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8,571,575 | 8,571,594 | 1 | 2 | 8,571,134 | train | <story><title>UAB cures diabetes in lab mice, preparing for human trial</title><url>http://wiat.com/2014/11/06/uab-cures-diabetes-in-lab-mice-preparing-for-human-trial/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>I know a number of people who have diabetes and not vast financial resources (including the family of a teenaged nephew of mine). The current medical solution takes a significant and ever-present financial toll on them. Something like this would be absolutely life changing for those people who can&#x27;t easily afford on-going, lifetime treatment.<p>I really hope it works.</text></comment> | <story><title>UAB cures diabetes in lab mice, preparing for human trial</title><url>http://wiat.com/2014/11/06/uab-cures-diabetes-in-lab-mice-preparing-for-human-trial/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkcomp</author><text>This seems to be research related to Type I diabetes, which means it&#x27;s only potentially a cure for one variant of the disease, and it&#x27;s also not totally clear how it differs from previous research:<p><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00626359#page-1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007%2FBF00626359#page-1</a><p>Nonetheless, it does seem that there have been a number of encouraging research finds around Type I diabetes in recent months (<a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/10/giant-leap-against-diabetes/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;gazette&#x2F;story&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;giant-leap-aga...</a>).<p>In general, always take media coverage of scientific finds with a grain of salt, and maybe two grains for local news coverage.</text></comment> |
20,784,143 | 20,784,035 | 1 | 3 | 20,783,006 | train | <story><title>Introducing nushell</title><url>http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>entangledqubit</author><text>I&#x27;ve been delving into bash scripting a bit more than I&#x27;d like as of late and the lack of universally available consistent structured output for the CLI really got to me. Most of the script contents end up being these obfuscating and brittle &quot;hacky solutions&quot; that never should have been necessary. When I thought about pursuing fixing this I felt like the task was a bit overwhelming. I&#x27;m delighted that these developers are working on this!</text></item><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The compelling idea here is that they convert the output of common shell commands into tabular data that can be manipulated using common operators, so that you don&#x27;t have the remember sorting&#x2F;filtering&#x2F;grouping flags that may be different for every different shell command. So, imagine being able to use the same sorting&#x2F;filtering logic on the output of `ls` as you might on the output of `ps`, and without relying on hacky solutions like pipelines to `grep`, `cut`, and `sort`.<p>It also means shell command output can be easily transposed into JSON and CSV. Actually pretty clever!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigtrakzapzap</author><text>The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipelines should be streams of typed messages that encapsulate data in typed fields. Logs especially (logging to files is a terrible idea, because it creates log rotation headaches and each program requires a log parser because of the loss of structured information) also. Line-oriented pipeline processing is fundamentally <i>too simple.</i> Settling on a common data simple&#x2F;universal format robust enough for all purposes, including very large data sets, to exchange between programs and is just complicated enough to eliminate escapement and delimiter headaches without throwing away flexibility (by a new&#x2F;refined set of processing tools&#x2F;commands) is key.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing nushell</title><url>http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>entangledqubit</author><text>I&#x27;ve been delving into bash scripting a bit more than I&#x27;d like as of late and the lack of universally available consistent structured output for the CLI really got to me. Most of the script contents end up being these obfuscating and brittle &quot;hacky solutions&quot; that never should have been necessary. When I thought about pursuing fixing this I felt like the task was a bit overwhelming. I&#x27;m delighted that these developers are working on this!</text></item><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The compelling idea here is that they convert the output of common shell commands into tabular data that can be manipulated using common operators, so that you don&#x27;t have the remember sorting&#x2F;filtering&#x2F;grouping flags that may be different for every different shell command. So, imagine being able to use the same sorting&#x2F;filtering logic on the output of `ls` as you might on the output of `ps`, and without relying on hacky solutions like pipelines to `grep`, `cut`, and `sort`.<p>It also means shell command output can be easily transposed into JSON and CSV. Actually pretty clever!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I&#x27;ve generally found you can get most of what you need done with head, tail, grep, cut, paste, sed and tr (and maybe a couple others I&#x27;m missing). Oh, and test (both bash&#x27;s and coreutil&#x27;s). It <i>can</i> be a little hacky, but once you realize the crazy output you sometimes have to parse from third party programs, you realize that the ability to handle any free form text is pretty essential.<p>That said, since I&#x27;m a Perl developer, I&#x27;ll generally just go straight to perl&#x27;s inlined implicit loop mode (-p or -n) if I need to use more than a couple of those utils, unless I want it to be portable with a minimum of requirements (as even though more binaries are used in the shell version, they&#x27;re all essentially guaranteed to exist on a Linux&#x2F;Unix).</text></comment> |
36,518,706 | 36,518,851 | 1 | 2 | 36,516,237 | train | <story><title>Canada’s new tech talent strategy</title><url>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnopgnip</author><text>&gt;But where will these new people stay?<p>Housing is relatively affordable outside of Ontario and BC. Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnepeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Regina, and St Johns are all major metro areas where homes are less than half the price of the GTA and Vancouver metro.<p>The obvious fix for Ontario and BC to make housing more affordable is to allow people to build more where people want to live by relaxing zoning requirements. In 80%+ of Vancouver and 60%+ of Toronto it&#x27;s literally illegal to build anything besides detached single family homes. Little of the remaining land zoned for more dense development is suitable for development. There are some smaller changes like streamlining permitting, not exempting 100% of capital gains and incentivizing speculation, and a vacancy tax to discourage speculation that would help. The problem is any changes to make housing more affordable are politically unpopular, almost 70% of Canadians are homeowners and in the short term benefit from the status quo. Also younger people are ~20% less likely to vote.</text></item><item><author>babuloseo</author><text>But where will these new people stay? There is not enough housing being built for people, you are going to see people come here only to leave when they realize that they can&#x27;t afford the housing for their families there.<p>Net migration is probably pretty high in Canada right now and will increase once people figure out that there is not enough density or proper housing for them.<p>Check out these two top threads thread at canadahousing subreddit:<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13jl3gf&#x2F;came_to_canada_3_years_ago_and_now_leaving_due_to&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13jl3gf&#x2F;came...</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;147p0tx&#x2F;ontario_get_readyyoure_going_to_lose_your&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;147p0tx&#x2F;onta...</a><p>I am waiting to see what the cabinet shuffle looks like, but we are probably going to run some billboard campaigns or do some fundraising soon to address the housing crisis if the government is not tackling this properly. If you are Canadian or have interest in this space on addressing these social issues, hit me up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>&gt; Housing is relatively affordable outside of Ontario and BC. Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnepeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Regina, and St Johns are all major metro areas where homes are less than half the price of the GTA and Vancouver metro.<p>This is not the right way to think about it. Yes these cities are cheaper than GTA&#x2F;GVA, but that has always been the case. And this metric only matters if you are earning GTA&#x2F;GVA incomes and looking for something cheaper than these mega cities to buy in, which arguably only affects a tiny percent of the population.<p>The right comparison is how these cities’ house prices compare to themselves of 3, 5, 10 years ago versus their average household income over the same time periods.<p>When you look at that, which is a much more relevant metric of affordability, you will find there is essentially no city in this country that hasn’t been absolutely obliterated on affordability over the last decade.<p>7-10 years ago it was a GTA&#x2F;GVA affordability issue. Now it a story of every podunk 2 horse town from coast to coast. Why? Because of interest rates! The BoC, like most central banks, left rates too low for too long and then massively overreacted to COVID.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada’s new tech talent strategy</title><url>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnopgnip</author><text>&gt;But where will these new people stay?<p>Housing is relatively affordable outside of Ontario and BC. Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnepeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Regina, and St Johns are all major metro areas where homes are less than half the price of the GTA and Vancouver metro.<p>The obvious fix for Ontario and BC to make housing more affordable is to allow people to build more where people want to live by relaxing zoning requirements. In 80%+ of Vancouver and 60%+ of Toronto it&#x27;s literally illegal to build anything besides detached single family homes. Little of the remaining land zoned for more dense development is suitable for development. There are some smaller changes like streamlining permitting, not exempting 100% of capital gains and incentivizing speculation, and a vacancy tax to discourage speculation that would help. The problem is any changes to make housing more affordable are politically unpopular, almost 70% of Canadians are homeowners and in the short term benefit from the status quo. Also younger people are ~20% less likely to vote.</text></item><item><author>babuloseo</author><text>But where will these new people stay? There is not enough housing being built for people, you are going to see people come here only to leave when they realize that they can&#x27;t afford the housing for their families there.<p>Net migration is probably pretty high in Canada right now and will increase once people figure out that there is not enough density or proper housing for them.<p>Check out these two top threads thread at canadahousing subreddit:<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13jl3gf&#x2F;came_to_canada_3_years_ago_and_now_leaving_due_to&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13jl3gf&#x2F;came...</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;147p0tx&#x2F;ontario_get_readyyoure_going_to_lose_your&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;canadahousing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;147p0tx&#x2F;onta...</a><p>I am waiting to see what the cabinet shuffle looks like, but we are probably going to run some billboard campaigns or do some fundraising soon to address the housing crisis if the government is not tackling this properly. If you are Canadian or have interest in this space on addressing these social issues, hit me up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brutus1213</author><text>Issue is not just housing. Our health services and infra is crumbling. 401 near Yonge st is jammed nearly 24 hours (yes!!!). We literally have no more space for cars. We have switch to the 407 for as much travel as we can (and it is crazy expensive and silly given how much tax I pay as a techie).<p>The ERs in GTA are just always clogged. I&#x27;ve had to deal with multiple instances of 10+ hour waits in the ER. When they were not addressed in time, one such incident got worse, and ended up in a 10 day serious hospital stay (love the logic on that one).<p>Getting an appointment with any sort of specialist is also a gauntlet.<p>I&#x27;m an immigrant and it was surreal hearing the new Toronto mayor talk about how much she accomplished as an immigrant to Canada. It was indeed possible when she and I came to this country. It is a fantasy today. GTA has become a terrible place to live in a very short time period.</text></comment> |
28,048,042 | 28,047,766 | 1 | 2 | 28,047,112 | train | <story><title>Cheap material converts heat to electricity</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/cheap-material-converts-heat-electricity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>&gt; Those could be installed everywhere from .. water heaters .. to scavenge some of the 65% of fossil fuel energy that winds up as waste heat.<p>Modern condensing gas boilers for domestic use are better than 90% efficient, the exhaust gas is very cool so I don&#x27;t think that thermoelectric devices have much to offer there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lizknope</author><text>This Old House on PBS routinely installs systems over 95%.<p>There are systems here listed at 98.5 AFUE<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energystar.gov&#x2F;products&#x2F;most_efficient&#x2F;furnaces" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energystar.gov&#x2F;products&#x2F;most_efficient&#x2F;furnaces</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cheap material converts heat to electricity</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/cheap-material-converts-heat-electricity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>&gt; Those could be installed everywhere from .. water heaters .. to scavenge some of the 65% of fossil fuel energy that winds up as waste heat.<p>Modern condensing gas boilers for domestic use are better than 90% efficient, the exhaust gas is very cool so I don&#x27;t think that thermoelectric devices have much to offer there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NohatCoder</author><text>That is because the 90% is heat efficiency, this is for extracting electricity, which is much harder.</text></comment> |
26,716,038 | 26,714,589 | 1 | 2 | 26,713,329 | train | <story><title>ClojureScript 1.10.844</title><url>https://clojurescript.org/news/2021-04-06-release</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beders</author><text>This is great!<p>What is not so great is that Google&#x27;s closure team (not be confused with clojure) decided to remove various functions, making breaking changes - for no obvious reasons other than saving a few lines of code.<p>Example Things like `goog.isArray` is gone, a library that was adopted by many (including the CLJS compiler) to help smooth out the differences in JS versions and supported features.<p>The closure team even has great advice for you:<p>&quot;goog.isArray has been deleted. Use Array.isArray instead.&quot;<p>Well, how about you just delegate to that, Google team, and I can just upgrade?<p>This kind of library maintenance is what keeps me away from JS&#x2F;TS where prior investments seem to be less valuable:<p>React deprecating lifecycle methods, Typescript&#x27;s breaking changes page is pretty long (but admittedly, being MSFT, they try to care about backward compatibility), Vue.js 3: functional components deprecated, manual changes required.<p>Who can afford these shenanigans?<p>Changes in re-frame, reagent etc. have been a lot more careful. Not quite perfect (looking at you Reagent 1.0!), but I&#x27;m sleeping much better working with a stable, slow-moving framework - at the cost of maybe a few more repaints.</text></comment> | <story><title>ClojureScript 1.10.844</title><url>https://clojurescript.org/news/2021-04-06-release</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pizzeriafrida</author><text>Since this thread&#x2F;Clojurescript is getting some love I&#x27;d like to express something to a hopefully receptive audience:<p>There was a point where Clojurescript and Javascript sort of walked hand-in-hand during the advent of when React started to make sense in the minds of the community[0].<p>It felt really exciting because of the cross pollination that was happening between the two languages, Redux felt very familiar, and we have re-frame for clojurescript.<p>There was a ton of promise with Apollo.js and an improvement on the `connect` functionality by upgrading to a proper query language for getting state into a component versus wrapping functions around multiple `state.some.path` `state.some.other.path`.<p>David Nolen built om.next around that very idea, it was basically Apollo.js lite, and it was very exciting scientifically but never quite caught on because maybe it was a little clunky. But using datomic pull query syntax to fetch state for use in a component was thrilling. (if you got this far and decided you hate me and your eyes are rolling so hard I get it lol)<p>And this was all years ago now. All that excitement and progress and effort seems to have been trapped inside of Typescript, and React hooks, and did everyone forget?<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swannodette.github.io&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-future-of-javascript-mvcs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swannodette.github.io&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-future-of-javas...</a></text></comment> |
15,827,465 | 15,827,482 | 1 | 2 | 15,826,445 | train | <story><title>Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewrv</author><text>I&#x27;ve been spending a lot of time lately wondering if people who treat colleges and universities as though their job is worker training are confused, or if I&#x27;m naive in believing colleges and universities exist to expand human knowledge through research and education.<p>I suspect the answer is that our culture is confused, we want people who are smart and well rounded to also be useful. And the ugly side of it is, we want clear class divisions. One would never refer to law school or medical school as &quot;vocational&quot;.</text></item><item><author>wnoise</author><text>&gt; CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming.<p>Well, that&#x27;s because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>&gt; One would never refer to law school or medical school as &quot;vocational&quot;.<p>Sure you would. They are 100% vocational schools. Their cost, acceptance rates, time commitment, and difficulty level may be higher than other vocational schools, but that doesn&#x27;t change what they are -- 100% focused on giving you the knowledge and skills to do a specific job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewrv</author><text>I&#x27;ve been spending a lot of time lately wondering if people who treat colleges and universities as though their job is worker training are confused, or if I&#x27;m naive in believing colleges and universities exist to expand human knowledge through research and education.<p>I suspect the answer is that our culture is confused, we want people who are smart and well rounded to also be useful. And the ugly side of it is, we want clear class divisions. One would never refer to law school or medical school as &quot;vocational&quot;.</text></item><item><author>wnoise</author><text>&gt; CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming.<p>Well, that&#x27;s because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toasterlovin</author><text>Higher education is used as a proxy for intelligence by companies who are hiring because they are not allowed to use IQ tests. So I think it kind of makes sense that our society is confused about the purpose of higher education.</text></comment> |
29,297,566 | 29,297,813 | 1 | 2 | 29,296,211 | train | <story><title>Wolves make roadways safer</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/22/e2023251118</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geenew</author><text>The same is true for humans, though - the presence of wolves adds to human fear of the wilderness.<p>I only read the abstract but I wonder if this was accounted for in the article. Sure, it’s plausible that wolves lead to fewer deer-vehicle collisions, and that is a economic benefit. But what is the cost of decreasing humans’ willingness to enter the woods?</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Really cool article. They show that Wolves create a “landscape of fear” which reduces deer engagement with roads. So wolves do what hunters can’t; not just reducing populations but also changing behavior. Kind of creepy, if you are a deer!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brainfish</author><text>I live about 20 miles from ground zero of the original Yellowstone wolf reintroduction. I am an avid outdoorsperson and have never had an on-foot encounter with a wolf. They are exceedingly shy around humans; in the 25 years since the reintroduction there hasn&#x27;t been a single attack on a human in Yellowstone despite both humans and wolves being literally everywhere in the area.<p>I&#x27;m not saying no one is afraid of going outdoors because of the wolves, but that fear would be completely irrational. Your chances of twisting your ankle badly enough that you get caught out and die of exposure are many orders of magnitude greater.<p>Edit to add: as an additional anecdote, we get a ton of tourists coming here to head outdoors because of their interest in the wolves and hopes of seeing one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wolves make roadways safer</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/22/e2023251118</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geenew</author><text>The same is true for humans, though - the presence of wolves adds to human fear of the wilderness.<p>I only read the abstract but I wonder if this was accounted for in the article. Sure, it’s plausible that wolves lead to fewer deer-vehicle collisions, and that is a economic benefit. But what is the cost of decreasing humans’ willingness to enter the woods?</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Really cool article. They show that Wolves create a “landscape of fear” which reduces deer engagement with roads. So wolves do what hunters can’t; not just reducing populations but also changing behavior. Kind of creepy, if you are a deer!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>Is there any evidence that there is a sustained decrease in human outdoor activities in areas where wolves have been reintroduced? I kind of doubt it.<p>Wolves are really shy around humans so I don’t think there is any real threat to humans or our pets (as long as we keep our pets close to us). There is only the perception of threat but humans tend to adopt, and I don’t think this perception would last longer then a year or two and soon enough outdoor activities would resume to previous levels.</text></comment> |
40,537,972 | 40,538,090 | 1 | 2 | 40,536,400 | train | <story><title>IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yndoendo</author><text>I would argue that having to file taxes through a 3rd party accountant or service is not only forced commerce but also broken glass economics. Looks like it helps the economy by creating jobs but the job is redundant and does not create anything of value.<p>Where are crimes more likely to occur, a city with 10,000 or 1 million? Where are financial crimes more likely to occur, people that make $10,000 a year or people that make $1 million or more a year. I rather have these accounts move into forensic work and go after the wealthy tax evaders.<p>IRS is an enforcement agency that specializes in tax collection and fraud. People that are clamoring for reduced IRS staffing are ultimately support of defending the police. I rather have a well staff IRS going after those that evade paying their taxes, probability speaking the wealthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Conventional wisdom is that if one can fund the IRS with one extra dollar, and they use that dollar to collect two dollars more taxes (from evaders), than that was a good way to spend taxpayers money.<p>Many economists don&#x27;t agree though. If you care about economic success of the country, the goal isn&#x27;t &#x27;collect as many taxes as possible&#x27;. The goal is to make the citizens wealthier in real terms.<p>Effort your citizens put into tax collection is &#x27;dead weight&#x27;, and doesn&#x27;t contribute to exports etc. However, effort your citizens put into trade that (for various reasons) ends up under-taxed, usually does add to the economic wellbeing of citizens.<p>Therefore, it&#x27;s only necessary to collect mostly-correct taxes from most citizens, if doing so let&#x27;s you redirect labour from tax collection into other work.<p>Is it unfair? Yes. But it&#x27;s still good economic policy.</text></comment> | <story><title>IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yndoendo</author><text>I would argue that having to file taxes through a 3rd party accountant or service is not only forced commerce but also broken glass economics. Looks like it helps the economy by creating jobs but the job is redundant and does not create anything of value.<p>Where are crimes more likely to occur, a city with 10,000 or 1 million? Where are financial crimes more likely to occur, people that make $10,000 a year or people that make $1 million or more a year. I rather have these accounts move into forensic work and go after the wealthy tax evaders.<p>IRS is an enforcement agency that specializes in tax collection and fraud. People that are clamoring for reduced IRS staffing are ultimately support of defending the police. I rather have a well staff IRS going after those that evade paying their taxes, probability speaking the wealthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gottorf</author><text>&gt; Where are crimes more likely to occur, a city with 10,000 or 1 million?<p>A city of 10,000 may very well have a higher rate of crime. In terms of your analogy, consider my lawn man, who only takes cash for his services. I know he&#x27;s not taking in millions of dollars a year (or even hundreds of thousands), but I also strongly suspect that he does not report all of his income.<p>Same goes for every cash-only business I know.<p>&gt; I rather have a well staff IRS going after those that evade paying their taxes, probability speaking the wealthy.<p>I&#x27;d rather the tax code be simplified so that nobody has access to loopholes, not just the wealthy. Not much you can do to hide, for example, a land value tax.</text></comment> |
37,840,410 | 37,839,805 | 1 | 2 | 37,830,342 | train | <story><title>Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992)</title><url>https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilrwbwrkhv</author><text>Steel Bank Common Lisp is what I built my businesses on. Interactive software building is the work of magic.<p>Nothing comes close.<p>Once I retire and have some more free time I want to make videos and make open source contributions to make it more palatable and sexy for beginners.<p>Folks are really missing out on a lot of joy and happiness by not programming in Common Lisp but I also understand why.</text></comment> | <story><title>Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992)</title><url>https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Even today it amazes me that python devs don’t live in the repl the same way that lispers do. The interactive approach is underrated. Especially in the era of test-first development, which I think is a fad long term. (That’s not to say no tests, just not tests first.)</text></comment> |
16,509,692 | 16,509,851 | 1 | 2 | 16,504,401 | train | <story><title>Probabilistic thinking can lead to improved decision-making</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-bayesian-probability-puzzle-solution-20180302/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hso9791</author><text>Thinking is hard. That&#x27;s why we must strive to avoid it at all costs. :)<p>Probabilistic thinking is useful to wrap one&#x27;s head around.<p>Having worked with decision support for a decade, I&#x27;ve come to realize that probabilistic thinking may or may not be useful to work into organizational decision making regarding change.<p>It&#x27;s still a thought experiment, but I&#x27;ll put in a shameless plug for the first of a series of blog entries:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.henrikscorner.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;25&#x2F;a-modest-proposal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.henrikscorner.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;25&#x2F;a-modest-proposal&#x2F;</a><p>In case of concerns: The blog itself is unmonetized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Probabilistic thinking can lead to improved decision-making</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-bayesian-probability-puzzle-solution-20180302/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>There are much more useful real-world examples of applied probabilistic thinking in search and rescue.<p>In conditions where you don&#x27;t have direct contact with the search subject (and, sometimes, even if you do), there are a ton of factors to account for when deciding where to deploy resources and which resources to deploy.<p><i>Most</i> search managers rely on gut feelings and experience, and in many cases, that works okay. They&#x27;re familiar with the &quot;hot spots&quot; in their area where subjects tend to get turned around or hurt (or turn up if they&#x27;ve got a mental disability).<p>But there are many many searches where those tools totally fail them, and in those cases, I&#x27;ve seen searches stumble pretty badly and a ton of resources just get totally wasted as the manager re-deploys resources to the same places over and over again, totally certain each time that the subject is there and just somehow got missed by previous teams.<p>My favorite search-related text so far is &quot;Lost Person Behavior&quot;, an analysis of the behaviors of past search subjects. It&#x27;s far from perfect -- in some cases, it&#x27;s relying on very small amounts of data or on data that&#x27;s relevant to a specific area only -- but it&#x27;s all we&#x27;ve got at the moment, it&#x27;s a step in the right direction, and it&#x27;s been right for the most part, even when the search manager was wrong.<p>I&#x27;ve also developed a personal rule that &quot;40% of the information we&#x27;ve got is wrong&quot; going into a search. Bad information is the result of a lot of hands touching the info before we ever get it. Everyone tries to be helpful, and they suggest things that then become facts. These bits of misinformation can misdirect searches really badly, so it&#x27;s good practice to review all of the information you&#x27;ve got right away, and try to identify the bits that are most likely to be incorrect.<p>In the first quarter of 2017, we had a plane go down in a neighboring county that didn&#x27;t have the resources to manage the search, so we handled it. It turned into a major search spanning almost a week, with CalOES on-site, along with air national guard, civil air patrol, and a half-dozen other agencies, and hundreds of feet on the ground. Along about day 3, I decided to re-review the data; there was a flight track from radar just before the aircraft disappeared, there was an eyewitness account that heard a loud aircraft engine but couldn&#x27;t see it because of heavy cloud cover, and there was an intermittent ELT signal. We had some information on the conditions at the time. The area around the ELT had been searched, and re-searched, and was about to be searched again. Given that info, what would you do as a search manager?<p>The eyewitness account was from about the right time of day, and the guy didn&#x27;t seem over-helpful, so it was probably reliable but all it told us was that there might have been an aircraft in the area at the time.<p>I decided to dismiss the ELT entirely, and instead reviewed the terrain, compared it to the flight track, and talked to a pilot. We assumed the pilot was capable and that they had a technical issue with the aircraft; given that, the flight track suggested they attempted to turn back, and then changed their mind. There was a narrow mountain pass just ahead of the end of the flight track, and then a long valley that suddenly ended in mountains. And that&#x27;s approximately where the plane was eventually found, many miles from the ELT reports.<p>I reasoned that once the ELT area had been searched, the probability of the aircraft being there dropped considerably, and therefore the ELT was misleading the search. So, where would we search if there was no ELT?<p>This has been a recurring pattern in a lot of searches over the last couple of years, and I hope someday a sea change happens in search management that incorporates more of this approach.</text></comment> |
18,216,716 | 18,216,039 | 1 | 2 | 18,215,002 | train | <story><title>Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Thought</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/how-forests-affect-climate-change/572770/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wlib</author><text>This is extremely obvious and it&#x27;s surprising how long it took for this to be noticed. If you clear a section of a forest, the area becomes as hot as a desert because of the lack of shade. This is a &quot;microclimate&quot;. The more area you clear, the larger this hot microclimate becomes. This is the reason why there is desertification all over the globe.<p>Whether you believe it or not, it is just as easy to create a desert from a forest as it is to do the reverse [1], it can even be a passive process [2]. Deserts rain occasionally, and when they do, it becomes a flash flood. If you tame the flash flood [3][5], you can change deserts. There are projects that do this and have proven its effectiveness, while also being able to solve the water crisis in arid lands in Africa [6].<p>Trees are incredibly important not necessarily for their reduction of carbon dioxide, but because of the microclimate each tree creates. They filter harsh light for the undergrowth, they cool the general area, and they transpire around 99% of the water they get, leading to more clouds and then more precipitation in other areas [4].<p>The reason why projects like this aren&#x27;t so popular and aren&#x27;t subsidized is not because they aren&#x27;t effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3RqsUD6fyGk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3RqsUD6fyGk</a>
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[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;zqKaRg3GTqg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;zqKaRg3GTqg</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;trees-amazon-make-their-own-rain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;trees-amazon-make-th...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_4oKKs8FfI0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_4oKKs8FfI0</a>
[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewaterproject.org&#x2F;sand-dams" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewaterproject.org&#x2F;sand-dams</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>We used to know this. Almost every road and housing development included parks, verges and trees, enough to influence the micro climate. Roads and rail often had more space for greenery than purpose. There used to be enough of the natural environment left that you still knew where you were. Parks were more arboretum and public garden than the lowest maintenance acres of grass they have tended to become today.<p>Post war became concrete and optimisation of how many plots you could pack in. First things to go were anything green. The temperature difference between the two approaches is easily noticeable. UK railways and towns are still reducing the amount of trees - mainly to eliminate the need to send some contractors out occasionally to tend to trees and bushes.<p>It&#x27;s yet another case of humanity sawing the branch they&#x27;re sitting on for $2 more.<p>The silliest part is the older developments, even former public social housing, are now often the valuable areas as they are nicer to live in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Thought</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/how-forests-affect-climate-change/572770/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wlib</author><text>This is extremely obvious and it&#x27;s surprising how long it took for this to be noticed. If you clear a section of a forest, the area becomes as hot as a desert because of the lack of shade. This is a &quot;microclimate&quot;. The more area you clear, the larger this hot microclimate becomes. This is the reason why there is desertification all over the globe.<p>Whether you believe it or not, it is just as easy to create a desert from a forest as it is to do the reverse [1], it can even be a passive process [2]. Deserts rain occasionally, and when they do, it becomes a flash flood. If you tame the flash flood [3][5], you can change deserts. There are projects that do this and have proven its effectiveness, while also being able to solve the water crisis in arid lands in Africa [6].<p>Trees are incredibly important not necessarily for their reduction of carbon dioxide, but because of the microclimate each tree creates. They filter harsh light for the undergrowth, they cool the general area, and they transpire around 99% of the water they get, leading to more clouds and then more precipitation in other areas [4].<p>The reason why projects like this aren&#x27;t so popular and aren&#x27;t subsidized is not because they aren&#x27;t effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3RqsUD6fyGk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3RqsUD6fyGk</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZSPkcpGmflE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZSPkcpGmflE</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;zqKaRg3GTqg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;zqKaRg3GTqg</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;trees-amazon-make-their-own-rain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;trees-amazon-make-th...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_4oKKs8FfI0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_4oKKs8FfI0</a>
[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewaterproject.org&#x2F;sand-dams" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewaterproject.org&#x2F;sand-dams</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>&gt; The reason why projects like this aren&#x27;t so popular and aren&#x27;t subsidized is not because they aren&#x27;t effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.<p>This. I&#x27;ve been hearing for 30 years how important trees are, and that we should plant way more of them. It is just not happening in any significant way. Politician&#x27;s talk.<p>Makes me feel old and tired, when I keep reading this same conclusion over and over, and &quot;We should take action now&quot;, but nothing much happens on the action side.</text></comment> |
35,678,333 | 35,676,106 | 1 | 3 | 35,675,731 | train | <story><title>Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice</title><url>https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/13/8/1404</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>user3939382</author><text>I don’t need to wait for the science to know that having plastic in our body and blood is bad for our health.<p>The limited science we do have unsurprisingly indicates that it is.<p>It’s weird to me that a lot of HNers, like I see with western doctors, believe that until something is conclusively proven in peer reviewed research it should be treated as if it doesn’t exist at all. IMHO that’s irrational and robotic, there are such things as safe assumptions and educated guesses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice</title><url>https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/13/8/1404</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The title seems to not quite match the article, unless I’m missing something. The title suggests that microplastics can reach the brain, which be a shocking result given that microplastics are relatively large (up to 5mm). The study only found that nanoplastics of a certain small size were found:<p>&gt; In our study we performed short term uptake studies in mice with orally administered polystyrene micro-&#x2F;nanoparticles (9.55 µm, 1.14 µm, 0.293 µm). We show that nanometer sized particles—but not bigger particles—reach the brain within only 2 h after gavage.<p>Still concerning, of course. They didn’t really do any quantification of how much this happened, they just administered rather extreme concentrations of deliberately produced nanoplastic formulas and then later found a couple particles in brain sample images.<p>The images they included (scroll down to Figure 3) are somewhat confusing in that they all have green dots in them, but only some of the dots are labeled nanoplastics. Even the control mouse has a lot of little green dots, but they’re not identified as nanoplastics for reasons I don’t understand. Someone more familiar with the subject matter would have to comment on how reliable this method is. The number of green dots is strikingly large in even the control mouse, so clearly they’re not all nanoplastics.</text></comment> |
23,221,832 | 23,220,543 | 1 | 3 | 23,216,817 | train | <story><title>Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo</title><url>https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2020/0513/In-each-other-s-shadows-Behind-Irish-outpouring-of-relief-for-Navajo?j=312538&sfmc_sub=27907397&l=1215_HTML&u=11383268&mid=10979696&jb=68&cmpid=ema:Weekender:20200516&src=newsletter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aclimatt</author><text>Since the article only very lightly touches on it and some may be understandably confused about the &quot;solidarity&quot; between the Irish and Native Americans, the &quot;Potato Famine&quot; was only so deadly in Ireland to the Irish due to years of colonial rule -- not because the only food in Ireland were rotten potatoes.<p>Ireland had plenty of food at the time. They even continued to export food to England. It&#x27;s just that due to systematic oppression, Irish natives couldn&#x27;t afford anything that weren&#x27;t (now blighted) potatoes.<p>That&#x27;s where the parallel comes from with the Native Americans.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Famine_(Ireland)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Famine_(Ireland)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo</title><url>https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2020/0513/In-each-other-s-shadows-Behind-Irish-outpouring-of-relief-for-Navajo?j=312538&sfmc_sub=27907397&l=1215_HTML&u=11383268&mid=10979696&jb=68&cmpid=ema:Weekender:20200516&src=newsletter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s_dev</author><text>I read this -- very proud of the efforts of the Irish but proud also that they didn&#x27;t forget those small acts of kindness. Showing gratitude is important and I think this shows gratitude for the solidarity shown in the past.<p>We&#x27;re also aware &#x27;Choctaw&#x27; and &#x27;Hopi&#x27; and &#x27;Navajo&#x27; are all different tribes and Native Americans aren&#x27;t a monolithic group. It&#x27;s just hard if not nigh on impossible to give back to the exact people that helped us. It&#x27;s the sentiment that counts in this sense.</text></comment> |
22,864,376 | 22,863,481 | 1 | 2 | 22,859,820 | train | <story><title>Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52234561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikekchar</author><text>There are other solutions. Institute a minimum wage for farm work. Make it attractive to those who would ordinarily choose to work in a factory to work at a farm. Break the monopolies on food distribution (probably will require the companies to be restructured by law). Create a national food distribution service to compete with the original companies. Provide minimum prices for farmers with the national food distribution service. Put tarifs on imports. Remove <i>all</i> subsidies for food exports (and stop trying to bomb the world food prices in order to offer loans to countries to buy your food exports when they can&#x27;t afford to compete with their own home grown products).<p>Ha ha. But seriously, automation and robotics will be <i>much</i> easier to implement.</text></item><item><author>jelliclesfarm</author><text>there is some truth to this. same news was posted here on HN last year. but in reality, there is more to it.<p>yes, there is a pathogen. but EU olive industry is moving to turkey and morocco. why? simple. cheap labour. olive trees can live for a very very long time, but there are two kinds of olives harvested. for oil and then for table olives. the former has been mechanised and the latter is not. so it&#x27;s expensive.<p>it&#x27;s cheaper to raze down old olive orchards and just plant new ones. the new ones can be trellised and have dwarf hybrids or disease resistant varieties. also cheaper labour if not grown in the EU. i suspect they&#x27;d use that ag land for something else. likely development.<p>the same thing happened in central california. one of the major buyers for table olives from EU stopped orders from california. and entire orchards..thousands and thousands of acres were razed down. they simply moved their business to morocco and turkey. (inside source. cant confirm or verify, but i trust this source.)<p>western countries have this plan to outsource ag to developing nations because of labour. it is the most dumbass strategy ever. it is not going to be like IT has been outsourced. it relies on long supply chains by ships entirely dependent on dirty energy. food security is nothing to be trifled with(remember venezuela?)..but labour costs in western nations is nothing to be sneezed at.<p>automation and robotics is the only solution. as long as VCs dont think of it as a data play for commodity ag market only , that tech wont trickle down to food crops. with the current covid crisis, everything will change. everything has to change. local food networks, food security and shorter tighter supply chains are going to become necessary. it&#x27;s time to automate small acreage food farms and reclassify Ag as essential protected industry.<p>i also expect this covid crisis to facilitate the biggest wealth transfer and land grab in the last hundred years. but i am not betting on anything now. things should get interesting.<p>i hope that automation in ag at all levels become a reality and the sector (hopefully along with healthcare) becomes less exploitative. altho&#x27; ag exploits the producers and healthcare exploits the consumers. but that is likely a different topic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>&gt; Institute a minimum wage for farm work. Make it attractive to those who would ordinarily choose to work in a factory to work at a farm.<p>If you have ever done fruit-picking yourself, you would find that it is back-breaking work, and anyone who has been in it for more than a few years develops health problems. A higher minimum wage might attract a few more young people to do it for a season or two to make some quick money, but it won’t make fruit picking an appealing career choice by which a whole industry can be sustained long-term. Any Western European with any sense would prefer to do anything else even if it means less money (or simply live on the dole), and rely on desperate migrants from developing countries to do the hard work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52234561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikekchar</author><text>There are other solutions. Institute a minimum wage for farm work. Make it attractive to those who would ordinarily choose to work in a factory to work at a farm. Break the monopolies on food distribution (probably will require the companies to be restructured by law). Create a national food distribution service to compete with the original companies. Provide minimum prices for farmers with the national food distribution service. Put tarifs on imports. Remove <i>all</i> subsidies for food exports (and stop trying to bomb the world food prices in order to offer loans to countries to buy your food exports when they can&#x27;t afford to compete with their own home grown products).<p>Ha ha. But seriously, automation and robotics will be <i>much</i> easier to implement.</text></item><item><author>jelliclesfarm</author><text>there is some truth to this. same news was posted here on HN last year. but in reality, there is more to it.<p>yes, there is a pathogen. but EU olive industry is moving to turkey and morocco. why? simple. cheap labour. olive trees can live for a very very long time, but there are two kinds of olives harvested. for oil and then for table olives. the former has been mechanised and the latter is not. so it&#x27;s expensive.<p>it&#x27;s cheaper to raze down old olive orchards and just plant new ones. the new ones can be trellised and have dwarf hybrids or disease resistant varieties. also cheaper labour if not grown in the EU. i suspect they&#x27;d use that ag land for something else. likely development.<p>the same thing happened in central california. one of the major buyers for table olives from EU stopped orders from california. and entire orchards..thousands and thousands of acres were razed down. they simply moved their business to morocco and turkey. (inside source. cant confirm or verify, but i trust this source.)<p>western countries have this plan to outsource ag to developing nations because of labour. it is the most dumbass strategy ever. it is not going to be like IT has been outsourced. it relies on long supply chains by ships entirely dependent on dirty energy. food security is nothing to be trifled with(remember venezuela?)..but labour costs in western nations is nothing to be sneezed at.<p>automation and robotics is the only solution. as long as VCs dont think of it as a data play for commodity ag market only , that tech wont trickle down to food crops. with the current covid crisis, everything will change. everything has to change. local food networks, food security and shorter tighter supply chains are going to become necessary. it&#x27;s time to automate small acreage food farms and reclassify Ag as essential protected industry.<p>i also expect this covid crisis to facilitate the biggest wealth transfer and land grab in the last hundred years. but i am not betting on anything now. things should get interesting.<p>i hope that automation in ag at all levels become a reality and the sector (hopefully along with healthcare) becomes less exploitative. altho&#x27; ag exploits the producers and healthcare exploits the consumers. but that is likely a different topic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ess101</author><text>Agree, automation may indeed be the solution in the long term...but we&#x27;re not there yet. The solution may indeed require subsidizing wages instead of subsidizing farmers.</text></comment> |
32,385,237 | 32,384,688 | 1 | 2 | 32,383,686 | train | <story><title>Post-Apocalyptic Programming</title><url>https://zserge.com/posts/post-apocalyptic-programming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wokwokwok</author><text>&gt; what if you are the only survivor with some programming skills sitting in front of a computer you’ve never heard of, with some hex pad to enter machine codes, with maybe some pen and paper. What will you do?<p>Leave it on the ground and forage around until I find a computer that runs windows. It&#x27;s not great, but, it&#x27;ll do. Failing that, a phone and a solar charger.<p>Charming as it is to build yourself toys &#x27;from scratch&#x27; to play with, it&#x27;s pretty unrealistic that you&#x27;d end up ever needing those skills in a real &#x27;end of the world&#x27; or &#x27;total supply chain disruption&#x27; situation.<p>It&#x27;s far, far more likely that you&#x27;d use off the shelf software, and your skills would revolve around being a cell-phone&#x2F;laptop&#x2F;whatever repairman, repairing old screens, charging cables, and other mechanical bits and bobs on hardware that was never really intended to be used for more than ~5 years; and ripping up &#x27;no longer working&#x27; stuff for bits you can put into &#x27;mostly working&#x27; stuff, and maybe building analogue circuits or maintaining power grids and solar panels.<p>Electrical engineer, soldering wires types of skills, not writing interpreters and coding skills, is what you would need ...if, you were indeed, in the luxury of not spending all your time just looking for food and water.<p>Let&#x27;s be real. No one is going to sit around implementing an interpreter for some obscure cpu you found.<p>That&#x27;s a skill for idly bored rich modern folk and archeologists of the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Post-Apocalyptic Programming</title><url>https://zserge.com/posts/post-apocalyptic-programming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>Even aside from the apocalypse, I was wondering recently how someone might &quot;pass down&quot; some piece of software, like say a video game, to their descendants. If you want to leave a written record for future generations then it&#x27;s easy enough to print out a book on some acid-free paper and reasonably expect that it will last for up to a millennium. But for robustly archiving a piece of software it&#x27;s not enough to print out the complete source code (including dependencies), you also need the complete source of the compiler (including dependencies), and the complete source of the operating system it runs on, and complete schematics for the hardware it runs on, and instructions on how to manufacture the hardware, and possibly more.<p>In the same way that we have standards for archival-grade books, it seems like we could benefit from some sort of standard archival-grade software stack designed for simplicity (and I mean real simplicity, I agree with the article that even C is too complicated and you want a Forth or something (or maybe a Scheme)). It&#x27;s okay if the stack is as slow as molasses, as long as you have a functional reference implementation you can always produce a translation into whatever modern stack exists in your time period.</text></comment> |
13,164,158 | 13,163,971 | 1 | 2 | 13,162,310 | train | <story><title>MacBook Pro Launch: Perplexing</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/macbook-pro-launch-perplexing-b47003037b2e#.hs0avj7se</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ndesaulniers</author><text>As someone who knows nothing about BeOS, what was awesome about it?</text></item><item><author>secstate</author><text>I actually really appreciate JLG&#x27;s tone when reporting on Apple. Given his history with the NeXT-BeOS debacle, I wouldn&#x27;t expect him to be so charitable. Of course, time heals all wounds and I get the impression JLG is pretty well adjusted, but still.<p>Man, BeOS was awesome.</text></item><item><author>dlevine</author><text>It&#x27;s of note that this post was written by Jean-Louis Gassee, former executive at Apple and creator of BeOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashark</author><text>It did scheduling magic to keep the UI responsive and media from skipping even under (at the time) heavy load. This was on single-core processors in the two or low three digits of MHz, mind you, with 128MB of RAM if you were <i>really</i> lucky. The OS itself also seemed to be snappier than its competitors.<p>Windows on the same machine? MP3 playback would stutter when you hit refresh on a webpage (bearing in mind those were one hell of a lot lighter than the ones today) or any number of other minor actions. Hourglasses constantly.<p>Linux? Window-smearing-on-drag as far as the eye can see. Even worse media performance than Windows(!), though maybe with some ricing&#x2F;tweaking it was better.<p>Macs at the time? Oh god. I don&#x27;t know how they got a reputation for being more stable than contemporary Windows machines. Fewer system crashed maybe, but apps crashed constantly. Multitasking performance mediocre. Disk swap all over the place.<p>BeOS? Buttery smooth UI and MP3 playback while running the Teapot 3D demo and browsing the web, all at the same time. It was <i>awesome</i>, and had the Unixy bits coupled with a good and consistent UI that we wouldn&#x27;t see again until OSX. Faster booting than the competition. Neat extras like a built in web server (Poorman, IIRC) that could be run with a few clicks, too. I think BeOS was known for having an unusually pleasant and sane API in addition to performing so well, though I never wrote any software for it personally.</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook Pro Launch: Perplexing</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/macbook-pro-launch-perplexing-b47003037b2e#.hs0avj7se</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ndesaulniers</author><text>As someone who knows nothing about BeOS, what was awesome about it?</text></item><item><author>secstate</author><text>I actually really appreciate JLG&#x27;s tone when reporting on Apple. Given his history with the NeXT-BeOS debacle, I wouldn&#x27;t expect him to be so charitable. Of course, time heals all wounds and I get the impression JLG is pretty well adjusted, but still.<p>Man, BeOS was awesome.</text></item><item><author>dlevine</author><text>It&#x27;s of note that this post was written by Jean-Louis Gassee, former executive at Apple and creator of BeOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksherlock</author><text>We used to say: BeOS combined the UI of Macintosh, the stability of Unix, and the Minesweeper of Windows.</text></comment> |
22,476,565 | 22,476,137 | 1 | 2 | 22,475,521 | train | <story><title>Windows: Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qubex</author><text>Windows 95&#x2F;98&#x2F;2000 and Office 95&#x2F;97&#x2F;2000 is in many ways my “native interface”, probably because those were the platforms I grew up using most during my late-teenager formative years in High School and in the early years of University.<p>I have to say that those interfaces are clunky in retrospect, but they are undeniably <i>clear</i> and do not place form over function as many of the modern ‘flat’ and touch-orientated interfaces seem to.<p>The other two graphical interfaces I remember most fondly are NeXT’s and BeOS’, which are also, probably not coincidentally, OSes I used frequently over the same period of time.<p>(Just to give you some context, I remember avidly reading the <i>Windows 95 Resource Kit</i> in the run-up to the Windows 95 release in August 1995 because I had no internet access and therefore had had no way of downloading and testing the many “Chicago” betas that everybody had been raving about... and therefore I know that radio buttons on the interface were originally intended to be diamond-shaped rather than round.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows: Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>The 90s were definitely a time when people thought deeply about how to make computer applications more usable. Apple also had excellent guidelines. Problem was that back then the hardware and the operating systems sucked. Now it’s the opposite. Hardware and OS are very stable now but applications are getting worse.</text></comment> |
27,454,021 | 27,451,539 | 1 | 3 | 27,450,364 | train | <story><title>2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident</title><url>https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2021-06-08-certificate-lifetime-incident/153426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaas</author><text>Head of Let&#x27;s Encrypt here.<p>The question of whether or not revocation should happen has to be asked whenever a certificate compliance issue is being discussed, regardless of how serious the issue is. That is a normal part of the process of evaluating an incident thoroughly.<p>We do not plan to revoke any certificates as a result of this issue.<p>An aside - I love how informed many of the commenters here are, thanks to you all for helping to explain what&#x27;s happening!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>I love your work!<p>Any chance you could convince Microsoft to add Let&#x27;s Encrypt as an &quot;integrated&quot; CA in Azure Key Vault? It&#x27;s absolutely bonkers how much money I have to pay to get a certificate in 2021 for cloud services! E.g.: the App Service certificates are $70&#x2F;year each or $300&#x2F;year for a wildcard certificate. That&#x27;s nuts. Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details&#x2F;app-service&#x2F;windows&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details&#x2F;app-servic...</a><p>I strongly suspect the reason Let&#x27;s Encrypt isn&#x27;t adopted more widely in cloud services is because there&#x27;s <i>no margin on a free service</i>. This is why Microsoft, AWS, and GCP all carefully pretend that there are no free options, and make sure that it&#x27;s a difficult uphill battle to use Let&#x27;s Encrypt.<p>E.g.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;key-vault&#x2F;certificates&#x2F;how-to-integrate-certificate-authority" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;key-vault&#x2F;certificate...</a><p>Notice how the document title is literally &quot;Integrating Key Vault with DigiCert certificate authority&quot;. Not &quot;Certificate Authority&quot;, it&#x27;s the &quot;<i>DigiCert</i> certificate authority&quot;. Apparently, HTTPS is now DigiCert&#x27;s protocol, they&#x27;re the gatekeepers, and you have to pay them money to use it.<p>It boils my blood that 1KB files of random numbers still cost money, and the trolls under the bridge are still taxing everyone for what is now essentially mandatory for all web sites.<p>If anyone here has a significant account with Azure, please apply some pressure to your Microsoft account manager next time you have coffee with them. This rent seeking for what should be free for everyone has to stop.</text></comment> | <story><title>2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident</title><url>https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2021-06-08-certificate-lifetime-incident/153426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaas</author><text>Head of Let&#x27;s Encrypt here.<p>The question of whether or not revocation should happen has to be asked whenever a certificate compliance issue is being discussed, regardless of how serious the issue is. That is a normal part of the process of evaluating an incident thoroughly.<p>We do not plan to revoke any certificates as a result of this issue.<p>An aside - I love how informed many of the commenters here are, thanks to you all for helping to explain what&#x27;s happening!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigzero</author><text>That you for the clarification and the letsencrypt service.</text></comment> |
21,836,490 | 21,836,503 | 1 | 2 | 21,836,053 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.40</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/12/19/Rust-1.40.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moksly</author><text>There hasn’t been a single Rust job posting in the entire region of Denmark where I live in 2019, so it’s probably fair to say that almost no one uses it.<p>The progress is still cool though.</text></item><item><author>penagwin</author><text>I don&#x27;t personally use Rust (yet) but I love seeing its progress!<p>Congrats to everyone who has been contributing to Rust, it&#x27;s definitely moving the language forward!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicklauri</author><text>The main reason is many companies have a lot of C&#x2F;C++ devs or other devs learned Rust, so they don&#x27;t have to hire new Rust programmer. There are many places using Rust, you should check this out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rust-lang.org&#x2F;production&#x2F;users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rust-lang.org&#x2F;production&#x2F;users</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.40</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/12/19/Rust-1.40.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moksly</author><text>There hasn’t been a single Rust job posting in the entire region of Denmark where I live in 2019, so it’s probably fair to say that almost no one uses it.<p>The progress is still cool though.</text></item><item><author>penagwin</author><text>I don&#x27;t personally use Rust (yet) but I love seeing its progress!<p>Congrats to everyone who has been contributing to Rust, it&#x27;s definitely moving the language forward!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>It is young by language standards, but it has considerable success considering it isn&#x27;t even 10 years old yet.<p>Plus there isn&#x27;t really anything else in the market that directly competes with it outside of what it tries to replace (C&#x2F;C++).<p>For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msrc-blog.microsoft.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;using-rust-in-windows&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msrc-blog.microsoft.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;using-rust-in-win...</a></text></comment> |
14,838,095 | 14,837,816 | 1 | 3 | 14,810,963 | train | <story><title>The best defense against malicious AI is AI</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608288/ai-fight-club-could-help-save-us-from-a-future-of-super-smart-cyberattacks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bem94</author><text>Depending on ones level of idealism, the best defense against malicious AI is actually educating programmers &#x2F; hackers &#x2F; engineers on the implications of their work and to have a sense of decency &amp; foresight.<p>It baffles me that we just accept the kind of malice inflicted on people by programmers because &quot;someone will always do it&quot;. As a profession &#x2F; collection of skilled persons, we should really be better than that.<p>Obviously, one cannot see the future, nor would we want to be paralized by fear of doing anything. But there is a certain minimum requirement for collective responsiblity which I really don&#x27;t think we are meeting at the moment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_alloc</author><text>Decency and foresight is highly subjective. Actually encoding what we understand as &quot;decent human behaviour&quot; into AI is a huge problem: If you create a system that decides about giving somebody a loan in the US based on a financial data set it might come up with any of these hypotheses:<p>* Don&#x27;t give loans to people living in [poor area].<p>* Avoid people with names that aren&#x27;t similar to the most common ones in the database (i.e. foreign ones)<p>* When linking the customer data to their social media and you see the picture is dissimilar to [preferred ethnicity], do not give a loan.<p>Now without any malice from the developer, the system has become racist: It saw the correlation that in the US blacks and hispanics live in poverty more often that others [1]. It knows that poor people pay back loans less frequently and makes the rational decision to not give a loan to that group. This of course reinforces the problem.<p>But how are we to solve this? Introduce an additional column &quot;race&quot; to the data and bias the results with it? Would that not be just as racist? How do we give the system an awareness not to discriminate against ethnic groups, if the data contains implicit clues? This comes down to giving such an AI human intuition about such questions.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssc.wisc.edu&#x2F;irpweb&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq3&#x2F;Figure1.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssc.wisc.edu&#x2F;irpweb&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq3&#x2F;Figure1.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The best defense against malicious AI is AI</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608288/ai-fight-club-could-help-save-us-from-a-future-of-super-smart-cyberattacks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bem94</author><text>Depending on ones level of idealism, the best defense against malicious AI is actually educating programmers &#x2F; hackers &#x2F; engineers on the implications of their work and to have a sense of decency &amp; foresight.<p>It baffles me that we just accept the kind of malice inflicted on people by programmers because &quot;someone will always do it&quot;. As a profession &#x2F; collection of skilled persons, we should really be better than that.<p>Obviously, one cannot see the future, nor would we want to be paralized by fear of doing anything. But there is a certain minimum requirement for collective responsiblity which I really don&#x27;t think we are meeting at the moment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>The problem is that if engineers in the US don&#x27;t take the job then someone somewhere in, say, Asia will. Ethical rules are not the same everywhere. You can already tell this by looking at experimentation with stem-cells, cloning, et cetera, which is happening faster in Asia than in the US because of regulations.<p>Also, refraining from building these systems means that other countries get ahead of us. Besides being an economic disadvantage, this could also threaten security.<p>So I do agree that engineers should adhere to ethical guidelines, but they should be considered in a global context.</text></comment> |
12,614,099 | 12,613,872 | 1 | 3 | 12,613,623 | train | <story><title>PgAdmin 4 v1.0 released</title><url>https://www.pgadmin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sinatra</author><text>I tried using and liking pgAdmin 4 beta for a few months. Even simple things like copy-paste from clipboard using Cmd-C&#x2F;V, exporting&#x2F;importing data to&#x2F;from my local machine, etc were a hassle. Add to that the slow startup, sluggishness, and poor UX. I&#x27;m happily using Valentina Studio now. A small data point for others who may come to this thread looking for PostgreSQL GUI tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Thanks for the hint.<p>I am using the older version and is one of my favourite PostgresSQL GUI tools.<p>Another tool victim of the craziness to pack web pages as desktop applications and being written in Python and JavaScript is already an indication the performance you describe.<p>So I will stick with the current version until I find a good alternative, checking Valentina Studio now.</text></comment> | <story><title>PgAdmin 4 v1.0 released</title><url>https://www.pgadmin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sinatra</author><text>I tried using and liking pgAdmin 4 beta for a few months. Even simple things like copy-paste from clipboard using Cmd-C&#x2F;V, exporting&#x2F;importing data to&#x2F;from my local machine, etc were a hassle. Add to that the slow startup, sluggishness, and poor UX. I&#x27;m happily using Valentina Studio now. A small data point for others who may come to this thread looking for PostgreSQL GUI tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClayM</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using JetBrains DataGrip for my postgres needs. Been pretty good.</text></comment> |
24,272,793 | 24,271,660 | 1 | 2 | 24,266,056 | train | <story><title>The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>Given how long it took to catch him, after years of outrageous purchases and shady business dealings, it makes me wonder if frauds are much more common than conventional wisdom would lead one to believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>Fraud is extremely common and the best way to avoid it is to get personal recommendations for anything important, like business contacts, lawyers, or accountants.<p>Over a decade ago, a friend of mine was under the legal age when he sold his collection of websites with the same theme for around $100m. I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ve heard of at least one of the properties. Being underage, he didn&#x27;t know how to protect himself, and he gave his lawyers power of attorney. They took almost the entire acquisition for themselves and left the USA.<p>That&#x27;s fraud. Those guys are still out there. He contacted other lawyers and they basically said &quot;it&#x27;s been too long the money is gone and so are these criminals.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>Given how long it took to catch him, after years of outrageous purchases and shady business dealings, it makes me wonder if frauds are much more common than conventional wisdom would lead one to believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ideals</author><text>Well MLM scams are alive and well today and have been coming out of Utah for the last 20 years so I&#x27;d say fraud is pretty common. Check Craigslist for some fun frauds and scams, they&#x27;re right out in the open. Social media are open markets for fraud too</text></comment> |
39,001,136 | 38,998,538 | 1 | 2 | 38,998,313 | train | <story><title>The M2 is more advanced than it seemed</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/15/why-the-m2-is-more-advanced-that-it-seemed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>A few months ago I bought a Mac with a M2 Pro 32G, and it is great for LLMs. I never thought that I would be running models like mixtral-8-7B-q3 locally on my own computer. I think the M2 Pro has 200GB&#x2F;sec internal bandwidth, about 25% faster than the M3.<p>I think smaller models will keep getting better. For privacy and economic reasons, it makes sense to do as much AI on-device as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>The M2 is more advanced than it seemed</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/15/why-the-m2-is-more-advanced-that-it-seemed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilaksh</author><text>Are PC laptops going to catch up? I wonder if there is some kind of conflict of interest with Nvidia holding back more capable PC chips or software integration.</text></comment> |
14,642,480 | 14,642,515 | 1 | 2 | 14,642,193 | train | <story><title>How HTTPS Handshake Happens</title><url>http://sudhakar.online/programming/2015/08/09/https.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrkurt</author><text>There are some really cool &quot;tricks&quot; for avoiding the round trip — round trips are why everyone should be using a global load balancer for SSL. Clients have to send 2 packets across the world and wait for a reply, which can add &gt;100ms before any actual work happens.<p>http2 helps because you can multiplex a bunch of requests into a single connection, less waiting on new connections to be established.<p>TLS 1.2 with session resumption lets clients reuse existing sessions after the first connection.<p>TLS 1.3 has a 0rtt handshake, which is pretty baller. It&#x27;s just not widely deployed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valarauca1</author><text><p><pre><code> TLS 1.3 has a 0rtt handshake, which is pretty baller.
It&#x27;s just not widely deployed.
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And it likely won&#x27;t be. 0RTT Allows for replay attacks (I capture your packets, and replay them). Without a round trip this will always exist.<p>Also 0RTT is only for <i></i>re-connections<i></i> not initial connections.<p>The solution is only like 0RTT be executed once and only once, but this isn&#x27;t part of TLSv1.3 and is waiting to _globally_ approved. Until then nobody smart will touch it.<p>---<p>0RTT is only supported by Cloud-Flare and Google. Cloud-Flare makes you track 0RTT yourself so a fair number of sites are insecure. Google does SSL tick synchronization across data centers because <i></i>their arrogant<i></i> and is extremely vulnerable to timing att-</text></comment> | <story><title>How HTTPS Handshake Happens</title><url>http://sudhakar.online/programming/2015/08/09/https.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrkurt</author><text>There are some really cool &quot;tricks&quot; for avoiding the round trip — round trips are why everyone should be using a global load balancer for SSL. Clients have to send 2 packets across the world and wait for a reply, which can add &gt;100ms before any actual work happens.<p>http2 helps because you can multiplex a bunch of requests into a single connection, less waiting on new connections to be established.<p>TLS 1.2 with session resumption lets clients reuse existing sessions after the first connection.<p>TLS 1.3 has a 0rtt handshake, which is pretty baller. It&#x27;s just not widely deployed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;There are some really cool &quot;tricks&quot; for avoiding the round trip — round trips are why everyone should be using a global load balancer for SSL. Clients have to send 2 packets across the world and wait for a reply, which can add &gt;100ms before any actual work happens.&quot;<p>What is a &quot;global load balancer&quot;? A load balancer doesn&#x27;t avoid any round trips. The &quot;work&quot; of TLS begins as soon as the client sends a ClientHello which is during the second round trip. On a new connection the total round trips is 4 if you include the GET request. It&#x27;s 3 round trips if you only consider the TCP hand shake and the TLS handshake. This is true whether there is a load balancer or not.</text></comment> |
39,173,988 | 39,173,980 | 1 | 2 | 39,165,030 | train | <story><title>Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024</title><url>https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2024/01/25/teletext-on-a-bbc-computer-in-2024/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lqet</author><text>&gt; I managed to get it running, despite Teletext being killed off years ago.<p>It&#x27;s still going strong here in Germany. The Teletext service run by ARD alone still had 19 M users 2 years ago [0]. You can even use it in a browser [1]. My father uses it heavily and with split-screen to get up-to-date sports results and news without all the BS he has to deal with on the internet as someone over 60 (notifications, cookie warnings, usability changes every 6 months, fear of accidentally &quot;clicking somewhere dangerous&quot;, ads). I suspect he uses Teletext for the same reasons I visit HN for.<p>Somewhat ironically, his Teletext (his TV signal) has been delivered via Internet for over a decade now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rbb-online.de&#x2F;unternehmen&#x2F;der_rbb&#x2F;rbb_in_der_ard&#x2F;ard_text_2019.html#:~:text=Mehr%20als%2019%20Millionen%20Nutzer,die%20besten%20aller%20Sender%20bewertet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rbb-online.de&#x2F;unternehmen&#x2F;der_rbb&#x2F;rbb_in_der_ard...</a>.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ard-text.de&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ard-text.de&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024</title><url>https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2024/01/25/teletext-on-a-bbc-computer-in-2024/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sverhagen</author><text>Being from the Netherlands originally, I know _their_ &quot;Teletekst&quot;, not as much the BBC one. I couldn&#x27;t possibly imagine it being of much use anymore. Similar to how the article started in past tense (before continuing in present tense):<p>&gt; Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext.<p>I read this article from four days ago (link below, it&#x27;s in Dutch) about how the Dutch broadcasting had recently made a significant investment to upgrade the old system, which was running on a local Windows 2003 machine&#x2F;server, to a cloud-based solution that integrates with their other content-management system(s). It surprised me how many people still use this system. From the article: &quot;the service still reaches a few million people per week through TV screens, and another 800,000 daily users via its app&quot;. (For reference, population of the Netherlands is 18 million.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tweakers.net&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;11700&#x2F;hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-teletekst-de-nos-over-het-gloednieuwe-oude-systeem.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tweakers.net&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;11700&#x2F;hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...</a></text></comment> |
30,149,633 | 30,148,292 | 1 | 3 | 30,147,547 | train | <story><title>MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software–for better or worse</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mindslight</author><text>This review would have been much better if written by a different author. This reviewer seemingly can&#x27;t get over his biases for the hyperoptimized consumer market, and isn&#x27;t the least bit interested in servicability or software freedom. These things are certainly trade offs and that needs to be acknowledged, but the review constantly &quot;others&quot; the desire for such things rather than critiquing the device within that context. This leads to useless critiques like focusing on the lack of processor speed while concentrating on bloated webapps. The author even forgoes trying &quot;Maestral, a lightweight macOS and Linux client for Dropbox&quot;, which if truly lightweight should have run fine!<p>Meanwhile it sounds like the MNT has some real flaws (the battery discharging thing), but the context of that isn&#x27;t really described - can the battery controller IC use much less power but the proper code hasn&#x27;t been written, or is it a true design mistake, or what? In general open hardware involves some very hard tradeoffs, and this review just complains about that difficulty the whole time while pretending not to.</text></comment> | <story><title>MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software–for better or worse</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>I&#x27;d like something like this, but that uses the Pi Compute Module 4, and doesn&#x27;t cost quite so much (bonus points if it can shave off half the height... the thing looks straight out of the 90s!).</text></comment> |
23,819,086 | 23,818,627 | 1 | 3 | 23,816,678 | train | <story><title>Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)</title><url>http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gene_Parmesan</author><text>I have ADHD (where dyslexia is a common co-morbidity). I&#x27;m not dyslexic, but I tend to experience dyslexia-like symptoms with numbers. Never letters, just numbers. It made math hell in school. Like you describe, it&#x27;s not that the numbers are literally moving on the page. It&#x27;s that they sort of... blob together in my consciousness, like there&#x27;s a blind spot in my visual understanding, and my brain tends to fill in with numbers that look close enough. I tend to transpose numbers very very easily, swapping 6s and 9s, 2s and 5s, 7s and 1s.<p>There&#x27;s an additional layer of challenge where numbers are involved; with words, there are spellings that are obviously not words, or words that don&#x27;t make sense in a given sentence. With numbers, there&#x27;s no easy way for your brain to check whether what you read is accurate, because there&#x27;s no equivalent of numbers not making sense.</text></item><item><author>FuckButtons</author><text>I’m dyslexic, you’re right, this is an exaggeration, but it’s almost impossible to simulate the real thing. It’s not like the letters move around the page, it’s that you perceive them to be other letters or words. Then you realize that you read doesn’t make sense and your brain just replaces it with the correct words or letters when you read it again. It kind of makes you aware of the fact that what you see and what is there are two distinct things which are not always the same.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>This seems like an exaggeration of the descriptions I&#x27;ve heard about dyslexia, in that letters move way too far. Another huge problem is that the first and last letters don&#x27;t change, and I&#x27;m betting that for dyslexics, those anchor letters don&#x27;t exist. With the anchor letters, I find this trivial to read. It barely slows me down at all. Studies have shown that most people can read fairly easily when the first and last letters of a word are fixed and the inner letters are scrambled. Given the difficulty that dyslexics have, I suspect this isn&#x27;t a realistic simulation.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting idea. I appreciate the goal. I just don&#x27;t know that this is anything like the real thing. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to know what it&#x27;s subjectively like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polytely</author><text>I have exactly this, still have a lot of mental math. At school teachers just gave up at some point and gave me a calculator, I still have a lot of trouble with mental multiplication and converting between analog and digital time (doesn&#x27;t help that in Dutch you say 15:30 like &#x27;half four&#x27;).<p>I&#x27;m also terrible at holding numbers in my head, if I do not keep paying conscious attention to it, they get reversed or substituted. I remember all my PIN&#x27;s by the motion you used to input them instead of the number itself.<p>Programming made me discover how much I love math, but I still miss a lot of basics because I never &#x27;got it&#x27; in elementary school, and thus ended up in the lowest levels of math in highschool, where it was extremely boring and tedious (because it was actually way to easy), I wish I could send a programming book&#x2F;numberphile videos to my 12-year-old self, because I think I could have ended up using high-school time way more effectively, instead of just going through the motions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)</title><url>http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gene_Parmesan</author><text>I have ADHD (where dyslexia is a common co-morbidity). I&#x27;m not dyslexic, but I tend to experience dyslexia-like symptoms with numbers. Never letters, just numbers. It made math hell in school. Like you describe, it&#x27;s not that the numbers are literally moving on the page. It&#x27;s that they sort of... blob together in my consciousness, like there&#x27;s a blind spot in my visual understanding, and my brain tends to fill in with numbers that look close enough. I tend to transpose numbers very very easily, swapping 6s and 9s, 2s and 5s, 7s and 1s.<p>There&#x27;s an additional layer of challenge where numbers are involved; with words, there are spellings that are obviously not words, or words that don&#x27;t make sense in a given sentence. With numbers, there&#x27;s no easy way for your brain to check whether what you read is accurate, because there&#x27;s no equivalent of numbers not making sense.</text></item><item><author>FuckButtons</author><text>I’m dyslexic, you’re right, this is an exaggeration, but it’s almost impossible to simulate the real thing. It’s not like the letters move around the page, it’s that you perceive them to be other letters or words. Then you realize that you read doesn’t make sense and your brain just replaces it with the correct words or letters when you read it again. It kind of makes you aware of the fact that what you see and what is there are two distinct things which are not always the same.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>This seems like an exaggeration of the descriptions I&#x27;ve heard about dyslexia, in that letters move way too far. Another huge problem is that the first and last letters don&#x27;t change, and I&#x27;m betting that for dyslexics, those anchor letters don&#x27;t exist. With the anchor letters, I find this trivial to read. It barely slows me down at all. Studies have shown that most people can read fairly easily when the first and last letters of a word are fixed and the inner letters are scrambled. Given the difficulty that dyslexics have, I suspect this isn&#x27;t a realistic simulation.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting idea. I appreciate the goal. I just don&#x27;t know that this is anything like the real thing. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to know what it&#x27;s subjectively like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epse</author><text>That tends to be called dyscalculia and also occurs often with ADHD</text></comment> |
22,860,249 | 22,860,382 | 1 | 3 | 22,859,938 | train | <story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>As someone who lives in one of these states, I&#x27;m nonplussed at the announcement. It doesn&#x27;t really seem to say anything concrete that I can tell.<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve agreed that we will use metrics...we are still deciding what these metrics will be.&quot;<p>I thought the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order (in Washington state) wasn&#x27;t unreasonable and wasn&#x27;t just political babble, but I don&#x27;t really know what to make of this piece. Anyone want to try to explain it like I&#x27;m five?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjcl</author><text>I think this is a polite way of these states saying that they&#x27;re not going to follow any &#x27;national plan to reopen the economy&#x27; put out by the White House.</text></comment> | <story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>As someone who lives in one of these states, I&#x27;m nonplussed at the announcement. It doesn&#x27;t really seem to say anything concrete that I can tell.<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve agreed that we will use metrics...we are still deciding what these metrics will be.&quot;<p>I thought the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order (in Washington state) wasn&#x27;t unreasonable and wasn&#x27;t just political babble, but I don&#x27;t really know what to make of this piece. Anyone want to try to explain it like I&#x27;m five?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JPKab</author><text>My brother lives in Oregon.<p>He was complaining to me the other day that Oregon&#x27;s requirement that you are not allowed to pump your own gas is an obvious COVID transmission vector.<p>To get gas in Oregon, he follows these steps:<p>1.) pull up to gas station
2.) Roll down window to hand attendant (who isn&#x27;t wearing a mask, nor is required to) his debit card.
3.) Get card back from attendant.
4.) Sanitize the debit card
5.) Sanitize his hands
6.) Hope that the attendant is washing his hands, and that he didn&#x27;t breathe COVID onto him through the open window.<p>Not saying this isn&#x27;t a great, noble effort.<p>Just saying that, in some aspects, these states aren&#x27;t doing a good job on obvious things within their own borders.<p>Why the hell is Oregon still doing this, and not requiring masks from gas attendants anyway? Maybe it is required, but my brother told me he has yet to have an attendant wearing a mask, so possibly not enforced???</text></comment> |
15,758,920 | 15,759,135 | 1 | 3 | 15,756,684 | train | <story><title>An Open Letter to the FCC</title><url>https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryperson</author><text>The revocation of the Net Neutrality rules became a foregone conclusion once Donald Trump was elected. The sad reality is there&#x27;s not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it.<p>There are 5 FCC commissioners but only 3 may be of the same party. Ajit Pai, Brendan Carr and Michael O&#x27;Rielly are locks to vote in favor, so it will pass, 3-2.<p>At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in 2018 and 2020, whether that&#x27;s registering voters or forming groups to get lazy liberals or independents to vote to send better people to Washington.<p>One side aspect that I think hasn&#x27;t been covered: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former Verizon lawyer and probably plans to parley his government experience into a lucrative gig at one of the big telcos once the Republicans are inevitably thrown out of office, so he stands to personally profit from this decision.<p>As Donald Trump would say, SAD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EddieRingle</author><text>&gt; FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former Verizon lawyer<p>He worked in their legal department for 2-3 years 15 years ago. All of his other time has been spent has a public servant. People need to stop bringing this up, because it only muddies the actual policy debate.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Open Letter to the FCC</title><url>https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryperson</author><text>The revocation of the Net Neutrality rules became a foregone conclusion once Donald Trump was elected. The sad reality is there&#x27;s not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it.<p>There are 5 FCC commissioners but only 3 may be of the same party. Ajit Pai, Brendan Carr and Michael O&#x27;Rielly are locks to vote in favor, so it will pass, 3-2.<p>At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in 2018 and 2020, whether that&#x27;s registering voters or forming groups to get lazy liberals or independents to vote to send better people to Washington.<p>One side aspect that I think hasn&#x27;t been covered: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former Verizon lawyer and probably plans to parley his government experience into a lucrative gig at one of the big telcos once the Republicans are inevitably thrown out of office, so he stands to personally profit from this decision.<p>As Donald Trump would say, SAD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text><i>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former Verizon lawyer and probably plans to parley his government experience into a lucrative gig at one of the big telcos</i><p>I don’t care if he was a professional kitten killer, it has little relevance to actions currently being taken. I say this for two reasons: Pai has spent more time in public service than he did at Verizon, by multiples. And second, who cares what his motivation is? Does that amplify or mitigate the circumstances in some way? No? Then it’s just a distraction from the issue at hand, which is bad enough that we best not derail the conversation worrying about where someone worked twenty years ago.</text></comment> |
26,736,119 | 26,733,976 | 1 | 3 | 26,727,700 | train | <story><title>Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site</title><url>https://opensource.cooking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samdafi</author><text>Shameless plug but I tried to do that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sammakesfood.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sammakesfood.com</a>. I made videos for the recipes too, but you do not have to watch those. It was a hobby project (not monetized) so no garbage. If somebody did this with maybe 30-75 mainstays and added search, is that kinda what you’re looking for? I stopped because I wasn’t sure if it would help anybody. My family enjoyed the videos during the pandemic as an alternate way to see me though, so, still worth it :D</text></item><item><author>aimor</author><text>In general I&#x27;ve given up on recipe aggregate sites. I have to be half-familiar with the dish just to fix all the things wrong with the recipes I find. In my opinion, divorcing the recipe from the curator is a huge mistake and no amount of user reviews overcomes this. What I really want to see are the recipes that some specific person actually makes in their daily life. Not icons who publish more recipes under their name than a single person could make in a lifetime, or test kitchens obsessed with creating the scientifically proven ideal form of a chocolate chip cookie, and definitely not bloggers churning out stories to grow an audience. I want John, who likes to cook, to let me leaf around in his recipe box (the one he actually uses), and if I make a dish and like it I want to be able to go back and dig around for more. I know this authenticity exists online, but I don&#x27;t know how to find it. I imagine it as a big list of personal recipe box websites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aimor</author><text>Actually I enjoyed the videos I watched. I&#x27;d say your site is spot on: one person&#x27;s collection of recipes they like to make.<p>My suggestion is to add a concise index. I didn&#x27;t like browsing the paginated images.<p>Unrelated to your site, what I find most difficult with my own collection is resisting the urge to add new recipes. I want to be able to pick any recipe from my box and know that I think it&#x27;s absolutely delicious. Of course everyone has different goals, that&#x27;s part of the charm of personal collections.</text></comment> | <story><title>Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site</title><url>https://opensource.cooking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samdafi</author><text>Shameless plug but I tried to do that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sammakesfood.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sammakesfood.com</a>. I made videos for the recipes too, but you do not have to watch those. It was a hobby project (not monetized) so no garbage. If somebody did this with maybe 30-75 mainstays and added search, is that kinda what you’re looking for? I stopped because I wasn’t sure if it would help anybody. My family enjoyed the videos during the pandemic as an alternate way to see me though, so, still worth it :D</text></item><item><author>aimor</author><text>In general I&#x27;ve given up on recipe aggregate sites. I have to be half-familiar with the dish just to fix all the things wrong with the recipes I find. In my opinion, divorcing the recipe from the curator is a huge mistake and no amount of user reviews overcomes this. What I really want to see are the recipes that some specific person actually makes in their daily life. Not icons who publish more recipes under their name than a single person could make in a lifetime, or test kitchens obsessed with creating the scientifically proven ideal form of a chocolate chip cookie, and definitely not bloggers churning out stories to grow an audience. I want John, who likes to cook, to let me leaf around in his recipe box (the one he actually uses), and if I make a dish and like it I want to be able to go back and dig around for more. I know this authenticity exists online, but I don&#x27;t know how to find it. I imagine it as a big list of personal recipe box websites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fordsmith</author><text>This seems like something I absolutely need, especially as a college student. I don&#x27;t know how to cook good healthy meals, but I want to learn how (especially cheaply if I can).</text></comment> |
27,040,817 | 27,040,926 | 1 | 2 | 27,040,470 | train | <story><title>Instagram ads Facebook won't show you</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>See, the trick here is to put all the personal data onto an oddly specific t-shirt that&#x27;s for sale.<p><i>Available now, size &quot;Large&quot; t-shirt for sale!</i><p>&quot;I&#x27;m a proud dad living in Seattle who attended the University of Washington and once went on a trip to Central America for a while. I have a dog and like to read and occasionally complain about politics.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d buy this if I saw it, if just for the lulz and nihilistic outlook when it comes to privacy.<p>In fact... if I were a privacy-focused company, I&#x27;d 100% do this as a marketing stunt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hangonhn</author><text>OMG. This is just brilliant on so many levels. It&#x27;s not just subversive against FB&#x27;s rules but also can be the start of some kind of art project as a statement about what tech companies know about us. But the project itself gives us a choice in what is shown to others whereas FB doesn&#x27;t give us that choice when selling the info to advertisers. It&#x27;ll probably get shut down real quick by FB though once they know about this.<p>Edited: as my sibling comment mentioned, I too would buy one of these shirts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instagram ads Facebook won't show you</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>See, the trick here is to put all the personal data onto an oddly specific t-shirt that&#x27;s for sale.<p><i>Available now, size &quot;Large&quot; t-shirt for sale!</i><p>&quot;I&#x27;m a proud dad living in Seattle who attended the University of Washington and once went on a trip to Central America for a while. I have a dog and like to read and occasionally complain about politics.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d buy this if I saw it, if just for the lulz and nihilistic outlook when it comes to privacy.<p>In fact... if I were a privacy-focused company, I&#x27;d 100% do this as a marketing stunt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oceliker</author><text>Ridiculously targeted t-shirt ads on Facebook are actually a thing, but probably not for privacy awareness purposes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehustle.co&#x2F;who-makes-those-insanely-specific-t-shirts-on-the-internet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehustle.co&#x2F;who-makes-those-insanely-specific-t-shi...</a></text></comment> |
9,839,069 | 9,839,160 | 1 | 3 | 9,838,792 | train | <story><title>Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breitling</author><text>I was thinking the same thing. They have less of an incentive to use protection with this device implanted. Let&#x27;s wait and see until the STD numbers surface.<p>Ultimately, what&#x27;s cheaper? Having a baby or taking care of an STD? Perhaps the benefits outweigh the costs.</text></item><item><author>explorigin</author><text>I wonder if there was also an increase in STDs. The article makes no mention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agentdrtran</author><text>Taking care of an STD will be cheaper for the individual and the state, without question.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breitling</author><text>I was thinking the same thing. They have less of an incentive to use protection with this device implanted. Let&#x27;s wait and see until the STD numbers surface.<p>Ultimately, what&#x27;s cheaper? Having a baby or taking care of an STD? Perhaps the benefits outweigh the costs.</text></item><item><author>explorigin</author><text>I wonder if there was also an increase in STDs. The article makes no mention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merpnderp</author><text>If the STD causes problems conceiving and requires tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in IVF treatments to conceive later in life.<p>The UK is having this problem, but mostly from women putting off pregnancies until their 30&#x27;s or 40&#x27;s.</text></comment> |
11,075,682 | 11,073,262 | 1 | 3 | 11,072,799 | train | <story><title>Twitter's new timeline feature</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/2016/never-miss-important-tweets-from-people-you-follow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I know I&#x27;m going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense.<p>Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don&#x27;t check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for ages. Otherwise, I can easily miss extremely relevant&#x2F;interesting things.<p>If this feature allows me to quickly get an overview over the most interesting tweets (and I can turn it off when I am following the feed more closely) that&#x27;s great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blorgle</author><text>The problem here is the assumption that the algorithm will do a half decent job at showing you important tweets.<p>Judging by the facebook algorithm, which is utterly terrible at showing important stuff, it seems unlikely. Just another step in the facebookification of twitter to appease short term oriented shareholders who rated the growth too highly.<p>It is already a mess, can&#x27;t see how adding this will improve the situation. Opposite of the minimal, fast, realtime platform that so many flocked to in the first place. I&#x27;m close to deleting accounts for both.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter's new timeline feature</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/2016/never-miss-important-tweets-from-people-you-follow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I know I&#x27;m going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense.<p>Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don&#x27;t check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for ages. Otherwise, I can easily miss extremely relevant&#x2F;interesting things.<p>If this feature allows me to quickly get an overview over the most interesting tweets (and I can turn it off when I am following the feed more closely) that&#x27;s great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>talideon</author><text>I don&#x27;t think people care so much about the addition of anything so much as the lack of any possibility of permanently turning it off. At least in this case, it&#x27;s optional, but the related &#x27;stuff you might have missed&#x27; &#x27;feature&#x27; isn&#x27;t.<p>I personally really hate this kind of thing as it clutters up my feed, and it <i>never</i> gives anything I care about. The value of Twitter for me come from the reverse-chronological feed, not this kind of thing.</text></comment> |
13,610,393 | 13,610,539 | 1 | 2 | 13,609,762 | train | <story><title>Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”</title><url>https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xmonkee</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s entire marketing message is about how they are saving the planet. It&#x27;s really ironic then how many times I&#x27;ve heard about the terrible working conditions at their factories. One cannot really trust a message about saving the planet when you don&#x27;t care about the people who need the saving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It would be sensible to sacrifice the well-being of a small group in order to save the whole, if it&#x27;s necessary to do so. I don&#x27;t think your inference makes any sense. Poor working conditions for one factory and saving the planet as a whole are different concerns.<p>That said, I would certainly like to see them improve in this area. I&#x27;m a big fan of Tesla, but they are not without their flaws, and working conditions appear to be one of them. They should do better. Not because it somehow conflicts with their mission, but just because it&#x27;s the right thing to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”</title><url>https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xmonkee</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s entire marketing message is about how they are saving the planet. It&#x27;s really ironic then how many times I&#x27;ve heard about the terrible working conditions at their factories. One cannot really trust a message about saving the planet when you don&#x27;t care about the people who need the saving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trome</author><text>Yeah, Tesla is here to make money above all else, and they&#x27;re gonna do as much time theft as they can, likely putting Amazon, Walmart &amp; McDonalds to shame.<p>Shit must be real bad over there if they are attempting to unionize, if you notice the only places that still have a union in the US in spite of union busting are where the employer has made it an absolute living nightmare to work, hence the union to back the workers up.</text></comment> |
40,422,208 | 40,412,317 | 1 | 3 | 40,412,091 | train | <story><title>On the trail of my identity thief</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/an-identity-thief-stole-5000-from-me-i-spent-two-years-tracking-down-how/ar-BB1mqh0b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;KG95Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;KG95Q</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240520073631&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;news&#x2F;crime&#x2F;an-identity-thief-stole-5000-from-me-i-spent-two-years-tracking-down-how&#x2F;ar-BB1mqh0b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240520073631&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.c...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>On the trail of my identity thief</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/an-identity-thief-stole-5000-from-me-i-spent-two-years-tracking-down-how/ar-BB1mqh0b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrslave</author><text>Article on original site that incidentally includes a lot less JavaScript<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bostonglobe.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;on-the-trail-of-my-identity-thief&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bostonglobe.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;on-the-trail...</a></text></comment> |
41,473,311 | 41,473,103 | 1 | 2 | 41,472,855 | train | <story><title>The PERQ Computer</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trebligdivad</author><text>I scrounged one in ~1991 from the back corridors of Manchester Uni; fun machine; the CPU was a bitsliced type, common at the time using AMD chips, the microcode was loaded at boot (hence the different microcodes on the different OSs). It used a z80 on the IO board to get things started and load the microcode off disc. The UI on PNX was pretty nice as well for a machine with 1MB of RAM.
My Perq 1, had it&#x27;s 14&quot; belt driven hard drive 27MB (early Seagate), with PNX on - try fitting a Unix system with a GUI on that these days!</text></comment> | <story><title>The PERQ Computer</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jll29</author><text>I was not aware that between Alto and Lisa there was the PERQ, a first commercial attempt, so thanks for point that out.<p>Of course the deeper you dig anywhere, the more complexity gets unearthed, and the more fair credit must be distributed across more clever
engineers, dilluting the &quot;single genius&quot; picture that movie makers and
often sadly also journalists try to portray (&quot;reality distortion field&quot;).<p>I would quite like a minimalistic b&#x2F;w GUI as the PERQ had on the screen shot.<p>Leaving out all the transparency&#x2F;rounded corners nonsense this should be bleeding fast, too, with today&#x27;s graphics capabilities.<p>EDIT: typo fixed</text></comment> |
32,118,487 | 32,118,632 | 1 | 3 | 32,117,381 | train | <story><title>Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>q1w2</author><text>&gt; if what is published from time to time on media is actually true<p>That&#x27;s a big IF. Unions were invented after the onset of the industrial revolution to combat truly unsafe work conditions in industrial settings where worker&#x27;s dying was common.<p>OSHA did away with all that.<p>The current generation of &quot;bad work condition&quot; complaints is around getting adequate bathroom breaks.</text></item><item><author>jaclaz</author><text>I may be wrong, but besides and before the wage increases, it seems to me like the priority would be for decent working conditions, if what is published from time to time on media is actually true, the biggest issues are about lack of (normal, decent) pauses or rest periods, continuous summoning for increases in productivity, total control on the workers, etc.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Realistically an Amazon-wide union is the only way Amazon workers are going to get decent wage increases. If the USA is going to allow manufacturers to outsource the majority of well-paid (~$30&#x2F;hr avg) manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China, without having any cross-border capital flow penalities (neoliberal globalism in a nutshell), then the major employers like Amazon and Walmart are going to have to double their wages.<p>Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders. They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellotomyrars</author><text>What rock are you living under? Plenty of the documented absolute nightmare of working for Amazon in their warehouses is corroborated by their own internal analysis. Unions are for more than just making sure people don&#x27;t die when doing their job. The union I am a member of more than doubled the wages of its members after its first 12 years of existence. Crucially it also ensures twice yearly cost of living adjustments. It is the only way for labor to have a meaningful negotiating position. There are shitty unions out there, but there are a lot of shitty employers too. Amazon&#x27;s internal reporting shows they&#x27;re going to exhaust the labor pool in several areas because they&#x27;ve cycled through everyone who could possibly work at the warehouses and fulfillment centers. People aren&#x27;t leaving Amazon because they aren&#x27;t allowed to use the bathroom. They&#x27;re leaving Amazon because it is dehumanizing and miserable. Funny how the people who make the lowest wages have to put up with the most shit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>q1w2</author><text>&gt; if what is published from time to time on media is actually true<p>That&#x27;s a big IF. Unions were invented after the onset of the industrial revolution to combat truly unsafe work conditions in industrial settings where worker&#x27;s dying was common.<p>OSHA did away with all that.<p>The current generation of &quot;bad work condition&quot; complaints is around getting adequate bathroom breaks.</text></item><item><author>jaclaz</author><text>I may be wrong, but besides and before the wage increases, it seems to me like the priority would be for decent working conditions, if what is published from time to time on media is actually true, the biggest issues are about lack of (normal, decent) pauses or rest periods, continuous summoning for increases in productivity, total control on the workers, etc.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Realistically an Amazon-wide union is the only way Amazon workers are going to get decent wage increases. If the USA is going to allow manufacturers to outsource the majority of well-paid (~$30&#x2F;hr avg) manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China, without having any cross-border capital flow penalities (neoliberal globalism in a nutshell), then the major employers like Amazon and Walmart are going to have to double their wages.<p>Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders. They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SantalBlush</author><text>OSHA did away with all that <i>on paper</i>. In reality, OSHA compliance varies considerably across manual labor jobs. Here&#x27;s how:<p>Suppose you&#x27;re a manager&#x2F;foreman. You never outright tell your staff to ignore safety regulations; you simply give them a huge workload with a deadline and set of equipment that make it impossible to feasibly accomplish the workload within compliance. Your workers catch on that in order to get the job done, they need to ignore the safety regs. As a manager, you look the other way as they ignore the rules. If an injury happens on the job, you then blame the worker for ignoring the safety regulations, which of course you instructed them to follow. Follow up by giving them a drug test so you might even be able to get out of paying them workers comp.<p>This is how it works in the real world. Source: seen it, done it.</text></comment> |
21,585,489 | 21,585,336 | 1 | 3 | 21,585,224 | train | <story><title>The Typography of Blade Runner (2016)</title><url>https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mzs</author><text>Post is an article about fonts and aesthetics from 2016.<p>We only know it&#x27;s today cause of the sequel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bkMethod&#x2F;status&#x2F;1183784913209905152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bkMethod&#x2F;status&#x2F;1183784913209905152</a><p>The original only stated it was this month: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gfycat.com&#x2F;determinedenchantinggreatargus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gfycat.com&#x2F;determinedenchantinggreatargus</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Typography of Blade Runner (2016)</title><url>https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>But for real - I was having a conversation with a colleague, and the reality of 2020 being about a month away really set in.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why, but 2020 was always &#x27;the future&#x27; when I was a kid.<p>And it&#x27;s here. And seemingly the same as it was in the 80&#x27;s just with more fun games and lower interest rates.</text></comment> |
33,414,939 | 33,413,987 | 1 | 3 | 33,409,891 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?</title><text>After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death?<p>My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>NamTaf</author><text>No.<p>Things that really matter (banks, etc.) have well-established next-of-kin processes. You can cause problems if you subvert them, as there&#x27;s processes to go through to prove who might have claim to the estate and if necessary divide it between multiple parties. Similarly, subscriptions will just bounce once you inform the banks of the death and they freeze further transactions as part of said process. In my experience, your next of kin don&#x27;t want to be dealing with cancelling a bunch of subscriptions when they&#x27;re already planning your funeral, informing loved ones, etc. - there&#x27;s already heaps of shit you have to consider and it&#x27;s a very stressful, emotional time.<p>Giving over passwords implies that you expect someone to log in and do something with them, so it&#x27;s not really important for them to have it for these reasons.<p>Secondly, I doubt any of my next of kin care about e.g. my Steam library or my Reddit account. As I&#x27;ve gotten older, I&#x27;ve realised that people don&#x27;t really want to inherit the overwhelming majority of your stuff (they have their own stuff). If you think someone really does want something in particular, you can have that conversation with them specifically, but that&#x27;s going to be very few and far between.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mgbmtl</author><text>In the early COVID days, a friend got really sick and then in a comma for 4 weeks, followed by a few weeks where he couldn&#x27;t talk.<p>His wife, who also helped with running his business (small shop, 4 employees), tried to get access to the business bank account in order to pay the bills. Cloud services would expire, services shutdown, they would lose a lot of clients.<p>She couldn&#x27;t pay the bills, because while she was his next of kin, that only works if he dies.<p>So anyway, having procedures for death is one thing, but don&#x27;t forget scenarios like being in a coma for a few weeks, or being kidnapped, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?</title><text>After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death?<p>My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>NamTaf</author><text>No.<p>Things that really matter (banks, etc.) have well-established next-of-kin processes. You can cause problems if you subvert them, as there&#x27;s processes to go through to prove who might have claim to the estate and if necessary divide it between multiple parties. Similarly, subscriptions will just bounce once you inform the banks of the death and they freeze further transactions as part of said process. In my experience, your next of kin don&#x27;t want to be dealing with cancelling a bunch of subscriptions when they&#x27;re already planning your funeral, informing loved ones, etc. - there&#x27;s already heaps of shit you have to consider and it&#x27;s a very stressful, emotional time.<p>Giving over passwords implies that you expect someone to log in and do something with them, so it&#x27;s not really important for them to have it for these reasons.<p>Secondly, I doubt any of my next of kin care about e.g. my Steam library or my Reddit account. As I&#x27;ve gotten older, I&#x27;ve realised that people don&#x27;t really want to inherit the overwhelming majority of your stuff (they have their own stuff). If you think someone really does want something in particular, you can have that conversation with them specifically, but that&#x27;s going to be very few and far between.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmathai</author><text>In case of my death, I want to make it as easy as possible for my wife to carry on. Having access to our accounts (which I mostly manage) so she can do whatever she needs is a lot more important than the well-established processes you mentioned. Those processes would have gone to her anyway.<p>If we both die, then our extended family will have to work through the legal system but our will + a lawyer should help out a lot.<p>Edit: To answer the original question - I documented how my wife could do this before going on a week long motorcycle ride in 2019 :).</text></comment> |
27,875,067 | 27,874,838 | 1 | 2 | 27,874,173 | train | <story><title>How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists</title><url>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-how-nso-s-pegasus-is-used-to-spy-on-journalists-1.10010560</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thr0wwy</author><text>Israel is not in the NATO and it&#x27;s time that we Westerners stop treating it as a Western entity.<p>More than half of the Israeli population are of Mizrahi (Arab) and Sephardi (North African) ancestry. Many of them are post-1948 refugees from other Middle Eastern country.<p>It will be easier to understand Israeli cynicism toward the Arab and Islamic world, which includes selling surveillance software to brutal Arab regimes, if we stop assuming that the country is made of Western Jews.</text></comment> | <story><title>How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists</title><url>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-how-nso-s-pegasus-is-used-to-spy-on-journalists-1.10010560</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1cvmask</author><text>After all the news and fanfare and Snowden revelations (there was also the Church commission in the 1970s) I really wonder if there are any real terrorists that actually use anything digital anymore. It seems governments are only left to spy on their own citizens, politicians, opposition and public advocates.</text></comment> |
15,189,662 | 15,189,682 | 1 | 2 | 15,187,874 | train | <story><title>Facebook recruiting and Unix systems</title><url>http://imgur.com/hw2pnDt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>L_Rahman</author><text>Hi, I think you could have massaged the snark in the sentence that says &quot;Beyond software developers who have programmed in the 1970s, most people do not have experience with a true UNIX OS&quot; but other than that I think you should walk away thinking that your communication was clear, straight-forward and respectful.<p>Here&#x27;s what happened - the recruiter had a list of keywords, received a large volume of inbound resumes and filtered for == &#x27;UNIX&#x27; and dumped everything else.<p>They (and the company they represent) could have done a better job if they&#x27;d taken the information given, created an actual human mental model and filtered accordingly but chose to behave like a computer program instead. Their loss - move on and don&#x27;t feel bad about this.<p>But I want to point out that like the recruiter you too got stuck in the literal filter. You assumed, I&#x27;m guessing correctly, that the hiring team is probably looking for someone with experience working on UNIX-like operating systems.<p>A bit of advice: When you encounter imperfect systems like this in the future a good practice is to ask yourself if you know what the actual desired outcome is, and give the lossy filter the input it needs to get you to the next round.<p>Here it would have been simply updating your resume to list UNIX instead offering an explainer. This would get you through the recruiter filter, and during your actual phone screen with someone on the hiring team, you could discuss your UNIX-like experience if asked. If they did want literal UNIX experience, you could apologize for misinterpreting the requirement and move on. No harm done.</text></item><item><author>aspyrx</author><text>Hey folks, I&#x27;m the student writing the emails in the post here. Thanks to everyone for their criticisms. While I was initially kind of shocked by the recruiter&#x27;s response, I&#x27;ve had a lot of time to think about it today and have realized that I was being pretty damn condescending and spoke out of line without regards to the context. It&#x27;s been a hard lesson learned. I honestly regret the whole exchange, and posting it online was inappropriate as well. I briefly debated deleting the image, but decided to leave it up for sake of posterity and accountability.<p>Also, just to be clear, I do not (and never did) hold any hard feelings towards the recruiter; in fact, it was very kind of them to point out why I was not qualified in the first place. This has been probably the most reflective of how I let my ego get the best of me at times, and I hope it might serve as a warning to those who might be tempted to do the same &quot;devsplaining&quot; in similar situations.<p>Please let me know if you have any other criticisms beyond the ones already voiced in this thread. I&#x27;m reading through the comments here as I can, and it&#x27;s been a lot of good advice. Thanks again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>That&#x27;s the most cringy part - in the second iteration you&#x27;ll note he <i>did</i> list UNIX as a skill, but then the recruiter went on about the lack of Linux experience (which he had just replaced)! Like playing whack-a-mole.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook recruiting and Unix systems</title><url>http://imgur.com/hw2pnDt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>L_Rahman</author><text>Hi, I think you could have massaged the snark in the sentence that says &quot;Beyond software developers who have programmed in the 1970s, most people do not have experience with a true UNIX OS&quot; but other than that I think you should walk away thinking that your communication was clear, straight-forward and respectful.<p>Here&#x27;s what happened - the recruiter had a list of keywords, received a large volume of inbound resumes and filtered for == &#x27;UNIX&#x27; and dumped everything else.<p>They (and the company they represent) could have done a better job if they&#x27;d taken the information given, created an actual human mental model and filtered accordingly but chose to behave like a computer program instead. Their loss - move on and don&#x27;t feel bad about this.<p>But I want to point out that like the recruiter you too got stuck in the literal filter. You assumed, I&#x27;m guessing correctly, that the hiring team is probably looking for someone with experience working on UNIX-like operating systems.<p>A bit of advice: When you encounter imperfect systems like this in the future a good practice is to ask yourself if you know what the actual desired outcome is, and give the lossy filter the input it needs to get you to the next round.<p>Here it would have been simply updating your resume to list UNIX instead offering an explainer. This would get you through the recruiter filter, and during your actual phone screen with someone on the hiring team, you could discuss your UNIX-like experience if asked. If they did want literal UNIX experience, you could apologize for misinterpreting the requirement and move on. No harm done.</text></item><item><author>aspyrx</author><text>Hey folks, I&#x27;m the student writing the emails in the post here. Thanks to everyone for their criticisms. While I was initially kind of shocked by the recruiter&#x27;s response, I&#x27;ve had a lot of time to think about it today and have realized that I was being pretty damn condescending and spoke out of line without regards to the context. It&#x27;s been a hard lesson learned. I honestly regret the whole exchange, and posting it online was inappropriate as well. I briefly debated deleting the image, but decided to leave it up for sake of posterity and accountability.<p>Also, just to be clear, I do not (and never did) hold any hard feelings towards the recruiter; in fact, it was very kind of them to point out why I was not qualified in the first place. This has been probably the most reflective of how I let my ego get the best of me at times, and I hope it might serve as a warning to those who might be tempted to do the same &quot;devsplaining&quot; in similar situations.<p>Please let me know if you have any other criticisms beyond the ones already voiced in this thread. I&#x27;m reading through the comments here as I can, and it&#x27;s been a lot of good advice. Thanks again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfish</author><text>&gt; the recruiter had a list of keywords, received a large volume of inbound resumes and filtered for == &#x27;UNIX&#x27; and dumped everything else<p>To be fair, I wouldn&#x27;t expect this kind of &#x27;recruiting by grep&#x27; to happen at <i>Facebook</i> of all places either.</text></comment> |
16,576,975 | 16,577,123 | 1 | 2 | 16,576,569 | train | <story><title>CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence</title><url>https://qz.com/1227879/who-is-gina-haspel-the-first-woman-nominated-to-run-the-cia-destroyed-evidence-of-us-torture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>Obama authorized 10x the number of drone strikes as Bush that killed over 391+ civilians while he was in office, and he did it on his own volition. Ultimately any president has to make hard life-altering decisions, so lets cut out the left vs. right nonsense.<p>Go ahead, read the article, don&#x27;t let the facts hit you on the way out.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;roomfordebate&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-obamas-presidency&#x2F;obamas-embrace-of-drone-strikes-will-be-a-lasting-legacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;roomfordebate&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-...</a></text></item><item><author>croon</author><text>It&#x27;s impressive that we&#x27;ve fallen so low that we&#x27;re blaming the Obama administration for not fixing what the Bush administration did. I see it as normalization of the concept that you can&#x27;t expect any rational action whatsoever from the GOP anymore.<p>Edit: Reading from comments, I should clarify. I totally agree with OP, I just find it incredibly sad.</text></item><item><author>apo</author><text>The inevitable result of illegal activity going unpunished: normalization.<p>The Obama administration had eight years to do something about this and instead decided turn the other way. All we got was a mealy-mouthed admission that &quot;we tortured some folks.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croon</author><text>If the previous occupant kicks a hornets nest before you move in, that might force your hand in killing a lot more than the handful his foot managed.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree with the fact, I disagree with the comparison.</text></comment> | <story><title>CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence</title><url>https://qz.com/1227879/who-is-gina-haspel-the-first-woman-nominated-to-run-the-cia-destroyed-evidence-of-us-torture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>Obama authorized 10x the number of drone strikes as Bush that killed over 391+ civilians while he was in office, and he did it on his own volition. Ultimately any president has to make hard life-altering decisions, so lets cut out the left vs. right nonsense.<p>Go ahead, read the article, don&#x27;t let the facts hit you on the way out.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;roomfordebate&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-obamas-presidency&#x2F;obamas-embrace-of-drone-strikes-will-be-a-lasting-legacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;roomfordebate&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-...</a></text></item><item><author>croon</author><text>It&#x27;s impressive that we&#x27;ve fallen so low that we&#x27;re blaming the Obama administration for not fixing what the Bush administration did. I see it as normalization of the concept that you can&#x27;t expect any rational action whatsoever from the GOP anymore.<p>Edit: Reading from comments, I should clarify. I totally agree with OP, I just find it incredibly sad.</text></item><item><author>apo</author><text>The inevitable result of illegal activity going unpunished: normalization.<p>The Obama administration had eight years to do something about this and instead decided turn the other way. All we got was a mealy-mouthed admission that &quot;we tortured some folks.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unclebucknasty</author><text>&gt;<i>Obama authorized 10x the number of drone strikes as Bush that killed over 391+ civilians</i><p>Perspective is in order here. &quot;Credible estimates of Iraq War [alone] casualties range from 150,000 to 460,000&quot; [0].<p>Obama inherited two wars (one illicit) and he settled on drone strikes in part to reduce the awful rate of civilian casualties. There is really no equivalence here and to suggest that there is actually introduces the bias that makes it about right vs. left.<p>I applaud your encouragement to focus on facts, but let&#x27;s consider the complete set vs. those that support a particular world view.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tables" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#T...</a></text></comment> |
25,461,467 | 25,457,907 | 1 | 3 | 25,456,778 | train | <story><title>Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles</title><url>https://newatlas.com/medical/biomarker-alzheimers-protein-sleep-cycles-rhythm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woeirua</author><text>You should take these findings with a big grain of salt. Remember we don&#x27;t yet even have a causal model of Alzheimer&#x27;s and dementia. Amyloid plaques are strongly associated with Alzheimer&#x27;s but it&#x27;s not clear if they&#x27;re the actual cause or if they&#x27;re just a residual indicator that something else has already gone wrong in the brain. As a counterpoint to the amyloid hypothesis, we also see amyloid build ups in patients suffering from sleep apnea, and yet they don&#x27;t show the hallmark signs of dementia or Alzheimers [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;200928103416.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;200928103416.h...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles</title><url>https://newatlas.com/medical/biomarker-alzheimers-protein-sleep-cycles-rhythm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bluedevil2k</author><text>I&#x27;m curious if sleep aids, whether it&#x27;s OTC like melatonin or Rx like trazodone and Ambien, can help this situation. Is it just the sleep that&#x27;s beneficial or is it &quot;natural&quot; sleep (that term doesn&#x27;t mean anything, but you get the point of it)? In other words, should people who have difficulty sleeping look to aids as a way of staving off dementia later in life.</text></comment> |
38,280,613 | 38,280,786 | 1 | 3 | 38,277,058 | train | <story><title>Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4309219-google-paid-8-billion-to-make-its-apps-default-on-samsung-phones/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fasthands9</author><text>I still am confused as to whether or not Google would be happier if these types of payments were banned for everyone.<p>It seems like the only reason Google paid 8B, is because another company would have paid 7B otherwise. If Samsung was told &quot;You can&#x27;t let anyone pay you - have to show a screen with four competitors and let the user pick which one they want as default&quot; I assume the vast majority of people would just pick Google?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>httpz</author><text>There are far too many people who doesn&#x27;t even think about the concept of a default app, let alone know how to change the default app. If you showed 4 apps all named &quot;Calendar&quot; with slightly different icons to someone like my dad, he wouldn&#x27;t know what to pick or the fact that Google made one of it and Samsung made the other one. Google probably has data on what percentage of smartphone users are like this and determined that $8B is worth it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4309219-google-paid-8-billion-to-make-its-apps-default-on-samsung-phones/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fasthands9</author><text>I still am confused as to whether or not Google would be happier if these types of payments were banned for everyone.<p>It seems like the only reason Google paid 8B, is because another company would have paid 7B otherwise. If Samsung was told &quot;You can&#x27;t let anyone pay you - have to show a screen with four competitors and let the user pick which one they want as default&quot; I assume the vast majority of people would just pick Google?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgb223</author><text>&gt; If Samsung was told &quot;You can&#x27;t let anyone pay you - have to show a screen with four competitors and let the user pick which one they want as default&quot;<p>What if I’m the 5th messaging app? How do I get a place over the first 4? How does Samsung decide?<p>What if I’m the 20th or 50th? Do I deserve a shot? If not where is the cut off? How do I become a winner and not a loser in this situation as the first N shown will have a huge growth advantage</text></comment> |
10,288,151 | 10,288,075 | 1 | 3 | 10,287,913 | train | <story><title>Against Method</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>I love Paul Feyerabend. I believe that the titel &quot;Against Method&quot; was mainly supposed to be provocative. His main point really is to remind us that Popper&#x27;s view of science is an idealization and that the process of scientific discovery is much more messy in reality. In other words, he is mainly stating facts about the history of science. Very interesting read with great examples. I also highly recommend his book (actually a set of lecture notes) &quot;Science as an Art&quot; in which he dicusses the similarities and the shared history of science and art.</text></comment> | <story><title>Against Method</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raldu</author><text>A detailed discussion of the book at SEP can be found here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;entries&#x2F;feyerabend&#x2F;#2.13" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;entries&#x2F;feyerabend&#x2F;#2.13</a></text></comment> |
20,762,433 | 20,761,979 | 1 | 2 | 20,760,492 | train | <story><title>Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-manufacturers-in-china-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-11566397989?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>This tariff situation is quickly becoming an amazing opportunity for developing countries. The labor shortages being talked about can only be resolved through higher wages, which means that the people at the bottom will get a cut of the new money. In the end the world will be a lot richer and the money will be in the hands of relatively livable countries like Vietnam. (The Vietnamese government is actually pretty good in terms of freedoms.)<p>It&#x27;s also politically preferable for the US to depend on a hundred small countries instead of one big competitor. It may also help cushion the next global recession, as each of these international markets will be less correlated with each other than one company in China is with another company in China.<p>Chinese companies are very tightly integrated with the government&#x27;s balance sheets, meaning that you can&#x27;t diversify within China. If one company goes under that means the subsidies ran out, and that means all the other subsidies are running out, which means the economy is toast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bduerst</author><text>Which would be the case if the tariffs were China-only, but the current presidential administration is enacting tariffs on many other countries, like Mexico, Brazil, and S Korea.<p>Also, the upcoming Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) meeting in November could be used by China to unify most of APAC against the U.S. The U.S. TPP was a blocking move to prevent the RCEP, which in it&#x27;s current form covers half the world&#x27;s economy (India, China, and others).<p>Negotiations for RCEP have been slow but with the U.S. now burning trade bridges with it&#x27;s partners, we&#x27;re probably going to see something interesting happen in November.</text></comment> | <story><title>Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-manufacturers-in-china-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-11566397989?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>This tariff situation is quickly becoming an amazing opportunity for developing countries. The labor shortages being talked about can only be resolved through higher wages, which means that the people at the bottom will get a cut of the new money. In the end the world will be a lot richer and the money will be in the hands of relatively livable countries like Vietnam. (The Vietnamese government is actually pretty good in terms of freedoms.)<p>It&#x27;s also politically preferable for the US to depend on a hundred small countries instead of one big competitor. It may also help cushion the next global recession, as each of these international markets will be less correlated with each other than one company in China is with another company in China.<p>Chinese companies are very tightly integrated with the government&#x27;s balance sheets, meaning that you can&#x27;t diversify within China. If one company goes under that means the subsidies ran out, and that means all the other subsidies are running out, which means the economy is toast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeanderK</author><text>&gt; The Vietnamese government is actually pretty good in terms of freedoms.<p>Wait, what? They recently kidnapped an ex-party member in germany. It was 2017 or so. I can&#x27;t believe that a country which honors you freedom would do something like this.</text></comment> |
18,653,121 | 18,650,886 | 1 | 3 | 18,650,375 | train | <story><title>IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained</title><url>https://achainofblocks.com/2018/10/05/ipfs-interplanetary-file-system-simply-explained/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dymk</author><text>IPFS &quot;solves&quot; the problem of distributing static files - basically, a CDN built on content addressable storage. But if you don&#x27;t have nodes pinning your content, or you&#x27;re going to loose that data.<p>The article bills it as some alternative to HTTP, but it&#x27;s a subset of functionality. You can&#x27;t do dynamic pages with IPFS. There&#x27;s no concept of cookies, so stateful sessions aren&#x27;t a thing.<p>Why do articles insist on comparing IPFS to &quot;the web&quot;, whatever that means? It&#x27;s a distributed filesystem. Not at all representative of most content on &quot;the web&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained</title><url>https://achainofblocks.com/2018/10/05/ipfs-interplanetary-file-system-simply-explained/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdemon</author><text>Previous HN discussion on IPFS whitepaper and protocol
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16430742" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16430742</a><p>Based on the review at
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muratbuffalo.blogspot.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muratbuffalo.blogspot.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;paper-review-ipfs-...</a></text></comment> |
23,495,306 | 23,495,399 | 1 | 2 | 23,491,940 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations</title><url>https://artvee.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmulkey18</author><text>Really nice. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service which print such images as posters at a reasonable price?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevbam</author><text>I have a store that sells vintage propaganda posters primarily, we have expanded into vintage travel and health over the last few years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;propagandaposterstore.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;propagandaposterstore.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations</title><url>https://artvee.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmulkey18</author><text>Really nice. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service which print such images as posters at a reasonable price?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>For prints Costco and Walmart have some crazy low prices and they often advertise them as archival quality as well.</text></comment> |
13,910,461 | 13,910,513 | 1 | 2 | 13,909,520 | train | <story><title>Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2017/3/19/14976110/uber-president-jeff-jones-quits-management-turmoil-ride-hailing-company?utm_campaign=www.recode.net&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loudin</author><text>Serious question - why hasn&#x27;t the Uber board replaced Kalanick yet? While it is indisputable he successfully brought Uber to where it is now, it doesn&#x27;t seem like he has the good judgement to be leading Uber at this stage of the company&#x27;s lifecycle. Wouldn&#x27;t the best thing for the company at this point be a complete overhaul of leadership?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhruvrrp</author><text>Because kalanick and early investor control the class B stocks, which means they control the voting power. Additionally kalanick has been outspoken about running uber himself so its unlikely that he&#x27;ll step down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2017/3/19/14976110/uber-president-jeff-jones-quits-management-turmoil-ride-hailing-company?utm_campaign=www.recode.net&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loudin</author><text>Serious question - why hasn&#x27;t the Uber board replaced Kalanick yet? While it is indisputable he successfully brought Uber to where it is now, it doesn&#x27;t seem like he has the good judgement to be leading Uber at this stage of the company&#x27;s lifecycle. Wouldn&#x27;t the best thing for the company at this point be a complete overhaul of leadership?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>Because the boards act in structural manner, rather than by spur of emotion.<p>The new CEO will most likely get some key performance objectives related to current problems as well as revenue (or margin) growth.<p>If there&#x27;s a reason to believe TK can commit and be evaluated against the same indicators, the incumbent CEO is a better choice since no time is wasted on onboarding and getting familiar with the business. If he refuses to commit or commits and is then unable to execute, now <i>that</i> stipulates a much more productive board discussion on how the current CEO should step away to let a &quot;more mature&quot; or &quot;more tenured&quot; CEO that can execute against those objectives.<p>So if any resignation is imminent, expect it in 3-6 months, not now.</text></comment> |
11,172,165 | 11,170,106 | 1 | 3 | 11,169,215 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Acquires Xamarin</title><url>http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-the-xamarin-team-to-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shanselman</author><text>Nonsense. The last 5 years show it&#x27;s a whole new Microsoft.<p>Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)</text></item><item><author>niels_olson</author><text>or its embrace extend extinguish?</text></item><item><author>Avalaxy</author><text>Yes indeed, right now Xamarin is very very buggy and also pretty slow. I think the software will get MUCH better if the teams at Microsoft will start working on it.</text></item><item><author>solutionyogi</author><text>As someone who works in .NET ecosystem, this is HUGE.<p>I think there is huge synergy [1] to be exploited by combining Xamarin&#x27;s team with language&#x2F;compiler design&#x2F;visual studio team. I think MS is extremely well positioned to be a leading development platform across desktop&#x2F;web&#x2F;mobile in the <i></i>enterprise space<i></i> with this acquisition.<p>[1] Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text>With respect to the progress made by some MS divisions (and the people pushing for it), it seems not all of MS is keeping up. For example, this was on HN today: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11167964" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11167964</a><p>It&#x27;s hard to trust that the currently good sides of MS will be allowed to stay good while other sides of MS are still behaving badly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Acquires Xamarin</title><url>http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-the-xamarin-team-to-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shanselman</author><text>Nonsense. The last 5 years show it&#x27;s a whole new Microsoft.<p>Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)</text></item><item><author>niels_olson</author><text>or its embrace extend extinguish?</text></item><item><author>Avalaxy</author><text>Yes indeed, right now Xamarin is very very buggy and also pretty slow. I think the software will get MUCH better if the teams at Microsoft will start working on it.</text></item><item><author>solutionyogi</author><text>As someone who works in .NET ecosystem, this is HUGE.<p>I think there is huge synergy [1] to be exploited by combining Xamarin&#x27;s team with language&#x2F;compiler design&#x2F;visual studio team. I think MS is extremely well positioned to be a leading development platform across desktop&#x2F;web&#x2F;mobile in the <i></i>enterprise space<i></i> with this acquisition.<p>[1] Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XzetaU8</author><text>&quot;A newsletter entry dated 26 December 2012 states: &quot;MS [Microsoft], working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal&quot; with the issue. &quot;These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;jul&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;jul&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft-nsa-c...</a><p>Noticed how this date is withing those 5 year of &quot;It&#x27;s a whole new Microsoft&quot; mantra you guys chanting over and over?</text></comment> |
35,542,734 | 35,538,040 | 1 | 3 | 35,531,989 | train | <story><title>Deck.of.cards</title><url>https://deck.of.cards/old/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkstn</author><text>Wow, thanks for sharing my Deck.of.Cards project! Just to let you guys know, this one is the old version. Newer version is in the root <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deck.of.cards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deck.of.cards</a><p>Old one has nicer animation treats, but the new one has multiplayer as well :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BaRRaKID</author><text>Bit of a nitpicking but the &quot;sort&quot; order is wrong.
New decks come ordered Ace of Spades - King of Spades, Ace of Diamonds - King of Diamonds, King of Clubs - Ace of Clubs, King of Hearts - Ace of Hearts. The deck should start and end with Aces, and have two kings next to each other in the middle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deck.of.cards</title><url>https://deck.of.cards/old/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkstn</author><text>Wow, thanks for sharing my Deck.of.Cards project! Just to let you guys know, this one is the old version. Newer version is in the root <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deck.of.cards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deck.of.cards</a><p>Old one has nicer animation treats, but the new one has multiplayer as well :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graderjs</author><text>I love the table color and look of the cards here. Also the animations are really cool! I sort of get the feeling this would be a great side-quest in an isometric RPG &#x2F; world explorer!<p>Without looking at the code...can I ask you a question? Is the &quot;randomness&quot; &quot;real like a real deck&quot; -- as in, &quot;after shuffle the cards have a certain definite order, which then is unchanged as you select from the deck?&quot; or is the randomness more like a &quot;computerized version&quot;, as in, &quot;shuffle is just for show, selecting from the deck just randomly picks 1 out of the set of remaining cards and subtracts that card, in other words-- these is no persistent order?&quot;</text></comment> |
11,202,983 | 11,202,492 | 1 | 3 | 11,202,376 | train | <story><title>CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA</title><url>https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pimterry</author><text>Side-channel attacks like this are always a little hard to follow, and there&#x27;s a lot of detail in here, so here&#x27;s my best synopsis of the technical details behind why this works:<p>In many modern Intel CPUs (all Sandy Bridge, maybe Nehalem and Core 2 too, not Haswell) you can get cache bank conflicts, where two instructions try to read the same bank (cross-cutting segment) of the CPU cache in quick succession. When that happens one of the instructions has to wait for the other to complete, so takes fractionally longer.<p>If you trigger a whole bunch of these cache bank conflicts yourself, while OpenSSL is working, you&#x27;ll get tiny delays in your reads from parts of the cache that OpenSSL is using. If you do this an enormous number of times, you can then look at the accumulated average delays in your requests, and work out how OpenSSL&#x27;s memory accesses are distributed over these banks.<p>Depending on the value of one part of the secret that OpenSSL is using to sign or decrypt data (specifically, the multipliers used in the multiplication steps in RSA), its access pattern for the cache is actually slightly biased. This is the bug. Once you know which banks are most active, you know the overall access pattern, and you can use this to drastically reduce the number of possibilities for each multiplier. That gives you enough information about the value of the key that with some subsequent offline processing you can recover the rest (apparently doable in about 3 minutes on a high-end CPU).<p>The fix is to ensure that the patterns of cache access that OpenSSL makes are totally independent of the secret data being used. The latest patch effectively does this, fixing the bug. You can still use cache bank conflicts to work out which bits of the cache OpenSSL is hitting, but that&#x27;s no longer useful information.<p>(I think this is broadly right; I&#x27;d love to know if there&#x27;s details I&#x27;m missing though!)</text></comment> | <story><title>CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA</title><url>https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EwanG</author><text>Overview direct from the article - &quot;CacheBleed is a side-channel attack that exploits information leaks through cache-bank conflicts in Intel processors. By detecting cache-bank conflicts via minute timing variations, we are able to recover information about victim processes running on the same machine. Our attack is able to recover both 2048-bit and 4096-bit RSA secret keys from OpenSSL 1.0.2f running on Intel Sandy Bridge processors after observing only 16,000 secret-key operations (decryption, signatures). This is despite the fact that OpenSSL&#x27;s RSA implementation was carefully designed to be constant time in order to protect against cache-based (and other) side-channel attacks.<p>While the possibility of an attack based on cache-bank conflicts has long been speculated, this is the first practical demonstration of such an attack.&quot;</text></comment> |
7,585,160 | 7,585,189 | 1 | 2 | 7,584,900 | train | <story><title>Earth to Mozilla: Come back home</title><url>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/04/12/earth-to-mozilla-come-back-to-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbiggar</author><text>&gt; No matter how well-intentioned the folks at Mozilla Foundation&#x2F;Corporation might be, it&#x27;s difficult for human beings to avoid getting side-tracked when their wallet are running thin and there&#x27;s easy money up for grabs out there.<p>As a former Mozillian, I can&#x27;t begin to describe how inaccurate this is. Discussion of money, or revenue, were relatively rare compared to the things that Mozillians actually care about. Here&#x27;s a list of things that were discussed about 100x more than advertising revenue:<p>- building the mozilla community
- open source
- rust and servo
- where to go for lunch
- javascript performance
- keeping the web open
- making firefox builds fast
- firefox memory usage
- proprietary codecs vs vp8</text></item><item><author>kijin</author><text>It is indeed disturbing that Mozilla&#x27;s finances depend so much on advertising. No matter how well-intentioned the folks at Mozilla Foundation&#x2F;Corporation might be, it&#x27;s difficult for human beings to avoid getting side-tracked when their wallet are running thin and there&#x27;s easy money up for grabs out there.<p>But I don&#x27;t think the author&#x27;s suggestions are compatible what what we (or at least, I) want Firefox to be, either.<p>1. Spinning off a variant named PrivateFox just sends the message that the regular Firefox will no longer respect your privacy. It will also make regular, free, not-private Firefox users second-class citizens of the Internet. People deserve to have their privacy protected, regardless of whether they can pay or not. In fact, people who can&#x27;t pay (minors, the poor, citizens of oppressive third-world regimes, etc.) are often in need of the most protection. Moreover, even if you can afford PrivateFox, the payment creates a paper trail that might negate the benefit of using PrivateFox.<p>2. Crowdsourcing sounds cool, but only if everyone benefits. There&#x27;s no point in creating &quot;The World’s First Fully Private Browser&quot; and keeping it proprietary. If there exists technology to improve everyone&#x27;s privacy, it should be included in every copy of Firefox by default.<p>3. Intentcasting is an interesting concept, but in the context of a web browser it sounds like just another &quot;Ubuntu sends my searches to Amazon&quot; debacle waiting to happen. If I want good privacy, I probably don&#x27;t want to tell faceless multinational corporations what I want to buy, either.<p>Unfortunately, the only alternative that I can think of is a variant of Wikimedia Foundation&#x27;s annual donation drive. As a long-time Firefox fan, I would certainly donate as much as I can. (Is there someone at Mozilla who can give creepy stares in a banner ad as well as Jimmy Wales does?) But again there&#x27;s a problem: Mozilla&#x27;s budget is several times the size of Wikimedia&#x27;s (300MM vs. 80MM), and I&#x27;m not sure that the moral value of Firefox, although significant, exceeds that of Wikipedia. Mozilla needs to be seriously trimmed down if they&#x27;re ever going to be supported by donations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>The lack of interest in pushing Persona forward has made me wildly change my stance on Mozilla. Third party authentication is an important building block of the web which is currently dominated and virtually owned by Google and Facebook.<p>Persona does everything right, yet it is not being pushed forward anymore; I have my doubt as to whether it ever was. In &quot;keeping the web open&quot;, it is such a low hanging fruit I simply don&#x27;t understand the complete disinterest behind Persona - is Mozilla just waiting to see if a protocol with a cuter name comes along?</text></comment> | <story><title>Earth to Mozilla: Come back home</title><url>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/04/12/earth-to-mozilla-come-back-to-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbiggar</author><text>&gt; No matter how well-intentioned the folks at Mozilla Foundation&#x2F;Corporation might be, it&#x27;s difficult for human beings to avoid getting side-tracked when their wallet are running thin and there&#x27;s easy money up for grabs out there.<p>As a former Mozillian, I can&#x27;t begin to describe how inaccurate this is. Discussion of money, or revenue, were relatively rare compared to the things that Mozillians actually care about. Here&#x27;s a list of things that were discussed about 100x more than advertising revenue:<p>- building the mozilla community
- open source
- rust and servo
- where to go for lunch
- javascript performance
- keeping the web open
- making firefox builds fast
- firefox memory usage
- proprietary codecs vs vp8</text></item><item><author>kijin</author><text>It is indeed disturbing that Mozilla&#x27;s finances depend so much on advertising. No matter how well-intentioned the folks at Mozilla Foundation&#x2F;Corporation might be, it&#x27;s difficult for human beings to avoid getting side-tracked when their wallet are running thin and there&#x27;s easy money up for grabs out there.<p>But I don&#x27;t think the author&#x27;s suggestions are compatible what what we (or at least, I) want Firefox to be, either.<p>1. Spinning off a variant named PrivateFox just sends the message that the regular Firefox will no longer respect your privacy. It will also make regular, free, not-private Firefox users second-class citizens of the Internet. People deserve to have their privacy protected, regardless of whether they can pay or not. In fact, people who can&#x27;t pay (minors, the poor, citizens of oppressive third-world regimes, etc.) are often in need of the most protection. Moreover, even if you can afford PrivateFox, the payment creates a paper trail that might negate the benefit of using PrivateFox.<p>2. Crowdsourcing sounds cool, but only if everyone benefits. There&#x27;s no point in creating &quot;The World’s First Fully Private Browser&quot; and keeping it proprietary. If there exists technology to improve everyone&#x27;s privacy, it should be included in every copy of Firefox by default.<p>3. Intentcasting is an interesting concept, but in the context of a web browser it sounds like just another &quot;Ubuntu sends my searches to Amazon&quot; debacle waiting to happen. If I want good privacy, I probably don&#x27;t want to tell faceless multinational corporations what I want to buy, either.<p>Unfortunately, the only alternative that I can think of is a variant of Wikimedia Foundation&#x27;s annual donation drive. As a long-time Firefox fan, I would certainly donate as much as I can. (Is there someone at Mozilla who can give creepy stares in a banner ad as well as Jimmy Wales does?) But again there&#x27;s a problem: Mozilla&#x27;s budget is several times the size of Wikimedia&#x27;s (300MM vs. 80MM), and I&#x27;m not sure that the moral value of Firefox, although significant, exceeds that of Wikipedia. Mozilla needs to be seriously trimmed down if they&#x27;re ever going to be supported by donations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sentenza</author><text>Thank you for thinking about and alleviating the memory usage problems. Firefox has seriously improved in this regard and now runs decently even with pathological numbers of open tabs (Yeah, I know.).</text></comment> |
7,225,931 | 7,225,011 | 1 | 3 | 7,222,666 | train | <story><title>How to Burn Out Programming</title><url>http://blog.braegger.pw/5-ways-to-burn-out-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Where&#x27;s &quot;Don&#x27;t exercise?&quot;<p>That&#x27;d be pretty close to the top of my list.<p>A quick 2-3 mile jog around the neighborhood can help get me out of work-related funks. (I work at a home office, though, so it&#x27;s easier for me to say &quot;fuck it&quot; and go do something sweaty in the middle of the day...)<p>My theory is that, since the only real item on your jogging to-do list is to put one foot in front of the other, your brain is freed up a bit to wander. Which is helped by the light stimulus of the changing environment around you. And this brain wandering helps shake out cobwebs and generally make you feel like a free individual again.<p>And, of course, it gives you an energy boost, which helps with the simple exhaustion side of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christiangenco</author><text>Exercise, I&#x27;ve found, is probably the single most important aspect of maintaining &quot;happiness.&quot;<p>The problem is I can&#x27;t consistently muster the willpower to block out an hour long chunk of time to go running or workout at gym. I found a lovely compromise, though:<p>###
The Seven Minute Workout [1][2]
###<p>It removes literally every excuse my brain can come up with not to work out. Too cold outside? Doesn&#x27;t matter, you&#x27;re not going anywhere. Not enough time? The time you&#x27;ll spend coming up with excuses is probably longer than 7 minutes. That&#x27;s like two songs on the songza workout playlist. Don&#x27;t feel like changing? Doesn&#x27;t matter - you can do it in the clothes you&#x27;re in. Can&#x27;t find the equipment you need? All you need is a chair, a wall, and a 7x3 clear space of floor.<p>I figure it&#x27;s much better to do this every day [3] than to go on a workout binge where I work out 2 hours at the gym on Monday, take Tuesday off, dread going there for 1.5 hours on Wednesday, take Thursday off, take Friday off because I&#x27;m still sore from Wednesday, take the weekend off because it&#x27;s the weekend, and then forget about working out again.<p>1. <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;well.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-scientific-7-mi...</a><p>2. <a href="http://www.7-min.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.7-min.com&#x2F;</a><p>3. <a href="http://dontbreakthechain.com/share/christiangenco/last-four/96970" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dontbreakthechain.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;christiangenco&#x2F;last-four&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Burn Out Programming</title><url>http://blog.braegger.pw/5-ways-to-burn-out-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Where&#x27;s &quot;Don&#x27;t exercise?&quot;<p>That&#x27;d be pretty close to the top of my list.<p>A quick 2-3 mile jog around the neighborhood can help get me out of work-related funks. (I work at a home office, though, so it&#x27;s easier for me to say &quot;fuck it&quot; and go do something sweaty in the middle of the day...)<p>My theory is that, since the only real item on your jogging to-do list is to put one foot in front of the other, your brain is freed up a bit to wander. Which is helped by the light stimulus of the changing environment around you. And this brain wandering helps shake out cobwebs and generally make you feel like a free individual again.<p>And, of course, it gives you an energy boost, which helps with the simple exhaustion side of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wambotron</author><text>Maybe he didn&#x27;t list it because he was, in fact, exercising? It&#x27;s possible to burn out and exercise, but for some reason every other comment on HN drudges up exercise with a routine to &quot;help&quot; everyone else.<p>This goes back to the post that said something about only giving advice when it&#x27;s asked for.<p>I&#x27;ve burnt out before while exercising pretty heavily. The reasons he listed, after a while, can completely ruin anything your exercise does. Especially when you&#x27;re &quot;Free to wander&quot; and just keep thinking about how bad the job sucks.</text></comment> |
38,686,205 | 38,683,762 | 1 | 3 | 38,681,672 | train | <story><title>Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vshymanskyy</author><text>OP here, ready to answer questions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verandaguy</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any involvement with wasm projects, but I hope you and your friends and family can stay safe. Слава Україні, і до біса з окупантами.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vshymanskyy</author><text>OP here, ready to answer questions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>post-it</author><text>Are you safe?</text></comment> |
28,694,132 | 28,694,126 | 1 | 2 | 28,692,907 | train | <story><title>iPhone remains findable after power off</title><url>https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1442870352799879174</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todd3834</author><text>This article has me wondering if I’ve ever turned my phone off besides restarting it or the battery died. I’m sure I have but I bet it is very uncommon.<p>That being said, if it were off and lost, this feature would be amazing. Apple is very transparent about it and also allows you to disable it as far as I remember.<p>The OP has a follow up tweet that iOS 15 made their phone hot during charging. Kind of feels like they might just not be having a good time with their new iPhone or is trying a little too hard to capture some Apple outrage attention. There are better things in the ecosystem to complain about in my opinion but to each their own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>There is an obvious trend on HN turning against Apple since the image hash stuff. Search &#x27;Apple&#x27; in the last month and you&#x27;ll see stories about Apple screwing over blind people, copying other people&#x27;s ideas, screwing over employees, removing apps from the app store, disabling FaceID if you try to change the screen etc.<p>From my POV (a non-Apple user) they have not changed, they have always been pretty anti-consumer. But even I can see that most of these stories have a clear agenda and are exaggerated to capture the current anti-Apple outrage sentiment. That kind of discussion doesn&#x27;t do anyone any favours.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone remains findable after power off</title><url>https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1442870352799879174</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todd3834</author><text>This article has me wondering if I’ve ever turned my phone off besides restarting it or the battery died. I’m sure I have but I bet it is very uncommon.<p>That being said, if it were off and lost, this feature would be amazing. Apple is very transparent about it and also allows you to disable it as far as I remember.<p>The OP has a follow up tweet that iOS 15 made their phone hot during charging. Kind of feels like they might just not be having a good time with their new iPhone or is trying a little too hard to capture some Apple outrage attention. There are better things in the ecosystem to complain about in my opinion but to each their own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaywalk</author><text>&gt; trying a little too hard to capture some Apple outrage attention.<p>Exactly the vibe I got.</text></comment> |
19,881,635 | 19,879,952 | 1 | 3 | 19,879,100 | train | <story><title>How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)</title><url>https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/younger-older-tech-entrepreneurs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17405997" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17405997</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)</title><url>https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/younger-older-tech-entrepreneurs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>This article does not surprise me. Survivorship bias feeds the narrative that all breakaway successful companies are founded by 19-year-olds from Harvard - and it&#x27;s true that many have been. But the truth is young people found a lot of horrible companies and a great deal of capital goes down the toilet in the process.<p>My own startup experience over 20 years has taught me that there is a great deal of life and business wisdom to be gained between age 20 and 40. I&#x27;m less likely to make a wild-ass bet - one that is highly likely to fail, but might just succeed wildly - and more likely to make a very calculated bet that has a higher likelihood of pretty decent success. And because I&#x27;m already &quot;old&quot;, the clock is ticking, so I&#x27;m going to be more serious about getting results.<p>When I was young, I didn&#x27;t care whether my business succeeded, because I had all the time in the world. Now, it matters.</text></comment> |
15,536,656 | 15,535,205 | 1 | 2 | 15,534,471 | train | <story><title>Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/20/san-jose-san-francisco-oakland-job-losses-hammer-bay-area-employers-slash-thousands-of-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latencyloser</author><text>Seattle is quickly becoming &#x27;bay area&#x27;-ish from what I can tell. Housing is certainly becoming difficult at incredible rates. Here in Bellevue, a colleague of mine bought a house for ~400k, it&#x27;s now worth well over ~500k only a year later. Many houses in that area also sell for at least 700k+ assuming you can even get an offer in before a cash buyer grabs it. Don&#x27;t even get me started on the traffic. I run as many of my errands before 8am as possible.<p>I personally know I will never be able to afford housing close to work based on how things are now. Currently I&#x27;m just saving my pennies and hoping I can move to another job with a lower cost of living somewhere else in a few years.<p>Edit: For reference, I am just a just above &#x27;entry level&#x27; engineer at Microsoft. I&#x27;m paid well, but not well enough for the housing around here.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; where will they go<p>Other tech hubs. Portland, Seattle - even little Bend has plenty of people from California who are attracted by the (for them) low housing prices. They, in turn, put pressure on housing prices for &#x27;ordinary&#x27; people here.<p>California&#x27;s housing crisis has repercussions all up and down the west coast.</text></item><item><author>robbrit</author><text>A fourth category: people who have lived here for a long time, and were able to buy property back before it became unaffordable. These are typically the managers or senior employees.<p>It makes me wonder that as the young rockstars and H1B recipients age, where will they go? They certainly can&#x27;t afford to buy a house. I imagine as time goes on, companies in the Bay Area will be awash with young junior talent but will struggle to attract more senior folks.</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Most of the bay area employees are divided into 3 categories from anecdotal experience: young rockstars that are willing to live in relative squalor for a chance to prove themselves,
vested and moneyed elites (CEO&#x27;s, presidents, VC funded overlords) who are so out of touch with the average employee its best they not show up to the office that frequently,
and H1B visa recipients that endure the soul-crushing San Jose or beyond commute every day because their job represents something more than just the sum of their skills, its a ticket to citizenship and a better life for their family.<p>Ive turned down more bay jobs than I can count because at some age you begin to accept the fact that SFBay isnt that great. Rising levels of increasingly aggressive homeless, the inability to afford any housing, and the price of food and public transportation in general are just a few factors that led me to say no.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RickS</author><text>&gt; I personally know I will never be able to afford housing close to work based on how things are now. Currently I&#x27;m just saving my pennies and hoping I can move to another job with a lower cost of living somewhere else in a few years.<p>This is exactly my situation as well. The neighbor to my left bought his house 3 years ago for 320. The neighbor to my right just bought an equivalent house for 570. No can do.<p>Unlike SF, however, the balance here does seem &quot;worth it&quot;. I looked at the job market were I to return to Virginia right now, and while the land is cheap and plentiful, it took some digging to even find a posted role that felt promising. Tech hub job markets are no joke.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/20/san-jose-san-francisco-oakland-job-losses-hammer-bay-area-employers-slash-thousands-of-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latencyloser</author><text>Seattle is quickly becoming &#x27;bay area&#x27;-ish from what I can tell. Housing is certainly becoming difficult at incredible rates. Here in Bellevue, a colleague of mine bought a house for ~400k, it&#x27;s now worth well over ~500k only a year later. Many houses in that area also sell for at least 700k+ assuming you can even get an offer in before a cash buyer grabs it. Don&#x27;t even get me started on the traffic. I run as many of my errands before 8am as possible.<p>I personally know I will never be able to afford housing close to work based on how things are now. Currently I&#x27;m just saving my pennies and hoping I can move to another job with a lower cost of living somewhere else in a few years.<p>Edit: For reference, I am just a just above &#x27;entry level&#x27; engineer at Microsoft. I&#x27;m paid well, but not well enough for the housing around here.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; where will they go<p>Other tech hubs. Portland, Seattle - even little Bend has plenty of people from California who are attracted by the (for them) low housing prices. They, in turn, put pressure on housing prices for &#x27;ordinary&#x27; people here.<p>California&#x27;s housing crisis has repercussions all up and down the west coast.</text></item><item><author>robbrit</author><text>A fourth category: people who have lived here for a long time, and were able to buy property back before it became unaffordable. These are typically the managers or senior employees.<p>It makes me wonder that as the young rockstars and H1B recipients age, where will they go? They certainly can&#x27;t afford to buy a house. I imagine as time goes on, companies in the Bay Area will be awash with young junior talent but will struggle to attract more senior folks.</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Most of the bay area employees are divided into 3 categories from anecdotal experience: young rockstars that are willing to live in relative squalor for a chance to prove themselves,
vested and moneyed elites (CEO&#x27;s, presidents, VC funded overlords) who are so out of touch with the average employee its best they not show up to the office that frequently,
and H1B visa recipients that endure the soul-crushing San Jose or beyond commute every day because their job represents something more than just the sum of their skills, its a ticket to citizenship and a better life for their family.<p>Ive turned down more bay jobs than I can count because at some age you begin to accept the fact that SFBay isnt that great. Rising levels of increasingly aggressive homeless, the inability to afford any housing, and the price of food and public transportation in general are just a few factors that led me to say no.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>Same in Portland. A house down the street was purchased for 180k 2 years ago and recently sold for 520k. And that isn&#x27;t some outlier. It seems all anyone wants to talk about is how quickly home prices have inflated.</text></comment> |
26,398,503 | 26,398,036 | 1 | 3 | 26,396,798 | train | <story><title>Debian Running on Rust Coreutils</title><url>https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burntsushi</author><text>Yes, this is correct in some sense. I didn&#x27;t set out to create an &quot;incompatible grep.&quot; I set out to build a &quot;better&quot; grep, where &quot;better&quot; could include things like being incompatible.<p>Of course, ripgrep is still ultimately a lot more similar to grep than it is different. Where possible, I used the same flag names and prescribed similar behavior---if it made sense. Because it&#x27;s good to lean on existing experiences. It makes it easier for folks to migrate.<p>So it&#x27;s often a balancing act. But yes, POSIX compatibility is certainly a non-goal of ripgrep.</text></item><item><author>steerablesafe</author><text>It&#x27;s not the point of ripgrep. If ripgrep were only marginally better at common grepping tasks then it could hardly justify not being compatible. It aims to be much better though, so it can justify it well. But not being compatible is not the point or the goal of the project, I believe.</text></item><item><author>adrianN</author><text>Not being compatible is often the point of tools like ripgrep.</text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>The GNU coreutils are the lowest common denominator of most GNU systems, and thus a lot of software targets them including the GNU extensions.<p>Replacements like rg or fd are often not even compatible to the unix originals let alone the GNU extensions. Yes, some of the GNU tools are badly in need of UI improvements, but you&#x27;d have to abandon compatibility with a great deal of scripts.<p>I think both a coreutils rewrite as well as some end user facing software like rg has its place on modern unix systems. I&#x27;m a very happy user of rg! But I&#x27;d like some more respect for tradition by some of those tools. For example, &quot;fd&quot; in a unix setting refers to file descriptors. They should rename IMO.</text></item><item><author>mprovost</author><text>There&#x27;s a great opportunity to not just reimplement the GNU coreutils but to actually rethink them. The way I install a Linux system these days and then immediately download ripgrep or fd reminds me of how the first thing I used to do on a Solaris system was install bash and the GNU coreutils. There&#x27;s a rich history of doing this - BSD Unix started as a bunch of utilities and patches to the AT&amp;T version, it only became a freestanding distro with its own kernel later on. And the GNU coreutils go way back before the Linux kernel - you just installed them on a commercial Unix to make it more usable. In both cases they went beyond just drop-in replacements and started adding lots of new features and flags. Things have been pretty static for a long time so it&#x27;s good to see some innovations coming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>That said, thanks for making ripgrep so good. I use it 100s of times every day for 3-4 years now... (and iirc, it&#x27;s the default engine in VS Code as well).</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian Running on Rust Coreutils</title><url>https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burntsushi</author><text>Yes, this is correct in some sense. I didn&#x27;t set out to create an &quot;incompatible grep.&quot; I set out to build a &quot;better&quot; grep, where &quot;better&quot; could include things like being incompatible.<p>Of course, ripgrep is still ultimately a lot more similar to grep than it is different. Where possible, I used the same flag names and prescribed similar behavior---if it made sense. Because it&#x27;s good to lean on existing experiences. It makes it easier for folks to migrate.<p>So it&#x27;s often a balancing act. But yes, POSIX compatibility is certainly a non-goal of ripgrep.</text></item><item><author>steerablesafe</author><text>It&#x27;s not the point of ripgrep. If ripgrep were only marginally better at common grepping tasks then it could hardly justify not being compatible. It aims to be much better though, so it can justify it well. But not being compatible is not the point or the goal of the project, I believe.</text></item><item><author>adrianN</author><text>Not being compatible is often the point of tools like ripgrep.</text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>The GNU coreutils are the lowest common denominator of most GNU systems, and thus a lot of software targets them including the GNU extensions.<p>Replacements like rg or fd are often not even compatible to the unix originals let alone the GNU extensions. Yes, some of the GNU tools are badly in need of UI improvements, but you&#x27;d have to abandon compatibility with a great deal of scripts.<p>I think both a coreutils rewrite as well as some end user facing software like rg has its place on modern unix systems. I&#x27;m a very happy user of rg! But I&#x27;d like some more respect for tradition by some of those tools. For example, &quot;fd&quot; in a unix setting refers to file descriptors. They should rename IMO.</text></item><item><author>mprovost</author><text>There&#x27;s a great opportunity to not just reimplement the GNU coreutils but to actually rethink them. The way I install a Linux system these days and then immediately download ripgrep or fd reminds me of how the first thing I used to do on a Solaris system was install bash and the GNU coreutils. There&#x27;s a rich history of doing this - BSD Unix started as a bunch of utilities and patches to the AT&amp;T version, it only became a freestanding distro with its own kernel later on. And the GNU coreutils go way back before the Linux kernel - you just installed them on a commercial Unix to make it more usable. In both cases they went beyond just drop-in replacements and started adding lots of new features and flags. Things have been pretty static for a long time so it&#x27;s good to see some innovations coming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jftuga</author><text>I would love it if --crlf was enabled by default with the Windows version. This would make using ^ and $ easier.</text></comment> |
5,217,438 | 5,217,153 | 1 | 2 | 5,216,992 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices</title><url>https://www.semantics3.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coderdude</author><text>Here are two real problems you can tackle for online retailers:<p>Retailers can often get product data directly from the manufacturer. This is true 100% of the time when the retailer is drop-shipping. The problem isn't really obtaining this data but the canned data you get is pretty worthless. Thousands of online retailers were hit hard by the Panda update (some time ago) because they all used the exact same descriptions provided by the manufacturers. So a lot of time was spent on custom descriptions and "romance copy." If you can find a way to offer unique product descriptions or at the very least somewhat unique then you could save these companies money.<p>Another problem online retailers face is categorization. Not on their own sites but with mapping their items to the various taxonomies employed by Amazon, Buy.com, Shop.com, PriceGrabber, and so on forever and ever. Find a way to provide the mappings to each of these company's taxonomies and people will pay you. The alternative is doing it all by hand, using a script to cover most of the ground and doing the rest by hand, or by outsourcing it. If I had a service at my finger tips that could have done all that for me when I needed it, I'd have happily recommended it to the boss.<p>You should charge for these services, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices</title><url>https://www.semantics3.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>g_h</author><text>Having historical pricing data seems particularly interesting. I've thought about building a fashion site that predicts pricing trends so you can predict when to buy items on sale, and it seems like this could serve as the pricing infrastructure.<p>I wonder how I can tell what product sources are available, and whether new ones appear? I.e. is this only going to cover amazon.com, or does it know about nordstrom.com too?</text></comment> |
38,061,561 | 38,061,735 | 1 | 2 | 38,060,912 | train | <story><title>Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking</title><url>https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much.&quot;</i><p>This. That&#x27;s a good way to put it. I&#x27;ve mentioned Fred Hoyle&#x27;s line on that, &quot;Science is prediction, not explanation&quot; (which is from one of Hoyle&#x27;s novels), but Sagan&#x27;s line is better.<p>Key point: unfalsifiable theories do not lead to useful technology. Engineering requires predictability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking</title><url>https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>This article has good advice for logical thinking, but just one nit pick:<p>&gt; having just lost both of his parents, he reflects on the all too human allure of promises of supernatural reunions in the afterlife, reminding us that falling for such fictions doesn’t make us stupid or bad people, but simply means that we need to equip ourselves with the right tools against them.<p>I feel like grouping all religion in with psychics and con artists is a bit extreme. Sure, it&#x27;s impossible by contradiction for all tenets of all religions to be simultaneously true.<p>But... there were, are, and will yet be many intelligent people of different religions that, for various empirically-unprovable reasons, feel there is a God - even if they know at an intellectual level that their current church or belief system isn&#x27;t <i>entirely</i> consistent or correct.<p>It&#x27;s important to respect their religious liberty even if you disagree. Many people (including on this very forum) have had spiritual experiences that seem to confirm the existence of a God at a visceral level. It&#x27;s hard to explain unless you&#x27;ve had a spiritual experience, but they can include moments of emotional connection to deceased loved ones, &quot;gut feelings&quot; that helped you do something important or avoid something bad, or unexpected and unusual ideas or thoughts (in my case, sometimes even programming related) that aid in overcoming life&#x27;s obstacles, just to name a few.</text></comment> |
9,403,033 | 9,402,881 | 1 | 3 | 9,402,744 | train | <story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordlarm</author><text>Although this perhaps makes sense from a technical, maintenance and cost perspective it&#x27;s, contrary to the NRK owned radio.no&#x27;s opinion, an absolute horrible deal for a large part of the users.<p>«55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup», which leaves 45% not currently having access to a DAB radio. Many of the having _one_ radio has this in their home and perhaps not in their most important place: the car.<p>In order to elegantly implement a DAB radio in your car you need to attach a dongle to your window and run cables into a (sometimes) new radio altogether. Whilst this may be a simple procedure for _some_ it&#x27;s for the vast majority a huge burden - both in terms of time and money (often costing around 3000NOK - 380USD).<p>It&#x27;s well and fine that they started the implementation of DAB in Norway in the mid-90s, but it&#x27;s just in recent times that we&#x27;ve seen cars come with DAB reception by default. They should at least wait until 80-90% of all cars have access to DAB before switching over - which could take I&#x27;m guessing up to 10 years.<p>This is like only supporting Chrome on important governmental sites - which would rightly cause an uproar on HN. Radio should be about accessibility and content, not the medium - which should change naturally and over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodmachine</author><text>Bad luck, Norway.<p>The UK is in a roughly similar position, but our govt is unlikely to switch off FM until 2020-ish at the earliest (was 2015, then 2018... now &quot;whenevs&quot;).<p>It&#x27;s sad to consider how governments foisted DAB on listeners exclusively for the benefit of state broadcasters - the list of fails is extensive here: DAB gives you demonstrably worse reception, poorer sound quality, more expensive hardware, added costs to replace old hardware, added costs to run (4x power consumption), etc.<p>The magic carrot of &#x27;more channels&#x2F; more choice&#x27; thing never happened either: thus, a bum deal all round.<p>I would guess the upside for broadcasters (cheaper infrastructure, more listeners) may have been significantly overstated too.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;digital-radio-sales-dab" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;digital-radio-s...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;dec&#x2F;16&#x2F;digital-radio-switchover-2020-ed-vaizey" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;dec&#x2F;16&#x2F;digital-radio-s...</a><p>24 problems with DAB (2010)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2010&#x2F;apr&#x2F;12&#x2F;dab-radio-problems" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2010&#x2F;apr&#x2F;12&#x2F;dab-r...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordlarm</author><text>Although this perhaps makes sense from a technical, maintenance and cost perspective it&#x27;s, contrary to the NRK owned radio.no&#x27;s opinion, an absolute horrible deal for a large part of the users.<p>«55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup», which leaves 45% not currently having access to a DAB radio. Many of the having _one_ radio has this in their home and perhaps not in their most important place: the car.<p>In order to elegantly implement a DAB radio in your car you need to attach a dongle to your window and run cables into a (sometimes) new radio altogether. Whilst this may be a simple procedure for _some_ it&#x27;s for the vast majority a huge burden - both in terms of time and money (often costing around 3000NOK - 380USD).<p>It&#x27;s well and fine that they started the implementation of DAB in Norway in the mid-90s, but it&#x27;s just in recent times that we&#x27;ve seen cars come with DAB reception by default. They should at least wait until 80-90% of all cars have access to DAB before switching over - which could take I&#x27;m guessing up to 10 years.<p>This is like only supporting Chrome on important governmental sites - which would rightly cause an uproar on HN. Radio should be about accessibility and content, not the medium - which should change naturally and over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acjohnson55</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s kind of surprising that they didn&#x27;t mandate inclusion of DAB-capable radios in cars years earlier. Had they done that, it seems like the consumers would be much more prepared for a hard switch. This sounds like it&#x27;s going to be pretty disruptive.<p>Also, why do the radios require a dongle?</text></comment> |
9,208,631 | 9,208,558 | 1 | 2 | 9,208,321 | train | <story><title>End-to-End Encryption Plugin for Yahoo Mail</title><url>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>Little known fact: Google&#x27;s End-to-end encryption extension already works on <i>any</i> site. It is not limited to Gmail. In fact it&#x27;s not limited to webmail either. If a PGP blob is present in a web page, End-to-end can decrypt it. If a text input area is present in a web page, End-to-end can encrypt it.</text></comment> | <story><title>End-to-End Encryption Plugin for Yahoo Mail</title><url>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zobzu</author><text>Rather to compare E2E with Mac GpgTools, I&#x27;d try to compare it with <a href="https://www.mailvelope.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailvelope.com&#x2F;</a> which is a much better comparison since both are addons for browsers.<p>Mailvelope works both on Firefox and Chrome (ironically, the Yahoo plugin seems to only have Chrome support at the moment) and is actually even nicer to use (read: seamless) than E2E IMO.</text></comment> |
23,457,106 | 23,456,925 | 1 | 2 | 23,456,061 | train | <story><title>Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days</title><url>https://www.space.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-repeater.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vysero</author><text>The idea that aliens would use these to propel ships is rather ludicrous, and highly unlikely. The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here.<p>That being said, it must be something exceptionally energetic.. wish I could see it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>Why do you assume they need to travel between galaxies? They could be going to the next solar system over and we&#x27;re simply seeing the leakage of their propulsion. Just because the light travels across galaxies doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s purpose is to travel across galaxies. Moreover, a species that can unleash this much energy has probably conquered such things as mortality and age related decay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days</title><url>https://www.space.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-repeater.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vysero</author><text>The idea that aliens would use these to propel ships is rather ludicrous, and highly unlikely. The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here.<p>That being said, it must be something exceptionally energetic.. wish I could see it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomBombadildoze</author><text>&gt; The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here.<p>Given your arithmetic, I assume by &quot;maximum speed&quot; you mean the speed of light, in which case travel wouldn&#x27;t take 25k years. It would in fact be <i>instantaneous</i>. At relativistic speeds, distances contract and time dilates.<p>Now, this is all moot because this:<p>&gt; The idea that aliens would use these to propel ships is rather ludicrous, and highly unlikely.<p>... is absolutely correct. No amount of energy will propel a massive object to the speed of light.<p>edit: I realized I may have misinterpreted. From the perspective of someone watching their own kind travel that expanse, it would indeed appear <i>to the outside observer</i> to take 25k years to travel.</text></comment> |
19,059,353 | 19,058,587 | 1 | 2 | 19,056,911 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage</title><url>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenticular</author><text>I just don&#x27;t hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I&#x27;d love AWS to have some competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>&gt; I just don&#x27;t hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I&#x27;d love AWS to have some competition.<p>Google Cloud is fair competition – provided they have the service you need. AWS and Azure both beat them in number of services. If Google has it, then it should behave as expected, and some are downright impressive (GKE and VM auto migration on GCE).<p>Azure is... infuriating. Inconsistent, unreliable APIs, surprising behavior everywhere (attach an internal load balancer, lose internet connectivity!?), lots of restrictions on which features can be used with which SKUs.<p>I see improvements and it is difficult to beat them in the enterprise, but speaking as an engineer, man Azure is infuriating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage</title><url>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenticular</author><text>I just don&#x27;t hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I&#x27;d love AWS to have some competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheIronYuppie</author><text>Disclosure: I work at Azure.<p>We&#x27;re doing our best, but we&#x27;re not going to suggest there&#x27;s not more to do. Every major cloud provider has had issues at one point or another (I formerly worked at Amazon and Google), and I&#x27;ll just say - we hear you, and we are fiercely committed to earning your trust.</text></comment> |
11,541,341 | 11,541,155 | 1 | 2 | 11,540,915 | train | <story><title>UK spy bill will force tech firms to disclose future products before launch</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-spy-bill-will-force-tech-firms-to-disclose-future-products-before-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PJDK</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of comments in this thread throwing up their hands about this. That&#x27;s the attitude that will let this sort of thing happen.<p>Bills are published like this well ahead of them even being debated so that interested parties can comment.<p>There&#x27;s a major faction within the Conservative party that is pro privacy (e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;1&#x2F;hi&#x2F;uk_politics&#x2F;7450627.stm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;1&#x2F;hi&#x2F;uk_politics&#x2F;7450627.stm</a>), and it&#x27;s also pro business. This is anti privacy and anti business. It&#x27;s a winnable fight, but not if you give up at the first suggestion of a thing you don&#x27;t like.<p>Write to MPs, say &quot;As CEO of awesome corp I would seriously consider relocating to Berlin&quot;. That sort of thing will get attention.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK spy bill will force tech firms to disclose future products before launch</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-spy-bill-will-force-tech-firms-to-disclose-future-products-before-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CommanderData</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget this from 2 months ago.. UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11265666" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11265666</a><p>These laws WILL affect UK tech start-ups if privacy has anything to do with their business model.<p>I have said so in the past, don&#x27;t register your tech startups in the UK. Boycott is sometimes an effective means for change. UK law makers know this could back-fire, they are taking a gamble they have already lost.</text></comment> |
5,408,591 | 5,408,650 | 1 | 2 | 5,407,879 | train | <story><title>The dire state of WordPress</title><url>http://jshakespeare.com/the-dire-state-of-wordpress</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsdalton</author><text>To paraphrase Churchill, Wordpress is the worst CMS -- except for all the others.<p>I'd <i>love</i> to find an open-source CMS (preferably in Python or Ruby) with clean, secure, elegant code and a well-organized framework that comes with a friendly admin and active, responsive development community like Wordpress, but so far I've got nothing.<p>(If anyone has any suggestions, please do feel free to share them!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FilterJoe</author><text>Mezzanine is quite nice: <a href="http://mezzanine.jupo.org/" rel="nofollow">http://mezzanine.jupo.org/</a><p>It's Python (a Django app). BSD license. It has many advantages over Wordpress that I won't get into here, but all this is offset by one massive disadvantage: It rests on the Django framework.<p>Django is a nice framework for web development but it takes at least a few months to learn for someone starting from scratch. The installation process for Mezzanine requires some Django knowledge.<p>Installing Wordpress on the other hand requires zero PHP knowledge. A reasonably intelligent person can teach themselves Wordpress basics in days (the basics of self-hosted Wordpress, selecting a theme, selecting key plug-ins, etc.). No PHP required.<p>With Wordpress, it's not too difficult to select a provider (i.e. Bluehost) and have Wordpress automatically installed within minutes using Simple Script. If Mezzanine could be automatically installed like this, I think it would quickly become a popular and much more maintainable alternative.</text></comment> | <story><title>The dire state of WordPress</title><url>http://jshakespeare.com/the-dire-state-of-wordpress</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsdalton</author><text>To paraphrase Churchill, Wordpress is the worst CMS -- except for all the others.<p>I'd <i>love</i> to find an open-source CMS (preferably in Python or Ruby) with clean, secure, elegant code and a well-organized framework that comes with a friendly admin and active, responsive development community like Wordpress, but so far I've got nothing.<p>(If anyone has any suggestions, please do feel free to share them!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanlev</author><text>I discovered Concrete5 ( <a href="http://concrete5.org" rel="nofollow">http://concrete5.org</a> ) a few years ago after building many Wordpress sites (large and small), and totally fell in love with it. It's not perfect, but it's <i>much</i> better than any other CMS out there for end-users, designers, and developers:<p>* Editing UI is on the front-end -- users just go to the page they want to edit and click on things to edit them, which is much more intuitive than a back-end dashboard<p>* Content on pages is a collection of "blocks", so each portion of content on the page can be edited separately (as opposed to one WYSIWYG editor for the whole page). I've even built a free addon that lets designers compose their own custom block interfaces ( <a href="http://concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/designer-content" rel="nofollow">http://concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/designer-content</a> ), so if you have a "employee bio block" (for example), you can have an image chooser, a textbox for a headline, a wysiwyg editor for the description, and a page chooser for a link instead of requiring the user to fidget with alignments, floats, and custom styles in TinyMCE/FCKEditor.<p>* Create themes from your existing design / markup -- the CMS flows around your design as opposed to you having to construct your design around the requirements of the CMS (this is much more of a problem with Drupal than Wordpress, but still gets annoying in WP for non-blog-like designs).<p>* Underlying architecture is fairly sane -- definitely has some idiosyncracies, but nothing like Wordpress (or Drupal or Joomla). There's a simple MVC pattern going on so you separate your model / controller / view code, and the underlying system has a decent "API" for working with pages, content, users, files, etc. Also, if you have very customized functionality, you can just create a separate page in your site and tell the system to not do anything... that you will handle everything yourself on that particular page or area of your site.<p>The only downside is that it's not as popular as wordpress so the documentation is lacking and there are not as many free plugins and tutorials available (but hopefully this will continue to change as time goes on).<p>But it has made building CMS-based websites <i>so</i> much more fun for me. Hit me up ( [email protected] ) if you want to discuss further or have any questions.</text></comment> |
23,011,826 | 23,011,656 | 1 | 3 | 23,008,399 | train | <story><title>How we use Rust in our mobile SDK</title><url>https://bionic.fullstory.com/rust-at-fullstory-part-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dpezely</author><text>For others considering Rust + Kotlin for native Android development, there&#x27;s also the Visly blog post[1] with basic steps. However, since then, Google officially released `androidx`. Unfortunately, Android Studio or the SDK lack `cargo fix` features of modifying your source code and instead just magically compiles with a compatibility layer. There&#x27;s a PR on Visly&#x27;s GitHub repo with these code fixes.<p>Also, their code base is minimal: does just enough with Rust shared library to have an app generate a log message. That&#x27;s enough if you already know Android development.<p>For a complete end-to-end example search query screen with results screen (Activity, Fragment) using Rust, Kotlin, androidx, RecyclerView, ViewModel, etc., there&#x27;s [2], but it was written while learning all things Android.<p>Perhaps it might help someone out there!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;visly&#x2F;rust-on-android-19f34a2fb43" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;visly&#x2F;rust-on-android-19f34a2fb43</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;dpezely&#x2F;native-android-kotlin-rust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;dpezely&#x2F;native-android-kotlin-rust</a><p>Edit: Yes, that second one is mine. Had fun learning but hopefully will never have to touch mobile dev again beyond maybe a PWA. (I&#x27;m a server-side dev.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How we use Rust in our mobile SDK</title><url>https://bionic.fullstory.com/rust-at-fullstory-part-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmzt</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; Because our code winds up running in other people’s apps we don’t use a full-fledged async runtime like tokio or async-rs since those are optimized for “use all available resources” scenarios like network servers or client applications.<p>Have you considered the recent alternative, smol [1]?<p>Do you have any plans to share source or build scripts for the glue components?<p>How have you been able to incorporate native functionality such as media codecs and screen capture with shared logic written in Rust?<p>Has Rust worked well when you also need to integrate with runtimes such as React Native or Flutter?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stjepang&#x2F;smol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stjepang&#x2F;smol</a></text></comment> |
7,781,905 | 7,781,795 | 1 | 3 | 7,781,584 | train | <story><title>Zenimax Sues Oculus</title><url>http://www.zenimax.com/press/ZeniMax_Media_Inc._and_id_Software_LLC_File_Suite_Against_Oculus_VR_Inc._and_its_Founder_Palmer_Luckey</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>From the discussion on Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2655hh/zenimax_sues_oculus_vr_for_misappropriation_of/chntzyk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Games&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2655hh&#x2F;zenimax_sues_o...</a><p><pre><code> Throwaway because zenimax is sue-happy and I work
at id Software, and I don&#x27;t want to lose my job.
A while back there was an artist here who made
some artwork for Valve&#x27;s Team Fotress 2 Hat
contest in their spare time. This artist ended up
winning and received a large amount of money from
royalties. Zenimax got pissed off that this person
was earning money from what they felt like was
&quot;Their property&quot;. The rumor was that they were
about to sue them, but ended up backing off. I&#x27;m
not sure why.
This individual left the company shortly after. I
don&#x27;t blame them.
We&#x27;ve been loosing top-notch talent left and right
ever since the Zenimax purchase, but more so after
RAGE didn&#x27;t do too well. We&#x27;re alright now, but I
really believe that this is no longer the place
that it was when I started years ago. The office
culture sucks ass, and unless you&#x27;re keen to
sticking your nose up certain people&#x27;s asses, or
have been here since the days when we could
actually ship games, then you&#x27;re not going to get
very far.
I think Zenimax is mostly to blame for this. Fuck
them.
</code></pre>
The moderators of &#x2F;r&#x2F;Games verified that the above comment is from a current Id employee. The reason I&#x27;m crossposting it here is because it&#x27;s an interesting datapoint about the mindset of the people at Zenimax.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zenimax Sues Oculus</title><url>http://www.zenimax.com/press/ZeniMax_Media_Inc._and_id_Software_LLC_File_Suite_Against_Oculus_VR_Inc._and_its_Founder_Palmer_Luckey</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Starting on page 20:<p><pre><code> 57. On July 26, 2012, Luckey again asked for
ZeniMax’s help with the Kickstarter video,
specifically asking Carmack to provide a clip
“talking about the Rift&#x2F;VR in general&#x2F;whatever
else you think would be a great thing to have.”
Luckey further acknowledged: “Your reputation has
really helped the credibility of this project, and
having that credibility in the video would make a
big difference for alot [sic] of people.” Carmack
declined Luckey’s request to appear in the
Kickstarter video.
58. At about that same time, Carmack advised
Luckey: “It is very important that you NOT use
anything that could be construed as Zenimax
property in the promotion of your product. Showing
my R&amp;D testbed with the Rage media would be bad,
for instance.”
59. Luckey replied, “I will make
sure we do not show the Rage demo in the
Kickstarter, but is there any chance we can
mention support&#x2F;show a quick clip from Doom 3&#x2F;BFG
Edition?” ZeniMax turned down Luckey’s request,
instructing that Luckey rely on publicly-available
information for Kickstarter promotional material.
60. On August 1, 2012, Luckey launched the Oculus
Kickstarter campaign. The funding target was set
at $250,000. The Kickstarter page featured a
five-minute video describing the modified Rift
headset.
61. In blatant disregard of ZeniMax’s rights,
Defendants used ZeniMax’s intellectual property in
the Kickstarter video. The video features multiple
clips showing “DOOM 3: BFG Edition,” displayed on
the modified Rift headset. The video also used
“DOOM 3: BFG Edition” to promote the modified Rift
by displaying, without authorization, ZeniMax’s
logo for “DOOM 3: BFG Edition” as the first
Oculus-Rift ready game. Further, despite the lack
of any commercial agreement with ZeniMax,
Defendants promised that certain backers of the
Kickstarter campaign would receive copies of
ZeniMax’s game “DOOM 3: BFG Edition” with support
for the modified Rift.
</code></pre>
Context: at this point, Luckey has executed an NDA with Zenimax, in writing, with a &quot;proper use&quot; clause. Carmack has demoed the Rift at E3 to thunderous response. Luckey subsequently, Zenimax alleges, shifted from planning to offer &quot;$500 worth of optics as a hobbyist package&quot; to &quot;launching a commercial product&quot;. Zenimax has, it alleges, made overtures to Luckey for a joint venture, but Luckey has ignored them. Then, after being warned by Carmack not to do it, Luckey creates a Kickstarter that prominently features id games.<p>Could be ugly.</text></comment> |
25,911,534 | 25,911,400 | 1 | 3 | 25,894,420 | train | <story><title>PfSense Is Closed Source</title><url>https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>I feel like by this point, in 2021, if you are a developer making contributions to &quot;open source,&quot; and you&#x27;re still getting surprised by these sorts of shenanigans, you only have yourself to blame.<p>This happens So. Freaking. Often. Companies take open source software private All The Damn Time. They hire the key devs away with just enough money. Then they release another version under a different license. And before you know it a previously open source project is now all but closed source.<p>It doesn&#x27;t even have to be with shenanigans this nefarious. Once you have the two or three devs all you have to do is release a value-added component and all but cripple the community one. <i>It&#x27;s roughly a million times cheaper than an acquisition.</i><p>If you want your hard-earned contributions to avoid this fate, <i>do not contribute to &quot;open source&quot; projects</i>. Find a copylefted project and contribute to that. Otherwise your work <i>will</i> end up being coopted by a profit-seeking enterprise.<p>Open source is the domain of large companies building fiefdoms. Just look at all those Apache projects and who contributes to them and who they&#x27;re for. You would have to pay me big bucks to contribute to that ecosystem.<p>GPL or bust.</text></comment> | <story><title>PfSense Is Closed Source</title><url>https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>35fbe7d3d5b9</author><text>This + all the hullabaloo around Amazon &#x2F; Elastic should really remind developers to carefully consider the license that they apply to their software.<p>FreeBSD is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. The OpenBSD folks have a great license page where they explain their take on why two-clause BSD serves them well[1]:<p>&gt; [...]putting code under an ISC or two-clause BSD license essentially makes the code as free as it can possibly get. Modifying the wording of these licenses can only result in one of the three following effects:<p>&gt; making the code less free by adding additional restrictions regarding its use, copying, modification or distribution;<p>&gt; or effectively not changing anything by merely changing the wording, but not changing anything substantial regarding the legal content;<p>&gt; or making the license illegal by attempting to deprive the authors of rights they cannot legally give away.<p>PfSense ought not lie about what they do, but it&#x27;s important to note that they are <i>completely</i> within their rights to take FreeBSD, extend it in any way they wish, and never share that back with the community.<p>Other licenses[2] feel differently, and before you release code to the world you should carefully consider where you fall.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;policy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;policy.html</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;agpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;agpl-3.0.html</a></text></comment> |
41,672,700 | 41,672,886 | 1 | 2 | 41,672,418 | train | <story><title>Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-is-on-the-brink-of-breaching-a-seventh-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-that-support-life-180985144/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomThoughts3</author><text>The Planetary Boundaries framework is so bad, I don’t understand why it’s so popular. Most of the &quot;boundaries&quot; are directly correlated. Most of them are fairly arbitrary.<p>It’s such an awful tool to discuss the actual very serious issue it underlines. I wish it would just disappear.<p>Just to be clear, there is nothing magical about most of these boundaries. The situation is not in any way suddenly worse today than yesterday. Some of the axis actually showcases issue which would be a problem at any level. Others are debatable. Thresholds are overall a bad way to think about dynamic systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-is-on-the-brink-of-breaching-a-seventh-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-that-support-life-180985144/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruntledfangler</author><text>“The health check will also serve as a “mission-control center” for decision-making, per the statement, by using satellite data, A.I. and multiple scientific disciplines—as well as the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, which is something the researchers hope to incorporate more of in following editions”<p>Just in case you were considering taking this seriously…</text></comment> |
12,876,978 | 12,876,371 | 1 | 3 | 12,875,950 | train | <story><title>Mysterious 'ping' sound from sea floor baffles Igloolik</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ping-beep-hum-sound-arctic-ocean-igloolik-1.3831861</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nom</author><text>Mysterious, unlocateable sounds have always fascinated me. Right now I was just looking for that impossible to triangulate low frequency vibration that plagued that one town i can&#x27;t remember, but then I typed &quot;mysterious sound&quot; into YT and found out about this world wide event [1] [2] that occurred this year Jan 9-14 and nobody was able to explain it<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mTOQvDzihTU?t=223" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mTOQvDzihTU?t=223</a><p>2: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strangesounds.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;unexplained-booms-increase-us-uk-january-2016-video.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strangesounds.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;unexplained-booms-increase-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mysterious 'ping' sound from sea floor baffles Igloolik</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ping-beep-hum-sound-arctic-ocean-igloolik-1.3831861</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>The news that are more recent:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;north&#x2F;igloolik-ping-military-investigates-1.3835237" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;north&#x2F;igloolik-ping-military-i...</a><p>&quot;Military plane investigates mystery &#x27;ping&#x27; near Igloolik
Search turns up nothing&quot;</text></comment> |
30,158,998 | 30,156,875 | 1 | 3 | 30,156,683 | train | <story><title>Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ddtaylor</author><text>Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Proton, etc. are all really cool. But, if you value your time and security, just keep a dedicated Windows system for gaming. I keep all the things I actually care about or don&#x27;t want stolen on my Linux system with full drive encryption and I keep a gaming PC that has absolutely nothing I care about on it. The Windows system is never allowed to access my email, credit cards, or anything I care about in any way.<p>The small price I pay for having to manually type a Steam authentication code from my phone into the gaming PC is worth it to never have to worry about the insane level of insecurity and bugs from the gaming sphere. The amount of RCE in gaming is pretty bad. And, you know, sometimes your friends message you and want to play a game that is new and from a developer nobody can really trust.<p>Combine that with the fact that the first thing almost every game does is phone home to try and download new executable content and IMO you would be irresponsible to keep your important documents&#x2F;credentials on a system that is also used for gaming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WaxProlix</author><text>Recently posted (~1.5mo ago) with 237 comments.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29612976" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29612976</a></text></comment> |
18,756,285 | 18,755,262 | 1 | 3 | 18,754,687 | train | <story><title>IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2018/12/24/ipv6-christmas-display-uses-75-internets-worth-of-addresses/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brownbat</author><text>&gt; Since the led wall was being flooded with inappropriate content we had to implement a whitelist system...<p>That was probably inevitable.<p>The last scrolling LED message I read was &quot;Uncaught type error: Undefined is not a function.&quot;<p>Is one of you out there trying to fuzz this poor tree? :)</text></comment> | <story><title>IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2018/12/24/ipv6-christmas-display-uses-75-internets-worth-of-addresses/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xvilka</author><text>Sadly at the same time in many countries IPv6 is next to non-existent[1]. I follow closely when China will adapt it, since was announced long time ago, but seems no progress since.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;intl&#x2F;en&#x2F;ipv6&#x2F;statistics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;intl&#x2F;en&#x2F;ipv6&#x2F;statistics.html</a></text></comment> |
15,260,607 | 15,260,595 | 1 | 3 | 15,260,384 | train | <story><title>World's largest electric vehicle</title><url>https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/e-dumper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Z1nfandel</author><text>I thought the same, but then it made me wonder how many mines are built such that you are hauling ore down instead of up?<p>I don&#x27;t know enough about mines, and googling &quot;most common mine design&quot; isn&#x27;t cutting it. Could anyone weigh in with more insight? The only big mines I&#x27;ve seen look to be pits, like the Bingham Copper Mine near SLC.<p>I do remember reading something about ore trains in some Scandinavian country using regenerative braking to power nearby towns and its own trip back up.</text></item><item><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>Because the vehicle is electric, there is no need to “heat up” the brakes when descending. This is because the enormous electric engine acts as a generator and recharges the battery pack. That same energy is then used to help the vehicle travel back up the hill. Phys reports, “If all goes as planned, the electric dumper truck will even harvest more electricity while traveling downhill than it needs for the ascent. Instead of consuming fossil fuels, it would then feed surplus electricity into the grid.”</i><p>Clever. It can do this because it travels uphill empty and comes downhill full.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giarc</author><text>Here is a coal mine in Alberta [0]. If you turn on the 3D google maps, you&#x27;ll see that it&#x27;s at the top of a mountain. They transport the coal down into the valley and then onto rail cars.<p>0- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@49.6515022,-114.8604751,14053a,35y,37.53t&#x2F;data=!3m1!1e3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@49.6515022,-114.8604751,14053a,3...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>World's largest electric vehicle</title><url>https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/e-dumper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Z1nfandel</author><text>I thought the same, but then it made me wonder how many mines are built such that you are hauling ore down instead of up?<p>I don&#x27;t know enough about mines, and googling &quot;most common mine design&quot; isn&#x27;t cutting it. Could anyone weigh in with more insight? The only big mines I&#x27;ve seen look to be pits, like the Bingham Copper Mine near SLC.<p>I do remember reading something about ore trains in some Scandinavian country using regenerative braking to power nearby towns and its own trip back up.</text></item><item><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>Because the vehicle is electric, there is no need to “heat up” the brakes when descending. This is because the enormous electric engine acts as a generator and recharges the battery pack. That same energy is then used to help the vehicle travel back up the hill. Phys reports, “If all goes as planned, the electric dumper truck will even harvest more electricity while traveling downhill than it needs for the ascent. Instead of consuming fossil fuels, it would then feed surplus electricity into the grid.”</i><p>Clever. It can do this because it travels uphill empty and comes downhill full.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReadEvalPost</author><text>The two most common types of surface mining are strip mines (where there isn&#x27;t much up&#x2F;down climbing) and open pit mines (where the loaded portion is going up). It&#x27;s possible the mine in question is an open pit mine where your loaded descent to the dump site distance &gt; the loaded climb distance out the open pit.</text></comment> |
22,994,503 | 22,993,826 | 1 | 3 | 22,992,544 | train | <story><title>Lamest Edit Wars</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quietbritishjim</author><text>This is very true, and yet the British government message about coronavirus is &quot;stay home&quot; rather than &quot;stay at home&quot;. It sounds rather odd to me. I wonder if they chose it to sound a bit more casual and relatable, or just to match what people were already likely to be hearing elsewhere online.</text></item><item><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>Americans are very stingy with prepositions:<p>American: I wrote them
British: I wrote to them</text></item><item><author>mehrdadn</author><text>I had no idea this is different in BrE and AmE! What are some other such grammatical differences?</text></item><item><author>willio58</author><text>The examples here are hilarious.<p>&gt; Angels &amp; Airwaves: Forty-six reverts in one hour by two editors. The point of contention? Whether &quot;Angels &amp; Airwaves&quot; is a band or &quot;Angels &amp; Airwaves&quot; are a band. (British English requires &quot;are&quot;, as the band comprises multiple people, while American English requires &quot;is&quot;, as the band is a singular entity.) ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimprich</author><text>&quot;Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.&quot; has the ring of a Dominic Cummings slogan. It&#x27;s in the same vein as &quot;Take back control&quot; or &quot;Get Brexit Done&quot;. It&#x27;s campaigning distilled down to the minimum possible words.<p>Edit: Interestingly(?), the government official leaflet adds an &quot;at&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;coronavirus-covid-19-information-leaflet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;coronavirus-covid...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lamest Edit Wars</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quietbritishjim</author><text>This is very true, and yet the British government message about coronavirus is &quot;stay home&quot; rather than &quot;stay at home&quot;. It sounds rather odd to me. I wonder if they chose it to sound a bit more casual and relatable, or just to match what people were already likely to be hearing elsewhere online.</text></item><item><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>Americans are very stingy with prepositions:<p>American: I wrote them
British: I wrote to them</text></item><item><author>mehrdadn</author><text>I had no idea this is different in BrE and AmE! What are some other such grammatical differences?</text></item><item><author>willio58</author><text>The examples here are hilarious.<p>&gt; Angels &amp; Airwaves: Forty-six reverts in one hour by two editors. The point of contention? Whether &quot;Angels &amp; Airwaves&quot; is a band or &quot;Angels &amp; Airwaves&quot; are a band. (British English requires &quot;are&quot;, as the band comprises multiple people, while American English requires &quot;is&quot;, as the band is a singular entity.) ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>limograf</author><text>I think it&#x27;s to fit on the podium because actually everyone is saying &quot;Stay at home&quot;.</text></comment> |
7,386,540 | 7,386,304 | 1 | 3 | 7,385,955 | train | <story><title>Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]</title><url>http://www.dronehire.org/blog/drone-flies-into-an-active-volcano</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uptown</author><text>The Phantom 2 are pretty great drones ... but they&#x27;re also prone to &quot;fly away&quot; where they decide to take-off on their own - ignoring your commands. There&#x27;s a bunch of videos on YouTube showing people&#x27;s Phantoms flying away. Like this one:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ</a><p>This video purports to help prevent that from happening, though it&#x27;s not guaranteed to prevent your $1000 drone from making a break for it.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bxjL7wFyb8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2bxjL7wFyb8</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Watching an uncontrolled drone strafe an overpass at street level and split power lines for a commuter train, really increases my sympathy toward those who want to regulate these.</text></comment> | <story><title>Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]</title><url>http://www.dronehire.org/blog/drone-flies-into-an-active-volcano</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uptown</author><text>The Phantom 2 are pretty great drones ... but they&#x27;re also prone to &quot;fly away&quot; where they decide to take-off on their own - ignoring your commands. There&#x27;s a bunch of videos on YouTube showing people&#x27;s Phantoms flying away. Like this one:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ</a><p>This video purports to help prevent that from happening, though it&#x27;s not guaranteed to prevent your $1000 drone from making a break for it.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bxjL7wFyb8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2bxjL7wFyb8</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>Drones are getting pretty incredible. This one is almost indestructible: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2Z9N4Q82g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pl2Z9N4Q82g</a></text></comment> |
24,986,125 | 24,982,205 | 1 | 3 | 24,967,472 | train | <story><title>A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/the-tech-antitrust-problem-no-one-is-talking-about/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised this isn&#x27;t discussed more.<p>Big tech is accused of being monopolistic, but there is a constant flow of new players in the field, all gaining market shares and building the Next Big Thing, while telecom providers are pretty stagnant.<p>I&#x27;m curious why cities don&#x27;t directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access. In some cases that might raise property value enough that the town could make it&#x27;s money back in very little time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pottertheotter</author><text>There are a lot of municipalities doing exactly what you say and making the money back fast. But a lot of states have blocked doing this, and the incumbents fight like crazy to turn people against the idea. My favorite way of implementing it is open access. The city installs and owns the infrastructure and anyone can come be an ISP on it. You get great competition. It&#x27;s basically the same as how it works with the community owning the roads and you pick who you want to service your house (FedEx, UPS, yourself, DoorDash, the local roofing guy, etc.)<p>The other thing that would be worthwhile is local loop unbundling, which is basically open access but with existing providers having to open their infrastructure.<p>I highly recommend muninetworks.org and their podcast if you want to learn more about municipal broadband.</text></comment> | <story><title>A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/the-tech-antitrust-problem-no-one-is-talking-about/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised this isn&#x27;t discussed more.<p>Big tech is accused of being monopolistic, but there is a constant flow of new players in the field, all gaining market shares and building the Next Big Thing, while telecom providers are pretty stagnant.<p>I&#x27;m curious why cities don&#x27;t directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access. In some cases that might raise property value enough that the town could make it&#x27;s money back in very little time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m curious why cities don&#x27;t directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access.<p>In a lot of states there is legislation banning them from doing just that.<p>Plus-- where are all the videos demoing what it&#x27;s like having a fiber connection, to rouse all the people who live in internet deserts? For fuck&#x27;s sake, the article references kids lurking around Taco Bell &quot;scrounging for internet.&quot;<p>If you are a technologist with a fiber connection, please take five minutes away from overclocking your company&#x27;s attention-sucking machine to see what it&#x27;s like working toward a goal that is 100% non-creepy.<p>Edit: clarification</text></comment> |
33,231,669 | 33,230,523 | 1 | 2 | 33,229,162 | train | <story><title>Learn enough C to survive</title><url>https://codeofhonor.substack.com/p/learn-enough-c-to-survive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevekemp</author><text>Compared to writing code in assembly language it is a dream, though!<p>I think C lets you think about low-level details of how systems work, strings being arrays of characters with an explicit terminating NUL character, for example. Although again assembly language gives you _real_ lower-level understanding and insights if you use it.</text></item><item><author>Beltalowda</author><text>I can&#x27;t say I learned much by programming in C, if I even learned anything at all. Mostly I just grumble at the needlessly verbose and complex way of doing some things (e.g. anything with strings) and get annoyed by the syntax and quirks of the language and surrounding toolchain.<p>It is of course <i>useful</i> for a whole bunch of reasons, including being able to figure out &quot;why does this do X?&quot;, but that&#x27;s not really &quot;deeper knowledge&quot;, IMO.</text></item><item><author>throwawaaarrgh</author><text>You should learn C because it&#x27;s a gateway to deeper knowledge. The kernel uses it, about a thousand programs shipped with Linux use it, embedded programming uses it. It helps you understand how lower level network protocols have been designed, how to efficiently use memory, how to design algorithms and why they&#x27;re harder than you think. There&#x27;s a crapton of libraries in C, most higher level languages have some extensions to take advantage of them. Sensitive security software will use it, due to various attack vectors that are slightly easier to deal with at a lower level. It&#x27;s handy and expands your brain. And it&#x27;s not going away anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyber_kinetist</author><text>By the way, null-terminated strings are not the only way to express strings, it’s a legacy of C that many low-level programmers dislike but need to stick to it because of legacy reasons (every major OS is written in C).<p>All the low-level languages aiming to replace C basically abandoned this approach, and opted for slices instead (ptr + size pair, used in Rust, Zig, etc.) This has the benefit of easier and faster string manipulation (strlen can be O(1) instead of O(n)), as well as better memory safety (can do bounds checking with the size information). The primary reason we are still using and teaching null terminators is because we still have to live with POSIX&#x2F;Win32 and many low-level libraries written on this platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn enough C to survive</title><url>https://codeofhonor.substack.com/p/learn-enough-c-to-survive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevekemp</author><text>Compared to writing code in assembly language it is a dream, though!<p>I think C lets you think about low-level details of how systems work, strings being arrays of characters with an explicit terminating NUL character, for example. Although again assembly language gives you _real_ lower-level understanding and insights if you use it.</text></item><item><author>Beltalowda</author><text>I can&#x27;t say I learned much by programming in C, if I even learned anything at all. Mostly I just grumble at the needlessly verbose and complex way of doing some things (e.g. anything with strings) and get annoyed by the syntax and quirks of the language and surrounding toolchain.<p>It is of course <i>useful</i> for a whole bunch of reasons, including being able to figure out &quot;why does this do X?&quot;, but that&#x27;s not really &quot;deeper knowledge&quot;, IMO.</text></item><item><author>throwawaaarrgh</author><text>You should learn C because it&#x27;s a gateway to deeper knowledge. The kernel uses it, about a thousand programs shipped with Linux use it, embedded programming uses it. It helps you understand how lower level network protocols have been designed, how to efficiently use memory, how to design algorithms and why they&#x27;re harder than you think. There&#x27;s a crapton of libraries in C, most higher level languages have some extensions to take advantage of them. Sensitive security software will use it, due to various attack vectors that are slightly easier to deal with at a lower level. It&#x27;s handy and expands your brain. And it&#x27;s not going away anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Beltalowda</author><text>It&#x27;s useful to know how things like strings and arrays work and that they&#x27;re not just &quot;magic&quot;, but I don&#x27;t think you really need to learn C to do that. I understood that kind of stuff long before I did any serious C programming, and knowing C didn&#x27;t really add much to that. The thing is that I don&#x27;t want to think about it <i>every time</i>.<p>I &quot;just&quot; want to do X, but instead I need to write a whole bunch of code to handle it all manually. It&#x27;s useful that this is possible, but a lot of times you don&#x27;t need it, and some other languages still keep the &quot;common case&quot; easy while still enabling the high-performance stuff C can do.<p>I wish we had C+: C + a few niceties (and not C ++ everything). There&#x27;s a whole bunch of newer languages aiming at the space C is sitting in, but with a few additions C could be much more ergonomic without having to invent an entire new language.</text></comment> |
36,677,757 | 36,660,564 | 1 | 2 | 36,651,506 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?</title><text>Environment, people, technology are changing rapidly. What are some worthwhile problems or ideas that you think would be important to solve or work on by end of the decade.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheFreim</author><text>&gt; We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.<p>I&#x27;m hoping that we start to see an increase in pro-family policies. A couple rough ideas to look into would be decreasing taxation (or giving refunds&#x2F;payments) based on how many children a productive family has, providing financial support so families can buy homes, and promoting wage increases so a single income can support a family to allow one to work and the other to focus on raising the children.</text></item><item><author>xerxesaa</author><text>We have an aging population and many places have a flat birthrate. We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.<p>Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market&#x27;s expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hayst4ck</author><text>Housing policy is dead simple (not easy): build more homes.<p>The problem is, <i>when you build more homes, the price of homes go down.</i><p>Great for people that want homes and people who are just joining the workforce. Not great for grandma and her retirement planning.<p>If you frame your housing policy around anything but building more, then housing is fundamentally zero sum. If it is zero sum, that means those couples with a children are being subsidized at the cost of that 20 year old new grad or people who earn minimum wage without a family. Those people look at their finances or their mental health and make decisions about their future. So if people new to the work force are subsidizing those with children you could be harming their mental health to the point where they don&#x27;t want children.<p>Why would any sane person bring children into a world that is almost guaranteed to be worse for their children than it is for them? I wouldn&#x27;t.<p>So from a systems thinking point of view, the only cogent housing policy is to build more homes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?</title><text>Environment, people, technology are changing rapidly. What are some worthwhile problems or ideas that you think would be important to solve or work on by end of the decade.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheFreim</author><text>&gt; We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.<p>I&#x27;m hoping that we start to see an increase in pro-family policies. A couple rough ideas to look into would be decreasing taxation (or giving refunds&#x2F;payments) based on how many children a productive family has, providing financial support so families can buy homes, and promoting wage increases so a single income can support a family to allow one to work and the other to focus on raising the children.</text></item><item><author>xerxesaa</author><text>We have an aging population and many places have a flat birthrate. We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.<p>Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market&#x27;s expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reducesuffering</author><text>&gt; providing financial support so families can buy homes<p>You mean building more homes. If there&#x27;s X homes, and Y families get 10% subsidy, they&#x27;re all still buying the same X homes for 10% more. (roughly)</text></comment> |
15,210,873 | 15,210,185 | 1 | 2 | 15,209,660 | train | <story><title>The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault/539211/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>Part 1 of this series <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;education&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy&#x2F;538974&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;education&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-un...</a><p>starts off with a story that sounds like a modern retelling of To Kill A Mockingbird: A white woman has consensual sex with a black man. Later she becomes worried about what other people will think and accuses the black man of rape. He then undergoes a sham trial and is found guilty and punished. The big difference is that in To Kill A Mockingbird, they at least pretended to have due process giving the accused a lawyer and allowing him to confront his accuser. The modern version doesn&#x27;t even have a pretence of due process.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault/539211/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>You might also be interested in the Ruth Marcus op-ed in WaPo -- acknowledging that things are very broken right now in protecting the <i>accused</i> and actively hoping that Betsy DeVos will help swing the pendulum back.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;betsy-devos-could-change-sexual-assault-policy-for-the-better&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;08&#x2F;893adc04-94ce-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;betsy-devos-could-ch...</a><p>I mean, if Ruth Marcus is rooting for Devos to fix this, I&#x27;m guessing things have gotten really bad;<p>&quot;But the Obama administration’s move also prompted an overcorrection at some institutions that failed to do enough to protect the rights of students accused of wrongdoing.&quot;<p>Puts this Atlantic exposee in perspective.</text></comment> |
19,606,955 | 19,606,330 | 1 | 2 | 19,605,413 | train | <story><title>Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go</title><url>http://blevesearch.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mschoch</author><text>Core contributor here, happy to try and answer any questions.<p>One of the big things we&#x27;re working on at the moment is improving the release process. In addition to semantic versioning of the APIs we have to think through how it applies to the binary artifacts created. We want Go modules to be supported and be a part of the solution, but we are also mindful not to break things for existing users.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go</title><url>http://blevesearch.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>molsson</author><text>To get a feel for the size of Bleve, checkout this graph that shows commit rates doing into Bleve versus Elasticsearch and Vespa:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.minimum.se&#x2F;assets&#x2F;elasticsearch-open-source-commit-rates.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.minimum.se&#x2F;assets&#x2F;elasticsearch-open-source-comm...</a><p>If you don&#x27;t need heavy lifting, then &quot;sonic&quot; implemented in rust is a really nice lean alternative too:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;valeriansaliou&#x2F;sonic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;valeriansaliou&#x2F;sonic</a><p>FWIW, that graph is from a blog post I published earlier today:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.minimum.se&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;elastic-search-introduction.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.minimum.se&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;elastic-search-introductio...</a></text></comment> |
1,945,634 | 1,945,237 | 1 | 3 | 1,945,128 | train | <story><title>Make Your Mockup in Markup</title><url>http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesjyu</author><text>Starting with mockups as markup makes it hard for me to be creative. It binds my brain immediately to the implementation aspect of the design, rather than freely exploring creative avenues.<p>Being able to nudge and push things around in Photoshop (or Fireworks, my preferred program) is invaluable. This takes away the overhead of thinking about browser related implementation issues. Don't underestimate this overhead. I find that all my designs start looking the same if I start with markup, in contrast to the more varied and interesting designs that I come up with when starting in Fireworks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Make Your Mockup in Markup</title><url>http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kree10</author><text>FTA: "...browsers can render mockups that are just as beautiful as those created in an image editor"<p>This gets at something I never understood about the start-with-PSD school of web design: if it's not possible to get the effect you want in a browser, what is it doing in a mockup?</text></comment> |
13,983,243 | 13,982,496 | 1 | 3 | 13,974,162 | train | <story><title>The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters</title><url>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31781</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcguire</author><text>Brian Spooner&#x27;s comment on the article is interesting, too:<p>&quot;...In Iran I was always fascinated and puzzled by seeing Persians read Persian much faster than I could read English. [...] Our answer was that literate Persians (and Urdu-writers) think, see and act much less in terms of individual letters (than we do, and than we are taught to do as we learn to read and write). They see and write pen-strokes, each of which may contain 1, 2, three or even four letters, possibly (though rarely) more. The letters are written differently according to where they come in the pen-stroke and the pen-strokes are written differently according to what comes before or after them. Readers read pen-strokes (the number of which is very large), not letters. They read faster because they are scanning by series of pen-stokes. We also tend to read English by scanning words rather than reading letters, but the Persian reader is much more efficient and faster at then. The general approach and relationship to writing is different from ours. Its practice is different. And its result is different. There is much more to be said about this. But enough for this comment.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about Persian, but I now feel the need to go learn more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srssays</author><text>That&#x27;s because it cheats!<p>Arabic script has three layers:<p>1. The base forms (rasm) denote groups of consonants.<p>2. Then dots distinguish individual consonants (e.g. B, T, TH, Y and N have the same basic form but have different arrangements of dots).<p>3. Finally, diacritics - loops and dashes - are used to denote vowels.<p>When Arabic is fully laden with vowel markings, the result is visually noisy. So usually vowel markings are left out.<p>But without vowels, it is impossible to tell how a word is pronounced if you don&#x27;t already know. It&#x27;s a really heavy price to pay for any advantage in reading speed.</text></comment> | <story><title>The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters</title><url>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31781</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcguire</author><text>Brian Spooner&#x27;s comment on the article is interesting, too:<p>&quot;...In Iran I was always fascinated and puzzled by seeing Persians read Persian much faster than I could read English. [...] Our answer was that literate Persians (and Urdu-writers) think, see and act much less in terms of individual letters (than we do, and than we are taught to do as we learn to read and write). They see and write pen-strokes, each of which may contain 1, 2, three or even four letters, possibly (though rarely) more. The letters are written differently according to where they come in the pen-stroke and the pen-strokes are written differently according to what comes before or after them. Readers read pen-strokes (the number of which is very large), not letters. They read faster because they are scanning by series of pen-stokes. We also tend to read English by scanning words rather than reading letters, but the Persian reader is much more efficient and faster at then. The general approach and relationship to writing is different from ours. Its practice is different. And its result is different. There is much more to be said about this. But enough for this comment.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about Persian, but I now feel the need to go learn more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxander</author><text>It would be interesting to see if the same system could be implemented for English. Say, make a text renderer that groups common sequences of 2-to-4 letters into one distinct (but still immediately legible) glyph; the set of available glyphs would remain constant. With practice, readers&#x27; brains might learn the glyphs as a &quot;shortcut&quot; to take in these sets of letters- almost like a very basic compression scheme programmed into your reading-comprehension neurons.</text></comment> |
15,296,904 | 15,296,750 | 1 | 3 | 15,294,742 | train | <story><title>MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum</title><url>https://mindweb.network/board/computer-science-a-full-bachelor-curriculum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msla</author><text>I&#x27;d love to see one for philosophy.<p>Yes, part of the point of studying philosophy is getting feedback from discussing ideas with others. But there&#x27;s still a basic vocabulary and set of ideas everyone should learn simply so they realize their revolutionary ideas about reality and truth and beauty and so on have occurred to others, and have been discussed, probably for centuries if not millennia, and that the results of those discussions have been preserved.<p>It would be contentious, but some of the lists of core resources for CS are contentious, too.</text></item><item><author>znpy</author><text>As a cs-savvy person, I&#x27;d really love to see similar pages but for other fields.<p>Computer science is probably one of the most over-documented fields. Everyone seems to have compiled a list of resources at least once in their life, like a rite of passage.<p>I&#x27;d love to see open source curricula for Economics&#x2F;Business, Physics, Music, Literature and other stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewwiese</author><text>I would recommend SEP (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a>) for your exact purpose. Although not entirely structured as a guide on philosophy, it is very much akin to Wikipedia in that you can get lost for hours. I highly recommend stretching out on the patio with your laptop and a cigarette and make like Camus for an afternoon. As a philosophy major, it is an invaluable resource.</text></comment> | <story><title>MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum</title><url>https://mindweb.network/board/computer-science-a-full-bachelor-curriculum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msla</author><text>I&#x27;d love to see one for philosophy.<p>Yes, part of the point of studying philosophy is getting feedback from discussing ideas with others. But there&#x27;s still a basic vocabulary and set of ideas everyone should learn simply so they realize their revolutionary ideas about reality and truth and beauty and so on have occurred to others, and have been discussed, probably for centuries if not millennia, and that the results of those discussions have been preserved.<p>It would be contentious, but some of the lists of core resources for CS are contentious, too.</text></item><item><author>znpy</author><text>As a cs-savvy person, I&#x27;d really love to see similar pages but for other fields.<p>Computer science is probably one of the most over-documented fields. Everyone seems to have compiled a list of resources at least once in their life, like a rite of passage.<p>I&#x27;d love to see open source curricula for Economics&#x2F;Business, Physics, Music, Literature and other stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jxcl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working my way through the podcast &quot;A history of philosophy without any gaps&quot;. I find the episodes are a perfect length for my commute, and the presenter seems to be pretty well informed:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;historyofphilosophy.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;historyofphilosophy.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
2,535,864 | 2,535,827 | 1 | 3 | 2,535,606 | train | <story><title>Bret Victor on working at Apple.</title><url>http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hebejebelus</author><text>The title really should be changed to reflect the actual message (or lack of one). Nowhere in the post does he say that he <i></i>didn't<i></i> have a good time working at Apple. Nowhere does he advise not working there (like the title suggests).<p>From what I infer, anyway, his actual message is that he can't show what he worked on at Apple - not that it's a bad place to work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bret Victor on working at Apple.</title><url>http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>The post is almost content-free, we all know apple is secretive.<p>But that website is a <i>work of art,</i> although it does crawl in chrome on my current-gen mac mini.<p>If the guy doesn't like apple, I doubt he'd have much trouble finding work elsewhere.<p>EDIT: re-reading, I see that he has.</text></comment> |
19,259,652 | 19,258,422 | 1 | 3 | 19,256,514 | train | <story><title>Struck by a Thunderbolt</title><url>https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2019/02/26/struck-by-a-thunderbolt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floatboth</author><text>Thunderbolt is a horrendous piece of garbage. Not just in the sense of &quot;we&#x27;re making an internal bus external before ensuring security&quot;, but just in what it actually is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;whitequark&#x2F;status&#x2F;1097777102563074048" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;whitequark&#x2F;status&#x2F;1097777102563074048</a><p>&gt; Thunderbolt, uh, does not expose PCIe lanes directly. Thunderbolt is an MPLS-like packet switching network that can encapsulate PCIe TLPs over a PHY and MAC without a spec, chips without documentation, and software with barely any support. […] Ah, and let&#x27;s not forget that the absurdly complicated MPLS-like system with topology written in EEPROMs in every node that, as far as I can tell, you have to bitbang via the half-configured packet path (what the actual fuck?), well, it&#x27;s very general. You can describe a lot of different networks in it. But of course the Linux driver has two or three hardcoded ones, including indexes into the EEPROMs on the way, that it recognizes and loads a hardcoded configuration for. The entire thing is made -even worse than USB-, which is an achievement.<p>It pains me to hear people complaining about the lack of Thunderbolt in AMD Ryzen Mobile laptops, and wishing for it in the next generation now that the spec is no longer Intel-exclusive in some way. Lack of Thunderbolt is a <i>feature</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Struck by a Thunderbolt</title><url>https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2019/02/26/struck-by-a-thunderbolt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jarjoura</author><text>Hmmm, on Windows whenever I plug in a new Thunderbolt device, it requests permission to activate it. I assumed this was for this very reason. If I hand someone my computer logged in and unlocked, it&#x27;s as good as compromised.</text></comment> |
17,028,284 | 17,028,132 | 1 | 3 | 17,027,834 | train | <story><title>'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a tech giant</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/09/fuck-off-google-the-berlin-neighbourhood-fighting-off-a-tech-giant-kreuzberg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhomde</author><text>I think Berlins &quot;Poor but happy&quot; times are fast coming to an end. Rents have been rising quickly the last few years and tech companies and startups becoming more prevalent. Heck, Neukölln went from being a cheap alternative to being as trendy and expensive as Kreuzberg.<p>Berlin kinda, from what I understand, enjoyed it&#x27;s special culture much because it wasn&#x27;t an industrial city and lacked an large international airport, but cheap rent, international vibe and fun hipster values seems like the perfect void for tech to move into now that rents and prices in the usual &quot;big cities&quot; have gone through the roof. I can also imagine cities like Amsterdam and Berlin getting some Brexit escapees.<p>Mark my words, Berlin will be Europe&#x27;s Silicon Valley within a few years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biztos</author><text>I agree completely that &quot;cheap Berlin&quot; is rapidly disappearing. Just this morning I was checking real-estate prices[0] for the first time in a few years and was a bit shocked. Folks in Silicon Valley or Munich or Hamburg would probably still find it cheap-ish but AFAIK local salaries have not remotely kept up with this trend. A million Euros for a nice family-sized flat in a good neighborhood is not exotic anymore, but for most Berliners that&#x27;s an absurd sum.<p>Another interesting thing is that there are more and more ways to spend more and more of your money in Berlin. Consumerism is definitely on the rise, which IMO is bad news for people not making much money.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t say Berlin lacks an international airport, I would say instead that the corruption&#x2F;incompetence nexus managed to spare us the monstrosity of BER[1] and we can continue to use the lovely old urban airport at Tegel[2], though granted there are a lot of stopovers depending on where you&#x27;re going.<p>Anyway I really doubt Berlin will be anything like Silicon Valley, well, ever. You could start with how radically differently the local tech scene views labor, but that&#x27;s just the tip of the iceberg. I would love to be wrong though.<p>[edit: formatting]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.immobilienscout24.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.immobilienscout24.de</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berlin_Tegel_Airport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berlin_Tegel_Airport</a></text></comment> | <story><title>'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a tech giant</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/09/fuck-off-google-the-berlin-neighbourhood-fighting-off-a-tech-giant-kreuzberg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhomde</author><text>I think Berlins &quot;Poor but happy&quot; times are fast coming to an end. Rents have been rising quickly the last few years and tech companies and startups becoming more prevalent. Heck, Neukölln went from being a cheap alternative to being as trendy and expensive as Kreuzberg.<p>Berlin kinda, from what I understand, enjoyed it&#x27;s special culture much because it wasn&#x27;t an industrial city and lacked an large international airport, but cheap rent, international vibe and fun hipster values seems like the perfect void for tech to move into now that rents and prices in the usual &quot;big cities&quot; have gone through the roof. I can also imagine cities like Amsterdam and Berlin getting some Brexit escapees.<p>Mark my words, Berlin will be Europe&#x27;s Silicon Valley within a few years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>&gt; Berlin will be Europe&#x27;s Silicon Valley within a few years.<p>Things that need to happen before this :<p>1. Salaries need to grow faster. Rent is really high for the new comers specialists.<p>2. Companies need to increase the salary gap between good and bad workers. Right now you are not able to negotiate more than 10% on top of the &quot;average&quot; salary.<p>3. Germany needs to fix the privileges of employees having options &#x2F; shares of the company. With the current legislation &#x2F; founders attitude is quite boring and useless.</text></comment> |
7,438,690 | 7,438,629 | 1 | 3 | 7,436,401 | train | <story><title>Hack: a new programming language for HHVM</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-programming-language-for-hhvm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lectrick</author><text>Given a programming task, it will be written faster, easier, and in a more maintainable and less bug-prone fashion <i>if it is not PHP.</i><p>The opposite opinion is basically indefensible. Sure, you can still dig a trench with a spoon (and if you have enough money to wield a bunch of workers with a spoon), even if a shovel would do a better job.<p>Let&#x27;s begin.<p>1) PHP autocraptastically converts strings that look like numbers, into numbers, resulting in all sorts of weirdness like this: <a href="https://eval.in/111886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;111886</a><p>2) PHP 5.4&#x27;s OWN TEST SUITE has 91 failures and only 70% coverage. There is NOTHING more &quot;WTF&quot; than that! Why even bother having a test suite?? <a href="http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcov.php.net&#x2F;viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4</a><p>3) Why the fuck are all of these different things equal, and how does this NOT result in problems? <a href="http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;pyDTn2i.png</a><p>4) String increment is dumb to begin with, but why does it not even match the behavior of string decrement? <a href="https://eval.in/60631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;60631</a><p>5) Why the hell can you <i>jump back</i> into a try block from a catch block? Recipe for disaster: <a href="http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33091353115/the-documentation-clearly-says-raptors" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;33091353115&#x2F;the...</a><p>6) PHP comparison operators. I&#x27;m sorry, but this level of complexity might make you <i>feel</i> smart once you master all its idiotsyncrasies [sic], but it&#x27;s actually <i>dumb</i>: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15813490/php-type-juggling-and-strict-greater-lesser-than-comparisons" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;15813490&#x2F;php-type-jugglin...</a><p>That&#x27;s a <i>small fraction</i> of not-thought-out PHP language features <i>that result in REAL bugs and security holes.</i> Which consume large swathes of programmer time. Which, apparently, Facebook can afford to swallow.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but your position, as valiant as you are defending it, is literally indefensible. And I don&#x27;t give a fuck how big Facebook is, they would STILL be better-served by switching SOME of their code to a different language. ANY modern programming language wouldn&#x27;t suffer from this imbecilic, immature language design.</text></item><item><author>lbrandy</author><text>&gt; I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>Because perfect is not the enemy of the good? Because &quot;build atop a crumbling foundation&quot; has demonstrated time and again to be, by far, the most successful way to accomplish anything in computing? Unless you have some example of perfect, now dominant, technologies that have been created ex nihilo that I&#x27;m missing? I mean we (facebook) are still using PHP and MySql, improving both. And when we need to break things out, we head into C++, the queen mother of castles on broken foundations.<p>&gt; But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff.<p>All languages, runtimes, and standard libraries (and databases, and source control, and on and on) are &quot;broken&quot; at sufficient scale. You&#x27;re going to be spending time rebuilding things other people take for granted no matter who you are and what language and technology you are working in. The underlying assumption that a &quot;proper language&quot; gives you these things for free is completely false.<p>&gt; Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult.<p>Just so we are clear, you ask why Facebook didn&#x27;t rewrite 10,000 human-years of code into a mythical unnamed &quot;proper&quot; language, but you consider writing a type checker to be &quot;difficult&quot;. I think you might have vastly inaccurate pictures of what is and isn&#x27;t &quot;difficult&quot;.<p>&gt; That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.<p>Computing history is littered with dead projects from people who believed that anything less than perfect is unworkable or non-valuable.</text></item><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>I have wondered why FB didn&#x27;t use a proper language with proper typing to begin with. I mean, I &quot;understand&quot; logistically: they already had a giant codebase in PHP, migrating a codebase is expensive, and it&#x27;s difficult to hire and train 1000s of hackers in e.g., OCaml. (They <i>do</i> have some OCaml people, but they are outliers. OCaml was my favorite thing to write there, though it didn&#x27;t afford some of the same niceties and interactivity as the PHP code they had, only because the support was down by several orders of magnitude.)<p>But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff. And in the end, it&#x27;s still PHP, which is duly disliked. (Though Facebookers don&#x27;t seem to care. The prevalent attitude toward it is that &quot;PHP, as it&#x27;s coded here, is mostly like C++, and that&#x27;s OK.&quot;)<p>Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult. They seemed to take the approach of just building onto it incrementally until it just seems to work. That approach led to many bugs in many cases that just simply aren&#x27;t thought of when one is trying to build inference engines by hand, as opposed according to theory. Type checking and inference is an area ripe with theory and attached formal, mathematical semantics. Standard ML&#x27;s standard is perhaps the most infamous; it&#x27;s a collection of mathematical statements about the language. That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orblivion</author><text>You&#x27;re making a mistake. The question is not whether to start a company with PHP vs language X. The company is long started. The question is not whether or not to poof into existence a port from all of FB to language X. That&#x27;s not possible. The question is, given that PHP is the current language, with all its faults, will it it cost <i>more</i> (including all definitions of cost) to make the switch? How long will it take? Does it get the job done? How bad is the damage?<p>The question more pertinent to your argument is, did they make a mistake years ago choosing PHP? That&#x27;s when the could have conceivably gone with language X.<p>BTW the types of stuff you&#x27;re listing are documented here. So thorough it&#x27;s amusing to read: <a href="http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;me.veekun.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hack: a new programming language for HHVM</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-programming-language-for-hhvm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lectrick</author><text>Given a programming task, it will be written faster, easier, and in a more maintainable and less bug-prone fashion <i>if it is not PHP.</i><p>The opposite opinion is basically indefensible. Sure, you can still dig a trench with a spoon (and if you have enough money to wield a bunch of workers with a spoon), even if a shovel would do a better job.<p>Let&#x27;s begin.<p>1) PHP autocraptastically converts strings that look like numbers, into numbers, resulting in all sorts of weirdness like this: <a href="https://eval.in/111886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;111886</a><p>2) PHP 5.4&#x27;s OWN TEST SUITE has 91 failures and only 70% coverage. There is NOTHING more &quot;WTF&quot; than that! Why even bother having a test suite?? <a href="http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcov.php.net&#x2F;viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4</a><p>3) Why the fuck are all of these different things equal, and how does this NOT result in problems? <a href="http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;pyDTn2i.png</a><p>4) String increment is dumb to begin with, but why does it not even match the behavior of string decrement? <a href="https://eval.in/60631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;60631</a><p>5) Why the hell can you <i>jump back</i> into a try block from a catch block? Recipe for disaster: <a href="http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33091353115/the-documentation-clearly-says-raptors" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;33091353115&#x2F;the...</a><p>6) PHP comparison operators. I&#x27;m sorry, but this level of complexity might make you <i>feel</i> smart once you master all its idiotsyncrasies [sic], but it&#x27;s actually <i>dumb</i>: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15813490/php-type-juggling-and-strict-greater-lesser-than-comparisons" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;15813490&#x2F;php-type-jugglin...</a><p>That&#x27;s a <i>small fraction</i> of not-thought-out PHP language features <i>that result in REAL bugs and security holes.</i> Which consume large swathes of programmer time. Which, apparently, Facebook can afford to swallow.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but your position, as valiant as you are defending it, is literally indefensible. And I don&#x27;t give a fuck how big Facebook is, they would STILL be better-served by switching SOME of their code to a different language. ANY modern programming language wouldn&#x27;t suffer from this imbecilic, immature language design.</text></item><item><author>lbrandy</author><text>&gt; I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>Because perfect is not the enemy of the good? Because &quot;build atop a crumbling foundation&quot; has demonstrated time and again to be, by far, the most successful way to accomplish anything in computing? Unless you have some example of perfect, now dominant, technologies that have been created ex nihilo that I&#x27;m missing? I mean we (facebook) are still using PHP and MySql, improving both. And when we need to break things out, we head into C++, the queen mother of castles on broken foundations.<p>&gt; But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff.<p>All languages, runtimes, and standard libraries (and databases, and source control, and on and on) are &quot;broken&quot; at sufficient scale. You&#x27;re going to be spending time rebuilding things other people take for granted no matter who you are and what language and technology you are working in. The underlying assumption that a &quot;proper language&quot; gives you these things for free is completely false.<p>&gt; Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult.<p>Just so we are clear, you ask why Facebook didn&#x27;t rewrite 10,000 human-years of code into a mythical unnamed &quot;proper&quot; language, but you consider writing a type checker to be &quot;difficult&quot;. I think you might have vastly inaccurate pictures of what is and isn&#x27;t &quot;difficult&quot;.<p>&gt; That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.<p>Computing history is littered with dead projects from people who believed that anything less than perfect is unworkable or non-valuable.</text></item><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>I have wondered why FB didn&#x27;t use a proper language with proper typing to begin with. I mean, I &quot;understand&quot; logistically: they already had a giant codebase in PHP, migrating a codebase is expensive, and it&#x27;s difficult to hire and train 1000s of hackers in e.g., OCaml. (They <i>do</i> have some OCaml people, but they are outliers. OCaml was my favorite thing to write there, though it didn&#x27;t afford some of the same niceties and interactivity as the PHP code they had, only because the support was down by several orders of magnitude.)<p>But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff. And in the end, it&#x27;s still PHP, which is duly disliked. (Though Facebookers don&#x27;t seem to care. The prevalent attitude toward it is that &quot;PHP, as it&#x27;s coded here, is mostly like C++, and that&#x27;s OK.&quot;)<p>Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult. They seemed to take the approach of just building onto it incrementally until it just seems to work. That approach led to many bugs in many cases that just simply aren&#x27;t thought of when one is trying to build inference engines by hand, as opposed according to theory. Type checking and inference is an area ripe with theory and attached formal, mathematical semantics. Standard ML&#x27;s standard is perhaps the most infamous; it&#x27;s a collection of mathematical statements about the language. That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghotli</author><text>I can&#x27;t fathom why you&#x27;re under the impression that some code hasn&#x27;t been switched to another language. Furthermore, your vitriol seems quite effective at undermining your thesis.</text></comment> |
19,025,112 | 19,023,665 | 1 | 2 | 19,023,319 | train | <story><title>Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13896/samsung-unveils-15-6-inch-ultra-hd-oled-display-for-laptops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Causality1</author><text>Considering my old phones get burn-in after a year or two, that windows has far more static elements than Android, and that I don&#x27;t replace my laptop every year, oled would be a horrible choice for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>Have had an S3 for 3 years, S5 for another 3 and now an S8 for one, and haven&#x27;t had any burn-in issues.<p>Though I mostly find max brightness to be uncomfortably bright, so I usually keep it down in the 10-30% range (auto).<p>My gf likes to illuminate half the block with her phone though, and we both got the S8 at the same time, so will be interesting to compare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13896/samsung-unveils-15-6-inch-ultra-hd-oled-display-for-laptops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Causality1</author><text>Considering my old phones get burn-in after a year or two, that windows has far more static elements than Android, and that I don&#x27;t replace my laptop every year, oled would be a horrible choice for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; that windows has far more static elements than Android<p>Android has a status bar at the top that&#x27;s displayed over most applications. And applications on Android are far more likely to be maximized, which makes the common design elements and widgets more likely to be in the same place.<p>To the best of my knowledge and research, though, the current generation of OLED screens and controllers manage to avoid image retention.</text></comment> |
14,556,021 | 14,555,418 | 1 | 2 | 14,553,784 | train | <story><title>Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2017/06/14/susan-fowlers-uber-expose-should-win-a-pulitzer/#4a2a8c862230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wand3r</author><text>If a journalist with no experience learned to code on the side and built something interesting we would applaud. We wouldn&#x27;t make them an SRE at Google or Uber. Fowler did something great and it was powerful despite not being her life&#x27;s focus. There are journalists who are as good as Fowler is at technology.
I dont think a Pulitzer is the venue to recognize Susan&#x27;s work, nor do I think she would win. I do think we should recognize her writing, and believe she has already had a meaningful impact</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inmygarage</author><text>She is currently running a magazine at Stripe (as in, she is the EIC). She was hired for this job in January, before publishing her blog post. She is represented by InkWell, a well-respected, elite, non-technical literary agency. She published a book through O&#x27;Reilly, arguably the number one firm for tech-related publications, in November of 2016. And she is the founder of a monthly book club (seemingly, for fun).</text></comment> | <story><title>Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2017/06/14/susan-fowlers-uber-expose-should-win-a-pulitzer/#4a2a8c862230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wand3r</author><text>If a journalist with no experience learned to code on the side and built something interesting we would applaud. We wouldn&#x27;t make them an SRE at Google or Uber. Fowler did something great and it was powerful despite not being her life&#x27;s focus. There are journalists who are as good as Fowler is at technology.
I dont think a Pulitzer is the venue to recognize Susan&#x27;s work, nor do I think she would win. I do think we should recognize her writing, and believe she has already had a meaningful impact</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>&gt; <i>built something interesting</i><p>This is really under-selling what Susan Fowler did. She exposed and reformed a massive, multibillion-dollar company with a single essay. How many journalists have done that?<p>Some, certainly. But not many.</text></comment> |
29,965,050 | 29,963,996 | 1 | 2 | 29,963,448 | train | <story><title>How and why the Relational Model works for databases</title><url>https://blog.the-pans.com/relational/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brianmcc</author><text>The best advice I can give is that you can think of your app and its data store as either:<p>#1 code is of prime importance, data store is simply a &quot;bucket&quot; for its data<p>#2 data is of prime importance, code is simply the means to read&#x2F;write&#x2F;display it<p>In my personal experience, #2 is a way better way to work. Apps can come and go, but data can last a long time, and the better your database is modelled the better the outcomes you&#x27;ll have long term.<p>Corollary - I have seen some abject disasters where #1 has been adopted. Not necessarily just because of #1 alone but it&#x27;s certainly been a major factor.</text></comment> | <story><title>How and why the Relational Model works for databases</title><url>https://blog.the-pans.com/relational/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caditinpiscinam</author><text>&gt; All these database aspects remained virtually unchanged since 1970, which is absolutely remarkable. Thanks to the NoSQL movement, we know it&#x27;s not because of a lack of trying.<p>Kind of an aside, but I find it odd that people treat &quot;relational&quot; and &quot;SQL&quot; as synonymous (as well as &quot;non-relational&quot; and &quot;NoSQL&quot;). You could make a relational database that was managed with a language other than SQL, right?</text></comment> |
1,495,518 | 1,495,409 | 1 | 2 | 1,495,213 | train | <story><title>* cures (or causes) cancer</title><url>http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>threedaymonk</author><text>I made this - thanks for voting it to the top of HN!<p>In case anyone's still unclear, it is a tongue-in-cheek dig at the Daily Mail's reporting of cancer stories. It's most definitely not a medical resource. I could probably have done the same with almost any newspaper, but the Daily Mail is uniquely deserving of opprobrium.<p>You can get the code and a database export on GitHub if you're interested: <a href="http://github.com/threedaymonk/kill-or-cure" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/threedaymonk/kill-or-cure</a><p>I wrote the whole thing one Sunday night and tweeted about it at midnight; by midday the next day, I had successfully crowdsourced the analysis of all the articles. If I'd known how successful it would be, I'd have written a better, more detailed crowdsourcing process.</text></comment> | <story><title>* cures (or causes) cancer</title><url>http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tcdent</author><text>It's amazing how many food sources listed in their raw form aren't themselves guilty, but the industrial manufacturing processes and additives used to enhance them are.<p>Edit: I can't help myself. Some examples:<p>Bacon causes cancer:
<i>"High doses of inorganic phosphate salts – which are used to enhance the texture and flavour of processed meats..."</i>
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1102368/Additives-used-bacon-ham-chicken-make-cancers-grow.html#ixzz0t25HbiG7" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1102368/Additives-...</a><p>Eggs cause cancer:
<i>"The chemicals, residue from drugs given to chickens..."</i>
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-50995/Cancer-chemicals-eggs.html#ixzz0t24TLlCF" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-50995/Cancer-chemica...</a><p>Rice causes cancer:
<i>"Cotton production relied heavily on arsenic pesticides. It left residues in the soils which are still there and is being picked up by the rice."</i>
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-444222/Rice-tainted-arsenic-raises-risk-cancer.html#ixzz0t26OAqiA" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-444222/Rice-tainte...</a><p>Spices cause cancer:
<i>"...foreign producers are colouring spices to boost prices and profits."</i>
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-347287/Cancer-checks-spices-new-food-dyes-alert.html#ixzz0t26rTZjr" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-347287/Cancer-chec...</a></text></comment> |
30,085,467 | 30,085,020 | 1 | 2 | 30,083,988 | train | <story><title>Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0055-z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sovietmudkipz</author><text>I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice. My day is full of stuff, and when my wife goes to sleep is when I feel like it&#x27;s finally quiet enough to get some programming done. Or do whatever I want.<p>My sleep cycle is that I go 4 days until I have to take a longer sleep (10 hours) and the rest of the time I operate on 6-7 hours of sleep. I usually wake up at 7-7:30 and I usually go to bed at 12-1 or 9-10 on my long sleep days. It&#x27;s inconsistent and I worry about that fact.<p>The biggest blocker for me is my time alone and distraction free. I like and want distractions to be gone when I work on personal projects. Early morning doesn&#x27;t get me that as my wife wakes up at 5:15 (maybe if I woke up at 4?). If she&#x27;s up and I&#x27;m up there are interactions which is great. And then there&#x27;s text messages from friends and family and work chat all day. I can mute both and do but it&#x27;s there, beckoning me for my attention. To take my focus...<p>Look I know what the answer is for me. I need to replace work time with project time. My life would be in more balance if I had my 9-5 chunk of time where I do what I like doing (vs work stuff) so I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m living 3 lives in a single day.<p>That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice<p>This sums up the issue. Most people could get decent sleep if they wanted to or even made a basic effort, but their current poor-sleep compromise isn’t bad enough to make them want to give anything up. Or they don’t understand what they’re losing because it has been so long since they tried a reasonable sleep schedule.<p>&gt; That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.<p>Consider giving up the side projects for a month or two. Side projects are one of the topics where people think they’re going to miss it more than they actually do. A month or two of total disconnectedness won’t sink your side projects, but it’s long enough to test the waters of a healthier sleep schedule.<p>You may find that after getting your sleep under control, your daily efficiency and energy levels improve such that you’re getting your work done faster, spending more quality time with your spouse, and ultimately freeing up a nice slot of usable free time in the day that could spend on side projects without wrecking your sleep schedule.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0055-z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sovietmudkipz</author><text>I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice. My day is full of stuff, and when my wife goes to sleep is when I feel like it&#x27;s finally quiet enough to get some programming done. Or do whatever I want.<p>My sleep cycle is that I go 4 days until I have to take a longer sleep (10 hours) and the rest of the time I operate on 6-7 hours of sleep. I usually wake up at 7-7:30 and I usually go to bed at 12-1 or 9-10 on my long sleep days. It&#x27;s inconsistent and I worry about that fact.<p>The biggest blocker for me is my time alone and distraction free. I like and want distractions to be gone when I work on personal projects. Early morning doesn&#x27;t get me that as my wife wakes up at 5:15 (maybe if I woke up at 4?). If she&#x27;s up and I&#x27;m up there are interactions which is great. And then there&#x27;s text messages from friends and family and work chat all day. I can mute both and do but it&#x27;s there, beckoning me for my attention. To take my focus...<p>Look I know what the answer is for me. I need to replace work time with project time. My life would be in more balance if I had my 9-5 chunk of time where I do what I like doing (vs work stuff) so I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m living 3 lives in a single day.<p>That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>&gt; <i>when my wife goes to sleep is when I feel like it&#x27;s finally quiet enough to get some programming done</i><p>I tend to do this when I want to work on my hobbies, but then the relationship with my wife suffers. We enjoy going to bed together, it&#x27;s part of the ritual of being a couple. I tried going to bed, then after she falls asleep getting up, but by then I&#x27;m too sleepy myself.</text></comment> |
7,482,708 | 7,481,985 | 1 | 3 | 7,481,804 | train | <story><title>Microsoft launches Office for iPad</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/03/27/microsoft-unveils-office-ipad/?utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_s3Js0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisdevereux</author><text>The pricing structure is interesting: Free to view, requires an expensive Office 365 subscription to edit.<p>Seems like they&#x27;re missing an opportunity to drive adoption of Office as an online platform. Why would I want to publish using Office instead of Google Docs when I can&#x27;t assume that people I send the Office doc to will be able to edit it? Sure, Office is better, but not better enough to overcome that.<p>If it was free to edit, but $$$ to publish, Office 365 would be much more compelling. Especially since the situation w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t mobile looks much better than Google Docs.<p>Edit: My point here is about network effects, not whether the subscription is worth it. Office previously benefited from them, but it&#x27;s vulnerable as a cloud platform given the free alternatives from Google and even Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Livven</author><text>Apparently lots of people (still) don&#x27;t know about it but there have been free browser versions of Word&#x2F;Excel&#x2F;PowerPoint&#x2F;OneNote since 2010. They were recently rebranded from Office Web Apps to Office Online, along with easier access directly from office.com. Here&#x27;s the relevant HN thread <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7302221" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7302221</a><p>If you publish&#x2F;upload the document to OneDrive (7 GB is free) you can send the link to anyone and then they can view and edit the document for free in the browser, just like with Google Docs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft launches Office for iPad</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/03/27/microsoft-unveils-office-ipad/?utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_s3Js0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisdevereux</author><text>The pricing structure is interesting: Free to view, requires an expensive Office 365 subscription to edit.<p>Seems like they&#x27;re missing an opportunity to drive adoption of Office as an online platform. Why would I want to publish using Office instead of Google Docs when I can&#x27;t assume that people I send the Office doc to will be able to edit it? Sure, Office is better, but not better enough to overcome that.<p>If it was free to edit, but $$$ to publish, Office 365 would be much more compelling. Especially since the situation w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t mobile looks much better than Google Docs.<p>Edit: My point here is about network effects, not whether the subscription is worth it. Office previously benefited from them, but it&#x27;s vulnerable as a cloud platform given the free alternatives from Google and even Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmspring</author><text>There is a trend towards the &quot;subscription model&quot;. We&#x27;ve seen it with Adobe&#x27;s suite of apps, Microsoft has done that with Office recently -- Office 365 subscription is access to the native apps during the subscription period as well as access to the online versions -- it has been around awhile.</text></comment> |
31,497,123 | 31,497,186 | 1 | 3 | 31,454,147 | train | <story><title>Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1100459262/giant-sinkhole-china-ancient-forest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristjansson</author><text>It cannot be overstated that _none_ of the accompanying images on reports of this actually depict the location in question. AFAICT, only the CCTV&#x2F;CGTN state-media video[1] shows actual location, and the images are ... far less dramatic the the stock photos other outlets have chosen to run with.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meatsock</author><text>I also wanted to see some original source images. As in times past, a random slashdot user [1] comes through in a pinch: [2]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;22&#x2F;05&#x2F;20&#x2F;1732226&#x2F;ancient-forest-found-at-bottom-of-huge-sinkhole-in-china#comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;22&#x2F;05&#x2F;20&#x2F;1732226&#x2F;ancient-for...</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;NineDragons2&#x2F;status&#x2F;1524634961525026819" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;NineDragons2&#x2F;status&#x2F;1524634961525026819</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1100459262/giant-sinkhole-china-ancient-forest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristjansson</author><text>It cannot be overstated that _none_ of the accompanying images on reports of this actually depict the location in question. AFAICT, only the CCTV&#x2F;CGTN state-media video[1] shows actual location, and the images are ... far less dramatic the the stock photos other outlets have chosen to run with.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arc-in-space</author><text>What do you mean, less dramatic! That&#x27;s amazing. Except for the ill-fitting music.</text></comment> |
34,361,687 | 34,361,395 | 1 | 3 | 34,349,929 | train | <story><title>A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding</title><url>https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jkingsman</author><text>At a former company, we needed to connect to customer&#x27;s databases from our service. Many were understandably cagey about opening a public hole in their firewall to their DB, even if it&#x27;s just for our single egress IP.<p>Our solution was to run a public host (the Reverse Bastion) that would, upon user request, generate a shell-less linux account for the user and install their public key. The user was then given an SSH command to run from inside their corp network that would connect to Reverse Bastion and establish a reverse tunnel pointing at their database. That way we could &quot;connect&quot; to that user&#x27;s dedicated port on the Reverse Bastion and our traffic would traverse the tunnel and pop out inside their network, bound for their database. Since it&#x27;s all TCP tunneling, JDBC drivers had no idea they were hopscotching around networks and did DB queries like usual. As long as you have the user accounts totally locked down and people&#x27;s port assignments locked to their users via iptables, it was a walled (tunneled?) garden.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding</title><url>https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RpFLCL</author><text>This is a handy resource, SSH tunnels are something that I always find easier to grasp when displayed visually.<p>I use a reverse SSH tunnel to access my home network when traveling.<p>Ex:<p>- [Machine-A (on my LAN, behind NAT, with a dynamic IP address)] maintains a long lived SSH connection to [Machine-B (a VPS with a public IP)] with a reverse tunnel configuration.<p>- I can then SSH into Machine-B and follow the tunnel back into Machine-A, and from there access the rest of my home network.<p>It works pretty well. I can access files on my NAS and check on my Raspberry Pi cameras without needing to put either on &quot;the cloud&quot;. Although I have to admit I always have to pull up a resource like the one in OP whenever I want to setup something like this, I&#x27;ve never learned it by heart and always need a refresher.</text></comment> |
8,550,847 | 8,550,236 | 1 | 3 | 8,550,156 | train | <story><title>Crypto 101</title><url>https://www.crypto101.io/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lvh</author><text>Hi! Author here. Sorry it&#x27;s down. Will host on something CDNy now. Was previously on single server.<p>You can get the PDF for now from here: <a href="https://9d0df72831e4b345bb93-4b37fd03e6af34f2323bb971f72f0c0d.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/Crypto101.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9d0df72831e4b345bb93-4b37fd03e6af34f2323bb971f72f0c0...</a><p>EDIT: Unfortunately I am on conference wifi, so, might take me a while.<p>EDIT2: Now on Github. <a href="https://crypto101.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto101.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Crypto 101</title><url>https://www.crypto101.io/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Confusion</author><text>Does anyone know how this compares to Coursera course [1] or [2] + [3]?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/cryptography" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;cryptography</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;crypto</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;crypto2</a></text></comment> |
38,359,065 | 38,358,916 | 1 | 3 | 38,357,513 | train | <story><title>My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up</title><url>https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shusaku</author><text>I think that people of certain generations need to be taught the beauty of a burner account. You get to say whatever you want, and are invulnerable to criticism. The downside is there’s no ego boost to seeing your name in the news or using your fame to get impressions. But that’s the double sided sword of reputation.<p>When I was growing up on the internet, everyone understood the value of pseudo anonymity. But then Facebook came along and everyone is shocked that attaching your name and face to your random thoughts is a bad idea.<p>And while a burner account is vulnerable to doxing, at least that’s universally viewed as going over the line. And maybe as an owner of a social media platform, Musk could prevent doxing with better privacy tools.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up</title><url>https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>Question I would have for Popehat would be whether a DoS attack is speech or not. If it is, why isn&#x27;t it protected, because it&#x27;s inline messaging on the medium it uses and is therefore like any other mediated expression. If it isn&#x27;t, what is it about attacking the medium and participants that isn&#x27;t speech?<p>The problem with the cancel culture people is their &quot;working the ref,&quot; strategy launches a DoS attack on the participants in targeted discourses. I&#x27;m thinking what the equivalent is, like maybe LibsofTikTok, which is public mockery that likely crosses over into similar cancel-culture consequences, where there is a strong argument to be made that it is incitement. However, I don&#x27;t think one can defend cancelations in principle without also defending LibsOfTikTok, or much worse, something like 4chan or kiwifarms, because if you are defending the incitement of a cancel mob, you&#x27;re also defending one that uses mockery and that also results in some lunatic taking it too far.</text></comment> |
23,935,117 | 23,930,251 | 1 | 2 | 23,929,044 | train | <story><title>Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>former-aws</author><text>Cannot up vote this enough. During my time both at Retail and AWS it was perfectly normal to trawl production customer data and come up with ideas to launch competing products. Prices were always set lower or free offering justified as data-driven and customer obsession. I hated the gas lighting their customers and left in disgust of the company and its leadership which encourages that behavior.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_aws</author><text>&quot;An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products&quot;<p>Maybe...but in the past, AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped &amp; targeted customer list of those hosted products. In fact, I was on a team in AWS that did exactly that. Why wouldn&#x27;t their investing arm do the same?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>I know it&#x27;s hard to do when you&#x27;re making good money and would be going against co-workers.<p>But, if you see something, say something. This crap continues because there are too many folks that are happy to help support immoral business practices for some extra scratch. This isn&#x27;t all on you in particular but when google folks started raising hell about Chinese censorship the company was forced to move. We all have the power to withdraw consent over how our labour will be used and, as software developers, we&#x27;ve got a strong enough employment market that we have real power to help make companies behave better - power that folks working in the warehouse are absolutely deprived of.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>former-aws</author><text>Cannot up vote this enough. During my time both at Retail and AWS it was perfectly normal to trawl production customer data and come up with ideas to launch competing products. Prices were always set lower or free offering justified as data-driven and customer obsession. I hated the gas lighting their customers and left in disgust of the company and its leadership which encourages that behavior.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_aws</author><text>&quot;An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products&quot;<p>Maybe...but in the past, AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped &amp; targeted customer list of those hosted products. In fact, I was on a team in AWS that did exactly that. Why wouldn&#x27;t their investing arm do the same?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rckoepke</author><text>What types of AWS data would be trawled? Are we talking about data inside S3 buckets, database schemas, particular architecure styles, the fact that a product is consuming {x, y, z} amounts of cloud resources, or simply &quot;spending $m &#x2F; year&quot; in gross?</text></comment> |
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