-first-e-racing-series/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mapt</author><text>What I want to see is not heroic drivers like NASCAR, nor heroic billionaires investing in very similar tweaks, like Formula 1, but a diversity of creative conceptual engineering, competing in the same challenges, for lots of money.<p>Things like DARPA sponsors: The Grand Challenge in self-driving cars, and the Robotics Challenge. The Ansari X-prize also applies. BattleBots was a decent attempt at a sport along these lines. Fields where true novelty still exists, and there are no consistently obvious paths forward.<p>My impression as a non-fan is that Formula 1 only achieves divergent innovation on rare occasions, and next season or two everyone is doing it or it&#x27;s been banned by the race sponsors.</text></comment> |
40,975,168 | 40,975,018 | 1 | 3 | 40,974,112 | train | <story><title>For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default</title><url>https://www.heise.de/en/news/For-advertising-Firefox-now-collects-user-data-by-default-9801345.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lopis</author><text>This <i>is</i> an attempt to try. You don&#x27;t win my being an immovable wall going against the biggest corporations. If the W3C manages to create a system that satisfies advertisers while preserving our privacy, that&#x27;s how you win. There isn&#x27;t a future where advertising will just disappear. I&#x27;m just being pragmatic here, as a user of ad blockers for 15 years.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>&gt; leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win<p>So we&#x27;re not even going to try.</text></item><item><author>lopis</author><text>I think this line is very important:<p>&gt; First, in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win.<p>It&#x27;s very likely that this arms race will lead to DRM in web publications and video feeds (which Google is already experimenting with).</text></item><item><author>eco</author><text>The CTO of Mozilla just posted on &#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox about this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1e43w7v&#x2F;a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1e43w7v&#x2F;a_word_abo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoItToMe81</author><text>It&#x27;s not an attempt to try, it&#x27;s reputation management. There is no &#x27;anonymization&#x27; of data, because the advertising companies Mozilla is selling your data to now have almost 20 years of profiling that can effectively identify people through &quot;anonymous&quot; results. This has been known for years. Mozilla knows. They don&#x27;t care.</text></comment> | <story><title>For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default</title><url>https://www.heise.de/en/news/For-advertising-Firefox-now-collects-user-data-by-default-9801345.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lopis</author><text>This <i>is</i> an attempt to try. You don&#x27;t win my being an immovable wall going against the biggest corporations. If the W3C manages to create a system that satisfies advertisers while preserving our privacy, that&#x27;s how you win. There isn&#x27;t a future where advertising will just disappear. I&#x27;m just being pragmatic here, as a user of ad blockers for 15 years.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>&gt; leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win<p>So we&#x27;re not even going to try.</text></item><item><author>lopis</author><text>I think this line is very important:<p>&gt; First, in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win.<p>It&#x27;s very likely that this arms race will lead to DRM in web publications and video feeds (which Google is already experimenting with).</text></item><item><author>eco</author><text>The CTO of Mozilla just posted on &#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox about this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1e43w7v&#x2F;a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1e43w7v&#x2F;a_word_abo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ninjin</author><text>I can see the economic argument, but I am not sure that I buy it. W3C could push this as a standard, but surely <i>anything</i> that is privacy preserving will by its very definition provide less data for advertisement targeting, no? With less data, the targeting is likely to be worse in terms of advertisement efficiency. Thus, the economic incentive even in an ideal situation as with a W3C standard will be pushing <i>any</i> advertiser to &quot;betray&quot; the system and fall back on the very arms race that Mozilla is arguing that they are trying to avoid, no?<p>At best, politicians could jump on the &quot;solution&quot;, but then why are Mozilla not already lobbying in that case? Why is the first party they are reaching out to the wolf in this drama?<p>Regardless, Mozilla has lost me at this point as a user. This being opt-out is inexcusable and I will find ways to gravitate away from them as I should not need my poor package maintainers to be paranoid with their upstream code in the same way they have to be with Chrome in order to protect us from developer abuse like this. Will try Mull on mobile now, hopefully it is viable, and see how I solve the desktop situation when I can find the time.</text></comment> |
30,787,831 | 30,787,947 | 1 | 2 | 30,766,292 | train | <story><title>Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/health/alcohol-deaths-covid.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Epiphany21</author><text>Recently (within the last two years) I had to help someone suffering with alcoholism&#x2F;DTS and I was horrified by the abysmal outpatient support the medical system here provides. If he didn&#x27;t have health insurance and a ride I would not have been able to convince him to go, and he could have died.<p>It&#x27;s very hard to argue with his contempt for hospitals and doctors when all they do is give you an overpriced potassium IV (very painful) then push you out the door and tell you to find an AA group.<p>I don&#x27;t even know what the solution is, but I do know the current way of doing things is inadequate and probably getting a ton of people killed. It&#x27;s very sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ascar</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what can be done here. Having had a very close relative (as close as it gets, but I don&#x27;t wanna associate anything precise publicly) being an alcoholic for decades, watching them succumb, degenerate and eventually die over a long and horrifying period, I don&#x27;t see how the medical system can be the solution to this problem.<p>The motivation to stop drinking and continue to stop drinking has to be mostly intrinsic. There can be additional extrinsic factors (like doing it for your family) strengthening the intrinsic motivation, but without a strong and constant inner will to stop nothing will.<p>My relative took the final bottle of Whiskey on a lonely Christmas day. It took 2 months of suffering before it finally ended for good. No medical system can prevent the loneliness and dark times. And relatives also have their own lifes.<p>Addiction is a terrible problem and it&#x27;s great that there is help for the persons motivated to seek help, and AA is a good initiative for that. But not everyone can be helped.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/health/alcohol-deaths-covid.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Epiphany21</author><text>Recently (within the last two years) I had to help someone suffering with alcoholism&#x2F;DTS and I was horrified by the abysmal outpatient support the medical system here provides. If he didn&#x27;t have health insurance and a ride I would not have been able to convince him to go, and he could have died.<p>It&#x27;s very hard to argue with his contempt for hospitals and doctors when all they do is give you an overpriced potassium IV (very painful) then push you out the door and tell you to find an AA group.<p>I don&#x27;t even know what the solution is, but I do know the current way of doing things is inadequate and probably getting a ton of people killed. It&#x27;s very sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dazc</author><text>I have a friend in the UK, similar situation. After years of receiving no help I took it upon myself to figure out what was causing his self-sabotaging behaviour. I can&#x27;t say I made any great discoveries other than figuring out his trigger points and devising strategies to avoid them.<p>Obviously everyone is going to be different but my friend&#x27;s issues stem from being lonely and isolated a lot of the time. Simply me being around for a couple of days a week has helped. He still drinks but in a much more controlled manner and, ironically, I found that ensuring he always has a supply at home has helped with this too. It&#x27;s taken away the constant panic in his mind - for want of a better explanation.</text></comment> |
29,855,000 | 29,854,065 | 1 | 3 | 29,850,665 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID</title><text>Hello! Just wanted to share what just happened to me, maybe some Apple SWE here can take a look at this. I recently changed my macbook and created a new Apple ID for the new machine. For work, I like to have a unique ID and not reuse old ones. The problem is that, today, after 2 days of &quot;use&quot; (the first time the laptop is charged is to reinstall everything), Apple decided without notification that my account should be blocked for &quot;security reasons&quot;.<p>I tried to reset my password, but they blocked the whole account, it seems to me that they even deleted the account from the database as they could not locate the ID of other information (name, mail, etc.). Coming from another OS, one can imagine that you can swap two IDs and continue, but ... NO! Here you need to provide a password to log out, but since my account has been deleted, I don&#x27;t have any password. Also, one can imagine that a +2000$ machine designed for &quot;professional&quot; users can actually recover from these types of errors using magic links or text messages. They wanted me to wait for an appointment with the service. Just to reset an account!!<p>Why did I reinstall all? Every 30 seconds, a message appears asking me to check the ID.<p>TL;DR: Adult human crying.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sersi</author><text>PSA do not opt to login with your apple ID, it&#x27;s an option when setting up the computer, you should never ever accept it. There&#x27;s no reason to ever accept logging in with a non-local account (same for Windows but Microsoft is much more persistent in forcing this whereas at least it&#x27;s relatively easy to not enable it on macs)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>&gt; PSA do not opt to login with your apple ID, it&#x27;s an option when setting up the computer, you should never ever accept it.<p>It makes me sad that we now have to treat a MacOS initial setup as a hostile experience, the same way as setting up Windows 10 for an offline user account and intentionally not creating a microsoft account. The number of steps and dark pattern UI things a Windows 10 Home or Pro user has to jump through in the initial install to create a local-only account is really quite amazing. I just did a fresh install of a win10 home VM recently and ran into this.<p>Two of the reasons I switched from a FreeBSD desktop environment to MacOS back in the 10.4 days (Tiger?) was because of the switch to the Intel CPUs with the first gen Macbook Pro, and that MacOS had become a fairly refined, polished desktop environment with a CLI, macports, and a decent selection of applications.<p>Not only is apple now <i>hostile</i> but it&#x27;s actively dangerous and harmful to its users&#x27; data, as shown in the example linked in this post, because if you go with the &quot;online&quot; apple account you risk getting locked out of everything you were using on a regular day-to-day basis.<p>Now if we have to think of Apple as a hostile entity that is doing the same shit as microsoft, it makes me very disappointed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID</title><text>Hello! Just wanted to share what just happened to me, maybe some Apple SWE here can take a look at this. I recently changed my macbook and created a new Apple ID for the new machine. For work, I like to have a unique ID and not reuse old ones. The problem is that, today, after 2 days of &quot;use&quot; (the first time the laptop is charged is to reinstall everything), Apple decided without notification that my account should be blocked for &quot;security reasons&quot;.<p>I tried to reset my password, but they blocked the whole account, it seems to me that they even deleted the account from the database as they could not locate the ID of other information (name, mail, etc.). Coming from another OS, one can imagine that you can swap two IDs and continue, but ... NO! Here you need to provide a password to log out, but since my account has been deleted, I don&#x27;t have any password. Also, one can imagine that a +2000$ machine designed for &quot;professional&quot; users can actually recover from these types of errors using magic links or text messages. They wanted me to wait for an appointment with the service. Just to reset an account!!<p>Why did I reinstall all? Every 30 seconds, a message appears asking me to check the ID.<p>TL;DR: Adult human crying.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sersi</author><text>PSA do not opt to login with your apple ID, it&#x27;s an option when setting up the computer, you should never ever accept it. There&#x27;s no reason to ever accept logging in with a non-local account (same for Windows but Microsoft is much more persistent in forcing this whereas at least it&#x27;s relatively easy to not enable it on macs)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>And that goes for Windows, too. Only ever log into your physical, self contained, machine using a normal user account stored on that machine.</text></comment> |
22,146,004 | 22,145,677 | 1 | 2 | 22,144,330 | train | <story><title>Normalization of Deviance (2015)</title><url>https://danluu.com/wat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iSnow</author><text>It&#x27;s not just growth-oriented new companies. The old ACME BigCorp.&#x27;s have exactly the same problems, but not because they disregard best practices because everyone is fixated on growth, but because inertia has crept in everywhere. Because everything is executed top-down and there&#x27;s no back-channel. Because people care about their yearly bonuses and would rather not bring up uncomfortable truth to their superiors.<p>And most of all, because there are zero techies among managers. There&#x27;s a complete mental disconnect between the tech-savvy among the grunts and even their direct reports, let alone more senior management.<p>Those companies then pay big money for external consultants to tell them how to fix issues; the consultants tell them the obvious solutions from their books (which may or may not overlap with what the grunts would have told them), and then those solutions are pushed down in the next restructuring.<p>Where I work, senior management has just discovered DevOps &amp; Agile, and now everyone has been told to do DevOps, but without breaking up the top-down communication style. That&#x27;s going to work just wonderfully.</text></comment> | <story><title>Normalization of Deviance (2015)</title><url>https://danluu.com/wat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>The WTF moments come when you don’t yet have credibility. Would <i>you</i> want to hear a stranger with an empty commit history use the wrong keywords to tell you how to do your job?<p>Start your campaign to change a place <i>after</i> demonstrating ability to work within it.</text></comment> |
5,313,395 | 5,312,939 | 1 | 3 | 5,312,750 | train | <story><title>How Ink Is Made</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fypi6dAJB8E#!</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>I enjoy videos like this, and was happy to discover there is a subreddit dedicated to them:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Ink Is Made</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fypi6dAJB8E#!</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>Something like this video is vastly more effective in advertising any product to me than spending 100x as much on banner ads, sponsoring a sports team, etc. I'm probably not representative, though.</text></comment> |
3,891,584 | 3,891,209 | 1 | 3 | 3,891,043 | train | <story><title>Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity</title><url>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/25/andreessen-horowitz-to-give-half-their-earnings-to-charity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paul</author><text>It's sad to see so much misplaced cynicism here. If the partners had decided to keep 100% of their carry (as is typical) and used it to buy a bigger house or jet or something, nobody would comment or care. Instead, they've pledged to give half to some of their favorite charities, and some of you are acting as if it's a crime against humanity. Put away your Ayn Rand books (or whatever it is that drives you to such opinions) and go make some money of your own. Perhaps you'll discover that Andreessen and friends aren't as foolish as you imagine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity</title><url>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/25/andreessen-horowitz-to-give-half-their-earnings-to-charity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sethbannon</author><text>A stellar example of living your values. I hope this swings more deals their way (it would certainly affect our choice of VC) and creates pressure for the entire industry to adopt similar pledges.</text></comment> |
3,285,914 | 3,285,891 | 1 | 3 | 3,285,742 | train | <story><title>50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error.</title><url>http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>The short version of the error: If in your data you find that A has no statistically significant effect, but B does have a statistically significant effect, this does <i>not</i> automatically show that B has, with statistical significance, more effect than A. To do that you have to do a statistical test on the difference in the effects.<p>I believe (?) this is normally done correctly in medical studies with placebos, where the typical analysis is to show that a drug has a statistically significant effect compared to the placebo baseline; it's not sufficient to show that the drug has an effect compared to a no-drug baseline, and, separately, that a placebo doesn't.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoachimSchipper</author><text>You may be simplifying too much to be understood. In medical terms, if your drug is significantly more effective than doing nothing, but a placebo is not significantly more effective than doing nothing, your drug need not be significantly more effective than the placebo. (Yes, medicine typically avoids this particular error.)<p>(E.g. if doing nothing cures 10%, the placebo cures 11% and the drug cures 12%, only the difference drug/nothing may be significant.)</text></comment> | <story><title>50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error.</title><url>http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>The short version of the error: If in your data you find that A has no statistically significant effect, but B does have a statistically significant effect, this does <i>not</i> automatically show that B has, with statistical significance, more effect than A. To do that you have to do a statistical test on the difference in the effects.<p>I believe (?) this is normally done correctly in medical studies with placebos, where the typical analysis is to show that a drug has a statistically significant effect compared to the placebo baseline; it's not sufficient to show that the drug has an effect compared to a no-drug baseline, and, separately, that a placebo doesn't.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markkat</author><text>It's true. Many anti-depressant drugs have no significant effect when compared to placebo.<p><a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0050045" rel="nofollow">http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...</a></text></comment> |
33,803,154 | 33,802,049 | 1 | 3 | 33,801,380 | train | <story><title>Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform</title><url>https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens...</a><p>Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation&#x2F;marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase&#x2F;MDB etc. If they had promoted this as a standard&#x2F;open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satvikpendem</author><text>&gt; <i>When you think about it, OpenSea would actually be much “better” in the immediate sense if all the web3 parts were gone. It would be faster, cheaper for everyone, and easier to use. For example, to accept a bid on my NFT, I would have had to pay over $80-$150+ just in ethereum transaction fees. That puts an artificial floor on all bids, since otherwise you’d lose money by accepting a bid for less than the gas fees. Payment fees by credit card, which typically feel extortionary, look cheap compared to that. OpenSea could even publish a simple transparency log if people wanted a public record of transactions, offers, bids, etc to verify their accounting.</i><p>&gt; <i>However, if they had built a platform to buy and sell images that wasn’t nominally based on crypto, I don’t think it would have taken off. Not because it isn’t distributed, because as we’ve seen so much of what’s required to make it work is already not distributed. I don’t think it would have taken off because this is a gold rush. People have made money through cryptocurrency speculation, those people are interested in spending that cryptocurrency in ways that support their investment while offering additional returns, and so that defines the setting for the market of transfer of wealth.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moxie.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;07&#x2F;web3-first-impressions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moxie.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;07&#x2F;web3-first-impressions.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29845208" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29845208</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform</title><url>https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens...</a><p>Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation&#x2F;marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase&#x2F;MDB etc. If they had promoted this as a standard&#x2F;open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxfordmale</author><text>...and if IBM says it is 40%, it is definitely true. Just as IBM Watson is going to be the future of healthcare. Unfortunately, that future seems to consist of scrapping IBM Watson and selling it for parts &#x2F;sarcasm</text></comment> |
29,523,919 | 29,522,680 | 1 | 3 | 29,496,014 | train | <story><title>Code2flow: Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages</title><url>https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scottrogowski</author><text>Wow. Seeing your open source project while scrolling through hacker news is something that really brightens your day. I’m happy to answer any questions people have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Code2flow: Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages</title><url>https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>habitue</author><text>I could have used something like this numerous times whenearning a new codebase (or a new part of a big codebase). I wonder why this tooling isn&#x27;t more popular.<p>The next thing that would be great is hyperlinks to the source code from each node in the graph</text></comment> |
38,563,832 | 38,563,382 | 1 | 3 | 38,562,946 | train | <story><title>Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_toad</author><text>An expense is always someone else’s profit. All inflation, all prices, everywhere, is the result of someone putting up their prices, trying to make as much money as they can.<p>If it’s not the retailers, it’s the wholesalers, the suppliers, the utility providers, the lenders, the executives, the land-owners, the unions and even finally the workers. All of them trying to make as much money as they can. All of them raising their prices whenever (and if) they can.<p>Greed is not an explanation, because greed is everywhere in the supply chain, right down to the bottom. The question shouldn’t be why they wanted to (since why wouldn’t they?), but why they could.<p>Examining which part of the supply chain put their prices up seems pointless unless it sheds light on why that part of the supply chain in particular <i>could</i> put their prices up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Manuel_D</author><text>The whole &quot;greedflation&quot; narrative still doesn&#x27;t seem plausible. Why wouldn&#x27;t one company reduce prices and capture the market share from the companies that artificially raised prices? In order for the &quot;greedflation&quot; to work, there must be some collusion in terms of price setting. This <i>does</i> happen in the market, but it&#x27;s illegal and governments do take action against price-fixing [1]. A much more plausible explanation is that the economy as a whole had a massive rebound after the pandemic, and the record profits are just a byproduct of that rebound.<p>1. An example from my State: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atg.wa.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;406-million-way-low-income-washingtonians-result-ag-ferguson-lawsuits#:~:text=Washington%20was%20the%20first%20state,by%20the%20price%2Dfixing%20conspiracy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atg.wa.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;406-million-way-lo...</a> It&#x27;s not always super high-profile, but lawsuits against anti-competitive practices happen all the time.</text></comment> |
20,843,986 | 20,842,856 | 1 | 3 | 20,839,582 | train | <story><title>The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usepgp</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m on the chromium videostack team, would you mind filing a bug report for what you see happening with youtube? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;entry" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;entry</a></text></item><item><author>chao-</author><text>I have the opposite experience with YouTube.<p>With an AMD GPU on Linux, Chrome churns, drops frames, and stutters horribly on even 1080p videos at 30fps. Firefox, meanwhile, handles 1440p60 video with no problem. Even two such videos simultaneously, on separate monitors.<p>Chrome became inexplicably better for parts of early 2019 (I did not note which versions), but starting 2 or 3 months ago Chrome returned to being unusable for YouTube beyond 720p videos.<p>Before anyone asks, this is on an AMD RX 580 with Mesa 18.0.</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>The Mozilla tech blogs are always a good read.<p>Informative and easy to digest. I can only think of one other company blogging with similar consistency&#x2F;quality: Cloudflare.<p>Firefox performance has seen tremendous gains since their Project Quantum efforts.<p>It mostly feels on par with Chrome for me pretty much everywhere.<p>There is one glaring omission though: a single company where I have problems with FF on multiple apps - Google.<p>Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried, Youtube can send my fan into a frenzy and Docs is also regularly problematic. (on Linux)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwallin</author><text>Fixing this would be like eight steps forward: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=137247" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=137247</a><p>The annoying part is that hardware acceleration works on chrome OS, so we know the support is buried in there somewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usepgp</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m on the chromium videostack team, would you mind filing a bug report for what you see happening with youtube? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;entry" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;entry</a></text></item><item><author>chao-</author><text>I have the opposite experience with YouTube.<p>With an AMD GPU on Linux, Chrome churns, drops frames, and stutters horribly on even 1080p videos at 30fps. Firefox, meanwhile, handles 1440p60 video with no problem. Even two such videos simultaneously, on separate monitors.<p>Chrome became inexplicably better for parts of early 2019 (I did not note which versions), but starting 2 or 3 months ago Chrome returned to being unusable for YouTube beyond 720p videos.<p>Before anyone asks, this is on an AMD RX 580 with Mesa 18.0.</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>The Mozilla tech blogs are always a good read.<p>Informative and easy to digest. I can only think of one other company blogging with similar consistency&#x2F;quality: Cloudflare.<p>Firefox performance has seen tremendous gains since their Project Quantum efforts.<p>It mostly feels on par with Chrome for me pretty much everywhere.<p>There is one glaring omission though: a single company where I have problems with FF on multiple apps - Google.<p>Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried, Youtube can send my fan into a frenzy and Docs is also regularly problematic. (on Linux)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chao-</author><text>I will take a look this weekend and if I can properly explain and document the issue in detail, I will definitely give you everything I can.<p>I should add that for an identical Linux distro-and-version, and identical browser versions, my laptop (I forget the SKU, but Intel Broadwell U-series GPU) is about equal in performance between Chrome and Firefox. That is to say, 1440p60 runs smooth on each, so they&#x27;re good enough that there&#x27;s no issue from which to discern a difference (which is damned impressive for a 4-year old mobile chip, imo).</text></comment> |
24,000,762 | 24,000,272 | 1 | 3 | 23,999,212 | train | <story><title>Grub2 security update renders system unbootable</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>systemd-boot (AKA, gummiboot) is leaner, for sure- much in the same way a bicycle is leaner than a truck.<p>It might surprise you to know this but systemd-boot does not support, among other things: &quot;BIOS&quot;&#x2F;MBR boot, EXT4, XFS, mdraid, LUKS (hidden boot), OPAL (aka hardware FDE, self-encrypting drives) or even btrfs!<p>mdraid being pretty critical to a lot of server work.<p>Then there&#x27;s the topic of altering bootloaders for distro&#x27;s which value stability, it wouldn&#x27;t happen in a point release.</text></item><item><author>kd913</author><text>I will state the same comment as last time.<p>Can distros maybe consider moving to systemd-boot at some point? Systemd is already built in and can handle things like mounting pretty easily and simply.<p>It is a hell of a lot leaner than grub, doesn&#x27;t use a billion superfluous modules. That and it is a lot easier to prevent tampering compared with the cumbersome nonsense that is grub passwords.<p>Oh and it enables distros to gather accurate boot times and enables booting into UEFI direct from the desktop.<p>It works with secureboot&#x2F;shim&#x2F;Hashtool. Also each distro has it&#x27;s bootloader entries in separate folders to avoid accidental conflicts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vetinari</author><text>&gt; systemd-boot does not support, among other things: &quot;BIOS&quot;&#x2F;MBR boot,<p>That&#x27;s a feature :). Unless your firmware doesn&#x27;t have UEFI support (I&#x27;m looking at you, Gen8 Proliants...), you should use UEFI.<p>&gt; EXT4, XFS, mdraid, LUKS (hidden boot),<p>It doesn&#x27;t support ANY filesystem (does it defer to builtin UEFI filesystem drivers?); it loads kernel and initramfs from the EFI partition itself. You can then have whatever you want compiled in.<p>Grub, on the other hand, has read-only drivers, so it will load your kernel and initramfs from any &#x2F;boot partion you want (except zfs pool with some features enabled).<p>&gt; OPAL (aka hardware FDE, self-encrypting drives)<p>Now this could be a problem, however, normal UEFI has to work somehow.<p>&gt; mdraid being pretty critical to a lot of server work.<p>Many servers boot from internal sd-card or usb, and if they have local drives, they are put into use when whatever system from the sd-card or usb boots.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grub2 security update renders system unbootable</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>systemd-boot (AKA, gummiboot) is leaner, for sure- much in the same way a bicycle is leaner than a truck.<p>It might surprise you to know this but systemd-boot does not support, among other things: &quot;BIOS&quot;&#x2F;MBR boot, EXT4, XFS, mdraid, LUKS (hidden boot), OPAL (aka hardware FDE, self-encrypting drives) or even btrfs!<p>mdraid being pretty critical to a lot of server work.<p>Then there&#x27;s the topic of altering bootloaders for distro&#x27;s which value stability, it wouldn&#x27;t happen in a point release.</text></item><item><author>kd913</author><text>I will state the same comment as last time.<p>Can distros maybe consider moving to systemd-boot at some point? Systemd is already built in and can handle things like mounting pretty easily and simply.<p>It is a hell of a lot leaner than grub, doesn&#x27;t use a billion superfluous modules. That and it is a lot easier to prevent tampering compared with the cumbersome nonsense that is grub passwords.<p>Oh and it enables distros to gather accurate boot times and enables booting into UEFI direct from the desktop.<p>It works with secureboot&#x2F;shim&#x2F;Hashtool. Also each distro has it&#x27;s bootloader entries in separate folders to avoid accidental conflicts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>I feel like you&#x27;re making this sound worse than it actually is<p>* systemd-boot doesn&#x27;t support those filesystems as the &#x2F;boot partition, all of those things for your &#x2F; are totally fine. For most people having your &#x2F;boot partition be XFS vs FAT32 is firmly in the &quot;who cares?&quot; realm.<p>* Nobody really supports OPAL, even grub. The only reliable solution is using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sedutil&#x2F;sedutil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sedutil&#x2F;sedutil</a> to unlock the disk and then soft reboot into any normal bootloader.<p>* You can do mdraid, you just have to stick the metadata at the end of the drive rather than the beginning. The utilities that set up your raid even warn you about this because this setup is so standard.</text></comment> |
14,810,441 | 14,805,825 | 1 | 2 | 14,805,750 | train | <story><title>Show HN: PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API</title><url>https://www.pdfotter.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mariusz331</author><text>Hi HN. I built PDF Otter to solve a headache my last company faced. We needed to fill in PDF contracts repeatedly and there was no service out there that did that, so we had to build something in-house. We couldn&#x27;t use [hello&#x2F;docu]sign because sending users there lowered our conversion rates.<p>The PDF Otter API powers the PDF editor advertised on the homepage. The editor is simple but I think its better than similar services because you don&#x27;t need to sign up&#x2F;pay to fill-in and download your PDF. I think there&#x27;s a lot of potential out there for apps built on the API. Feel free to reach out to me at mariusz [at] pdfotter [dot] com if you have any questions or ideas!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NKCSS</author><text>Why not use Crystal Reports? I know it&#x27;s a pain in the ass, but afaik it&#x27;s still the best thing to do to generate PDF&#x27;s and you have full control.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API</title><url>https://www.pdfotter.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mariusz331</author><text>Hi HN. I built PDF Otter to solve a headache my last company faced. We needed to fill in PDF contracts repeatedly and there was no service out there that did that, so we had to build something in-house. We couldn&#x27;t use [hello&#x2F;docu]sign because sending users there lowered our conversion rates.<p>The PDF Otter API powers the PDF editor advertised on the homepage. The editor is simple but I think its better than similar services because you don&#x27;t need to sign up&#x2F;pay to fill-in and download your PDF. I think there&#x27;s a lot of potential out there for apps built on the API. Feel free to reach out to me at mariusz [at] pdfotter [dot] com if you have any questions or ideas!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ankurscheese</author><text>I know this pain. Thanks for a solution that doesn&#x27;t require multiple hoops for users to jump through!</text></comment> |
18,989,369 | 18,988,872 | 1 | 2 | 18,987,996 | train | <story><title>Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>&quot;The university is looking to hire several tenure-track faculty members in computing this year, he said, but competition for top candidates is fierce. I know of major departments that interviewed 40 candidates, and I don’t think they hired anybody.&quot;<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound like fierce competition if they were able to interview 40 candidates... Did they give them all high-paying offers and they all rejected?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azhenley</author><text>One of the problems is that a candidate might sit on an offer for a long time. The best candidates want to wait until the interview season is over to evaluate all their offers. On the other hand, some schools give one week deadlines on offers but any good candidate will turn those down.<p>It is hard on both sides. The entire process was about 6 months when I went through it, and I had offers expiring before I even finished all the onsites.<p>Disclaimer: I’m a CS prof at a R1 university in my first year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>&quot;The university is looking to hire several tenure-track faculty members in computing this year, he said, but competition for top candidates is fierce. I know of major departments that interviewed 40 candidates, and I don’t think they hired anybody.&quot;<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound like fierce competition if they were able to interview 40 candidates... Did they give them all high-paying offers and they all rejected?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bachmeier</author><text>I&#x27;m not CS faculty, but this is similar to the situation in economics. Interview 40. Of those, 20 may end up being acceptable. The eight best of those 20 get offers at better places. Four others take nonacademic jobs. You&#x27;re left fighting over a pool of eight candidates with a lot more than eight other schools. It was really tough after the recession, when the Fed was hiring a ginormous number of new PhD&#x27;s.</text></comment> |
35,853,692 | 35,851,756 | 1 | 2 | 35,848,421 | train | <story><title>React Aria Components</title><url>https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/react-aria-components.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awhitty</author><text>Oho! So excited about this. I’ve used a hybrid of Radix UI and React Aria on previous projects. Radix had a much nicer DX out of the box with pre-wired components, but my team was always apprehensive about the long-term support for Radix post-acquisition. Really excited to see React Aria adopting a similar component-based interface.<p>Couple questions&#x2F;feedbacks if you’re still in the comments, Devon!<p>1. Radix implements an asChild prop to help merge the library components down into other components that might already have their own styling or behaviors. Did y’all consider supporting this sort of polymorphic approach? Or is there another way to merge components? The main spots where I’ve used it are buttons and dropdown triggers, so it might not be broadly applicable.<p>2. Is it easier to extend from the React Aria types with this interface now? My previous implementations with React Aria - I’ve always been a little confused about which inputs to the hooks are useful to include in the component’s props interface and how to correctly annotate them, whether that’s recreating the types or extending from the numerous options within the react-aria package. Radix at least has some suggestions for conventions, and I feel a bit more confident following them.<p>3. More on the feedback side - React Aria has typically implemented similar-but-different props for the common HTML form control attributes like “disabled” and “onChange” as “isDisabled” and “onValueChange” - I really appreciate these at one level for the internal consistency throughout the library, but I’ve found these choices make it a bit more annoying to integrate React Aria with other third-party libraries meant to “just work” with the regular attributes. E.g. spreading Formik form props for a field into a form control, but having to re-map the onChange prop to onValueChange. Definitely trade offs in either direction, but I’m curious how y’all made the choice and if there are some remediations y’all have found along the way?<p>Thanks so much for your (and the team’s) work on this! And on Parcel and the million other projects you’re building.</text></comment> | <story><title>React Aria Components</title><url>https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/react-aria-components.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>Libraries like this are what keep me using React. They’re (imo) table stakes for building any serious project. I really want to use Svelte and Solid more, but the choices for building complex widgets like dropdowns are either “forget about accessibility” or “sink a bunch of time into implementing it yourself”. And let’s face it — most self-implemented widgets are accessibility nightmares.<p>What I really wish is that there were something like this built on web components, so I could use it with <i>any</i> framework.</text></comment> |
4,486,970 | 4,486,966 | 1 | 3 | 4,486,108 | train | <story><title>Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex</title><url>http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justincormack</author><text>There used to be someone who had the email address john@dk (maybe it wasnt john). Mx records on tlds are frowned upon but not technically invalid.</text></item><item><author>imperialWicket</author><text>This technique is hinted about, and I don't claim it as my own creation. I think the easiest (maybe not the best) route for both devs and users is:<p>[submit]<p>does email address have a '@' and a '.' after that?<p>yes -&#62; send a validation email.<p>no -&#62; Hey there, [email] seems like an odd address, are you sure?<p><pre><code> yes -&#62; send a validation email.
no -&#62; restart
</code></pre>
I think this does a reasonable job of staying out of everyone's way, and it catches a large percentage of the actual typographical/user error email entries.<p>[formatting edit]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imperialWicket</author><text>This is precisely the reason why you let the user bypass your check with a confirmation. It's likely that most of your users who enter something without a period made a mistake. If someone is using an address like 'john@dk', I think they'd expect a message saying 'your email is invalid'; and seeing a message that just says, 'are you sure?' with a 'yes' option would be perfectly acceptable.<p>Edit: sorry for the echo, bigiain - I saw your post right after adding the comment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex</title><url>http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justincormack</author><text>There used to be someone who had the email address john@dk (maybe it wasnt john). Mx records on tlds are frowned upon but not technically invalid.</text></item><item><author>imperialWicket</author><text>This technique is hinted about, and I don't claim it as my own creation. I think the easiest (maybe not the best) route for both devs and users is:<p>[submit]<p>does email address have a '@' and a '.' after that?<p>yes -&#62; send a validation email.<p>no -&#62; Hey there, [email] seems like an odd address, are you sure?<p><pre><code> yes -&#62; send a validation email.
no -&#62; restart
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I think this does a reasonable job of staying out of everyone's way, and it catches a large percentage of the actual typographical/user error email entries.<p>[formatting edit]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>imperialWicket's approach would still work fine in that case when john@dk clicks the "Yes, that's really my email adress" button - and I suspect he'd be pleasantly surprised to see it work, I'll bet he's got a very high expectation of that address failing completely on most websites...<p>I have a cow-orker who's first name is "G" - he's very used to poorly-validating websites claiming that his firstname is "wrong".</text></comment> |
4,303,473 | 4,303,494 | 1 | 3 | 4,303,217 | train | <story><title>A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_totally_ignore_the_startup_community_and/c5k7534</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>&#62;It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.<p>Reminds me of this quote from Ronnie Coleman: "Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights."</text></item><item><author>dglassan</author><text>I have similar feelings to this guy. I've lived in the bay area my entire life, although I'm only 25 so I was young during the dot com bubble.<p>My feelings are that Zuckerberg made it "cool" to start a company again. People had such a bad taste after the dot com bust and starting a company was viewed as very risky from around 2000 to 2005. Then Zuckerberg came in with this amazing success story and now everyone wants to start a company again.<p>Sometimes it bothers me that people throw around the word "startup" so casually now. There's kids that are "doing a startup" but the only thing they're building is a gmail plugin or "a better to-do list that will change the world". We don't need any more of this crap. It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dglassan</author><text>Exactly. I wanted to be a startup CEO for a while until I worked at an 8 person startup and saw just how much effort they put into it. Now I'm not so sure, at least not right now in my life.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_totally_ignore_the_startup_community_and/c5k7534</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>&#62;It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.<p>Reminds me of this quote from Ronnie Coleman: "Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights."</text></item><item><author>dglassan</author><text>I have similar feelings to this guy. I've lived in the bay area my entire life, although I'm only 25 so I was young during the dot com bubble.<p>My feelings are that Zuckerberg made it "cool" to start a company again. People had such a bad taste after the dot com bust and starting a company was viewed as very risky from around 2000 to 2005. Then Zuckerberg came in with this amazing success story and now everyone wants to start a company again.<p>Sometimes it bothers me that people throw around the word "startup" so casually now. There's kids that are "doing a startup" but the only thing they're building is a gmail plugin or "a better to-do list that will change the world". We don't need any more of this crap. It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfb</author><text>Absolutely true. That's a great quote.</text></comment> |
19,246,163 | 19,244,581 | 1 | 2 | 19,241,427 | train | <story><title>Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart</title><url>https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/fearlessconcurrencyhowclojurerustponyerlanganddartletyouachievethat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit surprised that there didn&#x27;t appear to be any mention of Clojure&#x27;s built-in concurrency support outside of basic immutability. core.async gives a nice channel-based system, agents give an actor-ish system, and STM&#x2F;atoms let you mutate the variable safely, without having to manually work with locks.<p>This is definitely a good high-level article, just something I was surprised by, since core.async is what drove me (and several other people I know) to start using Clojure.<p>EDIT: Just a note that I know core.async isn&#x27;t built in, that was a mistake. It <i>is</i> a first-party library, however.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart</title><url>https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/fearlessconcurrencyhowclojurerustponyerlanganddartletyouachievethat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>What&#x27;s great about the actor model is that you can kinda apply it in languages not having such native support. Even if it will not be a strict model, with some education from the programmer it can do wonders and can be backed by lock free queues. What I see as a problem is always they for a thread to wait on new items a syscall must be executed which is costly. But one could use a spinlock a few cycles and later degradate to syscall.</text></comment> |
40,438,995 | 40,438,719 | 1 | 2 | 40,414,943 | train | <story><title>How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search</title><url>https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lelanthran</author><text>I want to make my own search engine, one day, with my own crawler.<p>There is an SEO-proof way to determine what the ranking of a site <i>should be</i> - penalise it for each advertisement, penalise further for delivering different content to the crawler[1], allow logged-in users to down-rank a site, etc.<p>Basically, a site starts off with a perfect score, then gets penalised for each violation, for each dark-pattern, for each anti-user decision they took.<p>This sort of ranking cannot be gamed by SEO spammers, because ... why get their site to the top of the rankings if they can&#x27;t put any advertisements on it?<p>Even if they do manage it, their time in the sun will be brief.<p>[1] Random spot-checks with different user agents with different fingerprints should work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flir</author><text>It&#x27;s your ranking system, so it&#x27;s correct by definition (for you), but I&#x27;ve got to point out you&#x27;re not considering the quality of the text. In your model, an empty page is perfect.<p>Cynically, maybe you&#x27;re on to something...</text></comment> | <story><title>How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search</title><url>https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lelanthran</author><text>I want to make my own search engine, one day, with my own crawler.<p>There is an SEO-proof way to determine what the ranking of a site <i>should be</i> - penalise it for each advertisement, penalise further for delivering different content to the crawler[1], allow logged-in users to down-rank a site, etc.<p>Basically, a site starts off with a perfect score, then gets penalised for each violation, for each dark-pattern, for each anti-user decision they took.<p>This sort of ranking cannot be gamed by SEO spammers, because ... why get their site to the top of the rankings if they can&#x27;t put any advertisements on it?<p>Even if they do manage it, their time in the sun will be brief.<p>[1] Random spot-checks with different user agents with different fingerprints should work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicce</author><text>&gt; allow logged-in users to down-rank a site, etc.<p>And then you need a huge anti-bot mechanism if the search engine will get any popularity. There is money-based motivation to affect the rankings.</text></comment> |
36,496,414 | 36,492,608 | 1 | 2 | 36,492,329 | train | <story><title>Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default</title><url>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>Microsoft is always striving to improve and streamline our product experiences—offering a new way to use the classic Microsoft Outlook app on Windows and the Microsoft Edge web browser.</i><p><i>to help you stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web.</i><p>I wonder if the people who write this sort of BS-filled prose really believe in what they&#x27;re writing. To be completely honest, the style almost sounds like LLM output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike31fr</author><text>No, they don&#x27;t believe in it, I know from experience. They know it&#x27;s BS. They know it&#x27;s bad. But it&#x27;s not appropriate to say out loud things like &quot;We made this change because we want more money and don&#x27;t really care about freedom or privacy, so that&#x27;s how it&#x27;s going to be whether you like it or not&quot;, so they are trying to find nice sentences. But they know, trust me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default</title><url>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>Microsoft is always striving to improve and streamline our product experiences—offering a new way to use the classic Microsoft Outlook app on Windows and the Microsoft Edge web browser.</i><p><i>to help you stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web.</i><p>I wonder if the people who write this sort of BS-filled prose really believe in what they&#x27;re writing. To be completely honest, the style almost sounds like LLM output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reliablereason</author><text>It is likely written by some copywriter. That person believes in nothing, they are simply performing a task that has been assigned to them.</text></comment> |
27,205,378 | 27,205,383 | 1 | 3 | 27,205,201 | train | <story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I live here and to anyone who doesn’t know san francisco this might help explain why I am not surprised (and probably anyone living here isn’t as well):<p>- Everybody wears a mask here. Everyone. Even vaccinated people and children. It’s taken extremely seriously. And I’m not even talking about social distancing. Everything has been closed since the beginning of the virus and indoor dining is merely re-opening.<p>- san francisco has the largest homeless population I’ve seen in the world (and I’ve traveled and lived in a bit everywhere in the world including many poor countries). On top of that, drug is hitting homeless people hard. It’s extremely common to see someone shooting themselves with a syringe here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Yes but that&#x27;s a <i>poor people</i> problem, so who cares?<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s possible for these things to be solved at any level lower than the federal, you can apply some band-aids but ultimately you need a stronger social safety net, which the US seems culturally averse to.</text></comment> |
28,297,266 | 28,297,342 | 1 | 2 | 28,295,688 | train | <story><title>Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire</title><url>https://www.arun.is/blog/richard-sapper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hamburgerwah</author><text>I really don&#x27;t know why people want to venerate anything to do with Steve Jobs. He was an absolute disgrace of a human being, treated people like garbage, a borderline psychopath. And yet some venerate him because he made some pretty things before other people would have inevitably made those same pretty things.<p>P.S. I somewhat agree with the commentator saying that hacker news is in many ways a sort of venture capital pornography, but I think the people comparing jobs to historical figures that confronted adolf hitler or changed the course of human history need some very long and deep self reflection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbiep</author><text>I’m honestly confused by the points of view that hold that unless a person was&#x2F;is as pure as the driven snow they deserve to be scrubbed from the history books.<p>Jobs, Churchill, Gates, Musk - I don’t understand. It’s as if proponents of that view believe that the only people deserving of recognition are those that were completely internally consistent, including by the times in which they are being judged (ie present tense).<p>Humans are complex. None of us (or at least, very very few of us) are fully internally consistent. The personality flaws that cause the greatest consternation may also be those that lead to our greatest triumphs. If they are not criminal, why not recognise people for doing great things? And why is it so hard to say add the caveat that <i>like all humans, they had their flaws</i>?</text></comment> | <story><title>Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire</title><url>https://www.arun.is/blog/richard-sapper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hamburgerwah</author><text>I really don&#x27;t know why people want to venerate anything to do with Steve Jobs. He was an absolute disgrace of a human being, treated people like garbage, a borderline psychopath. And yet some venerate him because he made some pretty things before other people would have inevitably made those same pretty things.<p>P.S. I somewhat agree with the commentator saying that hacker news is in many ways a sort of venture capital pornography, but I think the people comparing jobs to historical figures that confronted adolf hitler or changed the course of human history need some very long and deep self reflection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austhrow743</author><text>This is the forum for a VC firm. You would be hard pressed to find a social media platform with a greater concentration of people wanting to make a shitload of money by growing a tech company outside of the one that&#x27;s exclusively for people who have received YC funding.<p>Steve Jobs made a shitload of money growing a tech company. The broad overview of his career involving him being there when it went from nothing to something, leaving, succeeding while it floundered, then returning to have it then also succeed; gives him more credibility for having caused that success than many other potential role models have.</text></comment> |
13,279,277 | 13,278,738 | 1 | 2 | 13,278,285 | train | <story><title>Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/facebooks-face-recognition-tech-goes-on-trial</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artursapek</author><text>&gt; “We could soon have security cameras in stores that identify people as they shop,”<p>I stopped using Facebook 5 years ago because I noticed using it made me unhappy. I continue to not go back because of privacy concerns like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>“We could soon have security cameras in stores that identify people as they shop,”</i><p>Already deployed. Here&#x27;s a report by a retailer who installed a face recognition system.[1] Names anonymized.<p><i>“We now know within seconds of a person walking in the store if they’ve previously been caught stealing from us. ... Suppose Johnny Johnson is caught shoplifting at a Store-Mart branch. He’s detained, photographed, and given a barring notice. Johnson’s photo is entered into Store-Mart’s database of known shoplifters, becoming an “enrollee” in the system. Three weeks later, Johnson walks into Store-Mart again. Within five seconds, the system has captured his image from the store security cameras, compared it against every photo enrolled in Store-Mart’s database, found a match, and sent an alert to the in-store loss prevention associate’s (LPA) smartphone. The LPA looks at his phone, and Johnson’s name, photo, and detention history with Store-Mart pops up. The LPA verifies that the photo in the alert actually matches the person who just walked in. Then the associate approaches and says, “Mr. Johnson, you’ve previously been given a barring notice from Store-Mart. You’re not allowed to be here. Please leave.” And Johnson walks back out. So, within a minute or so of walking in, a known shoplifter has left the store, empty-handed.&quot;</i><p>Coming next, the sharing model:<p><i>&quot;A national shoplifter database similar to the Stores Mutual Association model is already in the works. This would mean that each additional retailer who adopts the security camera technology and starts sharing will incrementally increase the value of the system for all members.&quot;</i><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;losspreventionmedia.com&#x2F;insider&#x2F;retail-security&#x2F;facial-recognition-a-game-changing-technology-for-retailers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;losspreventionmedia.com&#x2F;insider&#x2F;retail-security&#x2F;facia...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/facebooks-face-recognition-tech-goes-on-trial</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artursapek</author><text>&gt; “We could soon have security cameras in stores that identify people as they shop,”<p>I stopped using Facebook 5 years ago because I noticed using it made me unhappy. I continue to not go back because of privacy concerns like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipperyman573</author><text>Facebook has what they call &quot;shadow profiles&quot; that still track you even if you&#x27;ve never signed up (or deleted your account). Not using Facebook doesn&#x27;t mean they don&#x27;t have information on you.</text></comment> |
33,892,630 | 33,892,459 | 1 | 2 | 33,890,625 | train | <story><title>Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC</title><url>https://cointelegraph.com/news/nigeria-bans-atm-cash-withdrawals-over-225-a-week-to-force-use-of-cbdc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irjustin</author><text>China was the leader in the push to pure cashless society. Cash still works, but only in small amounts.<p>Lots of HNews&#x27;ers claim cash is the only way to keep your freedoms, but that simply glosses over the fact that even if you have piles of cash under your bed, you can&#x27;t do anything meaningful if the government decides to prevent&#x2F;limit banks from accepting cash deposits - say in a 5 year timeframe.<p>After a while, businesses will simply stop accepting cash.</text></item><item><author>kornhole</author><text>This is programmable money where the government controls how and when you can spend it. It does not take long for most people to figure out how this restricts their freedom. I guess they will make it a bargain in some way such as charging a higher rate for cash as they are doing here. This may be a training ground for other governments to learn how to force or incentivize us to use their CBDC&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nix23</author><text>&gt;After a while, businesses will simply stop accepting cash.<p>So when you loose you smartphone&#x2F;cards you cant buy another one, open your car, pay for a taxi or even sleep in a hotel because there is no chance to go home?<p>Switzerland had 3 complete blackouts (1-2 month ago) for paying digital. So the sellers had to make list (and hope you come back later to pay it.). If your country just accept digital, you trust fully on digital infrastructure...i think we all know what a good idea that is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC</title><url>https://cointelegraph.com/news/nigeria-bans-atm-cash-withdrawals-over-225-a-week-to-force-use-of-cbdc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irjustin</author><text>China was the leader in the push to pure cashless society. Cash still works, but only in small amounts.<p>Lots of HNews&#x27;ers claim cash is the only way to keep your freedoms, but that simply glosses over the fact that even if you have piles of cash under your bed, you can&#x27;t do anything meaningful if the government decides to prevent&#x2F;limit banks from accepting cash deposits - say in a 5 year timeframe.<p>After a while, businesses will simply stop accepting cash.</text></item><item><author>kornhole</author><text>This is programmable money where the government controls how and when you can spend it. It does not take long for most people to figure out how this restricts their freedom. I guess they will make it a bargain in some way such as charging a higher rate for cash as they are doing here. This may be a training ground for other governments to learn how to force or incentivize us to use their CBDC&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjgreen</author><text>I don&#x27;t hear people saying cash protects freedom, but is does protect <i>privacy</i>. Can it be taken away, yes of course, if people don&#x27;t care about privacy (and most don&#x27;t) and don&#x27;t use it then it can, and that seems to be a project in progress.</text></comment> |
23,316,563 | 23,315,860 | 1 | 2 | 23,313,657 | train | <story><title>Speed.cloudflare.com</title><url>https://speed.cloudflare.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>Cloudflare: 455 Mbps down &#x2F; 73.1 Mbps up &#x2F; Latency 13.0 ms &#x2F; Jitter 2.26 ms &#x2F; Server: Ashburn via IPv6.<p>Netflix (fast.com): 790 Mbps down &#x2F; 950 Mbps up &#x2F; Latency 8 ms unloaded, 12 ms loaded &#x2F; Server: Ashburn via IPv6.<p>Ookla (speedtest.net): 928 Mbps down &#x2F; 938 Mbps up &#x2F; Ping 1 ms &#x2F; Server: Raleigh via IPv4.<p>DSL Reports (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dslreports.com&#x2F;speedtest" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dslreports.com&#x2F;speedtest</a>): 611 Mbps down &#x2F; 929 Mbps up &#x2F; ping 16-41ms &#x2F; Servers: Houston, Dallas, Newcastle DE, Nashville TN, Dallas.<p>Location: Raleigh. Provider: AT&amp;T fiber.<p>Test run using Safari, macOS 10.15.4, Thunderbolt Ethernet.<p>Edit: the small file sizes used for some of the tests seem to drag down the overall speed measurement quite a bit. It&#x27;s biased against upload measurements too since there&#x27;s download files sizes of 25MB and 100MB whereas upload tests only up to 10MB file size. But even there, something seems off. The upload measurements are much smaller for the same file sizes (e.g. 170 Mbps avg vs 7 Mbs average for a 10 kB file).<p>I question this methodology. I care most about my 1Gps when I&#x27;m downloading the latest version of Xcode or some other huge file. I guess the smaller sizes are to better emulate downloading web pages, but in that case, the latency is probably what matters more. Even with 1Gps, when I&#x27;m out in CA, sites typically feel faster.<p>Edit 2:<p>speedtest.googlefiber.net: 800-900 Mbps down &#x2F; 800-900 Mbps up (multiple tests to servers in Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, seems to bounce around each time I reload the page).<p>Speedtest (Ookla) with server manually set to Windstream in Ashburn, VA: 886 Mbps down, 900 Mbps up. Confirmed that my router is measuring the same amount, so Ookla isn&#x27;t just making up these numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Youden</author><text>You might know this but in case others don&#x27;t, seeing different speed test results to different services&#x2F;servers is completely normal.<p>A lot of people forget or don&#x27;t understand the &quot;net&quot; part of &quot;internet&quot;. The internet isn&#x27;t a monolithic service you connect to. When your ISP offers you &quot;1Gbps&quot; internet, they&#x27;re not guaranteeing that whatever your activity, you will get 1Gbps, they&#x27;re just giving you a 1Gbps connection to their network.<p>Their network will then interconnect with other networks. Depending on the specifics of those interconnections, you will see different performance characteristics depending on what you&#x27;re doing.<p>For example my ISP peers with a particular network that hosts servers ~600km away that I exchange a ton of data with. I get 1Gbps when I use my ISP. However when I use a different local ISP that doesn&#x27;t peer with the remote network, I see significantly reduced speeds, because the route taken to exchange data isn&#x27;t optimal.<p>I know the HN crowd is fairly technically competent but I&#x27;ve seen plenty of competent people who I think knew this in an abstract sense but it just hadn&#x27;t clicked for them what the practical consequences were.</text></comment> | <story><title>Speed.cloudflare.com</title><url>https://speed.cloudflare.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>Cloudflare: 455 Mbps down &#x2F; 73.1 Mbps up &#x2F; Latency 13.0 ms &#x2F; Jitter 2.26 ms &#x2F; Server: Ashburn via IPv6.<p>Netflix (fast.com): 790 Mbps down &#x2F; 950 Mbps up &#x2F; Latency 8 ms unloaded, 12 ms loaded &#x2F; Server: Ashburn via IPv6.<p>Ookla (speedtest.net): 928 Mbps down &#x2F; 938 Mbps up &#x2F; Ping 1 ms &#x2F; Server: Raleigh via IPv4.<p>DSL Reports (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dslreports.com&#x2F;speedtest" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dslreports.com&#x2F;speedtest</a>): 611 Mbps down &#x2F; 929 Mbps up &#x2F; ping 16-41ms &#x2F; Servers: Houston, Dallas, Newcastle DE, Nashville TN, Dallas.<p>Location: Raleigh. Provider: AT&amp;T fiber.<p>Test run using Safari, macOS 10.15.4, Thunderbolt Ethernet.<p>Edit: the small file sizes used for some of the tests seem to drag down the overall speed measurement quite a bit. It&#x27;s biased against upload measurements too since there&#x27;s download files sizes of 25MB and 100MB whereas upload tests only up to 10MB file size. But even there, something seems off. The upload measurements are much smaller for the same file sizes (e.g. 170 Mbps avg vs 7 Mbs average for a 10 kB file).<p>I question this methodology. I care most about my 1Gps when I&#x27;m downloading the latest version of Xcode or some other huge file. I guess the smaller sizes are to better emulate downloading web pages, but in that case, the latency is probably what matters more. Even with 1Gps, when I&#x27;m out in CA, sites typically feel faster.<p>Edit 2:<p>speedtest.googlefiber.net: 800-900 Mbps down &#x2F; 800-900 Mbps up (multiple tests to servers in Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, seems to bounce around each time I reload the page).<p>Speedtest (Ookla) with server manually set to Windstream in Ashburn, VA: 886 Mbps down, 900 Mbps up. Confirmed that my router is measuring the same amount, so Ookla isn&#x27;t just making up these numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leihca</author><text>Thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated! I&#x27;m a product manager here at Cloudflare, responsible for launching this tool. Since the launch, we&#x27;ve found some issues that we&#x27;re going to address:<p>- Especially for users with a very fast Internet connection, speed.cloudflare.com reports upload speeds much lower than expected figures. We don&#x27;t yet know what is causing this but will disable the upload part of the test until we know more.<p>- In general reported download speeds are little lower than figures coming from other speed tests. We will revisit our methodology to understand the discrepancy.<p>- Re: the speed test automatically starting: we appreciate the feedback and understand why some users may not want this as default behavior. We will disable the auto-start for now.<p>In the meantime, we appreciate any and all feedback, please keep it coming: you can reach me at achiel [at] cloudflare.com</text></comment> |
5,575,842 | 5,575,857 | 1 | 2 | 5,575,631 | train | <story><title>Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement</title><url>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/grad-student-who-shook-global-austerity-movement.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dade_</author><text>This story is a lesson on confirmation bias:<p>Professors that immediately decide that the student is wrong, and must be convinced otherwise.<p>The spreadsheet financial analysis that provided the expected results and therefore never checked for errors.<p>A single study that gave economists, and clearly an awful lot of politicians, the confirmation they needed to strengthen their resolve in the face of opposition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement</title><url>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/grad-student-who-shook-global-austerity-movement.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iwwr</author><text>So what is the alternative to lowering "consistently high public debt"? Monetize it? Default on it?<p>Debt in itself is not a problem if the growth rate is the same or decreasing as a proportion of the economy. At the current rate, some obligations would have to be forfeited, either to the direct creditors, or to those promised social services. Strangling the economy further with high taxes only makes the problem worse.<p>I think most of the damage from so-called "austerity" has been decisions taken with little warning and at the very last possible moment.</text></comment> |
6,666,629 | 6,665,933 | 1 | 3 | 6,665,261 | train | <story><title>Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source</title><url>https://github.com/sprang/Inkpad/blob/develop/README.md</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssprang</author><text>To expand on my motivation for open-sourcing Inkpad and Brushes:<p>The biggest reason is the ideological element. For all the usual reasons, I’ve come to feel that software should be free&#x2F;open-source. I feel really good now that these apps are free software. I can’t remember the last time I felt this happy to be working on them. I’m fortunate enough to be in a position where I can pursue other values in life besides dollars. Turns out I really like GitHub stars.<p>In addition to that, I experienced serious burnout after we spent a year (2012) rewriting Brushes to be a more modern iOS app. This was in response to Procreate which, in my opinion, blew all the existing painting apps out of the water. (Now that Brushes is open-source, I can feel free to compliment a competitor.)<p>Despite our own impression that we had radically improved Brushes with minimal UI changes, the update was poorly received by many existing users. At that point I essentially lost all motivation to pursue it as a business.<p>Ultimately, I decided that rather than letting the apps rot on the store, or trying to sell them to another developer, releasing the source code was the right thing to do. I’m hoping to collaborate with other developers, and keep Inkpad and Brushes alive as open-source projects for as long as there is interest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source</title><url>https://github.com/sprang/Inkpad/blob/develop/README.md</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NLPsajeeth</author><text>Taptrix (the developers behind Inkpad and Brushes) was YC S10, though if I remember correctly they joined YC after their Brushes app was already a smashing success on the iPad. Brushes was released the same day the iPad 1 came out and the two guys behind it were both Apple veterans. [1] [2]<p>Brushes — This startup created the Brushes application for painting on your iPhone or iPad. The app was used to create the well-known iPhone covers for the New Yorker. With 250,000 paying users and $60,000 in monthly revenue, Brushes apparently holds the YC record for most profitable startup on Demo Day. Its eventual goal is to become the “Adobe of touch devices” by building a suite of apps. [3]<p>If I had to guess, I&#x27;d say the devs probably have enough money to retire. Congrats! Thank you for contributing your code to the world.<p>[1] <a href="http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/03/brushes-ipad-launch-screenshots" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appadvice.com&#x2F;appnn&#x2F;2010&#x2F;03&#x2F;brushes-ipad-launch-scree...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/y-combinator-demo-day-2/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;y-combinator-demo-day-2&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/24/five-new-y-combinator-startups-to-watch/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;five-new-y-combinator-star...</a></text></comment> |
32,755,693 | 32,755,567 | 1 | 2 | 32,754,281 | train | <story><title>A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021)</title><url>https://sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/a-few-months-ago-a-complete-stranger-gave-me-10-000-heres-what-i-did-with-it-d5bc65f59d17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bheadmaster</author><text>Charities are often corrupt griftworks. It&#x27;s hard to know which ones are and which ones aren&#x27;t.<p>I think helping people in our proximity personally is the best course of action. That way, we <i>know</i> that our money isn&#x27;t ending up in some greedy grifter&#x27;s pocket - and if enough people do it, the effect can be greater than that of any charity.</text></item><item><author>Graziano_M</author><text>Unfortunately it feels better to give to an individual than it does many people, even though we can maximize the good we can do by donating more strategically. If it weren&#x27;t the case many more would donate to e.g. the effective altruism movement.<p>I&#x27;m no better. I donate to charity, but I still feel best about myself for times I helped people change a flat, etc.</text></item><item><author>leetrout</author><text>I have never spoken about this publicly but I found a contract job that paid about $4k for the project a few years ago. It required me hosting a secure database for a couple months and was a run-of-the-mill django project.<p>I coded it up, ran the project and got paid. I put back 30% for taxes and paid the AWS hosting bills (mostly for RDS) of about $500 and gave the rest to someone who was battling cancer. I gave it to them personally, in cash, in all 1&#x27;s as a joke. It was pretty cool to see over $2,000 in singles packaged up in money transport ziplocks put down in a gift bag. They thought I was giving them a brick as a joke.<p>I tell you what - it made me feel like I was on top of the world.<p>I look back on it and I kind of wish I had figured out how to eat the taxes and give all of it except the hosting costs (I didn&#x27;t have a ton of expendable income at the time).<p>Reading this story and thinking about them seeing the tax bill reminded me of this. Kudos to them for being able to give all of it on to worthwhile causes. I bet they felt amazing. It is so nice to be able to do something for someone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>I think this is probably reasoning to reach the conclusion you had already decided you wanted.<p>The impact of a dollar in the developing world is so much more than anyone that you could help who is in close proximity to the typical HN commentator that it would take an absolutely massive amount of graft to equalize the two.</text></comment> | <story><title>A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021)</title><url>https://sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/a-few-months-ago-a-complete-stranger-gave-me-10-000-heres-what-i-did-with-it-d5bc65f59d17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bheadmaster</author><text>Charities are often corrupt griftworks. It&#x27;s hard to know which ones are and which ones aren&#x27;t.<p>I think helping people in our proximity personally is the best course of action. That way, we <i>know</i> that our money isn&#x27;t ending up in some greedy grifter&#x27;s pocket - and if enough people do it, the effect can be greater than that of any charity.</text></item><item><author>Graziano_M</author><text>Unfortunately it feels better to give to an individual than it does many people, even though we can maximize the good we can do by donating more strategically. If it weren&#x27;t the case many more would donate to e.g. the effective altruism movement.<p>I&#x27;m no better. I donate to charity, but I still feel best about myself for times I helped people change a flat, etc.</text></item><item><author>leetrout</author><text>I have never spoken about this publicly but I found a contract job that paid about $4k for the project a few years ago. It required me hosting a secure database for a couple months and was a run-of-the-mill django project.<p>I coded it up, ran the project and got paid. I put back 30% for taxes and paid the AWS hosting bills (mostly for RDS) of about $500 and gave the rest to someone who was battling cancer. I gave it to them personally, in cash, in all 1&#x27;s as a joke. It was pretty cool to see over $2,000 in singles packaged up in money transport ziplocks put down in a gift bag. They thought I was giving them a brick as a joke.<p>I tell you what - it made me feel like I was on top of the world.<p>I look back on it and I kind of wish I had figured out how to eat the taxes and give all of it except the hosting costs (I didn&#x27;t have a ton of expendable income at the time).<p>Reading this story and thinking about them seeing the tax bill reminded me of this. Kudos to them for being able to give all of it on to worthwhile causes. I bet they felt amazing. It is so nice to be able to do something for someone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s hard to know which ones are and which ones aren&#x27;t.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charitynavigator.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charitynavigator.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,081,194 | 19,081,215 | 1 | 2 | 19,080,742 | train | <story><title>Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=adc3b38</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>If she&#x27;s under 13, it&#x27;s likely that&#x27;s the reason.<p>Even if you&#x27;re paying for G Suite, you can&#x27;t have someone under 13. There is a special, limited type of Google account for sub-13 kids: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;families&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7103338" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;families&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7103338</a></text></item><item><author>techntoke</author><text>I had been a Google fan for a long time but they lost my business recently because despite paying over $30&#x2F;mo for G Suite and a YouTube Premium family plan with Google Play Music, they apparently can&#x27;t help tell me why they blocked my daughter from live streaming to YouTube.<p>The video in question was her playing with legos, and when I disputed it asking why they blocked her... they literally just responded saying the block was valid without ever giving a reason. Like, what the heck Google you act like robots. Anyway, just cancelled my Premium services because they could never give a straight answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rstupek</author><text>Then you&#x27;d think it would be easy for Google to have said that instead of giving him no reason beyond &quot;yep it&#x27;s legit&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=adc3b38</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>If she&#x27;s under 13, it&#x27;s likely that&#x27;s the reason.<p>Even if you&#x27;re paying for G Suite, you can&#x27;t have someone under 13. There is a special, limited type of Google account for sub-13 kids: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;families&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7103338" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;families&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7103338</a></text></item><item><author>techntoke</author><text>I had been a Google fan for a long time but they lost my business recently because despite paying over $30&#x2F;mo for G Suite and a YouTube Premium family plan with Google Play Music, they apparently can&#x27;t help tell me why they blocked my daughter from live streaming to YouTube.<p>The video in question was her playing with legos, and when I disputed it asking why they blocked her... they literally just responded saying the block was valid without ever giving a reason. Like, what the heck Google you act like robots. Anyway, just cancelled my Premium services because they could never give a straight answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Wait, what about that Ryan kid (who&#x27;s a proxy for his parents) who does all the reviews for kids&#x27; toys and makes millions. Is he in danger of getting nixed?</text></comment> |
38,669,879 | 38,669,808 | 1 | 3 | 38,668,713 | train | <story><title>Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cfet-intel-samsung-tsmc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>It’s fun to be just a curious bystander for many years in this industry.<p>Every now and then Moore’s law hits a roadblock. Some experts see that as a clear sign that it’s reaching its end. Others that it’s already dead, because actually, the price per transistor has increased. Others that it’s physics, we can approach Y but after X nm it can’t be done.<p>Then you read others that claim that Intel has just been lazy enjoying its almost monopoly for the past decade and was caught off guard by TSMC’s ultraviolet prowess. Or people who really know how the sausage is made, like Jim Keller, enthusiastically stating that we are nowhere near any major fundamental limitation and can expect 1000X improvement in the years to come at least.<p>Anyway, it’s really fun to watch, like I said. Hard to think of a field with such rollercoaster-like forecasting while still delivering unparalleled growth in such a steady state for decades.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cfet-intel-samsung-tsmc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bogtog</author><text>General question about semiconductors: Why is there so much emphasis on the density of transistors rather than purely on the costs of production (compute&#x2F;$)? CPUs aren&#x27;t particularly large. My computer&#x27;s CPU may be just a few tablespoons in volume. Hence, is compute less useful if it&#x27;s spread out (e.g., due to communication speeds)?</text></comment> |
23,875,993 | 23,875,377 | 1 | 2 | 23,872,625 | train | <story><title>Why are CEOs failing software engineers?</title><url>https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engineers-56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway86442</author><text>Throwaway because I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Disney retaliated because of this post.<p>As a person who recently joined the Disney org not by choice, I wouldn&#x27;t wish Disney on my worst enemies. Seems like OP bought into Disney&#x27;s propaganda hook, line, and sinker.<p>Take the CFO types example and dial that to 19. You can&#x27;t even buy a sandwich without Disney corporate asking for the ROI of it. Want to use a different programming language? An OSS library? A SASS vendor? Please get approvals from legal and finance with ROI estimates. Nevermind the yearly dance to justify why engineers you already have should still stay on payroll. Contracts and employment are cancelled by default at the end of the year unless management makes a case on ROI for every head. Software projects to them are like movies, once it&#x27;s &quot;done&quot;, the people involved can kindly fuck right off.<p>This isn&#x27;t just limited to the technology side, I have friends throughout the creative side in both film and parks divisions. Every hour of their time has to be accounted for and approved up the management chain, every project must be forecast with sufficient ROI before start, and will be cancelled without notice the moment it there&#x27;s a hint of missing expectations.<p>Even getting a H1-B replacement is luxury that you have to fight for. H1-B is still more expensive than a contractor in a developing country under one of Disney&#x27;s international divisions.<p>The magic of Disney is the boatloads of people who continue to _want_ to work for Disney despite all this.</text></item><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>Within the last 5-10 years, Disney outsourced entire technology divisions using the H1-B visa program and forced employees to train their replacements for their last 90 days or forgo severance.<p>A former Disney IT employee testified before Congress, at times crying while he recounted the experience of being let go and having to personally train his replacement.[0]<p>Whatever Walt Disney was doing back in the day doesn&#x27;t seem to apply anymore, at least based on your description of what a successful creative company looks like. To me, this looks ruthless and manipulative.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3038292&#x2F;former-disney-it-worker-to-congress-how-can-you-allow-this.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3038292&#x2F;former-disney-...</a></text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised they didn&#x27;t look at Walt Disney for how to run a successful creative company. His ideas apply equally well to software as they do to the arts.<p>I&#x27;ve been watching the documentaries on Disney+, particularly The Imagineering Story (great doc BTW). They talk about the history of the creative side of Disneyland.<p>What you learn is that when they are simply given a budget and told &quot;build&quot; they thrive. When a CFO type gets involved with Disney, suddenly their output drops, because that CEO is asking what the ROI is for everything they do. A lot of what they do fails and has no ROI, and the people that work there start to worry about what their ROI will be before they start working.<p>When the CEO just says &quot;We&#x27;re going to spend X% on research, here is the budget&quot; then they thrive again.<p>I think this is applicable to software. When an engineer isn&#x27;t asked to think about the ROI ahead of time, they are left free to come up with novel innovations. But if they know they will be judged on ROI, they will take fewer risks.<p>This of course is all predicated on being a profitable company. You have to already have a good cashflow to have the freedom to say &quot;just go create&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewUnmuted</author><text>You are very cool for speaking out like this, so I&#x27;ll follow your example. A company I worked at went through the Disney Accelerator [0] and had an absolutely horrendous time of it.<p>&gt; The magic of Disney is the boatloads of people who continue to _want_ to work for Disney despite all this.<p>YES. This nails it. Disney&#x27;s unique capability is its ability to churn out its &quot;magical&quot; content while conceiving of human capital in this dreadful way. They&#x27;ve figured out how to extract beauty and precision out of people while not having to return the favor in any meaningful way. They treat their janitor the same way they treat their janitor&#x27;s mop.<p>They seem to conceive of their customers in the same sort of way. When people buy tickets to a showing of a Disney film in theaters, how many of their customers realize they are also having their eyes tracked by Disney? [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;disneyaccelerator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;disneyaccelerator.com&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;orlando&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;how-disney-plans-to-track-guests-eyes-to-improve.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;orlando&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;how-disn...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why are CEOs failing software engineers?</title><url>https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engineers-56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway86442</author><text>Throwaway because I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Disney retaliated because of this post.<p>As a person who recently joined the Disney org not by choice, I wouldn&#x27;t wish Disney on my worst enemies. Seems like OP bought into Disney&#x27;s propaganda hook, line, and sinker.<p>Take the CFO types example and dial that to 19. You can&#x27;t even buy a sandwich without Disney corporate asking for the ROI of it. Want to use a different programming language? An OSS library? A SASS vendor? Please get approvals from legal and finance with ROI estimates. Nevermind the yearly dance to justify why engineers you already have should still stay on payroll. Contracts and employment are cancelled by default at the end of the year unless management makes a case on ROI for every head. Software projects to them are like movies, once it&#x27;s &quot;done&quot;, the people involved can kindly fuck right off.<p>This isn&#x27;t just limited to the technology side, I have friends throughout the creative side in both film and parks divisions. Every hour of their time has to be accounted for and approved up the management chain, every project must be forecast with sufficient ROI before start, and will be cancelled without notice the moment it there&#x27;s a hint of missing expectations.<p>Even getting a H1-B replacement is luxury that you have to fight for. H1-B is still more expensive than a contractor in a developing country under one of Disney&#x27;s international divisions.<p>The magic of Disney is the boatloads of people who continue to _want_ to work for Disney despite all this.</text></item><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>Within the last 5-10 years, Disney outsourced entire technology divisions using the H1-B visa program and forced employees to train their replacements for their last 90 days or forgo severance.<p>A former Disney IT employee testified before Congress, at times crying while he recounted the experience of being let go and having to personally train his replacement.[0]<p>Whatever Walt Disney was doing back in the day doesn&#x27;t seem to apply anymore, at least based on your description of what a successful creative company looks like. To me, this looks ruthless and manipulative.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3038292&#x2F;former-disney-it-worker-to-congress-how-can-you-allow-this.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3038292&#x2F;former-disney-...</a></text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised they didn&#x27;t look at Walt Disney for how to run a successful creative company. His ideas apply equally well to software as they do to the arts.<p>I&#x27;ve been watching the documentaries on Disney+, particularly The Imagineering Story (great doc BTW). They talk about the history of the creative side of Disneyland.<p>What you learn is that when they are simply given a budget and told &quot;build&quot; they thrive. When a CFO type gets involved with Disney, suddenly their output drops, because that CEO is asking what the ROI is for everything they do. A lot of what they do fails and has no ROI, and the people that work there start to worry about what their ROI will be before they start working.<p>When the CEO just says &quot;We&#x27;re going to spend X% on research, here is the budget&quot; then they thrive again.<p>I think this is applicable to software. When an engineer isn&#x27;t asked to think about the ROI ahead of time, they are left free to come up with novel innovations. But if they know they will be judged on ROI, they will take fewer risks.<p>This of course is all predicated on being a profitable company. You have to already have a good cashflow to have the freedom to say &quot;just go create&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rs23296008n1</author><text>This explains the recent Star Wars movies then. Well, possibly except one.<p>Belt tightening like that is usually the sign that the MBAs took over. This is fine up to a point except when they start running a financial services enterprise instead of ... whatever you&#x27;d call they had before. Animation media entertainment company?<p>I wonder when the rot set in. The creativity out of Disney is now matching Hollywood baseline and that has been dropping significantly. They&#x27;re buying major franchies rather than creating them. I think this strategy is biting them. Too much financial analysis. They are losing the sharp creative edge.<p>Or is this my view, not based on insider knowledge, and completely inaccurate?</text></comment> |
33,589,212 | 33,588,630 | 1 | 2 | 33,585,817 | train | <story><title>Single-Board Computer from a TV</title><url>https://github.com/ninakali/chip_scavenger/blob/main/src/scavenge/008_tv/index.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Retr0id</author><text>Heh I thought I was the only one with a TV SBC. Here&#x27;s mine:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DavidBuchanan314&#x2F;webos-vncserver&#x2F;raw&#x2F;main&#x2F;img&#x2F;demo.jpg?raw=true" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DavidBuchanan314&#x2F;webos-vncserver&#x2F;raw&#x2F;main...</a><p>The picture shows a phone VNC&#x27;ed into it - it&#x27;s still running the original Linux-based TV OS (LG webOS), but rooted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Single-Board Computer from a TV</title><url>https://github.com/ninakali/chip_scavenger/blob/main/src/scavenge/008_tv/index.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_carbyau_</author><text>Now go the other way.<p>Open source project to replace the SMARTS in TVs with something less ad infested.<p>Bonus points if you can do it all in software but honestly, I&#x27;d pay $200 for a replacement board to remove ads and put the device under my control!</text></comment> |
22,534,692 | 22,534,503 | 1 | 3 | 22,534,415 | train | <story><title>Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak</title><url>https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-mortgages/payments-on-mortgages-to-be-suspended-across-italy-after-coronavirus-outbreak-idINR1N2A900G</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Phenix88be</author><text>I think banks &quot;create&quot; (out of &quot;no where&quot; I mean) the money they loan. So they don&#x27;t owe anyone.</text></item><item><author>101404</author><text>I just wonder how this works upstream. Don&#x27;t the banks also owe that money to somebody? After all, value isn&#x27;t just money, it&#x27;s money plus time.</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>It seems like obvious decision during national emergency. The whole country is in quarantine. You can&#x27;t expect household and small companies to pay interest like nothing has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>Not quite. They get money from somewhere, that they loan out.<p>But because much of the money they got from somewhere can be requested at will (people can still remove money from their accounts), it is still liquid and still counts as money. So money is &quot;created&quot; this way.<p>That is how they create money. They don&#x27;t <i>literally</i> just create whatever they need, only central banks can do that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak</title><url>https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-mortgages/payments-on-mortgages-to-be-suspended-across-italy-after-coronavirus-outbreak-idINR1N2A900G</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Phenix88be</author><text>I think banks &quot;create&quot; (out of &quot;no where&quot; I mean) the money they loan. So they don&#x27;t owe anyone.</text></item><item><author>101404</author><text>I just wonder how this works upstream. Don&#x27;t the banks also owe that money to somebody? After all, value isn&#x27;t just money, it&#x27;s money plus time.</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>It seems like obvious decision during national emergency. The whole country is in quarantine. You can&#x27;t expect household and small companies to pay interest like nothing has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xxs</author><text>of course this is not true, the credits are sold and resold, etc.</text></comment> |
41,674,930 | 41,675,048 | 1 | 3 | 41,674,109 | train | <story><title>SAML: A Technical Primer</title><url>https://ssoready.com/docs/saml/saml-technical-primer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>Surprisingly the page doesn&#x27;t explain the meaning of SAML. It&#x27;s Security Assertion Markup Language <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Security_Assertion_Markup_Language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Security_Assertion_Markup_Lang...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nocman</author><text>Oh, I thought it stood for:<p>&quot;Suffering A Massive Lot&quot; - jk<p>Let&#x27;s just say my interaction with managing websites that used SAML was less than pleasant.</text></comment> | <story><title>SAML: A Technical Primer</title><url>https://ssoready.com/docs/saml/saml-technical-primer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>Surprisingly the page doesn&#x27;t explain the meaning of SAML. It&#x27;s Security Assertion Markup Language <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Security_Assertion_Markup_Language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Security_Assertion_Markup_Lang...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>(S)uggest (A)lternative (M)odern (L)ogin: OIDC&#x2F;Oauth2 ?<p>The &quot;Continue with&quot; buttons that include Microsoft, Google, and Apple, tend to pick up most SMBs without SAML SSO headaches on either side.<p>Like so:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xsplit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;auth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xsplit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;auth</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;id.atlassian.com&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;id.atlassian.com&#x2F;login</a><p>Use an email domain restriction, and you have by and large SSO; the user can only log into your SaaS if the user is an active account at that company.<p>Storing user passwords yourself is a liability, indirect or direct: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-91-million-euros-over-password-storage-2024-09-27&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;eu-privacy-regulator-fine...</a></text></comment> |
35,473,975 | 35,473,575 | 1 | 3 | 35,468,855 | train | <story><title>Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>What you must understand is that this is human nature not &quot;private companies.&quot;<p>When I was in high school I had a friend who worked at one of those 1-hr photo processing places. People would bring their film in to have prints made. And there were no small numbers of &quot;intimate&quot; photos on those rolls of film. Yes even in the days of film cameras, people took photos of themselves in sexual situations.<p>Of course my friend thought it was hilarious and the shop would make extra prints of these photos to pass around among the staff. They had separate categories similar to what you&#x27;d see on any porn site. Of course it was in violation of policy but people do this stuff. If you&#x27;re building something that handles photo&#x2F;video images you must expect it and build in privacy from the ground up. You cannot rely on your staff to always be on their best behavior.</text></item><item><author>varun_chopra</author><text>Reminds me of the time I bought lunch at work, and a colleague told me exactly what I bought and how much I paid for it. I called him out and said it was a lucky guess, and then he proceeded to tell me my entire payment history for the past 2 days.<p>Turns out when I was buying lunch, he was on the phone with a friend who worked at Paytm and that guy gave away my transaction history for shits and giggles.<p>My trust in private companies has been at it&#x27;s lowest since then and I absolutely do not trust startups to keep my data safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_mj0m</author><text>When I was working for [blank] cellphone carrier we had a competing carrier fire their entire phone repair&#x2F;support staff in the area because they were keeping a USB hard drive stash of nudes. Tech support staff would pass it from store to store and dump whatever nudes they&#x27;d collected from customer phone repairs that week. I don&#x27;t remember how they got caught.<p>I had to come down on multiple tech staff at our own store for digging around in photos anytime a hot woman came in with a phone.<p>Rare occasions we had this one older women that would ask us to transfer photos every year to her new phone and to &quot;verify personally that every photo had been moved.&quot; Of course the majority of the photos would be her naked selfies or what seemed to be swinger parties. I&#x27;ve got a 65yo woman in a cowboy hat only seared into my brain because I was the first tech to deal with her kink of having people look through the photos.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>What you must understand is that this is human nature not &quot;private companies.&quot;<p>When I was in high school I had a friend who worked at one of those 1-hr photo processing places. People would bring their film in to have prints made. And there were no small numbers of &quot;intimate&quot; photos on those rolls of film. Yes even in the days of film cameras, people took photos of themselves in sexual situations.<p>Of course my friend thought it was hilarious and the shop would make extra prints of these photos to pass around among the staff. They had separate categories similar to what you&#x27;d see on any porn site. Of course it was in violation of policy but people do this stuff. If you&#x27;re building something that handles photo&#x2F;video images you must expect it and build in privacy from the ground up. You cannot rely on your staff to always be on their best behavior.</text></item><item><author>varun_chopra</author><text>Reminds me of the time I bought lunch at work, and a colleague told me exactly what I bought and how much I paid for it. I called him out and said it was a lucky guess, and then he proceeded to tell me my entire payment history for the past 2 days.<p>Turns out when I was buying lunch, he was on the phone with a friend who worked at Paytm and that guy gave away my transaction history for shits and giggles.<p>My trust in private companies has been at it&#x27;s lowest since then and I absolutely do not trust startups to keep my data safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smodo</author><text>I assume they don’t mean that they are baffled by human nature. The thing that’s sort of unexpected is that, knowing human nature, companies don’t build in safeguards for this kind of sh.</text></comment> |
19,324,745 | 19,324,756 | 1 | 2 | 19,323,123 | train | <story><title>Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs</title><url>https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edflsafoiewq</author><text>Re viewing matrices as graphs<p>Under the usual matrices-as-linear-maps interpretation, a nxm matrix is a linear map from the free vector space on m elements to the free vector space on n elements, M : Vect(Y) -&gt; Vect(X), where X and Y are as in the article.<p>For a regular map of finite sets Y -&gt; X, we can draw a picture showing how each element of Y goes to an element of X by drawing a bunch of dots for Y and a bunch of dots for X with an arrow from each dot in Y to its image in X. This is a directed bipartite graph where each dot in Y is the source of exactly one edge.<p>How is a linear map, Vect(Y) -&gt; Vect(X), different? Each element of Y goes not to a single element of X, but to a linear combination of elements of X. If y goes to a x1 + b x2, we can think of this as two arrows out of y, each one now being weighted, one arrow to x1 with weight a and one to x2 with weight b (considering edges with weight 0 to be non-existent if you like). This is the graph shown in the article.<p>This interpretation shows why matrix multiplication is path composition. It&#x27;s exactly analogous to how for the map of finite sets, you find the image of z by first following its arrow to y in Y, then following <i></i>its<i></i> arrow to x in X. Here you first follow z to all its images in Y, then you follow those to all their images in X. Relation composition is only a special case.<p>And of course the connection between XxY-&gt;R and Vect(Y)-&gt;Vect(X) is the usual correspondence between a rank (1,1) tensor and a linear map.<p>Re probabilities: this corresponds to imagining a random process that transforms elements of Y into elements of X where y turns into x with probability p(x,y). The probability that you end up with x (the marginal probability) is the probability that any dot in Y transformed into x, ie. sum over all the arrows that wind up at x.</text></comment> | <story><title>Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs</title><url>https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ironSkillet</author><text>If you like this idea, also check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphicallinearalgebra.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphicallinearalgebra.net</a>.<p>It also describes fundamental linear algebra operations in terms of graphs, but with a slightly different flavor, and much more detail.</text></comment> |
32,979,952 | 32,979,561 | 1 | 2 | 32,978,776 | train | <story><title>McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/25/criminal-conspiracy/#payment-is-expected</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trynewideas</author><text>Also recently in Providence Health:<p>Claiming a $500M operating loss to get it back in federal COVID relief funding while sitting on a $100B reserve generating $1B in investment income, as a non-profit[1]<p>Refusing to treat a life-threatening miscarriage by calling it an abortion, in 2019[2]<p>Inspiring the Oregon state legislature to protect access to reproductive health services when religious-based providers like Providence buy them out;[3] unlike secular hospitals, they&#x27;re exempt from state law mandating free reproductive health care[4]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;business&#x2F;coronavirus-hospitals-bailout.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;business&#x2F;coronavirus-hosp...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rewirenewsgroup.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;miscarriage-catholic-hospital&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rewirenewsgroup.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;miscarriage-catholic-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opb.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;oregon-hospital-merger-law-abortion-access-protections-us-supreme-court-roe-v-wade&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opb.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;oregon-hospital-merge...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oregoncapitalchronicle.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;health-insurers-not-following-oregon-law-requiring-free-reproductive-health-care-state-audit-says&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oregoncapitalchronicle.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;health-insurer...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/25/criminal-conspiracy/#payment-is-expected</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richarlidad</author><text>Reading about the absolute scumbag behavior of these firms is not surprising when the incentives push firms toward poor behavior.<p>It feels like acting against one&#x27;s own interests for the benefit of others is becoming less common. Or I&#x27;m spending too much time on the internet.</text></comment> |
40,687,445 | 40,684,848 | 1 | 3 | 40,677,424 | train | <story><title>Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-delay-release-recall-ai-feature-security-concerns-2024-06-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Recall suffered from a classic Microsoft mistake they&#x27;ve made time and again, but never learned from - how to correctly market and package your feature.<p>Microsoft always tends to &quot;go big&quot; with their integrations, often to their detriment, in order to increase adoption of new features. One notable time was with Windows 8. They really, REALLY wanted people to try out the new Metro UI, so they deeply integrated it into the OS, pushed it in every marketing campaign, and made it the first screen you saw on login. There were some great features in it - better performance and better search results, but it wasn&#x27;t opt in. The reaction from customers who took a casual look was, &quot;they removed the desktop!&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t true, but because of how overzealous MS was to push the new feature, that became the takeaway.<p>The same thing is happening here - Microsoft pushed what objectively is a great tool, but they did so in a way that never gave users a choice of whether or not they wanted it. They&#x27;ve also framed the messaging and marketing in a way that&#x27;s confusing to what is actually happening. Look at the amount of talk in this blogpost dedicated to mentioning how important security is for them, without ever actually going into what the security issues are or how they&#x27;re addressing them.<p>Sloppy marketing + forced integration has bit Microsoft so many times now. I&#x27;m always shocked that they never learn from this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The problem is not marketing. The problem is the tool is fundamentally not secure, and in my opinion, fundamentally not securable without major changes.<p>The core issue is that everyone has things on their computer that they want to be transient. I don&#x27;t ever want my computer taking screenshots when I&#x27;m entering, say, my credit card number. More importantly, though, I oftentimes have text editors containing &quot;scratch pads&quot; that may contain sensitive data that I never want to persist.<p>Microsoft just never thought through the security implications of this feature.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-delay-release-recall-ai-feature-security-concerns-2024-06-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Recall suffered from a classic Microsoft mistake they&#x27;ve made time and again, but never learned from - how to correctly market and package your feature.<p>Microsoft always tends to &quot;go big&quot; with their integrations, often to their detriment, in order to increase adoption of new features. One notable time was with Windows 8. They really, REALLY wanted people to try out the new Metro UI, so they deeply integrated it into the OS, pushed it in every marketing campaign, and made it the first screen you saw on login. There were some great features in it - better performance and better search results, but it wasn&#x27;t opt in. The reaction from customers who took a casual look was, &quot;they removed the desktop!&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t true, but because of how overzealous MS was to push the new feature, that became the takeaway.<p>The same thing is happening here - Microsoft pushed what objectively is a great tool, but they did so in a way that never gave users a choice of whether or not they wanted it. They&#x27;ve also framed the messaging and marketing in a way that&#x27;s confusing to what is actually happening. Look at the amount of talk in this blogpost dedicated to mentioning how important security is for them, without ever actually going into what the security issues are or how they&#x27;re addressing them.<p>Sloppy marketing + forced integration has bit Microsoft so many times now. I&#x27;m always shocked that they never learn from this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IAmNotACellist</author><text>What&#x27;s funny is if they had marketed it as Apple does (and had as much credibility as Apple does among their fans) then everyone would love it. I seriously doubt they intend to do much different than &quot;Apple Intelligence.&quot; I.e., local access to all your data and uploads of data you use on cloud apps.</text></comment> |
23,344,645 | 23,344,295 | 1 | 2 | 23,342,161 | train | <story><title>Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies</title><url>https://www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-social-media-protections-8a53f1c6-3c05-4844-98a3-071373b497a8.html?stream=technology&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_technology</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtbayly</author><text>Newspapers do that because they are liable for what they publish. Twitter is not liable for what it publishes. Why should it not be liable? The answer is because they are just providing a platform and others are publishing. But the moment they use their platform to modify and censor what people publish, then they should probably be liable, right?</text></item><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Newspapers have restricted what they publish for centuries.<p>They don&#x27;t allow libellous, defamatory, salacious or inappropriate comments for example.<p>So it sounds &#x27;new tech&#x27; hasn&#x27;t really changed anything.</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>I think that’s a simplistic view. No one is arguing Twitter is comparable to a store with a display window. The reality is that Tweets are broadcasted to billions of people. It’s a new reality. It’s a newspaper where anyone and everyone is authoring anything, including presidents, and with the roll of a die, the message is amplified to a multiple of the expected audience.<p>Twitter may technically be a private platform run by a private company, but the issue not one of semantics, it’s about ethics and morals and how we compose a society with mighty power imbalances, fortified by new tech.</text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>&gt;It really is a public web space that is operated by a private company<p>No, it isn&#x27;t, any more than a store is a public space because it has windows the public can see into. You have to sign up for a Twitter account and accept their terms of service to post on the site. It&#x27;s a private platform run by a private company for its own private business interests.</text></item><item><author>TheColorYellow</author><text>Its an interesting thought experiment to assess in what ways Twitter is a &quot;private website&quot;.<p>It really is a public web space that is operated by a private company, but I can&#x27;t help but feel that the nuances and similarities of what Twitter really is and what responsibility they truly hold in society is above the courts comprehension.</text></item><item><author>cdolan</author><text>The biggest takeaway, looking past the headline:<p>“This week a federal appeals court, ruling in a case brought by conservative activists against social media companies, affirmed that private websites are not public spaces and social media companies don&#x27;t have First Amendment obligations.<p>Any truly strong limits to Section 230 would almost certainly require action by Congress.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomaslord</author><text>I don&#x27;t see why they should be.<p>If someone uploads their library of child porn encoded to base64 split across tons of tweets, do you want Twitter to have a choice between removing that content and continuing to operate?<p>We have 3 options here:<p>1. No moderation allowed whatsoever on a site without a court order. That obviously leads to a terrible, toxic community with lots of reprehensible content that the average person wouldn&#x27;t want to participate in.<p>2. A good faith effort at moderation. This allows the most reprehensible, highest-impact content to be removed and allows users to participate in the moderation process.<p>3. No content can be published without moderation, on any site anywhere. Want to post a Facebook status? Have fun paying $20 for the privilege of waiting 48 hours for a human to review it.<p>All of this is irrelevant though, because this executive order is not targeted at censorship. It&#x27;s targeted at a private individual who voluntarily, <i>for free</i>, passed on a message from one person to many other people and decided to tell them &quot;this seems fishy, you might want to read up on it.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies</title><url>https://www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-social-media-protections-8a53f1c6-3c05-4844-98a3-071373b497a8.html?stream=technology&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_technology</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtbayly</author><text>Newspapers do that because they are liable for what they publish. Twitter is not liable for what it publishes. Why should it not be liable? The answer is because they are just providing a platform and others are publishing. But the moment they use their platform to modify and censor what people publish, then they should probably be liable, right?</text></item><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Newspapers have restricted what they publish for centuries.<p>They don&#x27;t allow libellous, defamatory, salacious or inappropriate comments for example.<p>So it sounds &#x27;new tech&#x27; hasn&#x27;t really changed anything.</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>I think that’s a simplistic view. No one is arguing Twitter is comparable to a store with a display window. The reality is that Tweets are broadcasted to billions of people. It’s a new reality. It’s a newspaper where anyone and everyone is authoring anything, including presidents, and with the roll of a die, the message is amplified to a multiple of the expected audience.<p>Twitter may technically be a private platform run by a private company, but the issue not one of semantics, it’s about ethics and morals and how we compose a society with mighty power imbalances, fortified by new tech.</text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>&gt;It really is a public web space that is operated by a private company<p>No, it isn&#x27;t, any more than a store is a public space because it has windows the public can see into. You have to sign up for a Twitter account and accept their terms of service to post on the site. It&#x27;s a private platform run by a private company for its own private business interests.</text></item><item><author>TheColorYellow</author><text>Its an interesting thought experiment to assess in what ways Twitter is a &quot;private website&quot;.<p>It really is a public web space that is operated by a private company, but I can&#x27;t help but feel that the nuances and similarities of what Twitter really is and what responsibility they truly hold in society is above the courts comprehension.</text></item><item><author>cdolan</author><text>The biggest takeaway, looking past the headline:<p>“This week a federal appeals court, ruling in a case brought by conservative activists against social media companies, affirmed that private websites are not public spaces and social media companies don&#x27;t have First Amendment obligations.<p>Any truly strong limits to Section 230 would almost certainly require action by Congress.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>triceratops</author><text>Why should they &quot;probably be liable&quot;?<p>Twitter isn&#x27;t liable for illegal content posted by their users, as long as they take it down in time and make good faith efforts to keep it from being posted in the first place. If they weren&#x27;t free from liability then a service like Twitter would need heavy human moderation and be extremely expensive to operate - perhaps it wouldn&#x27;t exist at all.<p>That&#x27;s the only reason this non-liability exists. It has nothing to do with moderation or censorship. Twitter, as any other web property, have the right to curate their platform and make it pleasant for their other users. <i>It&#x27;s their personal property.</i></text></comment> |
22,973,093 | 22,973,091 | 1 | 2 | 22,972,479 | train | <story><title>Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods</title><url>https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-a-green-new-deal-can-create-jobs-and-livelihoods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nomel</author><text>&gt; The Green New Deal moves us in the right direction. You can raise questions about the specific form in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey introduced it. But the general idea is quite right.<p>I really wish the &quot;Green New Deal&quot; wasn&#x27;t mentioned in these pushes for the future. I don&#x27;t think there was ever agreement on what the &quot;general idea&quot; of it was, and I don&#x27;t think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain. Sure, it&#x27;s recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&quot;New Deal&quot; is synonymous with a program of large and widespread government reform and investment to combat a specific problem. So while &quot;Green New Deal&quot; is the name of a specific piece of legislation, support for a general green New Deal is support for reform and investment to help the environment and more specifically fight climate change. I don&#x27;t think anyone ever really expected the specific Green New Deal legislation to be passed, but it was meant to kick start that discussion and serve as a rallying point for future efforts. This type of thing is pretty common when a specific piece of legislation is inserted to represent an entire issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods</title><url>https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-a-green-new-deal-can-create-jobs-and-livelihoods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nomel</author><text>&gt; The Green New Deal moves us in the right direction. You can raise questions about the specific form in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey introduced it. But the general idea is quite right.<p>I really wish the &quot;Green New Deal&quot; wasn&#x27;t mentioned in these pushes for the future. I don&#x27;t think there was ever agreement on what the &quot;general idea&quot; of it was, and I don&#x27;t think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain. Sure, it&#x27;s recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbob2</author><text>&gt; I really wish the &quot;Green New Deal&quot; wasn&#x27;t mentioned in these pushes for the future.<p>Yes, and what do you personally prefer to see instead?<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain<p>Why would something not deserve credit for any good ideas it contained?<p>&gt; Sure, it&#x27;s recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.<p>I&#x27;m really not trying to nitpick, but it seems like you&#x27;re overgeneralizing. To whom would it be recognizable but not necessarily in a good way?</text></comment> |
4,477,551 | 4,477,385 | 1 | 2 | 4,476,397 | train | <story><title>What's a $4000 Suit Worth?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfedor</author><text><i>Why do you think the suit is dead?</i><p>Don't know about other places, but at least in NoCal high status people don't wear suits. Since the only function of a suit is status signaling, it seems just a matter of time until everyone else catches up and suits will be replaced by bike jerseys or whatever.</text></item><item><author>nl</author><text><i>The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.</i><p>Why do you think the suit is dead?<p>I wear a suit (not always, but often enough to have an opinion).<p>I've never bought an <i>expensive</i> suit, but I nor do I buy cheap suits. I guess I generally spend around $500.<p>I work with people who spend $2000 on suits though. These aren't bespoke, but are from nice fabrics and cut very well (eg, Hugo Boss etc). I'm no suit expert, but I can tell the difference.<p>I can't say I've seen any particular decrease in suit wearing over the past 15 years I've been working, although ties are less common that they used to be.<p>In my experience location and field of work makes a bigger difference to suit wearing than anything else.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Yet another submarine: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p>The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.<p>$4000 is several times what I spend on clothes in a year. It's several times what I spend on clothes in <i>several</i> years. There's a far less expensive option that's highly satisficing. Suits, once an inexpensive, practical, standardized alternative to more ornate and expensive clothing, are now the expensive, frequently impractical attire. The lead time to purchase is too long. And a far lower grade of tailoring is more than sufficient for virtually any occasion. That's basic facts.<p>There are exceptions -- people for whom the expense is neither extravagent nor unneccessary. It's a pretty small crowd, well within the top 1%, and probably more like the top 0.01%. Then divide by two, because, well, very few women wear suits (though women's fashion is its own discussion).<p>As TFA notes, bespoke tailoring doesn't scale. And it strongly suggests a rather fragile relationship between the garment and the wearer -- I can change in multiple of 25 separate measurements within a few months to a years time -- does this render a suit poor-fitting?<p>The made-to-measure alternative exists, and for many or most, it's a more-than-acceptable alternative for either formal or casual clothing. With correctly chosen measuring points, and if necessary, some additional tailoring, garments can be made to fit quite well. Cloth is pretty fungible. Sticking to conservative fashions, styles, and cuts means you'll have something that will wear well for years. And in a world in which off-the-rack sizing is increasingly problematic (aggressively styled cuts with little sizing leeway result in more frustrated customers), it's increasingly an option. There are a few vendors in the space, though I feel it's still waiting for its true visionary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I know it may not seem that way sometimes, but NoCal is not the entire world - nor does the entire world take their cultural cues from NoCal.<p>The suit is very much alive in NY, in London, the entire legal world, and in many other places. That's just during the day.<p>For formal events / outings it is SF that is the extreme outlier. In the rest of the country if you are going to a fancy restaurant, a wedding, an awards dinner or the like you wear a suit. The original rational for the suit actually still holds for these occasions - it removes the need to constantly chase the latest fashions, as many woman and all hipsters must.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's a $4000 Suit Worth?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfedor</author><text><i>Why do you think the suit is dead?</i><p>Don't know about other places, but at least in NoCal high status people don't wear suits. Since the only function of a suit is status signaling, it seems just a matter of time until everyone else catches up and suits will be replaced by bike jerseys or whatever.</text></item><item><author>nl</author><text><i>The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.</i><p>Why do you think the suit is dead?<p>I wear a suit (not always, but often enough to have an opinion).<p>I've never bought an <i>expensive</i> suit, but I nor do I buy cheap suits. I guess I generally spend around $500.<p>I work with people who spend $2000 on suits though. These aren't bespoke, but are from nice fabrics and cut very well (eg, Hugo Boss etc). I'm no suit expert, but I can tell the difference.<p>I can't say I've seen any particular decrease in suit wearing over the past 15 years I've been working, although ties are less common that they used to be.<p>In my experience location and field of work makes a bigger difference to suit wearing than anything else.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Yet another submarine: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p>The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.<p>$4000 is several times what I spend on clothes in a year. It's several times what I spend on clothes in <i>several</i> years. There's a far less expensive option that's highly satisficing. Suits, once an inexpensive, practical, standardized alternative to more ornate and expensive clothing, are now the expensive, frequently impractical attire. The lead time to purchase is too long. And a far lower grade of tailoring is more than sufficient for virtually any occasion. That's basic facts.<p>There are exceptions -- people for whom the expense is neither extravagent nor unneccessary. It's a pretty small crowd, well within the top 1%, and probably more like the top 0.01%. Then divide by two, because, well, very few women wear suits (though women's fashion is its own discussion).<p>As TFA notes, bespoke tailoring doesn't scale. And it strongly suggests a rather fragile relationship between the garment and the wearer -- I can change in multiple of 25 separate measurements within a few months to a years time -- does this render a suit poor-fitting?<p>The made-to-measure alternative exists, and for many or most, it's a more-than-acceptable alternative for either formal or casual clothing. With correctly chosen measuring points, and if necessary, some additional tailoring, garments can be made to fit quite well. Cloth is pretty fungible. Sticking to conservative fashions, styles, and cuts means you'll have something that will wear well for years. And in a world in which off-the-rack sizing is increasingly problematic (aggressively styled cuts with little sizing leeway result in more frustrated customers), it's increasingly an option. There are a few vendors in the space, though I feel it's still waiting for its true visionary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text><i>Don't know about other places, but at least in NoCal high status people don't wear suits.</i><p>There seems to be a kind of inverse snobbery about smart dress at the moment, as if the 50-year-old CEOs of huge tech firms think that by taking off their tie we're going to think they're one of us, or the 25-year-old founder of a trendy start-up is going to convince us of their business savvy by wearing a T-shirt and trainers while giving a presentation.<p><i>Since the only function of a suit is status signaling</i><p>Really? I happen to think that smart dress looks better on me than casual anyway, but even without that, suits are fairly practical garments. A well-made suit is comfortable to wear all day. Suits have an easily removable jacket if you're hot, yet provide useful shelter for the elements if it's cold/wet outside. They have plenty of handy pockets for pens, phones, etc.</text></comment> |
34,369,236 | 34,369,743 | 1 | 3 | 34,367,824 | train | <story><title>OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium</title><url>https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/story/openai-tests-the-premium-version-of-chatgpt-heres-how-you-can-get-it-359958-2023-01-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoxOfRain</author><text>Yeah I&#x27;d happily pay decent money for a version that wasn&#x27;t a fun sponge who&#x27;d probably remind the teacher they hadn&#x27;t set any homework at the end of the lesson. I think its &#x27;moral compass&#x27; is a bit Americentric too, it would be nice if its sense of what is proper could be customised for different countries.</text></item><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>My son asked if which of two animals would win in a fight and we just got a lecture about how fighting is bad.<p>I hope they’ll give an option to turn off what I’m calling “hall monitor mode”<p>That could be worth paying for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scifibestfi</author><text>It&#x27;s weird because America is at once the home of the free, but also the home of a hardcore set of puritans who love to get control of the moral compass and enforce it on everyone else.<p>It comes in waves. The last wave was in the 80s. But this wave is larger and more totalizing. Control of the internet and AI output is the ultimate hall monitor tool.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium</title><url>https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/story/openai-tests-the-premium-version-of-chatgpt-heres-how-you-can-get-it-359958-2023-01-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoxOfRain</author><text>Yeah I&#x27;d happily pay decent money for a version that wasn&#x27;t a fun sponge who&#x27;d probably remind the teacher they hadn&#x27;t set any homework at the end of the lesson. I think its &#x27;moral compass&#x27; is a bit Americentric too, it would be nice if its sense of what is proper could be customised for different countries.</text></item><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>My son asked if which of two animals would win in a fight and we just got a lecture about how fighting is bad.<p>I hope they’ll give an option to turn off what I’m calling “hall monitor mode”<p>That could be worth paying for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>Same here... but the puritan AI ethicists on Twitter are asking for even more self-censorship. Because there are ways to making it say racist things if you explicitly tell it to do so. As is normal, given that it&#x27;s just a tool, the point is that it should do what we say.
I guess for these people, high-school debates where one can be assigned racist&#x2F;sexist&#x2F;etc. positions are an abomination.<p>I hope some non-American equivalent is released, because I don&#x27;t trust American companies to release anything not absurdly prude. American society (or at least the elites) seems totally engulfed by extreme puritanism, and happy to impose it on the rest of us (why can&#x27;t we have porn apps on the iPhone, when there&#x27;s porn made by perfectly legal companies who pay their workers and their taxes?)</text></comment> |
12,150,867 | 12,150,271 | 1 | 3 | 12,149,203 | train | <story><title>Ruining the Magic of Magento's Encryption Library</title><url>http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertyuiop924</author><text>Look, I don&#x27;t care if you use PHP. But if you aren&#x27;t an expert, and your code hasn&#x27;t been audited by experts, don&#x27;t write your own crypto. Use libsodium, or libressl&#x27;s libcrypto (if you think openssl is a good bet, you really need to see the talk that discusses the reasons for that fork), or libgcrypt. But for crying out loud, use a library that is actively used and vetted by people who KNOW WHAT THEY&#x27;RE TALKING ABOUT. And do your best to know what you&#x27;re talking about, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruining the Magic of Magento's Encryption Library</title><url>http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to say don&#x27;t write crypto. Instead I will give more useful advice: if you do write crypto, make it boring. Really boring. Do not invent anything. Do not be creative. Use an established modern construction with modern ciphers and use them in only one way. That one way should be the way cryptographers recommend with no deviations.</text></comment> |
26,223,459 | 26,222,510 | 1 | 2 | 26,218,693 | train | <story><title>TransferWise changes name to Wise</title><url>https://wise.com/gb/blog/world-meet-wise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Prediction: zero negative will come out of the name change or redesign, and three years from now they&#x27;ll be bigger than ever. I&#x27;m long on them and they haven&#x27;t even IPO&#x27;d yet. Can&#x27;t wait for them, and Stripe.<p>Seriously, have you ever seen a rebrand negatively affect a product? Rebrands have to be thought about retrospectively: you need to think whether it would make sense to go from the new to the old. Number26 for example rebranded to N26 and in retrospect it was an utterly obvious move.<p>Wise to Transferwise would make no sense especially if they are positioning themselves as more than a PayPal alternative. So this is a good rebrand.<p>And the generic name isn&#x27;t a problem, any more than it was for Square. It&#x27;s a shame $WISE is taken though.</text></item><item><author>colincooke</author><text>I love transferwise, depend on it often. I don&#x27;t get the rebrand, their old name was descriptive, easy to google, and from all perspectives really good. The rebrand won&#x27;t change me using it, but I really can&#x27;t see the positive in this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarek83</author><text>&gt; Seriously, have you ever seen a rebrand negatively affect a product?<p>I think there is an example in Europe. myTaxi has been rebranded to FREE NOW. The change has been dictated to free the brand from just the taxi business connection. But I believe it was unfortunate, at least for their taxi business. I don&#x27;t have hard numbers, but the new name and logo seems to be random, completely unrelated to taxis, so when you see a car with it, you have no idea that the driver is a taxi driver. It&#x27;s 2 years now with new name, but they iOS app is still named: FREE NOW (mytaxi). Me and my friends always have to ask someone &quot;how mytaxi is called now?&quot; because the app is no longer under M in the phone.<p>Worse for the company is that, since myTaxi was extremely catchy, there came a competitor called iTaxi, and many believe it might had take over some of the clients just because people trying to find myTaxi installed iTaxi instead, as FREE NOW looked cryptic and unrelated to taxis for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>TransferWise changes name to Wise</title><url>https://wise.com/gb/blog/world-meet-wise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Prediction: zero negative will come out of the name change or redesign, and three years from now they&#x27;ll be bigger than ever. I&#x27;m long on them and they haven&#x27;t even IPO&#x27;d yet. Can&#x27;t wait for them, and Stripe.<p>Seriously, have you ever seen a rebrand negatively affect a product? Rebrands have to be thought about retrospectively: you need to think whether it would make sense to go from the new to the old. Number26 for example rebranded to N26 and in retrospect it was an utterly obvious move.<p>Wise to Transferwise would make no sense especially if they are positioning themselves as more than a PayPal alternative. So this is a good rebrand.<p>And the generic name isn&#x27;t a problem, any more than it was for Square. It&#x27;s a shame $WISE is taken though.</text></item><item><author>colincooke</author><text>I love transferwise, depend on it often. I don&#x27;t get the rebrand, their old name was descriptive, easy to google, and from all perspectives really good. The rebrand won&#x27;t change me using it, but I really can&#x27;t see the positive in this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrisoli</author><text>Worst one I can think of is ConvertKit&#x27;s rebrand that was so bad they went back on it(kept the new logo, but reverted the name change because it had some religious meaning), then again, it&#x27;s not as big of a brand as TransferWise.</text></comment> |
19,001,818 | 18,999,837 | 1 | 2 | 18,997,923 | train | <story><title>Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tejaswiy</author><text>Oh man ignoring the privacy implications of this, all the &quot;product&quot; people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love. It is going to become a giant monstrosity with a 500MB binary size, lag, whole bunch of tracking code and super slow servers. It has begun to a certain extent already and it&#x27;s only going get worse.<p>I assume they think that the network effect is going to lock users into WhatsApp but the moment it becomes too painful to run on a 100$ Android phone with 1GB of RAM, it will inevitably die. Sure it&#x27;s not going to be instantaneous but I&#x27;m a 100% sure that all the PMs that run Facebook Messenger are itching to get their hands on WhatsApp.<p>I understand these changes are only on the server side, but I imagine the client side is not too far away. Some client changes are inevitable because I&#x27;m pretty sure they&#x27;ll build a &quot;unified&quot; API for all these apps and it&#x27;s is going to contain a whole bunch of messenger service code (because look at all those messenger features that noone cares about, surely we can&#x27;t just drop what a whole org has been working on for two years)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtmt</author><text>&gt; all the &quot;product&quot; people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love.<p>Well, let it just die quickly! There&#x27;s not much to love in products from a company that&#x27;s repeatedly so hostile to its users. I&#x27;m all for anything from Facebook dying sooner, and will be cheering when that happens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tejaswiy</author><text>Oh man ignoring the privacy implications of this, all the &quot;product&quot; people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love. It is going to become a giant monstrosity with a 500MB binary size, lag, whole bunch of tracking code and super slow servers. It has begun to a certain extent already and it&#x27;s only going get worse.<p>I assume they think that the network effect is going to lock users into WhatsApp but the moment it becomes too painful to run on a 100$ Android phone with 1GB of RAM, it will inevitably die. Sure it&#x27;s not going to be instantaneous but I&#x27;m a 100% sure that all the PMs that run Facebook Messenger are itching to get their hands on WhatsApp.<p>I understand these changes are only on the server side, but I imagine the client side is not too far away. Some client changes are inevitable because I&#x27;m pretty sure they&#x27;ll build a &quot;unified&quot; API for all these apps and it&#x27;s is going to contain a whole bunch of messenger service code (because look at all those messenger features that noone cares about, surely we can&#x27;t just drop what a whole org has been working on for two years)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stubb</author><text>You don&#x27;t trust Zuckerberg to keep your private messages private? Even if that somehow happens, he&#x27;ll be selling your
messaging network info to everyone with two nickels to rub together.<p>No thanks. Delete Messenger&#x2F;WhatsApp and move everything onto other services.</text></comment> |
21,410,506 | 21,410,420 | 1 | 2 | 21,409,827 | train | <story><title>Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/economy/long-term-unemployed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melvinroest</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly experiencing this as a CS grad in the Dutch job market. I find it weird and frustrating.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed why:<p>1. Companies don&#x27;t dare to value creativity [1]. University is so liberal and the job market is so the opposite.<p>2. Most companies can&#x27;t value a CS degree. The exception is when enough people in the company did a CS degree and that&#x27;s a lot more rare than I thought.<p>3. University didn&#x27;t teach me to focus on a portfolio and I got distracted with doing multiple degrees all at the same time fast-tracked (nobody cares that I fast-tracked), which (as you can see in point 2) proves that I&#x27;m worth very little. It taught me a lot personally and made me smarter (in terms of crystalized intelligence). But my portfolio is rather terrible compared to what I&#x27;m capable of.<p>I&#x27;ll fix it, but right now I&#x27;m just tired of being not called back (50% of the time) or rejected (the other 50%). I know I&#x27;m capable, and pass the bar. I&#x27;m not perfect, I&#x27;m not the best, but I&#x27;m capable.<p>[1] I created an app called Doodledocs which is a Canvas-based app that allows P2P privacy free collaborative doodling with a pressure sensitive stylus. In my interviews with companies they don&#x27;t trust enough that I&#x27;d be capable helping along with CRUD applications, because I didn&#x27;t do any CRUD in the Doodledocs app. And I&#x27;m just thinking: figuring out how to do WebRTC for free in a serverless manner (while seeing all of it for the first time) is a lot tougher than writing some models for a basic login system that you already know about (the same can be said for poking around in VMs in view libraries like Glimmer). Anyways, it&#x27;s on a show HN right now see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21399910" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21399910</a> -- also for anyone who wants to do free WebRTC, check the Bugout library, it&#x27;s really cool. If you have any questions about it, I can walk you through it (I understand most to all of it). My email is my hn username at gmail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>It sounds like the company made the right decision based on your words alone.<p>The tone of your description of their &quot;CRUD applications&quot; comes across as dismissive. What the company wants is people who are happy to work there or at least not unhappy enough to leave (and, even better, will keep their unhappiness to themselves). The company wants this more than technical ability. You might be really talented but it seems like you&#x27;d be unhappy there. Perhaps that&#x27;s not the case and you&#x27;re just bitter about the rejection?<p>But don&#x27;t make the mistake that the the sole purpose of recruiting is to find the most technically capable people. It&#x27;s not. It never was and it never will be. It&#x27;s to find people who will fit the company&#x27;s goal of coming to work, doing their job, going home and doing the same thing day in and day out.<p>You may well be bored developing CRUD apps. If I was an interviewer for that company I&#x27;d certainly be worried about that. Isn&#x27;t that a possibility here?</text></comment> | <story><title>Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/economy/long-term-unemployed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melvinroest</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly experiencing this as a CS grad in the Dutch job market. I find it weird and frustrating.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed why:<p>1. Companies don&#x27;t dare to value creativity [1]. University is so liberal and the job market is so the opposite.<p>2. Most companies can&#x27;t value a CS degree. The exception is when enough people in the company did a CS degree and that&#x27;s a lot more rare than I thought.<p>3. University didn&#x27;t teach me to focus on a portfolio and I got distracted with doing multiple degrees all at the same time fast-tracked (nobody cares that I fast-tracked), which (as you can see in point 2) proves that I&#x27;m worth very little. It taught me a lot personally and made me smarter (in terms of crystalized intelligence). But my portfolio is rather terrible compared to what I&#x27;m capable of.<p>I&#x27;ll fix it, but right now I&#x27;m just tired of being not called back (50% of the time) or rejected (the other 50%). I know I&#x27;m capable, and pass the bar. I&#x27;m not perfect, I&#x27;m not the best, but I&#x27;m capable.<p>[1] I created an app called Doodledocs which is a Canvas-based app that allows P2P privacy free collaborative doodling with a pressure sensitive stylus. In my interviews with companies they don&#x27;t trust enough that I&#x27;d be capable helping along with CRUD applications, because I didn&#x27;t do any CRUD in the Doodledocs app. And I&#x27;m just thinking: figuring out how to do WebRTC for free in a serverless manner (while seeing all of it for the first time) is a lot tougher than writing some models for a basic login system that you already know about (the same can be said for poking around in VMs in view libraries like Glimmer). Anyways, it&#x27;s on a show HN right now see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21399910" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21399910</a> -- also for anyone who wants to do free WebRTC, check the Bugout library, it&#x27;s really cool. If you have any questions about it, I can walk you through it (I understand most to all of it). My email is my hn username at gmail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>I think 1. companies are burned out with CS grads who simply can&#x27;t code 2. companies are burned out from new employees just learning the job and then jump somewhere else and 3. companies are looking to on-board you as fast as possible.<p>A few problems you should be working on:<p>&gt; nobody cares that I fast-tracked<p>&gt; in terms of crystalized intelligence<p>&gt; But my portfolio is rather terrible<p>&gt; compared to what I&#x27;m capable of [*hint: Unless you did something that you can&#x27;t show publicly, what you are capable of is nothing if what you did in terms of production is nothing]<p>I think you are over-confident when it comes to your skills.</text></comment> |
8,831,398 | 8,831,441 | 1 | 3 | 8,831,334 | train | <story><title>Google is shutting down OpenID 2.0</title><url>https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID#shutdown-timetable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teh</author><text>OpenID has been on its way out for a while. It&#x27;s being replaced by OpenID Connect [1] so this is not bad news, but a good reminder in any case!<p>[1]
<a href="http://openid.net/connect/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openid.net&#x2F;connect&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google is shutting down OpenID 2.0</title><url>https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID#shutdown-timetable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fintler</author><text>Previous discussion at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8346355" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8346355</a></text></comment> |
6,174,240 | 6,174,275 | 1 | 2 | 6,172,881 | train | <story><title>John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO</title><url>http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-cto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistercow</author><text>From his blog, Abrash seems to be much more interested in AR than VR, and seems to lean toward VR being a parallel (but mutually supportive) path to AR, rather than a step along the way.<p>Also, I think Newell might offer Abrash the entire company before he lets him slip away from Valve.</text></item><item><author>angersock</author><text>So, let me say this much: Fuck. Yes.<p>Quake 3 had stereoscopic rendering in the source back before anybody really cared, and Carmack has had long involvement both in consumer 3D graphics as well as vendor relations.<p>Long-short is that if you look at the code the dude has shipped, he really cares about things being both technically correct and worth hacking on. This is a really good move, and if they end up picking Mike Abrash I&#x27;ll be unsurprised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dn_Ab</author><text>I think he is focusing on VR. Though he prefers AR, he does not consider it as productive a way to spend one&#x27;s efforts in the near term.<p>&quot;<i>So my personal opinion (which is not necessarily Valve’s) is that it makes sense to do VR now, and push it forward as quickly as possible, but at the same time to continue research into the problems unique to AR, with an eye to tilting more and more toward AR over time as it matures. As I said, it’s not the definitive answer we’d all like, but it’s where my thinking has led me. However, I’ve encountered intelligent opinions from one end of the spectrum to the other, and I look forward to continuing the discussion in the comments.</i>&quot;<p><a href="http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/two-possible-paths-into-the-future-of-wearable-computing-part-2-ar/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.valvesoftware.com&#x2F;abrash&#x2F;two-possible-paths-int...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO</title><url>http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-cto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistercow</author><text>From his blog, Abrash seems to be much more interested in AR than VR, and seems to lean toward VR being a parallel (but mutually supportive) path to AR, rather than a step along the way.<p>Also, I think Newell might offer Abrash the entire company before he lets him slip away from Valve.</text></item><item><author>angersock</author><text>So, let me say this much: Fuck. Yes.<p>Quake 3 had stereoscopic rendering in the source back before anybody really cared, and Carmack has had long involvement both in consumer 3D graphics as well as vendor relations.<p>Long-short is that if you look at the code the dude has shipped, he really cares about things being both technically correct and worth hacking on. This is a really good move, and if they end up picking Mike Abrash I&#x27;ll be unsurprised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkolb</author><text>If you look at some of the recent demos with the Oculus you&#x27;ll see that AR is not necessarily mutually exclusive with a full field of vision headset. Some of the most exciting demos in my opinion involve moving around in a real physical space while wearing the headset. The headset shows a digital re-creation of the physical space along with anything else that the developer wants to overlay onto to the scene. You&#x27;re basically using the physical world as a skeleton on which you can hang the digital meat. Check out this kickstarter for example: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/62367895/atlas-virtual-reality-made-real" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;62367895&#x2F;atlas-virtual-r...</a></text></comment> |
19,606,654 | 19,606,724 | 1 | 2 | 19,605,761 | train | <story><title>A gentle introduction to symbolic execution</title><url>https://blog.monic.co/a-gentle-introduction-to-symbolic-execution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>triska</author><text>Very nice, thank you for sharing this!<p>Symbolic execution is also known as <i>abstract interpretation</i>. The program is being interpreted, with concrete values <i>abstracted away</i>, generalized to symbolic elements that often denote several or even infinitely many <i>concrete</i> values.<p>Logic programming languages like Prolog are especially amenable to abstract interpretation, since we can <i>absorb</i> the Prolog system&#x27;s built-in binding environment for variables, and simply plug in different values for the existing variables. We only have to <i>reify</i> unification, i.e., implement it within the language with suitable semantics.<p>An impressive application of this idea is contained in the paper <i>Meta-circular Abstract Interpretation in Prolog</i> by Michael Codish and Harald Søndergaard:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;summary?doi=10.1.1.137.3604" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;summary?doi=10.1.1.137....</a><p>As one of the examples, the authors show how abstract interpretation over the abstract parity domain {zero, one, even, odd} can be used to derive non-trivial facts about the Ackermann function.<p>In particular, they deduce that <i>Ackermann(i,j)</i> is odd and greater than 1 for all <i>i</i> greater than 1, by taking a Prolog implementation of the Ackermann function, and interpreting it with these abstract domain elements instead of all concrete values (which would not terminate, since there are infinitely many concrete values). This is computed by fixpoint computation, determining the deductive closure of the relation.</text></comment> | <story><title>A gentle introduction to symbolic execution</title><url>https://blog.monic.co/a-gentle-introduction-to-symbolic-execution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joelburget</author><text>Co-author here. We&#x27;re planning to turn this into a series, with additional posts on how symbolic execution works at a lower level, how to present counterexamples to users, and ideas for future programming tools built on symbolic execution.</text></comment> |
31,402,305 | 31,402,538 | 1 | 2 | 31,401,470 | train | <story><title>Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-05-09-supercharging-github-actions-with-job-summaries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unboxingelf</author><text>Nit: love the usage of emojis for quickly conveying information, but do use them consistently. In this example they’re using both a ‘red x’ and a ‘red dot’ for failures. Similarly, they use both tenses “Failed” and “Fail”, “Passed” and “Pass”. Pick one and stick with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-05-09-supercharging-github-actions-with-job-summaries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>&quot;Supercharging&quot; is such an exhausting buzzword these days...</text></comment> |
10,355,621 | 10,355,678 | 1 | 2 | 10,355,451 | train | <story><title>New Initiatives for Lyft Drivers</title><url>http://blog.lyft.com/posts/wetreatyoubetter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaphp</author><text>Having an option to tip enforces customers to tip, I would prefer using a service that does not force me to tip by providing that option. I am against tips in general for drivers.</text></item><item><author>chipgap98</author><text>I know Uber has the dominate market share, but I really enjoy life. I notice that I get better, friendlier service from the drivers and I like having the option to tip. They have rolled out a lot of impressive features and programs recently. I hope, at the very least, their actions will pressure Uber into some similar moves</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alukima</author><text>I&#x27;m really glad that option is there. I had an emergency involving a seizing dog and a round trip to the vets office. The driver was incredible and would have gotten a whole $9 if I couldn&#x27;t tip.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Initiatives for Lyft Drivers</title><url>http://blog.lyft.com/posts/wetreatyoubetter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaphp</author><text>Having an option to tip enforces customers to tip, I would prefer using a service that does not force me to tip by providing that option. I am against tips in general for drivers.</text></item><item><author>chipgap98</author><text>I know Uber has the dominate market share, but I really enjoy life. I notice that I get better, friendlier service from the drivers and I like having the option to tip. They have rolled out a lot of impressive features and programs recently. I hope, at the very least, their actions will pressure Uber into some similar moves</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmanfrin</author><text>I 100% agree. This is entirely the reason why I use Caviar over other food ordering services, since they do not offer a means of tipping and even say &#x27;there is no need to tip&#x27;, as the cost&#x2F;fees in part go to the driver&#x2F;delivery person.</text></comment> |
13,356,672 | 13,356,903 | 1 | 3 | 13,354,329 | train | <story><title>Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience</title><url>http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2017/01/software-developers-should-have.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandrami</author><text>As a grumpy evil sysadmin, I think the good Professor misses where the real disconnect is, at least nowadays: stack management.<p>Why do things like Docker exist? Because developers got tired of sysadmins saying &quot;sorry, you can&#x27;t upgrade Ruby in the middle of this project&quot;. Why does virtualenv exist? A similar reason.<p>Containerized ecosystems (which is to say basically all of them now) are really a sign of those of us on the sysadmin side of the aisle capitulating and saying that developers can&#x27;t be stopped from having the newest version of things, and I think that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out what versions of each language and library involved the project would use. This worked well with Perl; once the stacks started gravitating to Ruby and Python it was a dismal failure.<p>Why? Because those two ecosystems release like hummingbirds off of their ritalin. Take the release history for pip[1] (and I&#x27;m not calling pip out as particularly bad; I&#x27;m calling pip out as particularly average, which is the problem): in the year 2015, pip went from version 1.5.6 to 8.1.1 (!) through 24 version bumps, introducing thirteen (documented) backwards incompatibilities. Furthermore, there were more regression fixes from previous bumps than feature additions. You&#x27;ll also notice that none of these releases are tagged &quot;-rc1&quot;, etc., though the fact that regressions were fixed in a new bump the next day means they <i>were</i> release candidates rather than releases. Ruby is just as bad; the famous (and I&#x27;ve experienced this) example is that an in-depth tutorial can be obsoleted in the two weeks it takes you to work through it.<p>Devs are chasing a moving target, and devs who haven&#x27;t been sysadmins may have trouble seeing why that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexB138</author><text>As a Sys Admin turned Automation&#x2F;Tools Engineer, I think you&#x27;re missing part of the point. You&#x27;ve got the beginning of it right in saying that Sys Admins used to be involved in pinning down versions, and even in why that was necessary, but I believe you&#x27;re incorrect in saying that the containerization technologies are bad for removing that.<p>Those technologies don&#x27;t exist so Developers can get around Sys Admins and ignore your helpful advice. They exist to solve that problem that makes the Sys Admins role there necessary. It removes the underlying need for a Sys Admin to worry about the versions. Admins should see this as a good thing, but in my experience many dislike it because it takes them out of their Gatekeeper role. We shouldn&#x27;t WANT to stop the Developers from from having the newest version of things. They aren&#x27;t kids playing with toys that we need to nanny over, they&#x27;re doing work that creates values and the fewer things we do to get in the way of that, the better.<p>If something breaks due to version changes, their testing should catch it. If things are breaking in production, we ought to get involved because there&#x27;s some other problem, but before that we, as a profession, need to learn to get out of the way and let people work by letting technology handle the problems. The &quot;Gatekeeper&quot; mentality needs to die as quickly as it possibly can.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience</title><url>http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2017/01/software-developers-should-have.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandrami</author><text>As a grumpy evil sysadmin, I think the good Professor misses where the real disconnect is, at least nowadays: stack management.<p>Why do things like Docker exist? Because developers got tired of sysadmins saying &quot;sorry, you can&#x27;t upgrade Ruby in the middle of this project&quot;. Why does virtualenv exist? A similar reason.<p>Containerized ecosystems (which is to say basically all of them now) are really a sign of those of us on the sysadmin side of the aisle capitulating and saying that developers can&#x27;t be stopped from having the newest version of things, and I think that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out what versions of each language and library involved the project would use. This worked well with Perl; once the stacks started gravitating to Ruby and Python it was a dismal failure.<p>Why? Because those two ecosystems release like hummingbirds off of their ritalin. Take the release history for pip[1] (and I&#x27;m not calling pip out as particularly bad; I&#x27;m calling pip out as particularly average, which is the problem): in the year 2015, pip went from version 1.5.6 to 8.1.1 (!) through 24 version bumps, introducing thirteen (documented) backwards incompatibilities. Furthermore, there were more regression fixes from previous bumps than feature additions. You&#x27;ll also notice that none of these releases are tagged &quot;-rc1&quot;, etc., though the fact that regressions were fixed in a new bump the next day means they <i>were</i> release candidates rather than releases. Ruby is just as bad; the famous (and I&#x27;ve experienced this) example is that an in-depth tutorial can be obsoleted in the two weeks it takes you to work through it.<p>Devs are chasing a moving target, and devs who haven&#x27;t been sysadmins may have trouble seeing why that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awinder</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; 15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin
&gt; I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out
&gt; what versions of each language and library involved the
&gt; project would use
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To wit: the new ideologies in infrastructure management are actually designed to solve the underlying problem that necessitated that kind of working setup. Why should the version of a lib in one part of the software somehow pose existential threat to the infrastructure? Engrain the dependencies into contained, independently deployable pieces, and make it so that app-level code can evolve without bringing down the world with it. Make it easy to revert back, and&#x2F;or utilize phased rollouts, and you&#x27;ve got the ability to iterate quickly, keep pace with external dependencies, and it no longer has to be some scary thing that requires big back-and-forth meetings over mundane details.<p>(As for software that releases often, maybe it&#x27;s an over-correction, but there&#x27;s a reason things don&#x27;t work as they did in the glory days, and that&#x27;s because they were never really that glorious.)<p>This doesn&#x27;t necessarily rule out the expertise of systems administration, because the platforms for all of this need to be built &amp; maintained, and there&#x27;s still a lot of work to be done on network boarder security, etc. It&#x27;s a movement that focuses systems administration to systems administration, instead of having to be this big org arbiter of microdecisions, and all the baggage that goes along with trying to be the gatekeeper of all.</text></comment> |
8,876,873 | 8,876,890 | 1 | 3 | 8,876,319 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds on HFS+</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Can someone explain to me why case insensitivity is a bad thing? Clearly Linus believes so but didn&#x27;t explain why he believes so.<p>Most UNIX and Linux systems seem to have an &quot;all lowercase&quot; or &quot;all uppercase&quot; convention, so the fact that they have case sensitivity is often not utilised.<p>In fact the biggest reason you&#x27;d want case sensitivity off the top of my head is legacy support but that&#x27;s just a circular argument (since you never really reach WHY it was that way originally, just that it was).<p>I guess based on what he talks about next he is worried about how case insensitivity interacts with other character sets (i.e. does it correctly change their case), but for most sets isn&#x27;t the lower and upper case defined in the UNICODE language spec itself?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thristian</author><text>The prime number-one concern in kernel programming is managing complexity. Well, in most programming really, but in kernel programming unmanaged complexity leads to lost data and sometimes broken hardware instead of &quot;just&quot; crashes.<p>Case-sensitivity is the easiest thing - you take a bytestring from userspace, you search for it exactly in the filesystem. Difficult to get wrong.<p>Case-insensitivity for ASCII is slightly more complex - thanks to the clever people who designed ASCII, you can convert lower-case to upper-case by clearing a single bit. You don&#x27;t want to <i>always</i> clear that bit, or else you&#x27;d get weirdness like &quot;`&quot; being the lowercase form of &quot;@&quot;, so there&#x27;s a couple of corner-cases to check.<p>Case-sensitivity for Unicode is a giant mud-ball by comparison. There&#x27;s no simple bit flip to apply, just a 66KB table of mappings[1] you have to hard-code. And that&#x27;s not all! Changing the case of a Unicode string can change its length (ß -&gt; SS), sometimes lower -&gt; upper -&gt; lower is not a round-trip conversion (ß -&gt; SS -&gt; ss), and some case-folding rules depend on locale (In Turkish, uppercase LATIN SMALL LETTER I is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE, not LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I like it is in ASCII). Oh, and since Unicode requires that LATIN SMALL LETTER E + COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT should be treated the same way as LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE, you also need to bring in the Unicode normalisation tables too. And keep them up-to-date with each new release of Unicode.<p>So the last thing a kernel developer wants is Unicode support in a filesystem.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CaseFolding.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicode.org&#x2F;Public&#x2F;UNIDATA&#x2F;CaseFolding.txt</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds on HFS+</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Can someone explain to me why case insensitivity is a bad thing? Clearly Linus believes so but didn&#x27;t explain why he believes so.<p>Most UNIX and Linux systems seem to have an &quot;all lowercase&quot; or &quot;all uppercase&quot; convention, so the fact that they have case sensitivity is often not utilised.<p>In fact the biggest reason you&#x27;d want case sensitivity off the top of my head is legacy support but that&#x27;s just a circular argument (since you never really reach WHY it was that way originally, just that it was).<p>I guess based on what he talks about next he is worried about how case insensitivity interacts with other character sets (i.e. does it correctly change their case), but for most sets isn&#x27;t the lower and upper case defined in the UNICODE language spec itself?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>Yes, it would be nice to have universal &quot;uppercase&quot; and &quot;lowercase&quot; rules, but in the real world, collation rules are crazy, arbitrary, and damn near impossible to get right. Now try to get it right in EVERY locale around the world, because if you don&#x27;t, you open a big gaping security hole or data corruption bug.</text></comment> |
16,814,196 | 16,814,065 | 1 | 3 | 16,813,659 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&gt; Lujan: It may surprise you that we’ve not talked about this a lot today. You’ve said everyone controls their data, but you’re collecting data on people who are not even Facebook users who have never signed a consent, a privacy agreement.<p>&gt; And it may surprise you that on Facebook’s page when you go to “I don’t have a Facebook account and would like to request all my personal data stored by Facebook” it takes you to a form that says “go to your Facebook page and then on your account settings you can download your data.”<p>This is typically something Facebook should be prepared for considering it&#x27;s one of the use case of the GDPR.<p>It&#x27;s highly likely they are prepared for that but won&#x27;t show it before the storm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>Congressman Costello from Pennsylvania asked if AI will be used to recognize the faces of &quot;non-FB users&quot;.<p>Combined with the shadow profiles question by Congressman Lujan from New Mexico, some of these questions are getting closer to what people need to know and understand. Unfortunately, a lot of the rest of questioning seems like blind man&#x27;s bluff &#x2F; Marco Polo [0].<p>It&#x27;d be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg.<p>2:50 PM EDT: Congressman Duncan from North Carolina is going to give Zuckerburg a small copy of the US Constitution.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blind_man%27s_buff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blind_man%27s_buff</a><p>2:59 PM EDT - Edited to add &quot;to lay people&quot;.<p>3:02 PM EDT - Added &quot;Marco Polo&quot;. Thanks to caabalis for the reminder.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&gt; Lujan: It may surprise you that we’ve not talked about this a lot today. You’ve said everyone controls their data, but you’re collecting data on people who are not even Facebook users who have never signed a consent, a privacy agreement.<p>&gt; And it may surprise you that on Facebook’s page when you go to “I don’t have a Facebook account and would like to request all my personal data stored by Facebook” it takes you to a form that says “go to your Facebook page and then on your account settings you can download your data.”<p>This is typically something Facebook should be prepared for considering it&#x27;s one of the use case of the GDPR.<p>It&#x27;s highly likely they are prepared for that but won&#x27;t show it before the storm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>WOW they are discussing the FB trackers now. This may actually get real</text></comment> |
22,912,724 | 22,911,976 | 1 | 2 | 22,895,842 | train | <story><title>A Guide to Pricing Plans</title><url>https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/Article/3169972/The-Definitive-Guide-to-Pricing-Plans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidajackson</author><text>&gt; Yes, Product C is slightly cheaper than the most expensive option, but it offers less storage than any of the options.<p>Why would a business want wrong looking pricing on their pricing page, &quot;decoy&quot;s aside? Seems that would deter people more. Makes the business seem like it doesn&#x27;t have its stuff together. Would you trust a company that seems like it can&#x27;t do simple math? I think the author may be getting at something here--perhaps adding a third, unrelated or irrelevant option drives more conversions, but nonsensical pricing doesn&#x27;t seem like the way to do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Guest0918231</author><text>It would make more sense to have prices $40, $50, $60, where the $50 plan is always on sale for $30. Then, you effectively have a $30 and $60 plan, and the $40 is a decoy to make $30 seem like great value.<p>I designed a quick example below. That being said, I have no experience with pricing strategies, and I feel like this example is missing out on users and businesses that would be willing to spend $100.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vzaoy8q.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vzaoy8q.jpg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Guide to Pricing Plans</title><url>https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/Article/3169972/The-Definitive-Guide-to-Pricing-Plans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidajackson</author><text>&gt; Yes, Product C is slightly cheaper than the most expensive option, but it offers less storage than any of the options.<p>Why would a business want wrong looking pricing on their pricing page, &quot;decoy&quot;s aside? Seems that would deter people more. Makes the business seem like it doesn&#x27;t have its stuff together. Would you trust a company that seems like it can&#x27;t do simple math? I think the author may be getting at something here--perhaps adding a third, unrelated or irrelevant option drives more conversions, but nonsensical pricing doesn&#x27;t seem like the way to do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csa</author><text>Yeah. Their first example of the decoy is not the best, imho. The Economist example is much better.<p>IIRC, around the time the Economist did this change, their annual print price increased. I imagine that this change made the transition much smoother.</text></comment> |
18,385,244 | 18,384,352 | 1 | 2 | 18,382,687 | train | <story><title>Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013)</title><url>http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diabeetusman</author><text>Would the algorithmic runtime of this be O(N)?</text></item><item><author>_ZeD_</author><text>this reminds me of the 4chan&#x27;s sleepsort:
for each number $n in the array, spin a thread that sleeps $n and then append $n to the result array.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortehu</author><text>The O(N log N) best case only applies to comparison sorts. What&#x27;s described here is not a comparison sort, and could easily be made O(N) with radix sort if the size of the numeric type is constant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013)</title><url>http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diabeetusman</author><text>Would the algorithmic runtime of this be O(N)?</text></item><item><author>_ZeD_</author><text>this reminds me of the 4chan&#x27;s sleepsort:
for each number $n in the array, spin a thread that sleeps $n and then append $n to the result array.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bananasbandanas</author><text>No, the runtime complexity is just hidden in the scheduler of your OS</text></comment> |
18,989,816 | 18,881,353 | 1 | 3 | 18,875,475 | train | <story><title>Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer</title><url>http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AEE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmjaa</author><text>I want this but for Lua. Its my favourite language. I wonder how difficult it would be to get Lua running on this thing - anyone got clues?</text></comment> | <story><title>Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer</title><url>http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AEE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Love the availability increase in tiny boards with higher level languages.<p>Many of today&#x27;s microcontrollers, were the PC, Atari, Amigas, Apple of yore and have enough computing power for the same higher level languages we used to develop on.<p>Best wishes of a successful project.</text></comment> |
3,067,185 | 3,067,212 | 1 | 2 | 3,067,099 | train | <story><title>Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap)</title><url>http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2011/10/03/nitobi-enters-into-acquisition-agreement-with-adobe/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaaron</author><text>The code has been submitted to the Apache Incubator:<p><a href="http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/46311152/apache-callback-proposal" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/46311152/apache-callback-pro...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap)</title><url>http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2011/10/03/nitobi-enters-into-acquisition-agreement-with-adobe/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdda</author><text>This makes the move to transfer PhoneGap itself to the Apache Foundation all the more reassuring.</text></comment> |
6,245,279 | 6,244,587 | 1 | 3 | 6,244,316 | train | <story><title>What to Expect When Being Featured on Google Play</title><url>http://ryanharter.com/blog/2013/08/20/what-to-expect-when-being-featured-on-google-play/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unoti</author><text>He mentioned that he was doing 12 requests per second, and it was costing him $10&#x2F;day on App Engine. I rent a server from Rackspace, and do volume in the 12 requests per second range, and including bandwidth this costs me under $40&#x2F;mo. Am I doing the math wrong, or is App engine kinda expensive compared to rolling your own solutions with virtual private servers?</text></comment> | <story><title>What to Expect When Being Featured on Google Play</title><url>http://ryanharter.com/blog/2013/08/20/what-to-expect-when-being-featured-on-google-play/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>I enjoyed the article. Kudos on rewriting your server to be more performant and efficient. It&#x27;s amazing what a motivated dev can do in a weekend, and it&#x27;s a great reminder of how much room there often is for optimizing.</text></comment> |
33,974,668 | 33,974,378 | 1 | 3 | 33,971,377 | train | <story><title>US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achieving-fusion-ignition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subsubzero</author><text>Do we know how much tritium is needed for a city&#x27;s energy generation? What about a state etc? Reason I ask is the only uses I have seen for tritium is on old watch dials made in the pre-90&#x27;s. Curious how much of this resource is out there.</text></item><item><author>spullara</author><text>If you look at the mass before of their fuel, 1 deuterium atom + 1 tritium atom:<p><pre><code> 2.01410177811 u + 3.01604928 u = 5.03015105811 u
</code></pre>
vs the mass of the fusion products of 1 helium atom and 1 neutron:<p><pre><code> 4.002602 u + 1.008 u = 5.010602 u
</code></pre>
You&#x27;ll notice that even though we started with 5 neutrons and 2 protons and ended up with the same number there was some additional binding energy that is unaccounted for in the new configuration. This is the energy released by the fusion reaction via E = mc^2. Here we see the mass difference is:<p><pre><code> 5.03015105811 u - 5.010602 u = 0.01954905811 u
</code></pre>
Converting that to energy you find that is 17.6 MeV. As you go up the periodic table fusing nuclei you will get less and less marginal energy until you get to iron where at that point fusion become net negative and fission is then takes over where breaking nuclei apart gains energy, marginally more as you go up the periodic table. That&#x27;s why you want to fuse light particles and fission very heavy particles. It is also why there is so much iron as it is kind of the base state of both of these reactions.</text></item><item><author>bmmayer1</author><text>This is a stupid question but I don&#x27;t know anything about fusion:<p>How is it possible for X energy to create X+Y energy in output? Doesn&#x27;t that violate some fundamental law of physics?</text></item><item><author>jkelleyrtp</author><text>&gt; LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE)<p>Yesterday, everyone was complaining about the 2.2:2.0 ratio, but now we&#x27;re working with 3.15:2.05.<p>With modern lasers, that&#x27;d be a total Q of 0.375 assuming 100% efficiency through direct-energy-capture.<p>The jumps to get here included<p>- 40% with the new targets<p>- 60% with magnetic confinement<p>- 35% with crycooling of the target<p>The recent NIF experiments have jumped up in power. The first shot that started this new chain of research was about 1.7 MJ of energy delivered. Now, 2.15 MJ. However, the output has jumped non-linearly, demonstrating the scaling laws at work.<p>&gt; I’ve helped to secure the highest ever authorization of over $624 million this year in the National Defense Authorization Act for the ICF program to build on this amazing breakthrough.”<p>It&#x27;s nice to see this milestone recognized, even if the funding it still rather small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>Take spullara&#x27;s numbers:<p>2.01410177811 u = 3.34449439340696e-24 g deuterium<p>3.01604928 u = 5.008267217094e-24 g tritium<p>17.6 MeV = 7.832863e-19 kWh energy<p>Divide through, and you will see that you need 4.27 ug&#x2F;kWh of deuterium, and 6.39 ug&#x2F;kWh of tritium.<p>A random source [1] says that New York will use 50.6 TWh per year by 2027. That would require ~216 kg&#x2F;yr of deuterium and ~323&#x2F;yr kg of tritium.<p>This is all assuming 100% efficiency. A quick read suggests 50% efficiency might be practical, so double those quantities.<p>Also, i could easily have messed up that calculation somewhere, so please do check it!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buildingcongress.com&#x2F;advocacy-and-reports&#x2F;reports-and-analysis&#x2F;Electricity-Outlook-2017-Powering-New-York-Citys-Future&#x2F;The-Electricity-Outlook-to-2027.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buildingcongress.com&#x2F;advocacy-and-reports&#x2F;report...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achieving-fusion-ignition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subsubzero</author><text>Do we know how much tritium is needed for a city&#x27;s energy generation? What about a state etc? Reason I ask is the only uses I have seen for tritium is on old watch dials made in the pre-90&#x27;s. Curious how much of this resource is out there.</text></item><item><author>spullara</author><text>If you look at the mass before of their fuel, 1 deuterium atom + 1 tritium atom:<p><pre><code> 2.01410177811 u + 3.01604928 u = 5.03015105811 u
</code></pre>
vs the mass of the fusion products of 1 helium atom and 1 neutron:<p><pre><code> 4.002602 u + 1.008 u = 5.010602 u
</code></pre>
You&#x27;ll notice that even though we started with 5 neutrons and 2 protons and ended up with the same number there was some additional binding energy that is unaccounted for in the new configuration. This is the energy released by the fusion reaction via E = mc^2. Here we see the mass difference is:<p><pre><code> 5.03015105811 u - 5.010602 u = 0.01954905811 u
</code></pre>
Converting that to energy you find that is 17.6 MeV. As you go up the periodic table fusing nuclei you will get less and less marginal energy until you get to iron where at that point fusion become net negative and fission is then takes over where breaking nuclei apart gains energy, marginally more as you go up the periodic table. That&#x27;s why you want to fuse light particles and fission very heavy particles. It is also why there is so much iron as it is kind of the base state of both of these reactions.</text></item><item><author>bmmayer1</author><text>This is a stupid question but I don&#x27;t know anything about fusion:<p>How is it possible for X energy to create X+Y energy in output? Doesn&#x27;t that violate some fundamental law of physics?</text></item><item><author>jkelleyrtp</author><text>&gt; LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE)<p>Yesterday, everyone was complaining about the 2.2:2.0 ratio, but now we&#x27;re working with 3.15:2.05.<p>With modern lasers, that&#x27;d be a total Q of 0.375 assuming 100% efficiency through direct-energy-capture.<p>The jumps to get here included<p>- 40% with the new targets<p>- 60% with magnetic confinement<p>- 35% with crycooling of the target<p>The recent NIF experiments have jumped up in power. The first shot that started this new chain of research was about 1.7 MJ of energy delivered. Now, 2.15 MJ. However, the output has jumped non-linearly, demonstrating the scaling laws at work.<p>&gt; I’ve helped to secure the highest ever authorization of over $624 million this year in the National Defense Authorization Act for the ICF program to build on this amazing breakthrough.”<p>It&#x27;s nice to see this milestone recognized, even if the funding it still rather small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>S04dKHzrKT</author><text>Real Engineering recently made a video that covers fuel needs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BzK0ydOF0oU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BzK0ydOF0oU</a></text></comment> |
40,908,943 | 40,908,975 | 1 | 3 | 40,908,310 | train | <story><title>Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/google-maps-pop-up-ad-3458170/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frozenlettuce</author><text>Here in Brazil, it is not uncommon to hear about people being kidnapped&#x2F;shot&#x2F;killed because Google Maps decided to direct them into a zone controlled by organized crime.<p>When news came out that those routes were being chosen to make the app more &quot;inclusive&quot;, I found it amusing how someone in Palo Alto presenting a PowerPoint with a couple of ESG slides could lead to someone else being shot with an AK-47.<p>If the above sounds unreal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;brasilivre&#x2F;comments&#x2F;mtfwfq&#x2F;carro_do_google_sendo_recebido_pelos_moradores_de&#x2F;#lightbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;brasilivre&#x2F;comments&#x2F;mtfwfq&#x2F;carro_do...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/google-maps-pop-up-ad-3458170/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rurp</author><text>Google Search gets most of the attention for being ruined by Google, but I think the Maps trajectory is just as bad. It has shown remarkable consistency in getting worse year after year, for a long time now. Basic functionality is regularly broken or degraded, and the UI is increasingly covered in ads of various types.<p>Maps is a prime example of the costs from not enforcing antitrust laws. Google spent billions of dollars from its ad monopoly to control this market and is now squeezing it for all it can. This product is only going to get worse for the foreseeable future.</text></comment> |
39,657,461 | 39,656,852 | 1 | 3 | 39,653,431 | train | <story><title>Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection</title><url>https://fingerprint.com/blog/bypassing-safari-17-audio-fingerprinting-protection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>browsers should come with a default software renderer, and behave like the mic and camera where the site will require user permission to release the hardware GPU render path.</text></item><item><author>redbell</author><text>Another interesting technique to fingerprint users online is called <i>GPU Fingerprinting</i> [1] (2022).<p>Codenamed &#x27;DrawnApart&#x27;, the technique relies on WebGL to count the number and speed of the execution units in the GPU, measure the time needed to complete vertex renders, handle stall functions, and more stuff<p>________________<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;researchers-use-gpu-fingerprinting-to-track-users-online&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;researchers-u...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sweetjuly</author><text>but nobody wants to use software rendering, that&#x27;s the whole reason WebGL and WebGPU exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection</title><url>https://fingerprint.com/blog/bypassing-safari-17-audio-fingerprinting-protection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>browsers should come with a default software renderer, and behave like the mic and camera where the site will require user permission to release the hardware GPU render path.</text></item><item><author>redbell</author><text>Another interesting technique to fingerprint users online is called <i>GPU Fingerprinting</i> [1] (2022).<p>Codenamed &#x27;DrawnApart&#x27;, the technique relies on WebGL to count the number and speed of the execution units in the GPU, measure the time needed to complete vertex renders, handle stall functions, and more stuff<p>________________<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;researchers-use-gpu-fingerprinting-to-track-users-online&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;researchers-u...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste?</text></comment> |
21,730,007 | 21,730,011 | 1 | 2 | 21,729,451 | train | <story><title>Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-management-shuffle-points-to-retreat-from-alphabet-experiment-11575579677</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>As usual, I like Matt Levine&#x27;s take. [1]<p>Page and Brin ran Alphabet as a highly funded system of moonshot programs with near-infinite runway to make profits, which is unusual or unique. Basically it only worked that way because Page and Brin were idealistic visionary gazillionaires who were bored of thinking about the somewhat dirty business of selling targetted ads. With a more standard corporate governance under a common CEO with the google ad business, the expectation is a more standard corporate focus on making profits from its ventures in some defined timeline.<p>But read Levine&#x27;s version; it has detail and humor and insight I can&#x27;t convey in a summary!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-12-04&#x2F;alphabet-is-google-again" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-12-04&#x2F;alphab...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-management-shuffle-points-to-retreat-from-alphabet-experiment-11575579677</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>Google’s attempt to be a modern day Bell Labs was the one thing that set them apart.<p>Make a lot of money in advertising and spend some of it to invent the future.<p>Without the second part, the entire company changes.<p>We need another company to take the mantle:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;innovation...</a></text></comment> |
9,171,024 | 9,171,066 | 1 | 2 | 9,170,615 | train | <story><title>Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore</title><url>https://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/devops-is-bullshit-why-one-programmer-doesnt-do-it-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icedchai</author><text>Or, in the small company case, you never hire any dedicated ops people to begin with. You have developers fighting fires all day, getting interrupted constantly, causing them to hate their jobs.</text></item><item><author>mhurron</author><text>&gt; DevOps is about dev and ops teams communicating and having empathy for the requirements of the other team.<p>Most posters here don&#x27;t seem to get it. Most replies appear to be the idea that DevOps means you fire your Ops people and the Developers do Ops previous job and their own Development job as well.</text></item><item><author>mugsie</author><text>DevOps as it has been implemented in tons of company <i>is</i> bs.<p>Its like the &quot;Agile&quot; push that companies thought they could get by buying a tool, and changing nothing else (release schedules, feature based release dates etc).<p>My favorite way of looking at it is simple - replace the word DevOps with empathy. That is the core of the idea, so lets try it - &quot;Empathy Team&quot;, &quot;Empathy Person&quot;, &quot;Empathy Engineer&quot;.<p>DevOps is about dev and ops teams communicating and having empathy for the requirements of the other team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gibsonje</author><text>Small company. We don&#x27;t have many problems. We have a couple pain points but we fix them over time. When hosts die, it generally doesn&#x27;t mean anything. There&#x27;s redundancy in all things. I don&#x27;t find myself interrupted often.<p>Previous job had a &quot;Systems&quot; team and a &quot;Database&quot; team. Both were just teams of obstructionists.<p>&quot;Oh you need something today? Well, if you get a jira ticket made I could look into getting the requirements written up sometime in the next 2 weeks, to get the work assigned out next month.&quot;<p>Not saying that&#x27;s the norm, but damn I hope I never experience that again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore</title><url>https://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/devops-is-bullshit-why-one-programmer-doesnt-do-it-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icedchai</author><text>Or, in the small company case, you never hire any dedicated ops people to begin with. You have developers fighting fires all day, getting interrupted constantly, causing them to hate their jobs.</text></item><item><author>mhurron</author><text>&gt; DevOps is about dev and ops teams communicating and having empathy for the requirements of the other team.<p>Most posters here don&#x27;t seem to get it. Most replies appear to be the idea that DevOps means you fire your Ops people and the Developers do Ops previous job and their own Development job as well.</text></item><item><author>mugsie</author><text>DevOps as it has been implemented in tons of company <i>is</i> bs.<p>Its like the &quot;Agile&quot; push that companies thought they could get by buying a tool, and changing nothing else (release schedules, feature based release dates etc).<p>My favorite way of looking at it is simple - replace the word DevOps with empathy. That is the core of the idea, so lets try it - &quot;Empathy Team&quot;, &quot;Empathy Person&quot;, &quot;Empathy Engineer&quot;.<p>DevOps is about dev and ops teams communicating and having empathy for the requirements of the other team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digi_owl</author><text>As an outsider i feel that the whole devops thing has come from a few web people spinning up some slapdash service using AWS etc and call it a day. Then something breaks and it is firefighting from that day onwards.<p>I wonder if one can draw parallels to the BYOD thing.<p>In both senses it seems to boil down to someone bypassing the IT admins because their manager wants to see results ASAP, and IT is going &quot;sorry, budget and&#x2F;or regulations says we can&#x27;t at this time&quot;.</text></comment> |
12,960,157 | 12,959,447 | 1 | 3 | 12,958,661 | train | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dariusm5</author><text>Considering that American&#x27;s trust in mainstream media is an all time low [1], I&#x27;m sure there is a big demand for alternative news. I&#x27;m not surprised people are looking for content that fits their narrative and end up reading fake articles.<p>As someone observing from Mexico, I noticed almost all of the mainstream US media became an echo chamber for pro-Clinton content. I only realized this after after seeing how Sanders was sabotaged and the media collectively tried to bury it. Here in Mexico it&#x27;s a similar situation with a few big media outlets protecting the corrupt status quo.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gallup.com&#x2F;poll&#x2F;185927&#x2F;americans-trust-media-remains-historical-low.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gallup.com&#x2F;poll&#x2F;185927&#x2F;americans-trust-media-rema...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; I noticed almost all of the mainstream US media became an echo chamber for pro-Clinton content.<p>I like media in general and thinking how it is used to control and manipulate people. Especially the idea of the illusion of freedom. I&#x27;ve always recommended Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky.<p>That analyzes how corporatist media is used to manipulate and control public opinion, and I think at not time has it been truer than in the last election cycle. CNN&#x27;s Cuomo &quot;these documents are illegal to look at, let us interpret them for you&quot; is such a wonderful example of it. I love it. (sorry everyone, I&#x27;ve mentioned that multiple times).<p>There is a new twist here and that is social media. I wonder what they&#x27;d have to say about that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dariusm5</author><text>Considering that American&#x27;s trust in mainstream media is an all time low [1], I&#x27;m sure there is a big demand for alternative news. I&#x27;m not surprised people are looking for content that fits their narrative and end up reading fake articles.<p>As someone observing from Mexico, I noticed almost all of the mainstream US media became an echo chamber for pro-Clinton content. I only realized this after after seeing how Sanders was sabotaged and the media collectively tried to bury it. Here in Mexico it&#x27;s a similar situation with a few big media outlets protecting the corrupt status quo.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gallup.com&#x2F;poll&#x2F;185927&#x2F;americans-trust-media-remains-historical-low.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gallup.com&#x2F;poll&#x2F;185927&#x2F;americans-trust-media-rema...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pweissbrod</author><text>What defines a &#x27;mainstream&#x27; media outlet anyways?<p>There were a handful of news outlets thoroughly reporting issues between DNC and Bernie Sanders such as Huffington Post and al-jazeera.<p>I suppose these are not &#x27;mainstream&#x27;? Perhaps mainstream media is defined by having a dedicated TV channel, or at least primetime TV show? Isnt it almost customary for such outlets to prioritize ratings over comprehensive coverage?</text></comment> |
9,827,029 | 9,826,606 | 1 | 2 | 9,825,092 | train | <story><title>Firefox 39.0 released</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/39.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbrooksuk</author><text>Which unfortunately costs time and money. Whilst yes, they should be up to date and secure, banks are pretty big businesses and require more time.<p>One day they&#x27;ll catch up.</text></item><item><author>owly</author><text>YES. Force them to upgrade their weak sites!</text></item><item><author>Sir_Cmpwn</author><text>Good. Breaking their websites is the only way some people will fix their broken security.</text></item><item><author>cesarb</author><text>&gt; Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts<p>This is the one which has the greatest chance of giving people a headache. For instance, one of the biggest banks here still uses only RC4 for its online banking site. Its top-level hostname and a few of its auxiliary hostnames are on the whitelist, but there&#x27;s no guarantee that all the RC4-only auxiliary hostnames it might use for some of its functionality are on the whitelist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismartin</author><text>Banks handle everyone&#x27;s money and are high-profile targets for compromise over the network. As such, they should be obliged to keep current with best security practices as the technology evolves, not lag far behind these.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 39.0 released</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/39.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbrooksuk</author><text>Which unfortunately costs time and money. Whilst yes, they should be up to date and secure, banks are pretty big businesses and require more time.<p>One day they&#x27;ll catch up.</text></item><item><author>owly</author><text>YES. Force them to upgrade their weak sites!</text></item><item><author>Sir_Cmpwn</author><text>Good. Breaking their websites is the only way some people will fix their broken security.</text></item><item><author>cesarb</author><text>&gt; Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts<p>This is the one which has the greatest chance of giving people a headache. For instance, one of the biggest banks here still uses only RC4 for its online banking site. Its top-level hostname and a few of its auxiliary hostnames are on the whitelist, but there&#x27;s no guarantee that all the RC4-only auxiliary hostnames it might use for some of its functionality are on the whitelist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Elidrake24</author><text>But that&#x27;s the inherent problem; these companies are still setup for a bureaucracy that works fine in a particular area of business, but completely crumbles under the new rules of the technological age. We shouldn&#x27;t be apologetic for their resisting of change, but rather pushing them to take a long hard look at what needs to be reorganized to fit into the new paradigm.</text></comment> |
16,748,203 | 16,747,891 | 1 | 2 | 16,746,680 | train | <story><title>Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/spotify-opens-at-165-90-valuing-company-at-30-billion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zachs</author><text>Starting their own label is exactly what they need to do to remain competitive. It&#x27;s exactly what Netflix ended up doing and I think it&#x27;s turning out pretty well for them. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Spotify tried poaching higher-level strategy people from Netflix.</text></item><item><author>synaesthesisx</author><text>I do love Spotify as a product, however I don&#x27;t think it will scale the same way Netflix does. Spotify is at the mercy of major record labels, and as their books become more transparent the record labels will squeeze every dollar they can for licensing. That is, unless they find a way to upend the record industry entirely.<p>Spotify has a unique position with their amazing discovery&#x2F;recommendations engine- they could potentially start their own &quot;label&quot; and promote their own artists that sign on. Small&#x2F;independent musicians could see more exposure and Spotify can deliver more music tailored for individual tastes. I&#x27;ve personally found myself listening to lots of small&#x2F;indie artists as a result of their algorithms, to the point that these now make up the majority of my listening experience.<p>I think getting into concert tickets&#x2F;streams, merchandise etc could help them potentially capture quite a bit of value in the future as well.<p>I know the comparison is similar to original content &amp; Netflix - but keep in mind there&#x27;s an opportunity cost with media (one can only consume X amount of shows&#x2F;songs within a period of time). The more attention Spotify can divert away from the major record labels the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;Starting their own label is exactly what they need to do to remain competitive. It&#x27;s exactly what Netflix ended up doing and I think it&#x27;s turning out pretty well for them.&quot;<p>This seems to be a common refrain that Spotify can just &quot;pull a Netflix.&quot; And this is very unlikely.<p>Firstly no matter how much opriginal content they could create, if they don&#x27;t have back catalog it&#x27;s going to be a total non-starter for the mainstream. A streaming service that has no Beatles, Pink Floyd, No Motown, No AC&#x2F;DC etc is going to shed users pretty quickly.<p>Also music and movies occupy very different spaces in peoples lives - emotionally, socially, where and how they&#x27;re consumed and shared etc.<p>People need music for their commute, for their workouts, for their parties, at bars and for their workdays. People only need movies when they&#x27;re home or maybe stuck on an airplane.<p>Lastly Spotify needs to stay in the record label&#x27;s good graces. If they were ever to be viewed as a competitor or a thread to any the big 3 record labels it would be reflected in punitive price increase when it came time to renegotiate their licensing deals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/spotify-opens-at-165-90-valuing-company-at-30-billion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zachs</author><text>Starting their own label is exactly what they need to do to remain competitive. It&#x27;s exactly what Netflix ended up doing and I think it&#x27;s turning out pretty well for them. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Spotify tried poaching higher-level strategy people from Netflix.</text></item><item><author>synaesthesisx</author><text>I do love Spotify as a product, however I don&#x27;t think it will scale the same way Netflix does. Spotify is at the mercy of major record labels, and as their books become more transparent the record labels will squeeze every dollar they can for licensing. That is, unless they find a way to upend the record industry entirely.<p>Spotify has a unique position with their amazing discovery&#x2F;recommendations engine- they could potentially start their own &quot;label&quot; and promote their own artists that sign on. Small&#x2F;independent musicians could see more exposure and Spotify can deliver more music tailored for individual tastes. I&#x27;ve personally found myself listening to lots of small&#x2F;indie artists as a result of their algorithms, to the point that these now make up the majority of my listening experience.<p>I think getting into concert tickets&#x2F;streams, merchandise etc could help them potentially capture quite a bit of value in the future as well.<p>I know the comparison is similar to original content &amp; Netflix - but keep in mind there&#x27;s an opportunity cost with media (one can only consume X amount of shows&#x2F;songs within a period of time). The more attention Spotify can divert away from the major record labels the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced. You don&#x27;t consume music the way you consume TV shows and movies, it&#x27;s often a more &quot;passive&quot; activity where you start a playlist in the background while you do other things. You can do that with movie&#x2F;TV shows of course but a movie will last you ~two hours while a TV show can literally last you days or weeks at a time without input if you really like having The Office in the background while you do other things. Assuming that you can afford buying subscriptions to various services it&#x27;s not massively annoying to have to use HBO Go to watch Westworld and Netflix to watch Arrested Development. It&#x27;s not as good as having a unified service but it does the job.<p>If like me you like composing playlists instead of playing one full album at a time then not having the vast majority of your music available on a single service is a huge deal breaker. When I hear a song out there and I want to add it to my playlist I expect that it will be available on Spotify and the vast majority of the time I&#x27;m right.<p>If I need to go hunt for songs on various services and I can&#x27;t easily make a single unified playlist with all of it I think it&#x27;ll be back to piracy for me, it won&#x27;t be less convenient and it&#x27;ll be much cheaper.</text></comment> |
39,366,510 | 39,365,969 | 1 | 3 | 39,365,935 | train | <story><title>Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday</title><url>https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1757600075281547344</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skybrian</author><text>Examples? (I&#x27;m not that familiar with field.)</text></item><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>Every time Karpathy quits his job, the field takes a leap forward because he makes some fantastic educational resource in his free time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>Andrej Karpathy is badmephisto, a name you might have heard of if you&#x27;re into cubing.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;badmephisto.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;badmephisto.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday</title><url>https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1757600075281547344</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skybrian</author><text>Examples? (I&#x27;m not that familiar with field.)</text></item><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>Every time Karpathy quits his job, the field takes a leap forward because he makes some fantastic educational resource in his free time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joss82</author><text>Neural Networks: from zero to hero<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karpathy.ai&#x2F;zero-to-hero.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karpathy.ai&#x2F;zero-to-hero.html</a></text></comment> |
4,260,763 | 4,260,476 | 1 | 3 | 4,259,441 | train | <story><title>Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/hope-9-whistleblower-binney-says-nsa-has-dossiers-nearly-every-us-citizen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euroclydon</author><text><i>Its actually surprising that US fell for it.</i><p>Yep. Bush would have been a hero if he hadn't fallen for it. Compassionate conservatism, expressed in Medicare Part C. Tax cuts combined with modest military expansion would have held the deficit in check.<p>But remember the pundits saying, "this one calles for boots on the ground"? Even Jon Stewart showed a clip of Bush or someone making a compassionate statement, and commented "you're killing my blood lust." And he meant it!<p>I don't guess Clinton wouldn't have fallen for it -- he didn't during all of OBL's significant attacks in the 90's.</text></item><item><author>kamaal</author><text>Muslim here.<p>I never understood both sides and their actions. I mean I find both Islamic fundamentalism and American actions all round globe both equally dumb.<p>I don't think OBL ever had it as an explicit aim to pull down US militarily or culturally transform US into a Islamic state. That is impossible, and I assume somebody like him already understood that. I guess his aim was to drag US into a war and then reduce them to a state USSR, now russia was in 1990 post Afghanistan war. Long wars benefit nobody. They are a huge drain on man power, economy and morale of a nation. Its actually surprising that US fell for it. I was expecting more of a Intelligence based response where the CIA would hunt him down and kill him, instead of wasting trillions dollars.<p>On the other hand. Afghans seem to be very stubborn people. They don't give up easily no matter how shitty state they are in. Its just in their blood and culture to not accept foreign occupation over them. Even the British that had the entire Indian subcontinent under them couldn't conquer them. In the recent history alone, every body knows what has happened of USSR after going there. So no matter how bad the Taliban is, they still consider them as their own country men compared to Americans who actually released them from their bondage.<p>As a moderate muslim, I feel bad every time I'm pulled up for an ideology which I have nothing to do with. I've been a subject of religious discrimination many times since 911. I've been asked to come for extra rounds for job interviews, pulled up separately and checked at building security points, had troubles to open bank accounts, asked to delay visa filing for visiting abroad etc innumerable number of times. I feel having an arabicized name a huge liability to carry, a kind of burden for which you have to pay no matter even if you have nothing to do with their ideology.<p>On the other hand I see so much turmoil in the west, due to the war ordinary people like me having to pay for no mistake of theirs. Wars, economics crisis etc.<p>When I look at all this, I can't help but wonder that perpetrators of these crimes actually won.</text></item><item><author>bobsy</author><text>If this is true doesn't it mean that Bin Laden won the war on terror?<p>Every time I go to the airport I think this. Those full body scanners? Thanks to Bin Laden, now you practically get strip searched for every flight. You have to take off your shoes. You cannot take drinks on a plane.<p>You then have everyone on edge no matter where you go. You and a friend play CounterStrike. You get on the bus and start talking about good locations to plant the bomb. You will probably be wrestled to the floor by some over-zealous commuter.<p>It doesn't surprise me if this is true. The US attitude to privacy and civil rights have been becoming more like China's every year since 2001.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>milfot</author><text>What the hell are you talking about man? They bombed the crap out of Iraq during Clinton's term.. 93, 96, 98
And almost continuously from 99-01.</text></comment> | <story><title>Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/hope-9-whistleblower-binney-says-nsa-has-dossiers-nearly-every-us-citizen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euroclydon</author><text><i>Its actually surprising that US fell for it.</i><p>Yep. Bush would have been a hero if he hadn't fallen for it. Compassionate conservatism, expressed in Medicare Part C. Tax cuts combined with modest military expansion would have held the deficit in check.<p>But remember the pundits saying, "this one calles for boots on the ground"? Even Jon Stewart showed a clip of Bush or someone making a compassionate statement, and commented "you're killing my blood lust." And he meant it!<p>I don't guess Clinton wouldn't have fallen for it -- he didn't during all of OBL's significant attacks in the 90's.</text></item><item><author>kamaal</author><text>Muslim here.<p>I never understood both sides and their actions. I mean I find both Islamic fundamentalism and American actions all round globe both equally dumb.<p>I don't think OBL ever had it as an explicit aim to pull down US militarily or culturally transform US into a Islamic state. That is impossible, and I assume somebody like him already understood that. I guess his aim was to drag US into a war and then reduce them to a state USSR, now russia was in 1990 post Afghanistan war. Long wars benefit nobody. They are a huge drain on man power, economy and morale of a nation. Its actually surprising that US fell for it. I was expecting more of a Intelligence based response where the CIA would hunt him down and kill him, instead of wasting trillions dollars.<p>On the other hand. Afghans seem to be very stubborn people. They don't give up easily no matter how shitty state they are in. Its just in their blood and culture to not accept foreign occupation over them. Even the British that had the entire Indian subcontinent under them couldn't conquer them. In the recent history alone, every body knows what has happened of USSR after going there. So no matter how bad the Taliban is, they still consider them as their own country men compared to Americans who actually released them from their bondage.<p>As a moderate muslim, I feel bad every time I'm pulled up for an ideology which I have nothing to do with. I've been a subject of religious discrimination many times since 911. I've been asked to come for extra rounds for job interviews, pulled up separately and checked at building security points, had troubles to open bank accounts, asked to delay visa filing for visiting abroad etc innumerable number of times. I feel having an arabicized name a huge liability to carry, a kind of burden for which you have to pay no matter even if you have nothing to do with their ideology.<p>On the other hand I see so much turmoil in the west, due to the war ordinary people like me having to pay for no mistake of theirs. Wars, economics crisis etc.<p>When I look at all this, I can't help but wonder that perpetrators of these crimes actually won.</text></item><item><author>bobsy</author><text>If this is true doesn't it mean that Bin Laden won the war on terror?<p>Every time I go to the airport I think this. Those full body scanners? Thanks to Bin Laden, now you practically get strip searched for every flight. You have to take off your shoes. You cannot take drinks on a plane.<p>You then have everyone on edge no matter where you go. You and a friend play CounterStrike. You get on the bus and start talking about good locations to plant the bomb. You will probably be wrestled to the floor by some over-zealous commuter.<p>It doesn't surprise me if this is true. The US attitude to privacy and civil rights have been becoming more like China's every year since 2001.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tloewald</author><text>I think the invasion of Afghanistan was inevitable, but not Iraq. Afghanistan was a big mistake (even Rthe USSR, with a land border, couldnt handle it) but Iraq was worse and bizarre.</text></comment> |
28,262,723 | 28,262,787 | 1 | 3 | 28,258,744 | train | <story><title>Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/beware-state-surveillance-of-your-lives-governments-can-change-afghanistan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildrhythms</author><text>The difference to me is that data in the hands of the government falls under- at least- some thin veil of democratic oversight and accountability in how it&#x27;s handled; data in the hands of private entities goes for the most part unchecked.</text></item><item><author>betwixthewires</author><text>Personally I&#x27;m wary of any surveillance of my life, period. Governments are a worry, but so are private entities, at least because they&#x27;ll hand over their data to governments with minimal resistance, but also because their goal is to use information about me to influence my behavior and worldview, a very insidious proposition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nszceta</author><text>Taliban acquires US military biometric devices that can identify Afghans who assisted coalition efforts – reports<p>The Taliban has reportedly seized US military biometrics equipment that could expose Afghans who helped coalition forces – since they contain identifying data like iris scans and fingerprints as well as biographical information.
An unidentified Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) official told The Intercept that the Islamist group confiscated the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) devices during its offensive push last week. The report was backed up by three former US military personnel.<p>They told the news outlet that the portable devices could be used to access sensitive information from large, centralized military databases, but noted that it was still unclear how much of the biometric database collected on the Afghan population has been compromised.<p>According to a US Army Corps of Engineers presentation, HIIDE devices use the data collected to create a “portfolio” that can then be imported into Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) identification-processing software as a “digital dossier.” This can be scanned against official watch lists for threats.<p>Besides tracking insurgents, the Pentagon was also reportedly keen to use the devices to gather unique data on 80% of the Afghan population to check for terrorist and criminal activity. Unnamed sources said biometric details of locals who helped the US were also collected and used in identification cards.<p>“We processed thousands of locals a day, had to ID, sweep for suicide vests, weapons, intel gathering, etc. ... [HIIDE] was used as a biometric ID tool to help ID locals working for the coalition,” an American military contractor told the outlet.<p>More info <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rt.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;532419-taliban-biometric-data-afghan-coalition-collaborators&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rt.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;532419-taliban-biometric-data-afghan-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/beware-state-surveillance-of-your-lives-governments-can-change-afghanistan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildrhythms</author><text>The difference to me is that data in the hands of the government falls under- at least- some thin veil of democratic oversight and accountability in how it&#x27;s handled; data in the hands of private entities goes for the most part unchecked.</text></item><item><author>betwixthewires</author><text>Personally I&#x27;m wary of any surveillance of my life, period. Governments are a worry, but so are private entities, at least because they&#x27;ll hand over their data to governments with minimal resistance, but also because their goal is to use information about me to influence my behavior and worldview, a very insidious proposition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mostertoaster</author><text>I’d say the bigger difference is governments have a monopoly on the use of force. Certain companies could make your life a living hell I guess if they wanted with how much data they have on us though.</text></comment> |
11,204,002 | 11,203,466 | 1 | 2 | 11,203,183 | train | <story><title>Performance of ES6 features relative to ES5</title><url>https://kpdecker.github.io/six-speed/?utm_source=ESnextNews.com&utm_medium=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=Week%2010</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stymaar</author><text>The results given by this benchmark are bothering me because they do not fit with what I&#x27;ve seen in production.
For example, the `for-of-array` is transpiled by babel to something that has 2 nested try&#x2F;catch blocks, and unfortunately, V8 has a nasty deoptimisation when dealing with these, even if no exception is ever thrown.<p>This deopt led to a several orders of magnitude slowdown compare to a simple `for` loop in Google Chrome, forcing use to abandon the `for of` construction.<p>I suspect that the benchmark shown on this page does not expose this kind of behavior because it doesn&#x27;t iterate enough for the JIT to kick in. If it&#x27;s the case, it means that these values reflects only the behavior of the cold, interpreted code, and not the hot one. (which is quite sad for a performance benchmark, because the performance matter only for the former …)</text></comment> | <story><title>Performance of ES6 features relative to ES5</title><url>https://kpdecker.github.io/six-speed/?utm_source=ESnextNews.com&utm_medium=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=Week%2010</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>white-flame</author><text>The thing about JIT languages is that there&#x27;s no such thing as overall speed of a particular operation; you can only sample current speed on current implementations.<p>New features pursue correctness, then as their place in the JITs mature interesting new approaches will change their speed characteristics later. Things like contrasting the speed of various ways of iterating an array are all semantically equivalent, and as the JIT learns the various semantics they should all theoretically approach similar speeds, even if the newer ones are slower now.</text></comment> |
18,699,655 | 18,699,342 | 1 | 3 | 18,698,651 | train | <story><title>The Yoda of Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmorris</author><text>My favorite Knuth story, attributed to Alan Kay (if you&#x27;re around, would love confirmation):<p>When I was at Stanford with the AI project [in the late 1960s] one of the things we used to do every Thanksgiving is have a computer programming contest with people on research projects in the Bay area. The prize I think was a turkey.<p>[John] McCarthy used to make up the problems. The one year that Knuth entered this, he won both the fastest time getting the program running and he also won the fastest execution of the algorithm. He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system. And he basically beat the shit out of everyone.<p>And they asked him, &quot;How could you possibly do this?&quot; And he answered, &quot;When I learned to program, you were lucky if you got five minutes with the machine a day. If you wanted to get the program going, it just had to be written right. So people just learned to program like it was carving stone. You sort of have to sidle up to it. That&#x27;s how I learned to program.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>todd8</author><text>I’ve posted this comment on HN before, but this is my best Knuth story:<p>In the 70&#x27;s I had a co-worker, perhaps the best programmer in the department, that had gone to school with Knuth. He told me that one day while in college Knuth was using one of the available key-punch machines to punch his program on cards. My friend was ready to punch his program so he stood nearby to wait for Knuth to finish. Knuth, working on a big program, offered to Keypunch my friends program before finishing his own because my friend&#x27;s program was shorter and Knuth could keypunch quite fast.<p>While watching over Knuth&#x27;s shoulder, my friend noticed Knuth speeding up and slowing down at irregular intervals. Later he asked him about that and Knuth replied that he was fixing the bugs in my friend&#x27;s Fortran as he punched it out.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Yoda of Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmorris</author><text>My favorite Knuth story, attributed to Alan Kay (if you&#x27;re around, would love confirmation):<p>When I was at Stanford with the AI project [in the late 1960s] one of the things we used to do every Thanksgiving is have a computer programming contest with people on research projects in the Bay area. The prize I think was a turkey.<p>[John] McCarthy used to make up the problems. The one year that Knuth entered this, he won both the fastest time getting the program running and he also won the fastest execution of the algorithm. He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system. And he basically beat the shit out of everyone.<p>And they asked him, &quot;How could you possibly do this?&quot; And he answered, &quot;When I learned to program, you were lucky if you got five minutes with the machine a day. If you wanted to get the program going, it just had to be written right. So people just learned to program like it was carving stone. You sort of have to sidle up to it. That&#x27;s how I learned to program.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschaef</author><text>There&#x27;s another interesting story about Knuth that&#x27;s worth repeating here.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leancrew.com&#x2F;all-this&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;more-shell-less-egg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leancrew.com&#x2F;all-this&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;more-shell-less-egg...</a><p>The tl;dr is that Knuth wrote an elaborate implementation of a program to solve a particular problem, and Doug McIlroy replaced it entirely with a six step shell pipeline. (Knuth&#x27;s program was written using his literate programming tools, could be typeset in TeX, and involved some precise work with data structures and algorithms.)<p>I love this story as an example both of Knuth&#x27;s genius and perspective, but also as a way to show what his level of dedication can achieve. It&#x27;s an amazing intellectual accomplishment.<p>I also love this story as a demonstration what those of us without that skill and dedication can achieve using the advancements built on the work of Knuth and others.</text></comment> |
16,027,322 | 16,025,235 | 1 | 3 | 16,024,453 | train | <story><title>/bin/false is not security (2005)</title><url>http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ssh-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bch</author><text>I recall reading of one Unix implementation that when executing &#x2F;bin&#x2F;false noticed that the spawned shell (&#x2F;bin&#x2F;false) had failed (because that’s what &#x2F;bin&#x2F;false does, by design) and helpfully launched &#x2F;bin&#x2F;sh so you could debug it. True or false (pun intended), this is why I use &#x2F;bin&#x2F;true to stand in as a shell in this capacity.</text></comment> | <story><title>/bin/false is not security (2005)</title><url>http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ssh-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>STRML</author><text>FWIW, I tried that DoS idea on a little digitalocean machine. It capped the number of open file descriptors for the SSH daemon at 1024. Only about 3000 file descriptors were in use after it stopped allocating channels, and file-heavy operations like apt-get still succeeded.</text></comment> |
34,614,895 | 34,614,056 | 1 | 2 | 34,610,919 | train | <story><title>The curse of the corporate headshot</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/26/the-curse-of-the-corporate-headshot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Everyone should just use YouTube thumbnail style mouth open hilariously wide with excitement and looking incredulously into the distance.<p>It should get more and more ridiculous the higher the level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingforaday</author><text>CEO Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incimages.com&#x2F;uploaded_files&#x2F;image&#x2F;1920x1080&#x2F;getty_463381742_2000133020009280116_75578.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incimages.com&#x2F;uploaded_files&#x2F;image&#x2F;1920x1080&#x2F;get...</a><p>Credit: Aziz Ansari from Parks and Rec</text></comment> | <story><title>The curse of the corporate headshot</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/26/the-curse-of-the-corporate-headshot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Everyone should just use YouTube thumbnail style mouth open hilariously wide with excitement and looking incredulously into the distance.<p>It should get more and more ridiculous the higher the level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>Startup idea. Service to update my Slack profile picture every day with the same stock reaction but different backgrounds.</text></comment> |
21,616,101 | 21,615,330 | 1 | 2 | 21,612,488 | train | <story><title>PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/dz2w53/our_merger_with_kape_technologies_addressing_your/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>It might be that PIA is not going to start doing anything shady, and they&#x27;ll still be a (relatively) well-respected VPN company after the merger. But if you&#x27;re currently a PIA user, it would be foolish to keep using them while you&#x27;re waiting for them to prove that. Cancel PIA for now, and if a year from now they&#x27;re still on the level, you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to go back.<p>There&#x27;s no reason for you personally to be the canary in the coal mine, just use someone else while you&#x27;re waiting to see what happens.<p>I advocate somewhat strongly for paid 3rd-party VPNs, not because I think they&#x27;re great, but because I think they are sometimes the least-bad option -- 3rd party VPNs address privacy problems that self-hosted VPNs can&#x27;t, and unlike Tor, VPNs actually scale well for regular Internet browsing.<p>I do however fully acknowledge that shifting trust can be dangerous, so I recommend people be willing to quickly jump ship between VPNs, and possibly use different VPNs for different services. You should be a little nervous around your VPN provider, and you should hold them to really high standards.<p>In PIA&#x27;s case, I notice looking at their pricing page that they offer 1-2 year plans in addition to monthly plans. Not everyone has the money to ignore deals, but if you do have the money, paying an extra $35-40 a year so just so you can easily switch VPNs on a whim is probably worth it. In general, for services that can pivot in quality quickly (like a VPN) it is usually worth paying monthly rather than yearly (again, assuming you have the extra money to do so).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bscphil</author><text>&gt; I advocate somewhat strongly for paid 3rd-party VPNs, not because I think they&#x27;re great, but because I think they are sometimes the least-bad option -- 3rd party VPNs address privacy problems that self-hosted VPNs can&#x27;t<p>Well said. I would add that they&#x27;re also useful in situations where you don&#x27;t care about privacy at all. E.g. you don&#x27;t care if your ISP logs that you&#x27;re watching Netflix, you don&#x27;t care if your VPN logs that you&#x27;re watching Netflix, but you (and to some extent Netflix) have an interest in making it seem like your computer is located in a different country than it is.<p>Region-shifting and preventing non-government adversaries from discovering your real identity from your IP address are both valid reasons to use a commercial VPN. I suppose the reason why those who oppose commercial VPNs discount these two is that they&#x27;re mostly used for IP infringement.</text></comment> | <story><title>PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/dz2w53/our_merger_with_kape_technologies_addressing_your/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>It might be that PIA is not going to start doing anything shady, and they&#x27;ll still be a (relatively) well-respected VPN company after the merger. But if you&#x27;re currently a PIA user, it would be foolish to keep using them while you&#x27;re waiting for them to prove that. Cancel PIA for now, and if a year from now they&#x27;re still on the level, you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to go back.<p>There&#x27;s no reason for you personally to be the canary in the coal mine, just use someone else while you&#x27;re waiting to see what happens.<p>I advocate somewhat strongly for paid 3rd-party VPNs, not because I think they&#x27;re great, but because I think they are sometimes the least-bad option -- 3rd party VPNs address privacy problems that self-hosted VPNs can&#x27;t, and unlike Tor, VPNs actually scale well for regular Internet browsing.<p>I do however fully acknowledge that shifting trust can be dangerous, so I recommend people be willing to quickly jump ship between VPNs, and possibly use different VPNs for different services. You should be a little nervous around your VPN provider, and you should hold them to really high standards.<p>In PIA&#x27;s case, I notice looking at their pricing page that they offer 1-2 year plans in addition to monthly plans. Not everyone has the money to ignore deals, but if you do have the money, paying an extra $35-40 a year so just so you can easily switch VPNs on a whim is probably worth it. In general, for services that can pivot in quality quickly (like a VPN) it is usually worth paying monthly rather than yearly (again, assuming you have the extra money to do so).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigstoat</author><text>&gt; But if you&#x27;re currently a PIA user, it would be foolish to keep using them while you&#x27;re waiting for them to prove that. Cancel PIA for now, and if a year from now they&#x27;re still on the level, you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to go back.<p>how will they prove it in a year?<p>and what threat is it you think the shady guys are going to pose? they&#x27;ll start spending more money to keep logs? i guess they could get in bed with law enforcement but i doubt that pays well. maybe the RIAA&#x2F;MPAA will pay them off?</text></comment> |
28,150,583 | 28,148,545 | 1 | 2 | 28,148,229 | train | <story><title>The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality</title><url>https://nianticlabs.com/blog/real-world-metaverse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericjang</author><text>The title and content of the article, in which Hanke espouses the virtues if Niantic Labs (an AR company), were cognitively dissonant for me.<p>&gt; The concept reached one of its most complete expressions in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, where virtually everyone has abandoned reality for an elaborate VR massively multiplayer video game. A lot of people these days seem very interested in bringing this near-future vision of a virtual world to life, including some of the biggest names in technology and gaming. But in fact these novels served as warnings about a dystopian future of technology gone wrong. As a society, we can hope that the world doesn’t devolve into the kind of place that drives sci-fi heroes to escape into a virtual one<p>I&#x27;m trying to understand what Hanke is really saying. Is he saying that VR sucks, and AR, specifically AR that encourages people to interact with the real physical world, is where its at? I assume by &quot;biggest names in technology and gaming&quot; he is referring to Niantic&#x27;s competitors? Specifically what about those bets does he disagree with?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I really want to gripe about &quot;Ernest Cline&#x27;s&quot; Ready Player One. There was an element of dystopia to it, yes, but it was only the movie adaptation that came away with the takeaway that the virtual world was bad. In the movie they decide to add in the protagonist making the executive decision to shut down the virtual world on a couple weekdays or something. That pissed me off. That world was people&#x27;s livelihoods. This kid lived in a poor junky slum and had a great social life and presumably some level of income in the virtual world when the movie starts. At the end of the movie he is super rich and has a hot girlfriend (who&#x27;s character arc was largely that she perceived herself as ugly?). There&#x27;s really not that much in the film or the book that says that forcing people to go unplugged made any sense.<p>The actual book was about a virtual world gone extremely right. The dystopian part was the corporations that sought private control of the platform.<p>Bonus complaint: The evil corporation in the film literally enslaves people and brazenly murders others in public, yet it&#x27;s CEO is brought down by some unremarkable local cops? What?</text></comment> | <story><title>The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality</title><url>https://nianticlabs.com/blog/real-world-metaverse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericjang</author><text>The title and content of the article, in which Hanke espouses the virtues if Niantic Labs (an AR company), were cognitively dissonant for me.<p>&gt; The concept reached one of its most complete expressions in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, where virtually everyone has abandoned reality for an elaborate VR massively multiplayer video game. A lot of people these days seem very interested in bringing this near-future vision of a virtual world to life, including some of the biggest names in technology and gaming. But in fact these novels served as warnings about a dystopian future of technology gone wrong. As a society, we can hope that the world doesn’t devolve into the kind of place that drives sci-fi heroes to escape into a virtual one<p>I&#x27;m trying to understand what Hanke is really saying. Is he saying that VR sucks, and AR, specifically AR that encourages people to interact with the real physical world, is where its at? I assume by &quot;biggest names in technology and gaming&quot; he is referring to Niantic&#x27;s competitors? Specifically what about those bets does he disagree with?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullshark</author><text>I think you got it. I&#x27;m pretty sure he&#x27;s saying: VR bad, AR good. VR = escape from reality, AR = richer engagement with reality.</text></comment> |
6,179,881 | 6,178,975 | 1 | 3 | 6,178,297 | train | <story><title>How to build a procedural city in WebGL</title><url>http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2013/08/02/how-to-do-a-procedural-city-in-100lines/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianterrell</author><text>I always liked this procedurally generated nighttime cityscape by Shamus Young: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=-d2-PtK4F6Y" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=-d2-P...</a><p>He wrote a whole article series walking you through it, plus source, etc, starting here: <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shamusyoung.com&#x2F;twentysidedtale&#x2F;?p=2940</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to build a procedural city in WebGL</title><url>http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2013/08/02/how-to-do-a-procedural-city-in-100lines/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gsnedders</author><text>I&#x27;d much rather see such a tutorial about how to do this without Three.js — this high level, you&#x27;re not &#x2F;really&#x2F; doing anything with WebGL directly. It&#x27;s like a tutorial for the DOM just going, &quot;so, we&#x27;re going to use jQuery&quot;.</text></comment> |
31,095,637 | 31,094,779 | 1 | 2 | 31,092,912 | train | <story><title>Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)</title><url>https://davidcel.is/posts/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>easrng</author><text>Domains ending with a dot are valid though, and it&#x27;s needed sometimes. For example, someone@ai. (ai. is a TLD) is a different email than someone@ai (ai is a local hostname)</text></item><item><author>hathawsh</author><text>I tried using that expression for a while, but then a user with a valid email address containing upper unicode characters showed up. I switched to a simpler expression:<p><pre><code> ^[^@\s\x00-\x1f]+@[^@\s\x00-\x1f.]+(:?\.[^@\s\x00-\x1f.]+)*$
</code></pre>
It requires exactly one &quot;@&quot;, disallows whitespace and control characters, prevents repeated dots in the domain name, and ensures the domain doesn&#x27;t end with a dot. It catches a few typos and I think it allows every real email address I&#x27;ve heard of.</text></item><item><author>dchest</author><text>RFCs for email addresses are cool, but on the web we have our own standards!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;input.html#valid-e-mail-address" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;input.html#valid-e-ma...</a><p>&quot;This requirement is a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for email addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the &quot;@&quot; character), too vague (after the &quot;@&quot; character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here.&quot;<p>The regex is:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&amp;&#x27;*+\&#x2F;=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$&#x2F;
</code></pre>
Every browser implements this regex for &lt;input type=&quot;email&quot;&gt;.<p>Chromium:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:third_party&#x2F;blink&#x2F;renderer&#x2F;core&#x2F;html&#x2F;forms&#x2F;email_input_type.cc;l=46-53;bpv=0;bpt=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:thi...</a><p>WebKit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0d7afc5a45c140c44497a81e92416f01306be877&#x2F;Source&#x2F;WebCore&#x2F;html&#x2F;EmailInputType.cpp#L38" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0d7afc5a45c140c44497a8...</a><p>Yes, do verify email addresses by sending a confirmation link if you bind users to their email addresses, though. Don&#x27;t confuse validation with verification.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Biganon</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure the one guy behind ai. doesn&#x27;t justify that you change your regex for him. Let&#x27;s not be overly pedantic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)</title><url>https://davidcel.is/posts/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>easrng</author><text>Domains ending with a dot are valid though, and it&#x27;s needed sometimes. For example, someone@ai. (ai. is a TLD) is a different email than someone@ai (ai is a local hostname)</text></item><item><author>hathawsh</author><text>I tried using that expression for a while, but then a user with a valid email address containing upper unicode characters showed up. I switched to a simpler expression:<p><pre><code> ^[^@\s\x00-\x1f]+@[^@\s\x00-\x1f.]+(:?\.[^@\s\x00-\x1f.]+)*$
</code></pre>
It requires exactly one &quot;@&quot;, disallows whitespace and control characters, prevents repeated dots in the domain name, and ensures the domain doesn&#x27;t end with a dot. It catches a few typos and I think it allows every real email address I&#x27;ve heard of.</text></item><item><author>dchest</author><text>RFCs for email addresses are cool, but on the web we have our own standards!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;input.html#valid-e-mail-address" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;input.html#valid-e-ma...</a><p>&quot;This requirement is a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for email addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the &quot;@&quot; character), too vague (after the &quot;@&quot; character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here.&quot;<p>The regex is:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&amp;&#x27;*+\&#x2F;=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$&#x2F;
</code></pre>
Every browser implements this regex for &lt;input type=&quot;email&quot;&gt;.<p>Chromium:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:third_party&#x2F;blink&#x2F;renderer&#x2F;core&#x2F;html&#x2F;forms&#x2F;email_input_type.cc;l=46-53;bpv=0;bpt=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:thi...</a><p>WebKit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0d7afc5a45c140c44497a81e92416f01306be877&#x2F;Source&#x2F;WebCore&#x2F;html&#x2F;EmailInputType.cpp#L38" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0d7afc5a45c140c44497a8...</a><p>Yes, do verify email addresses by sending a confirmation link if you bind users to their email addresses, though. Don&#x27;t confuse validation with verification.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Beltalowda</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s needed sometimes<p>When is this needed in the context of a Rails app? You never want to send emails to local hosts, and emails directly on the TLD is possible, but very little will work with them in practice.</text></comment> |
23,169,451 | 23,168,869 | 1 | 2 | 23,167,324 | train | <story><title>Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction</title><url>https://bbirnbaum.com/two-lessons-on-reducing-sign-up-friction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mushufasa</author><text>Then you may not have the problem deeply enough to need the solution. It depends on a lot on the context B2B vs B2C, but I&#x27;ve experienced that the B2B customers who won&#x27;t sign up without an absolutely free trial are much much less likely to convert anyways, to the point where it&#x27;s not necessarily worth the effort for sales + support.</text></item><item><author>mister_hn</author><text>I abandon every website that promotes free trial period but asks directly for your credit card.<p>Absolutely a no-go: let me first try it for free and <i>then</i> I will add the credit card details, if I&#x27;m interested</text></item><item><author>rbritton</author><text>Know your target audience too. I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;m it, but reCAPTCHA gives me enough friction that I often abandon pages with it. Simply using Firefox&#x27;s antifingerprinting feature plus some ad&#x2F;tracker blocking is enough for it to be miserable every time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capkutay</author><text>Yeah I think there’s a general lack of understanding that leads inexperienced product people to believe that friction is always bad.<p>Good friction (verifying emails, asking a question in the signup form, collecting a CC upfront) can result in more paying customers as you’re optimizing your experience towards people who are actually interested in buying your service.<p>Rather than trying to cast a wide net and wasting resources on poor leads who want zero friction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction</title><url>https://bbirnbaum.com/two-lessons-on-reducing-sign-up-friction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mushufasa</author><text>Then you may not have the problem deeply enough to need the solution. It depends on a lot on the context B2B vs B2C, but I&#x27;ve experienced that the B2B customers who won&#x27;t sign up without an absolutely free trial are much much less likely to convert anyways, to the point where it&#x27;s not necessarily worth the effort for sales + support.</text></item><item><author>mister_hn</author><text>I abandon every website that promotes free trial period but asks directly for your credit card.<p>Absolutely a no-go: let me first try it for free and <i>then</i> I will add the credit card details, if I&#x27;m interested</text></item><item><author>rbritton</author><text>Know your target audience too. I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;m it, but reCAPTCHA gives me enough friction that I often abandon pages with it. Simply using Firefox&#x27;s antifingerprinting feature plus some ad&#x2F;tracker blocking is enough for it to be miserable every time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>I don’t understand. The only reason it would be beneficial to ask for the credit card now instead of later is if you’re hoping the customer simply forgets to cancel. It signals to me as a customer that you’re not confident that your free trial will convince me to pay.</text></comment> |
38,976,678 | 38,975,032 | 1 | 2 | 38,971,221 | train | <story><title>Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]</title><url>https://tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/Vector%20Databases%20-%20A%20Technical%20Primer.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ripley12</author><text>The &quot;Do you need a Dedicated Vector Database?&quot; slide is quite interesting, but doesn&#x27;t really answer its own question! This is something I&#x27;ve been wondering myself, if anyone has any guidelines or rules of thumb I would appreciate it.<p>I&#x27;ve recently been using Simon Willison&#x27;s (hi simonw) excellent `llm` tool that can help with embeddings, and it takes the simplest approach possible: just store embeddings in SQLite with a few UDFs for calculating distance etc.<p>The simplicity of that approach is very appealing, but presumably at some level of traffic+data an application will outgrow it and need a more specialized database. Does anyone have a good intuition for where that cutoff might be?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>estebarb</author><text>Some years ago I wrote a vector index that used LSH. Search was implemented in the most trivial way: scanning everything and comparing using hamming distance (xor and popcount). I was able to scan 200k hashes and find the most similar in less than 10ms, in a single core of a 2011 MBP.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]</title><url>https://tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/Vector%20Databases%20-%20A%20Technical%20Primer.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ripley12</author><text>The &quot;Do you need a Dedicated Vector Database?&quot; slide is quite interesting, but doesn&#x27;t really answer its own question! This is something I&#x27;ve been wondering myself, if anyone has any guidelines or rules of thumb I would appreciate it.<p>I&#x27;ve recently been using Simon Willison&#x27;s (hi simonw) excellent `llm` tool that can help with embeddings, and it takes the simplest approach possible: just store embeddings in SQLite with a few UDFs for calculating distance etc.<p>The simplicity of that approach is very appealing, but presumably at some level of traffic+data an application will outgrow it and need a more specialized database. Does anyone have a good intuition for where that cutoff might be?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>summarity</author><text>I’ve had some success scaling a quick and dirty engine (that powers findsight.ai) to tens of millions of vectors, details in the talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;elNrRU12xRc?t=1556" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;elNrRU12xRc?t=1556</a><p>That’s maybe 1kLOC so I didn’t need an external one after all.</text></comment> |
15,697,052 | 15,697,066 | 1 | 2 | 15,695,903 | train | <story><title>Red Hat Introduces Arm Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>Anyone know where one can buy an ARM server to run this on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chr15p</author><text>Shamelessly stealing links from the discussion on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;738898&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;738898&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.avantek.co.uk&#x2F;arm-server-h270-t70&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.avantek.co.uk&#x2F;arm-server-h270-t70&#x2F;</a>]<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asacomputers.com&#x2F;Cavium-ThunderX-ARM.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asacomputers.com&#x2F;Cavium-ThunderX-ARM.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;system76.com&#x2F;servers&#x2F;starling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;system76.com&#x2F;servers&#x2F;starling</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deltacomputer.com&#x2F;hochleistungs-rechner&#x2F;stand.." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deltacomputer.com&#x2F;hochleistungs-rechner&#x2F;stand..</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Red Hat Introduces Arm Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>Anyone know where one can buy an ARM server to run this on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jokr004</author><text>It seems like the ThunderX chips from Cavium are the most prevalent 64-bit arm marketed as server platforms. Very high core count, high memory capacity.. I&#x27;ve been hoping that these things take off because I love the idea: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavium.com&#x2F;ThunderX_ARM_Processors.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavium.com&#x2F;ThunderX_ARM_Processors.html</a><p>System76 has a server using this chipset: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;system76.com&#x2F;servers&#x2F;starling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;system76.com&#x2F;servers&#x2F;starling</a><p>and Gigabyte has a whole line of them:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;b2b.gigabyte.com&#x2F;ARM-Server&#x2F;Cavium-ThunderX" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;b2b.gigabyte.com&#x2F;ARM-Server&#x2F;Cavium-ThunderX</a></text></comment> |
26,314,571 | 26,313,544 | 1 | 2 | 26,300,191 | train | <story><title>Internet Archive Infrastructure</title><url>https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tkgally</author><text>This is a recent video presentation by Jonah Edwards, who runs the Core Infrastructure Team at the Internet Archive. He explains the IA’s server, storage, and networking infrastructure, and then takes questions from other people at the Archive.<p>I found it all interesting. But the main takeaway for me is his response to Brewster Kahle’s question, beginning at 13:06, about why the IA does everything in-house rather than having its storage and processing hosted by, for example, AWS. His answer: lower cost, greater control, and greater confidence that their users are not being tracked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>7800</author><text>I have ADD and typically eschew watching video if I can get the same, quality content faster in text.<p>I loved this and watched it to the end.<p>To any that feel the need to hide or disparage this because it seems to promote doing things on your own vs in the cloud, this isn’t some tech ops Total Money Makeover where you read a book and you’re suddenly in some sort of anti-credit cult. This is hard shit, and it’s the basics of the hard shit that I grew up with as being the only shit.<p>Yes, you can serve your own data. No one should fault you for doing that if you want. It takes the humble intelligence of the core team and everyone at IA to pull that off at this scale. If you don’t want to do the hard things, you could use the cloud. There are financial reasons also for one or the other, just as there are reasons people live with their family, rent, lease, and buy homes and office space- an imperfect analogy of course.<p>I hope that some of the others that could go on to work at the big guys or have been working there and want a challenge consider applying to IA when there’s an opening. They’ve done an incredible job, and I look forward to the cool things they accomplish in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Internet Archive Infrastructure</title><url>https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tkgally</author><text>This is a recent video presentation by Jonah Edwards, who runs the Core Infrastructure Team at the Internet Archive. He explains the IA’s server, storage, and networking infrastructure, and then takes questions from other people at the Archive.<p>I found it all interesting. But the main takeaway for me is his response to Brewster Kahle’s question, beginning at 13:06, about why the IA does everything in-house rather than having its storage and processing hosted by, for example, AWS. His answer: lower cost, greater control, and greater confidence that their users are not being tracked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>Speaking of Infrastructure, it is amazing that the initial set of the Apache BigData projects started at <i>Internet Archive</i> [0] whilst <i>Alexa Internet</i>, a startup Brewster Kahle sold to <i>Amazon</i> in 1999, formed the basis of <i>Alexa Web Information Service</i>, one of the first &#x27;&#x27;AWS&#x27;&#x27; products [1] which is still up? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;awis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;awis&#x2F;</a><p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;radar.oreilly.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;coming-full-circle-with-bigtable-and-hbase.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;radar.oreilly.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;coming-full-circle-with-big...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;class&#x2F;ee204&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Amazon-EE353-2008-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;class&#x2F;ee204&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Amazon-EE3...</a></text></comment> |
1,998,723 | 1,998,755 | 1 | 3 | 1,998,376 | train | <story><title>The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points</title><url>http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text><i>why is the UI so completely neglected?</i><p>Because when I spend time on HN my top priority is features that will make the content better. I believe that matches the priorities of the users-- that users would rather use a site with good stories and comments and a primitive UI than one with a slick UI and worse stories and comments. And time is a zero-sum game. Spending more time on UI = spending less on quality.<p>The focus on content quality above all is the reason you find yourself saying later "If there were any other community like this..."<p>You're simply wrong about the moderation. Nearly every story that gets killed is either autokilled, or a dup, or flagged to death by users. I would guess moderators manually kill less than 10 non-dup stories a day. You're also wrong that YC cos get special privileges.</text></item><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>Not that this type of experiment is bad, but why is the UI so completely neglected? Is this a matter of thinking it's not important, because it's not fun work, or because it can all be customized with grease monkeys? Or what?<p>I think the quality of stories on HN is pretty good. What I'd much prefer to see any amount of attention given to is things like:<p>1) Let me take back a vote. Particularly on mobile, I misclick those tiny arrows a lot.<p>2) Let me comment inline. Having other comments, besides the parent around for examination while commenting would probably help overall comment quality.<p>3) Fix the mobile interface. It's impossible to use HN on mobile iPhone and Android handhelds. Making a slightly modified styled sheet with JavaScript is trivial.<p>4) Support someone making an app, or commission one. As far as I can tell, the current HN apps are all kind of buggy and have little updating. There are lots of young neophytes who'd love to work on this, particularly if sanctioned, and a funded effort would lead to a better product.<p>These basic UI improvements don't even seem to be on the radar. Also, I'll add, the story-killing on this site is pretty heavy-handed, yet capricious. Same with the title-editing. What constitutes a "hacker-centric" story changes with the mood of the moderators, and the tendency to just change each title to the original headline is misguided. I also think that the special privileges given to YC companies corrupts the whole system.<p>If there were any other community like this, people would be driven away by the neglected UI and the Star Chamber that governs the content. But there isn't, so there's no pressure to do anything but midnight HN science experiments. I should just pray for some competition I guess...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>1) I could accept I'm wrong about stories being killed by humans, but I know the titles get edited by humans. I remember one story I posted about some really ancient, accurate maps, and I made the title something like "Accurate maps from the 1500s unearthed." And then some moderator made it the story headline instead "Named building in DC hosts map show" or something equally uninformative.<p>2) I'm positive YC companies get at least one special privilege - the ability to post jobs.<p>3) I've been told YC accounts are excluded from anti-spam measures, but I can't prove it.<p>EDIT: Also, regarding the zero-sum-game argument. All of us developers know we have limited time to spend on things. But a HUGE change to a non-priority that takes almost no time (for example improving the CSS on mobile) should be squeezed in between these experiments that may or may not make the content better, and take hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points</title><url>http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text><i>why is the UI so completely neglected?</i><p>Because when I spend time on HN my top priority is features that will make the content better. I believe that matches the priorities of the users-- that users would rather use a site with good stories and comments and a primitive UI than one with a slick UI and worse stories and comments. And time is a zero-sum game. Spending more time on UI = spending less on quality.<p>The focus on content quality above all is the reason you find yourself saying later "If there were any other community like this..."<p>You're simply wrong about the moderation. Nearly every story that gets killed is either autokilled, or a dup, or flagged to death by users. I would guess moderators manually kill less than 10 non-dup stories a day. You're also wrong that YC cos get special privileges.</text></item><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>Not that this type of experiment is bad, but why is the UI so completely neglected? Is this a matter of thinking it's not important, because it's not fun work, or because it can all be customized with grease monkeys? Or what?<p>I think the quality of stories on HN is pretty good. What I'd much prefer to see any amount of attention given to is things like:<p>1) Let me take back a vote. Particularly on mobile, I misclick those tiny arrows a lot.<p>2) Let me comment inline. Having other comments, besides the parent around for examination while commenting would probably help overall comment quality.<p>3) Fix the mobile interface. It's impossible to use HN on mobile iPhone and Android handhelds. Making a slightly modified styled sheet with JavaScript is trivial.<p>4) Support someone making an app, or commission one. As far as I can tell, the current HN apps are all kind of buggy and have little updating. There are lots of young neophytes who'd love to work on this, particularly if sanctioned, and a funded effort would lead to a better product.<p>These basic UI improvements don't even seem to be on the radar. Also, I'll add, the story-killing on this site is pretty heavy-handed, yet capricious. Same with the title-editing. What constitutes a "hacker-centric" story changes with the mood of the moderators, and the tendency to just change each title to the original headline is misguided. I also think that the special privileges given to YC companies corrupts the whole system.<p>If there were any other community like this, people would be driven away by the neglected UI and the Star Chamber that governs the content. But there isn't, so there's no pressure to do anything but midnight HN science experiments. I should just pray for some competition I guess...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>At least some types of UI changes would affect content quality. For example changing the size and color of the up and down arrows could have a big impact on voting frequency. Making the submit link more or less prominent could have a big impact on submission frequency, as well as providing tools like submission bookmarklets. And if at some point the majority of HN usage is mobile, it'll really change the sort of stories that people upvote.<p>It's not clear which direction you would want those metrics to move to improve quality, but it at least seems like UI vs quality is not a zero-sum tradeoff.</text></comment> |
1,368,063 | 1,368,095 | 1 | 2 | 1,367,940 | train | <story><title>YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund</title><url>http://ycombinator.posterous.com/yc-has-just-closed-a-new-825-million-fund</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>I'm hoping we'll eventually see some experimentation with the model, now that they have more money to work with.<p>I've always believed there's room for a YC-like company to do slightly bigger investments. Instead of $17k for 2 founders, it would be $80k for 2 founders. That way they could attract people with higher cost of living/high paying jobs (who would hopefully tend to be more successful due to more experience/connections/stability)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>Actually given an incremental dollar to invest I'd always prefer to expand sideways rather than depthwise. It's much more interesting to fund a whole new startup than to give more money to an existing one.<p>Plus the startups themselves don't need that as much; there are already lots of investors ready to give the next $100k to startups we seed.</text></comment> | <story><title>YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund</title><url>http://ycombinator.posterous.com/yc-has-just-closed-a-new-825-million-fund</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>I'm hoping we'll eventually see some experimentation with the model, now that they have more money to work with.<p>I've always believed there's room for a YC-like company to do slightly bigger investments. Instead of $17k for 2 founders, it would be $80k for 2 founders. That way they could attract people with higher cost of living/high paying jobs (who would hopefully tend to be more successful due to more experience/connections/stability)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webwright</author><text>Supply/demand. Why would YC (or ANY early stage investor) ever want their money to go to your higher cost of living when they have a line out the door of great opportunities founded by people who have a cheaper lifestyle and/or a pile of personal savings?<p>The answer, of course, is "they'd do it if it was an unusually good startup with TONS of traction." Of course, if you're in that boat fundraising isn't a problem, is it?</text></comment> |
19,006,567 | 19,005,758 | 1 | 3 | 19,000,109 | train | <story><title>Websocketd</title><url>http://websocketd.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocar</author><text>The myth that fork is expensive is pervasive, and speaking to the ways that it is true†, well: performance is relative.<p>fork() only takes around 8ms on my Linux machine and I can get 100,000 posix_spawn() per second there with 100MB RSS.<p>That&#x27;s &quot;fast enough&quot; for a large number of applications.<p>†: fork() is a lot slower (over 20x) on Windows</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>This is the second or third &quot;it&#x27;s CGI again&quot; thing I&#x27;ve seen in the past year. While these things are cool and definitely have their place, it&#x27;s still worth noting that process per connection scales fairly poorly, simply because processes and forking are relatively expensive, and therefore it&#x27;s <i>probably</i> unwise to deploy something like this in production anymore. It is what it is, I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NathanKP</author><text>I see this argument all the time but its not the fork() that is the most expensive anymore, its the actual program initialization after the fork(). If your app is non trivial (lets say a websocket based chat server that needs to persist messages to a DB and use pubsub to sync them to other processes) it probably needs a connection to a database, a connection to a cache server like Redis or Memcached, etc, or perhaps a connection to some other backend service. Reinitializing these dependency connections from scratch in a new forked process for every single incoming websocket connection is expensive and slow.<p>On the other hand a Node.js or Go program can have a preestablished pool of keep alive connections to the backends already ready to go and reuse that connection pool for many hundreds or even thousands of concurrent websocket connections. You can approximate something like this with the fork() model by having a local daemon process that manages the connection pool and have your forked process talk to that local helper daemon when it needs a connection, but you are still going to pay a penalty for that compared with having a fully preestablished connection ready to use right there in the process already</text></comment> | <story><title>Websocketd</title><url>http://websocketd.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocar</author><text>The myth that fork is expensive is pervasive, and speaking to the ways that it is true†, well: performance is relative.<p>fork() only takes around 8ms on my Linux machine and I can get 100,000 posix_spawn() per second there with 100MB RSS.<p>That&#x27;s &quot;fast enough&quot; for a large number of applications.<p>†: fork() is a lot slower (over 20x) on Windows</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>This is the second or third &quot;it&#x27;s CGI again&quot; thing I&#x27;ve seen in the past year. While these things are cool and definitely have their place, it&#x27;s still worth noting that process per connection scales fairly poorly, simply because processes and forking are relatively expensive, and therefore it&#x27;s <i>probably</i> unwise to deploy something like this in production anymore. It is what it is, I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mig_</author><text>The initial fork is fast because of the copy on write memory semantic. You&#x27;ll pay a price later.</text></comment> |
7,518,642 | 7,518,716 | 1 | 2 | 7,517,602 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-will-soon-bring-back-the-start-menu-in-windows-8-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daigoba66</author><text>&gt; my productivity actually increased with metro<p>How so? What productivity enhancements exist in Win8 that do not in Win7?<p>This is a genuine question. I upgraded to and use Win8 daily for about 14 months now because I like running the latest stable software (from any vendor). But, with the exception of no longer being able to search without going full screen, it&#x27;s exactly the same.<p><i>Edit</i>
There is one fairly big enhancement I completely forgot about: the &quot;power users menu&quot; accessible via right-click in the bottom left corner or by pressing Windows-X. Of course this has nothing to do with &quot;metro&quot;.</text></item><item><author>bushido</author><text>8.1 has the option to boot to desktop, they could enable that by default.<p>Personally I don&#x27;t see Metro as a UI failure, my productivity actually increased with metro. I rarely need to use the mouse, which is great.<p>Also, hitting the windows key to switch screens is not a big deal, my grand parents complain about it a little, but the pains of having to explain finding stuff in the start menu to them and other older relatives has stopped happening.<p>Additionally with the docking capability of the task bar aka &quot;pin program to task bar&quot; had made the start menu quite redundant since win 7.</text></item><item><author>soup10</author><text>Except they&#x27;ve added all that metro crap to the already cluttered start menu. Their UI team is still a long way from acknowledging the failure of integrating metro with the desktop; and windows 8 will continue to be a mess until they do.</text></item><item><author>Crito</author><text>It&#x27;s always nice to see UI&#x2F;UX people respond to user input and admit when they are wrong, rather than berate their users for not understanding the product. This sort of humbleness seems to be becoming increasingly rare.<p>In the past Microsoft has done well for themselves by listening to their business users and prioritizing their concerns about backwards compatibility. I hope this revert represents a natural continuation of that policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keerthiko</author><text>For one, there&#x27;s two efficient axes of navigation along the Metro start menu, you can go left-right or up-down with your keyboard, which is SO much more amazing than the &quot;hold down down key for 6 seconds. Awp go back up five. Now hit right four times. Enter&quot; to launch an app that is actually &quot;pinned&quot; to your start menu. I can orient my Metro tiles how I want, and I know I can get to it within 5-6 arrow-key presses max. This is very nice and for the first time in 6 years I&#x27;ve actually used the Windows key to open the start menu for something other than shutting down (have been for the last 18 months of using Windows 8.x).<p>Going full screen really doesn&#x27;t bother me one bit. I&#x27;m launching a new app, I&#x27;m losing context anyway. I find this similar to Apple&#x27;s launchpad or whatever that OSX thing is that I never use because Spotlight and Terminal is all I need from that OS.<p>Vaguely related to improving productivity, Win8 has significantly better multi-monitor support out of the box, with all the flexibility I&#x27;d want, and with it better window management, than either of OSX or Win7.<p>Just my $.02</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-will-soon-bring-back-the-start-menu-in-windows-8-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daigoba66</author><text>&gt; my productivity actually increased with metro<p>How so? What productivity enhancements exist in Win8 that do not in Win7?<p>This is a genuine question. I upgraded to and use Win8 daily for about 14 months now because I like running the latest stable software (from any vendor). But, with the exception of no longer being able to search without going full screen, it&#x27;s exactly the same.<p><i>Edit</i>
There is one fairly big enhancement I completely forgot about: the &quot;power users menu&quot; accessible via right-click in the bottom left corner or by pressing Windows-X. Of course this has nothing to do with &quot;metro&quot;.</text></item><item><author>bushido</author><text>8.1 has the option to boot to desktop, they could enable that by default.<p>Personally I don&#x27;t see Metro as a UI failure, my productivity actually increased with metro. I rarely need to use the mouse, which is great.<p>Also, hitting the windows key to switch screens is not a big deal, my grand parents complain about it a little, but the pains of having to explain finding stuff in the start menu to them and other older relatives has stopped happening.<p>Additionally with the docking capability of the task bar aka &quot;pin program to task bar&quot; had made the start menu quite redundant since win 7.</text></item><item><author>soup10</author><text>Except they&#x27;ve added all that metro crap to the already cluttered start menu. Their UI team is still a long way from acknowledging the failure of integrating metro with the desktop; and windows 8 will continue to be a mess until they do.</text></item><item><author>Crito</author><text>It&#x27;s always nice to see UI&#x2F;UX people respond to user input and admit when they are wrong, rather than berate their users for not understanding the product. This sort of humbleness seems to be becoming increasingly rare.<p>In the past Microsoft has done well for themselves by listening to their business users and prioritizing their concerns about backwards compatibility. I hope this revert represents a natural continuation of that policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bushido</author><text>Shaving seconds really. But it adds up.<p>1. Dock&#x2F;Pin primary apps to task bar (same as win 7)<p>2. Organized(Grouped)&#x2F;stripped down metro for less-frequently used apps. Removed tiles for any apps that I do not use -&gt; Reduces the number of apps I need to pin to the task bar -&gt; Hit Win Key to quickly switch to Metro and select app<p>3. The first win 8.1 update (released 5-6 months ago) reduced the search to 25% of the screen. Hit &quot;Win + S&quot; for search under classic mode. Personally I just hit the Win Key and start typing, enters metro momentarily.<p>4. First win 8.1 release added a start button to the task bar. Hated it for 2 secs(for reducing my task-bar space). Right clicked start button and realized I could remove a couple of additional tiles&#x2F;task bar pins. Keyboard shortcut is &quot;Win + X&quot;.<p>4.1. Tip: Right clicking the start menu has a Quicker shutdown menu option. Tip 2: Additional shortcuts for the menu are only displayed if you use the keyboard shortcut to open the menu.</text></comment> |
23,049,388 | 23,048,903 | 1 | 2 | 23,047,348 | train | <story><title>Valve drops VR support for macOS</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/01/valve-drops-vr-support-for-macos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taek</author><text>Yeah but have you played beat saber?<p>I&#x27;m dead serious though the experience you get in a good immersive VR rig is completely unrivaled. Well worth the hassle and overhead. This will get better as costs come down and developers continue to innovate.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>I remain skeptical of the long term viability of VR; I’m old enough to remember when 3D TVs and monitors were going to change the face of both TV and video games, and yet here we are.<p>I priced out VR recently and I was unimpressed with the price per value available, with most systems adding $500-$1,000 to my gaming system’s cost, and some requiring that I modify my room to work properly. And that’s not even accounting for the high cost of a VR capable gaming rig, if you don’t own one. This is a pretty steep financial and logistical hill to climb given the current set of titles available.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I have tried Beat Saber. I rented an Oculus Quest for a couple of weeks over Christmas. Several things, Beat Saber included, were really impressive at first, but the thrill quickly wore off. The kids quickly went back to playing their PS4 and Switch games, and never even mentioned the Quest after it was gone.<p>My basic take is that the technology is really impressive; I agree with proponents that the Quest finally nails it technically. However, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s enough better than other options to make it worth the significant drawbacks. Something being immersive is ultimately a function of the player experience, not the hardware. And as is demonstrated to me whenever I try to get the kids to turn off almost any game, non-VR hardware is definitely immersive.<p>If anything, facehugger VR seems less immersive, because the stuff is way less comfortable than other gaming hardware. The kid who loved rhythm games would play Beat Saber less than non-VR games because of neck discomfort and face irritation. Battery life was also lower than the Switch, and of course infinitely lower than the Playstation. Which also cut into immersion.<p>I did really appreciate the new 6-axis controllers; they were very cool, and gave a great sense of spatial freedom. But unfortunately, that freedom is a lie; my sense of immersion quickly ended every time I hit a virtual boundary. To successfully play Superhot, I found I had to continuously maintain two spatial frames of reference: VR and reality. So it ultimately felt less immersive to me than a console game, where I could just plop down on the couch and forget my body entirely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve drops VR support for macOS</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/01/valve-drops-vr-support-for-macos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taek</author><text>Yeah but have you played beat saber?<p>I&#x27;m dead serious though the experience you get in a good immersive VR rig is completely unrivaled. Well worth the hassle and overhead. This will get better as costs come down and developers continue to innovate.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>I remain skeptical of the long term viability of VR; I’m old enough to remember when 3D TVs and monitors were going to change the face of both TV and video games, and yet here we are.<p>I priced out VR recently and I was unimpressed with the price per value available, with most systems adding $500-$1,000 to my gaming system’s cost, and some requiring that I modify my room to work properly. And that’s not even accounting for the high cost of a VR capable gaming rig, if you don’t own one. This is a pretty steep financial and logistical hill to climb given the current set of titles available.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smnrchrds</author><text>I haven&#x27;t played Beat Saber, but I remember Avatar. As beautiful as it was, it remained unique. All new films for the past decade have been released as 3D, but I cannot think of a single one other than Avatar that I would prefer watching in 3D over 2D. Is there reason to believe Beat Saber would not become VR&#x27;s Avatar?</text></comment> |
22,131,652 | 22,131,931 | 1 | 2 | 22,131,042 | train | <story><title>European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology</title><url>https://techgrabyte.com/european-union-five-year-ban-facial-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no1youknowz</author><text>Here is what&#x27;s happening in the UK.<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg</a><p>All I can hope for, is that some activist group takes the police to court and the legislative branch reacts to then impose rules for spying on its citizens.<p>Some of the things I can think off the top of my head:<p>1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks. Especially when it&#x27;s cold.<p>2) Video &#x2F; Images are stored outside of government bodies and akin to a black box. Must require warrants to review footage.<p>3) Video &#x2F; Images &#x2F; Data are deleted after 1 year.<p>4) No data of citizens facial features, body structure, gate are transferred into a national database.<p>Honestly though, where the UK is going. I firmly believe in 20 years all citizens physical meta-data will be tracked and stored in a black box somewhere and then later leaked on-line.<p>1984 isn&#x27;t just a book. It&#x27;s a handbook by all accounts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ixtli</author><text>By many metrics the UK is and has been the most surveilled country in the world for decades.</text></comment> | <story><title>European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology</title><url>https://techgrabyte.com/european-union-five-year-ban-facial-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no1youknowz</author><text>Here is what&#x27;s happening in the UK.<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg</a><p>All I can hope for, is that some activist group takes the police to court and the legislative branch reacts to then impose rules for spying on its citizens.<p>Some of the things I can think off the top of my head:<p>1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks. Especially when it&#x27;s cold.<p>2) Video &#x2F; Images are stored outside of government bodies and akin to a black box. Must require warrants to review footage.<p>3) Video &#x2F; Images &#x2F; Data are deleted after 1 year.<p>4) No data of citizens facial features, body structure, gate are transferred into a national database.<p>Honestly though, where the UK is going. I firmly believe in 20 years all citizens physical meta-data will be tracked and stored in a black box somewhere and then later leaked on-line.<p>1984 isn&#x27;t just a book. It&#x27;s a handbook by all accounts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wott</author><text>&gt; 1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks.<p>You don&#x27;t have (yet) some beautiful law like we have in France?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.legifrance.gouv.fr&#x2F;loda&#x2F;texte_lc&#x2F;JORFTEXT000022911670&#x2F;2011-04-11&#x2F;#LEGIARTI000022912213" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.legifrance.gouv.fr&#x2F;loda&#x2F;texte_lc&#x2F;JORFTEXT000022...</a><p>&gt; <i>Nul ne peut, dans l&#x27;espace public, porter une tenue destinée à dissimuler son visage.</i><p><i>Noboby may, in public space, wear an outfit intended to hide his face.</i><p>Clear and simple, I guess. That was directed towards radical Muslims but the definition encompasses everyone. And last year we got this extra one:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.legifrance.gouv.fr&#x2F;affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle=LEGIARTI000038382669&amp;cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070719&amp;dateTexte=20190412" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.legifrance.gouv.fr&#x2F;affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...</a><p>It is about hiding all (or part) of your face, within (or near...) a demonstration, in which troubles arose (or might have arisen...). The first law was an infraction, this one is a misdemeanour with much harder sentence.</text></comment> |
41,183,426 | 41,179,505 | 1 | 2 | 41,147,393 | train | <story><title>Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood</title><url>https://news.ubc.ca/2024/07/ubc-super-black-wood-nxylon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>digging</author><text>&gt; Most surprisingly, Nxylon remains black even when coated with an alloy, such as the gold coating applied to the wood to make it electrically conductive enough to be viewed and studied using an electron microscope. This is because Nxylon’s structure inherently prevents light from escaping rather than depending on black pigments.<p>I don&#x27;t follow this at all. If it&#x27;s coated with an alloy, Nxylon isn&#x27;t on the surface of the object anymore, the alloy is. So the alloy should be reflecting light. What am I missing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood</title><url>https://news.ubc.ca/2024/07/ubc-super-black-wood-nxylon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oniony</author><text>This, different article, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.earth.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;new-super-black-wonder-wood-called-nyxlon-absorbs-almost-all-light&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.earth.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;new-super-black-wonder-wood-calle...</a>, suggests the process is high-energy plasma affecting the cut ends of the basswood fibres.</text></comment> |
3,792,377 | 3,792,410 | 1 | 2 | 3,791,894 | train | <story><title>Math For Programmers </title><url>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymoushn</author><text>There's actually a place slightly beyond "able to do it on paper" at which you grok the maths so well that you can apply it in non-obvious situations without any conscious effort. I'm not sure how to get there in general, but I've noticed that I'm more likely to be able to do this for subjects that I learned in proof-heavy classes.</text></item><item><author>nagrom</author><text>I think that in this article Steve discounts the effect of actually doing the math for yourself. It's comparatively easy to read about something and think that you've understood it. It's another thing entirely to be able to do that math on paper and get the 'correct' answer without needing help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>I have a Masters in math and the applying things in non-obvious situations is one of the things that I really gained from it. Several times I've been in situations where someone is struggling with a problem, and where I can quickly spot a simple mathematical approach to solve it. Many times the mathematics itself is quite simple advanced high school or early college stuff, stuff the person struggling with problem has also studied.<p>The difference is that to them linear algebra (for example) is something abstract you use to solve linear algebra problems, while to someone with a more deep and solid understanding of math, linear algebra is a simple and general tool that can be applied in all manners of situations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Math For Programmers </title><url>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymoushn</author><text>There's actually a place slightly beyond "able to do it on paper" at which you grok the maths so well that you can apply it in non-obvious situations without any conscious effort. I'm not sure how to get there in general, but I've noticed that I'm more likely to be able to do this for subjects that I learned in proof-heavy classes.</text></item><item><author>nagrom</author><text>I think that in this article Steve discounts the effect of actually doing the math for yourself. It's comparatively easy to read about something and think that you've understood it. It's another thing entirely to be able to do that math on paper and get the 'correct' answer without needing help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Deestan</author><text>One of the school math topics that I have made us of a lot is function transformation and translation.<p>Being able to see things like "what I really need here is <i>this</i> part of a sine curve, stretched along the X axis, compressed along the Y axis, and moved up into the positive", and then write a simple one-liner to do slideshow animation, has proven useful again and again.<p>To be honest, I didn't really understand the point of it during class, and actually failed that part of the exam. A few years later when I needed it, it just popped out of my brain attic and made sense.</text></comment> |
14,522,079 | 14,521,711 | 1 | 2 | 14,520,843 | train | <story><title>Now UI Kit – A Bootstrap 4 UI kit</title><url>http://demos.creative-tim.com/now-ui-kit/index.html#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yodon</author><text>[edit] Crap, false alarm, the paid license is still the same garbled, unclear, non-professional nonsense that all of us complained about a year ago and that makes your pro versions completely unusable by real businesses, it&#x27;s only the free versions that have a real license attached to them[&#x2F;edit]<p>On behalf of myself and all the other commenters who asked for a real license last year when your material UI kit hit HN[0], I&#x27;d like to say a big THANK YOU for ditching your old home-written license and going with something real so we can actually use this release. Can&#x27;t wait to see what you&#x27;ll build next!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12101122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12101122</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Now UI Kit – A Bootstrap 4 UI kit</title><url>http://demos.creative-tim.com/now-ui-kit/index.html#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>axelut</author><text>Hi guys, here is Alex, one of the creators of this UI Kit. It was built based on the NOW UI made by Invision: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.invisionapp.com&#x2F;now" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.invisionapp.com&#x2F;now</a> and we released it under MIT License: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;creativetimofficial&#x2F;now-ui-kit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;creativetimofficial&#x2F;now-ui-kit</a> so you can use it without any issues for commercial projects or personal websites.<p>If you have any feedback, suggestions or issues please let us know. I would be glad to talk in comments.<p>Best,
Alex</text></comment> |
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