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38,369,823 | 38,369,947 | 1 | 2 | 38,368,287 | train | <story><title>Stable Video Diffusion</title><url>https://stability.ai/news/stable-video-diffusion-open-ai-video-model</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alberth</author><text>What was the big “unlock” that allowed so much progress this past year?<p>I ask as a noob in this area.</text></item><item><author>valine</author><text>The rate of progress in ML this past year has been breath taking.<p>I can’t wait to see what people do with this once controlnet is properly adapted to video. Generating videos from scratch is cool, but the real utility of this will be the temporal consistency. Getting stable video out of stable diffusion typically involves lots of manual post processing to remove flicker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4death4</author><text>I think these are the main drivers behind the progress:<p>- Unsupervised learning techniques, e.g. transformers and diffusion models. You need unsupervised techniques in order to utilize enough data. There have been other unsupervised techniques in the past, e.g. GANs, but they don&#x27;t work as well.<p>- Massive amounts of training data.<p>- The belief that training these models will produce something valuable. It costs between hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to train these models. The people doing the training need to believe they&#x27;re going to get something interesting out at the end. More and more people and teams are starting to see training a large model as something worth pursuing.<p>- Better GPUs, which enables training larger models.<p>- Honestly the fall of crypto probably also contributed, because miners were eating a lot of GPU time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stable Video Diffusion</title><url>https://stability.ai/news/stable-video-diffusion-open-ai-video-model</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alberth</author><text>What was the big “unlock” that allowed so much progress this past year?<p>I ask as a noob in this area.</text></item><item><author>valine</author><text>The rate of progress in ML this past year has been breath taking.<p>I can’t wait to see what people do with this once controlnet is properly adapted to video. Generating videos from scratch is cool, but the real utility of this will be the temporal consistency. Getting stable video out of stable diffusion typically involves lots of manual post processing to remove flicker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cyphase</author><text>One factor is that Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT were released within 3 months of each other – August 22, 2022 and November 3, 2022, respectively. That brought a lot of attention and excitement to the field. More excitement, more people, more work being done, more progress.<p>Of course those two releases didn&#x27;t fall out of the sky.</text></comment> |
36,795,596 | 36,795,190 | 1 | 2 | 36,788,813 | train | <story><title>A glitch in the SEO matrix</title><url>https://www.izzy.co/blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jklinger410</author><text>&gt; Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead<p>And then<p>&gt; Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane.<p>Ah, so they have all of the information and yet their ad products don&#x27;t work. They don&#x27;t know this?</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>From the point of view of someone who spent 10 years running an e-commerce store, and all its advertising, until a couple of years ago. Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead. The hay day of being able to play the game and make a tidy profit is long gone.<p>Google are playing every trick in the book to extract every possible cent from advertisers, spying on their business and sales to maximise their own profits. Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane. People complain about the tracking of users&#x2F;visitors, but the tracking of businesses is just as bad.<p>They probably have better insights into the economy and market trends than most governments and banks.<p>The penny is dropping, advertisers are noticing, my long term expectation of Google&#x27;s business are not what they were.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>You either play the Organic SEO game or you Pay to Play (Ads). Google as a search engine is now useless when it comes to searching for a tool&#x2F;software etc because everyone has gamed the &quot;Best software for xyz&quot; etc. But what&#x27;s the alternative ? None. There are these &quot;review&quot; websites like Capterra&#x2F;Software Advice&#x2F;G2 and again you have to pay to play. You can technically get a review from a customer and get listed BUT if you want to be shown on the main page for that category, you need to pay crazy PPC.<p>Source: I play this game since I run a software business. Would love an alternative but there are none. You either Play the game or you Die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drdaeman</author><text>&gt; They don&#x27;t know this?<p>Of course they do, but people pay crazy money for this and it plays the important role in Google&#x27;s market valuation, so it&#x27;s in Google&#x27;s best interests to continue chanting the Big Data Big Money mantra. It doesn&#x27;t help that the myth&#x2F;meme is strongly backed by the whole cyberpunk genre, as people love the dystopian themes of &quot;big corporations know everything about you, down to your most secret desires you don&#x27;t even realize yourself&quot;.<p>And it probably even work by some small but statistically significant margin, compared to some arbitrarily picked baseline, so they can even back this up if necessary.<p>The king is naked, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>A glitch in the SEO matrix</title><url>https://www.izzy.co/blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jklinger410</author><text>&gt; Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead<p>And then<p>&gt; Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane.<p>Ah, so they have all of the information and yet their ad products don&#x27;t work. They don&#x27;t know this?</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>From the point of view of someone who spent 10 years running an e-commerce store, and all its advertising, until a couple of years ago. Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead. The hay day of being able to play the game and make a tidy profit is long gone.<p>Google are playing every trick in the book to extract every possible cent from advertisers, spying on their business and sales to maximise their own profits. Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane. People complain about the tracking of users&#x2F;visitors, but the tracking of businesses is just as bad.<p>They probably have better insights into the economy and market trends than most governments and banks.<p>The penny is dropping, advertisers are noticing, my long term expectation of Google&#x27;s business are not what they were.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>You either play the Organic SEO game or you Pay to Play (Ads). Google as a search engine is now useless when it comes to searching for a tool&#x2F;software etc because everyone has gamed the &quot;Best software for xyz&quot; etc. But what&#x27;s the alternative ? None. There are these &quot;review&quot; websites like Capterra&#x2F;Software Advice&#x2F;G2 and again you have to pay to play. You can technically get a review from a customer and get listed BUT if you want to be shown on the main page for that category, you need to pay crazy PPC.<p>Source: I play this game since I run a software business. Would love an alternative but there are none. You either Play the game or you Die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>By &quot;dead&quot; the GP means &quot;at the bottom of a race-to-the-bottom.&quot; People are paying $4 (to Google) per customer, to acquire customers with an LTV of $4, making them $0 per customer. That&#x27;s the natural conclusion to competition under perfect information.</text></comment> |
30,683,814 | 30,683,695 | 1 | 3 | 30,683,067 | train | <story><title>German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky</title><url>https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-Navi/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2022/220315_Kaspersky-Warnung.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c0l0</author><text>I will go on the record here and one-up them, warning against the use of <i>any</i> antivirus product. SO many vulns and gaping, smoking holes in that kind of software over the years, it&#x27;s not even funny. Faux-security is what most vendors are peddling.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GossiTheDog&#x2F;status&#x2F;1427935182200492039" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GossiTheDog&#x2F;status&#x2F;1427935182200492039</a> is one of my favourite bugs from recent years. I acknowledge this bug is not specific to an antivirus product (but of course, Fortigate offers that as an optional component for traffic inspection - and I keep wondering what that sub-component&#x27;s code quality is like 8-)), but anyone who tries WILL find examples for grave problems aplenty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>st_goliath</author><text>Yes, basically this. On the one hand, being able to parse every protocol and file format under the sun in search for malware means high complexity and a lot of attack surface. On the other hand, being able to read every file, intercept all network traffic, or peek into any processes memory means pretty much highest system privilege level. Big attack surface and high privilege level are a <i>bad</i> combination.<p>And regarding the point that the BSI is trying to make here: A high privilege process with an auto-update channel back home (as modern software tends to have), is basically an extremely powerful backdoor. That&#x27;s definitely not something you want to have installed across loads of systems across your countries industry and critical infrastructure.<p>It&#x27;s funny that they apparently only realize this <i>now</i>. The same reasoning in the article can be used pretty much regardless of the AVs country of origin.</text></comment> | <story><title>German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky</title><url>https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-Navi/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2022/220315_Kaspersky-Warnung.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c0l0</author><text>I will go on the record here and one-up them, warning against the use of <i>any</i> antivirus product. SO many vulns and gaping, smoking holes in that kind of software over the years, it&#x27;s not even funny. Faux-security is what most vendors are peddling.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GossiTheDog&#x2F;status&#x2F;1427935182200492039" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GossiTheDog&#x2F;status&#x2F;1427935182200492039</a> is one of my favourite bugs from recent years. I acknowledge this bug is not specific to an antivirus product (but of course, Fortigate offers that as an optional component for traffic inspection - and I keep wondering what that sub-component&#x27;s code quality is like 8-)), but anyone who tries WILL find examples for grave problems aplenty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertox</author><text>Most insurances expect you to have an AV installed.</text></comment> |
40,358,891 | 40,357,990 | 1 | 3 | 40,341,508 | train | <story><title>Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/commodore-64-can-use-ai-to-generate-8x8-sprites-takes-20-minutes-for-90-iterations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>russfink</author><text>Is there a name for this phenomena of “let’s run modern algorithms on ancient devices?” Paleoalgorithmics?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npongratz</author><text>Retroalgorithmics. Similar to the contemporary use of the term retrocomputing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/commodore-64-can-use-ai-to-generate-8x8-sprites-takes-20-minutes-for-90-iterations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>russfink</author><text>Is there a name for this phenomena of “let’s run modern algorithms on ancient devices?” Paleoalgorithmics?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Locutus_</author><text>Paleoalgorithmics sounds like something straight out of a Jodorowsky comicbook.</text></comment> |
16,853,560 | 16,853,056 | 1 | 3 | 16,849,227 | train | <story><title>Personalized Hey Siri</title><url>https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/04/16/personalized-hey-siri.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>Yeah, they don&#x27;t want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn&#x27;t want people going around skipping it.</text></item><item><author>gervase</author><text>To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only &quot;Hey Siri&quot; as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than &quot;Hey Siri&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sib</author><text>Yes. In this case, the selection of a wake word (&quot;Alexa&quot;) or phrase (&quot;Hey Siri&quot; or &quot;OK Google&quot;) is driven primarily by performance (i.e., reduction of false accepts &amp; false rejects). The folks designing these products know that, even though customers say that they&#x27;d like to customize the wake word or phrase, if the actual performance is significantly worse, those customers will not be happy.<p>We experimented with this extensively.</text></comment> | <story><title>Personalized Hey Siri</title><url>https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/04/16/personalized-hey-siri.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>Yeah, they don&#x27;t want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn&#x27;t want people going around skipping it.</text></item><item><author>gervase</author><text>To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only &quot;Hey Siri&quot; as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than &quot;Hey Siri&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woolvalley</author><text>It&#x27;s too bad, because I sure wish I could make the homepod use a different phrase.<p>The homepod knows to activate when I say hey siri, but my friends phone activates instead of the homepod whenever they say &#x27;hey siri&#x27; about %50 of the time.</text></comment> |
36,074,203 | 36,074,023 | 1 | 3 | 36,071,183 | train | <story><title>Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN</title><url>https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello.hnFollow</url><text>HN Follow lets you follow authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com.<p>The app was built in an experimental style on Val Town. We’re trying to create a new web primitive that you can:<p>1. write like a function
2. run like a script
3. fork like a repo
4. install like an app<p>This is our 5th iteration of this same “HN Follow” app. We launched the 3rd version here on Hacker News six months ago[1], but it was very kindly removed from the front page by dang in favor of us launching Val Town itself first, which we did in January[2].<p>We’re trying to strike the right balance between something you can use and install with one click, and something you can infinitely customize. For example, you could fork `@rodrigoTello.hnFollowApp`[3] and change the input parameter from authors to a generic query, like I do here[4] to get notifications whenever “val town” is mentioned on HN. In addition to emailing myself (via `console.email`), I also send a message to our team’s Discord. The possibilities are endless, but it can also be overwhelming. We’re trying to find the balance where we help you navigate the space of possible integrations, without limiting you the way a no-code tool would. We would really appreciate your guys’ feedback and suggestions!<p>[1] - HN Follow, first launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33533830" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33533830</a><p>[2] - Val Town launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34343122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34343122</a><p>[3] - `@rodrigotello.hnFollowApp`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;rodrigotello.hnFollowApp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;rodrigotello.hnFollowApp</a><p>[4] - My fork of hnFollow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;stevekrouse.hnValTown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;stevekrouse.hnValTown</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alan-stark</author><text>What&#x27;s the value of bringing Facebook&#x2F;Instagram mechanics into HN? Wouldn&#x27;t that skew social dynamics away from egalitarianism, giving rise to &quot;influencers&quot;, social bubbles and rise in clickbait? I think that <i>not</i> having a &#x27;follow your friends&#x27; mechanism is <i>a feature</i> of HN.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN</title><url>https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello.hnFollow</url><text>HN Follow lets you follow authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com.<p>The app was built in an experimental style on Val Town. We’re trying to create a new web primitive that you can:<p>1. write like a function
2. run like a script
3. fork like a repo
4. install like an app<p>This is our 5th iteration of this same “HN Follow” app. We launched the 3rd version here on Hacker News six months ago[1], but it was very kindly removed from the front page by dang in favor of us launching Val Town itself first, which we did in January[2].<p>We’re trying to strike the right balance between something you can use and install with one click, and something you can infinitely customize. For example, you could fork `@rodrigoTello.hnFollowApp`[3] and change the input parameter from authors to a generic query, like I do here[4] to get notifications whenever “val town” is mentioned on HN. In addition to emailing myself (via `console.email`), I also send a message to our team’s Discord. The possibilities are endless, but it can also be overwhelming. We’re trying to find the balance where we help you navigate the space of possible integrations, without limiting you the way a no-code tool would. We would really appreciate your guys’ feedback and suggestions!<p>[1] - HN Follow, first launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33533830" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33533830</a><p>[2] - Val Town launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34343122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34343122</a><p>[3] - `@rodrigotello.hnFollowApp`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;rodrigotello.hnFollowApp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;rodrigotello.hnFollowApp</a><p>[4] - My fork of hnFollow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;stevekrouse.hnValTown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.val.town&#x2F;v&#x2F;stevekrouse.hnValTown</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zoogeny</author><text>Just some random feedback on the val.town interface. The concept is interesting but I have one gripe.<p>I want to know what the code I&#x27;m about to run will do and I notice the pretty unique `@stevekrouse.hnLatestPosts` type interface where it looks like you can reference functions. But this leads to a deep chain of reference. Like, that function leads to `@stevekrouse.hnSearch` which leads to `@stevekrouse.fetchJSON` which leads to `@stevekrouse.normalizeURL`, etc.<p>There is some kind of DAG of dependencies that is invisible to me. I&#x27;m wondering what could be done from a UI perspective here? Like, maybe a tree view where each node is expandable? Right now it just pops open a new browser tab and I end up with context spread across multiple tabs.<p>The concept of composable references is powerful but I think the UX could be improved.</text></comment> |
4,367,315 | 4,366,989 | 1 | 2 | 4,366,203 | train | <story><title>You'll never be Chinese</title><url>http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/37198?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>"A China that leads the world will not offer the chance to be Chinese, because it is impossible to become Chinese. "<p>Of course. The British led the world and did not offer (at the time) anyone the chance to be British either. In fact, they actively discouraged interbreeding. It is a dogma of the modern Occident that it is stronger to be multi-ethnic, and that national identity should be open to anyone. History shows us, however, that that is hardly a necessity for world empire.<p>Full disclosure: I was once in love with a Chinese woman from an elite family, who I am fairly certain loved me but rejected me because I did not belong to the appropriate stock (with influence from her family). Lesson learned: if love is strong, kinship bonds are often stronger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msabalau</author><text>Of course, that we speak of "the British" is a testament to a certain level of success of melding English/Scottish/Welsh identities, much of which happened in the context of imperial endeavor. And certainly many other groups (Sepoys, say) found their interests aligned at times with the imperial project, in a way that outweighed their ethnic background.<p>Being open to a flexible interpretation of identity/citzenship (Brits, Romans) or having a nominally universal ideology/religion (Americans, Islamic caliphates) seems like it be a large help in successful world leadership, even if it's not a prerequisite.</text></comment> | <story><title>You'll never be Chinese</title><url>http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/37198?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>"A China that leads the world will not offer the chance to be Chinese, because it is impossible to become Chinese. "<p>Of course. The British led the world and did not offer (at the time) anyone the chance to be British either. In fact, they actively discouraged interbreeding. It is a dogma of the modern Occident that it is stronger to be multi-ethnic, and that national identity should be open to anyone. History shows us, however, that that is hardly a necessity for world empire.<p>Full disclosure: I was once in love with a Chinese woman from an elite family, who I am fairly certain loved me but rejected me because I did not belong to the appropriate stock (with influence from her family). Lesson learned: if love is strong, kinship bonds are often stronger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>&#62; A China that leads the world will not offer the chance to be Chinese, because it is impossible to become Chinese.<p>I feel that this only applies for the elite, especially when there's a lot of political infighting; marrying an outsider will weaken the whole family which is really bad in a low trust society but that's another topic. This is not true for all social levels of China. China has practiced for what my international affairs prof terms as "reverse genocide". What is it? When an ethnically Han Chinese man or woman marries a non-Han partner, their children and their whole family are considered Chinese. To be fair, there are exceptions since China (and you can argue most of Asia) is still somewhat racist. If your children do no look "Chinese", they will not be considered as chinese.</text></comment> |
38,027,407 | 38,027,765 | 1 | 2 | 38,025,381 | train | <story><title>What happens when you vectorize wide PyTorch expressions?</title><url>https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2023/10/19/vectorizing-wide-pytorch-expressions.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregjm</author><text>&gt; My so-called CPU “active” time is actually an inferred value; CUDA spins the CPU 100% constantly, even when the CPU is just waiting for the GPU<p>The CUDA Runtime and Driver APIs allow you to use“blocking synchronization” where the CPU will go to sleep while waiting for synchronization with the device. However, it seems that PyTorch doesn’t expose this functionality in any of its Python APIs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pytorch&#x2F;pytorch&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28224">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pytorch&#x2F;pytorch&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28224</a><p>What happens when you try using ctypes to call into libcudart.so to set the device flags as described in the above issue? You’ll have to call torch.cuda.init() for it to work, and unfortunately it won’t work if PyTorch is launching kernels from other threads.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happens when you vectorize wide PyTorch expressions?</title><url>https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2023/10/19/vectorizing-wide-pytorch-expressions.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelpoet</author><text>I really hope those pow(x, 2) calls are getting turned into x * x, else it&#x27;s a performance catastrophe &#x2F; extreme beginner mistake even with vectorisation.<p>Also, this kind of ultra wide buffering consumes a ton of memory bandwidth for each operation, instead of keeping a small portion in cache&#x2F;registers. FLOPs are scaling sort of infinitely, whereas memory speed is flat, so this is increasingly a losing game; just because it&#x27;s faster than glacial Python doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s fast compared to a language which actually concerns itself with performance or a more cache aware approach.<p>For an extreme example of how you can even sometimes beat ultra optimised GPU ML libraries in this way, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NVlabs&#x2F;tiny-cuda-nn">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NVlabs&#x2F;tiny-cuda-nn</a></text></comment> |
13,490,473 | 13,489,770 | 1 | 3 | 13,489,156 | train | <story><title>First they came for the Iranians</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Melchizedek</author><text>Regardless of the hijackers motives, Saudi Arabia is by far the worst country when it comes to exporting and supporting terror. Iran is an island of sanity by comparison, and there are <i>no</i> Shia terrorist organizations nowadays (Hezbollah are not terrorists - they don&#x27;t blow up random civilians).</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit more interesting wrt. most 9&#x2F;11 hijackers being Saudis: I think it&#x27;s pretty much confirmed at this point that it was a deliberate choice by al Qaida, attempting to deteriorate US-Saudi relations.<p>But as long as Saudis are omitted from this regulation, it&#x27;s pretty ineffective. Then again, how much of &quot;terrorism legislation&quot; is actually preventing terrorism, as opposed to extending the powers of police and prosecution, or just being populist &quot;I&#x27;m doing something&quot;?</text></item><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>Trump is ostensibly using the 9&#x2F;11 play card to justify banning few muslim countries [0].
This is obviously a lie, since most of 911 hijackers were Saudis and his executive order is not banning the Saudis. I&#x27;m guessing on the strength of the Saudi lobby in DC [1] AND&#x2F;OR Trump&#x27;s potential business conflict in Saudi Arabia [2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;337545704&#x2F;Draft-Executive-Order-To-Limit-Entry-of-Muslim-Refugees-and-Immigrants" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;337545704&#x2F;Draft-Executive-Or...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saudi_Arabia_lobby_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saudi_Arabia_lobby_in_the_Unit...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests&#x2F;508382&#x2F;#Saudi-Arabia" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;donald-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nir</author><text>I suppose Rafic Hariri isn&#x27;t &quot;random&quot; as he was after all Lebanon&#x27;s democratically elect Prime Minister when Hezbollah assassinated him, but how about the 21 people who also died in that bombing?<p>I personally know a man who lost his wife (mother of their 3 kids) when Hezbollah bombed the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. 85 civilians were killed, but then again mostly Jewish so not exactly &quot;random&quot; either.<p>It always amazes me how many Western activists approach the world like a Hollywood movie. If Saudis are bad, and Trump is bad, then obviously their Shia rivals must be good!</text></comment> | <story><title>First they came for the Iranians</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Melchizedek</author><text>Regardless of the hijackers motives, Saudi Arabia is by far the worst country when it comes to exporting and supporting terror. Iran is an island of sanity by comparison, and there are <i>no</i> Shia terrorist organizations nowadays (Hezbollah are not terrorists - they don&#x27;t blow up random civilians).</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit more interesting wrt. most 9&#x2F;11 hijackers being Saudis: I think it&#x27;s pretty much confirmed at this point that it was a deliberate choice by al Qaida, attempting to deteriorate US-Saudi relations.<p>But as long as Saudis are omitted from this regulation, it&#x27;s pretty ineffective. Then again, how much of &quot;terrorism legislation&quot; is actually preventing terrorism, as opposed to extending the powers of police and prosecution, or just being populist &quot;I&#x27;m doing something&quot;?</text></item><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>Trump is ostensibly using the 9&#x2F;11 play card to justify banning few muslim countries [0].
This is obviously a lie, since most of 911 hijackers were Saudis and his executive order is not banning the Saudis. I&#x27;m guessing on the strength of the Saudi lobby in DC [1] AND&#x2F;OR Trump&#x27;s potential business conflict in Saudi Arabia [2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;337545704&#x2F;Draft-Executive-Order-To-Limit-Entry-of-Muslim-Refugees-and-Immigrants" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;337545704&#x2F;Draft-Executive-Or...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saudi_Arabia_lobby_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saudi_Arabia_lobby_in_the_Unit...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests&#x2F;508382&#x2F;#Saudi-Arabia" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;donald-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>this is so true. simple fact in face of all those years of propaganda against iran.<p>by no means are they some altruistic peace lovers, but considering other countries in the region, US could get much more if they would be allies since technically there are no obstacles (apart from 1979 US embassy issue, but nobody got killed, all released eventually... worse things happen, ie Behgazi and nobody cares if it serves some agenda).<p>If you go there nowadays, all the signs are in 2 languages - Farsi and English. Everybody speaks at least a bit English. Compared to say France :)</text></comment> |
31,417,903 | 31,416,933 | 1 | 2 | 31,410,042 | train | <story><title>Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades</title><url>https://un.curl.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>So this is a bit tangential.<p>I&#x27;ve been considering open sourcing my search engine. Search is like a fractal of interesting problems, and pretty much every aspect of the search engine has known areas of improvement, so I&#x27;m sure it would be a fun project to collaborate on.<p>I&#x27;m honestly a bit at a loss how to actually go about it, since it&#x27;s not an application or a library where others are expected to run it, but a fairly bespoke piece of web service that requires specific hardware configurations to do anything useful (as well as extremely unwieldy datasets). The only rolemodel I can find is something like Wikipedia.<p>I&#x27;m curious if anyone knows good &quot;role models&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeqaz</author><text>I run an Open Source project[0] and I&#x27;m in a group with a bunch of other Open Source founders. I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time thinking about these types of problems and I&#x27;ve put down some of them into a post here[1].<p>My email is on my profile if you&#x27;d like to chat directly. That offer extends to anybody else, too!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lunasec.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-build-an-open-source-business-in-2021-part-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lunasec.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-build-an-open-source...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades</title><url>https://un.curl.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>So this is a bit tangential.<p>I&#x27;ve been considering open sourcing my search engine. Search is like a fractal of interesting problems, and pretty much every aspect of the search engine has known areas of improvement, so I&#x27;m sure it would be a fun project to collaborate on.<p>I&#x27;m honestly a bit at a loss how to actually go about it, since it&#x27;s not an application or a library where others are expected to run it, but a fairly bespoke piece of web service that requires specific hardware configurations to do anything useful (as well as extremely unwieldy datasets). The only rolemodel I can find is something like Wikipedia.<p>I&#x27;m curious if anyone knows good &quot;role models&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxie_</author><text>My first question would be: what&#x27;s your goal? Why do you want to open source it?<p>Because if the answer is &quot;knowledge sharing&quot; then just document it and open it, that&#x27;s it, whoever is interested will show up (and if nobody does you don&#x27;t care, your goal is fulfilled). If instead your goal is to eventually build a community around it then you&#x27;ll have to put more effort (for example talk in conferences).<p>You get my point, you will know which road to take as soon as you know where you want to go.<p>My 2c.</text></comment> |
15,970,297 | 15,970,237 | 1 | 2 | 15,968,034 | train | <story><title>Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42423627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themistocle</author><text>I traveled recently in a foreign country where I did not speak the local language. Uber allowed me to enter my destination and location without confusing the driver. I could never have done this with a traditional taxi cab.</text></item><item><author>baby</author><text>Cabs are shit in most places around the world. What&#x27;s great with Uber is that you will avoid that while traveling.</text></item><item><author>collyw</author><text>Yours seems like a fairly usual reply when either Airbnb or Uber are discussed - &quot;it works for me&quot;. Great that it works for you.<p>I have never had a problem with the cabs where I live (and Uber is banned)<p>Anyway to add my anecdote as a counter to yours. I was back home in Scotland at Christmas last year. Private Cabs were all busy, so we tried an Uber wanted to charge nearly three times what the monopolistic black cabs (the ones you hail from the street) charge. My one and only experience with Uber and it didn&#x27;t seem good.</text></item><item><author>hug</author><text>I take a bunch of ubers, by which I mean I take maybe 4 or 5 ubers a week. Before I took ubers, I didn&#x27;t take cabs, I took the train. I walked five minutes to get on a tram to the train station, I switched to a train, and then I walked ten minutes home.<p>I never, really, took cabs. I can explain the multitude of reasons: Cab drivers with shitty attitudes, refusing to unlock the doors and just cracking open the window to ask how far it was you were planning to go: Too short? Don&#x27;t want to take you, fare is too small. Too long? Don&#x27;t want to take you, won&#x27;t get a fare back. I mean, y&#x27;know, cab drivers are legally obliged to take you on any distance journey but the lack of accountability meant that they wouldn&#x27;t. Sometimes there were no choices: Cab home or you won&#x27;t get there. In those cases, I&#x27;d take cabs. The cab driver would be rubbing his eyes, swerving all over the road, tired after working a 16 hour shift, while talking on the phone to, I guess, whoever would listen. Doing anything they could not to pay attention to driving, apparently.<p>And now I take ubers instead. It&#x27;s not because I like uber. It&#x27;s not because I think that the laws around the cab drivers should be ignored and uber should be allowed to flaunt that however they like. It&#x27;s because I think that, at least right now, uber works better than laws. At least right now.<p>Is the contractor thing a little bit on the suspicious side? Definitely. Should they pay their &quot;driver partners&quot; more? Definitely. Do I think that this problem is uber&#x27;s fault? Most definitely not.<p>I don&#x27;t have lyft available to me. If I did, I&#x27;d probably use lyft. I&#x27;m happy with being slightly conscientious and paying a bit more, knowing that I&#x27;m not ripping off some guy who can&#x27;t do any better. Anecdotally, most of my friends think the same thing.<p>But what I won&#x27;t do is support the existing cab industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbart</author><text>So people before Uber have <i>never</i> used taxis in foreign countries?&#x2F;s In most countries taxis already have apps comparable to Uber available on Google Play. Even before that, I&#x27;ve managed to get a taxi in China without understanding a single word or symbol (could be said the same about driver and English) and successfully reach my hotel -- showing a hotel&#x27;s reservation did the trick (I bet that pointing a finger on a location on a map would also work).</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42423627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themistocle</author><text>I traveled recently in a foreign country where I did not speak the local language. Uber allowed me to enter my destination and location without confusing the driver. I could never have done this with a traditional taxi cab.</text></item><item><author>baby</author><text>Cabs are shit in most places around the world. What&#x27;s great with Uber is that you will avoid that while traveling.</text></item><item><author>collyw</author><text>Yours seems like a fairly usual reply when either Airbnb or Uber are discussed - &quot;it works for me&quot;. Great that it works for you.<p>I have never had a problem with the cabs where I live (and Uber is banned)<p>Anyway to add my anecdote as a counter to yours. I was back home in Scotland at Christmas last year. Private Cabs were all busy, so we tried an Uber wanted to charge nearly three times what the monopolistic black cabs (the ones you hail from the street) charge. My one and only experience with Uber and it didn&#x27;t seem good.</text></item><item><author>hug</author><text>I take a bunch of ubers, by which I mean I take maybe 4 or 5 ubers a week. Before I took ubers, I didn&#x27;t take cabs, I took the train. I walked five minutes to get on a tram to the train station, I switched to a train, and then I walked ten minutes home.<p>I never, really, took cabs. I can explain the multitude of reasons: Cab drivers with shitty attitudes, refusing to unlock the doors and just cracking open the window to ask how far it was you were planning to go: Too short? Don&#x27;t want to take you, fare is too small. Too long? Don&#x27;t want to take you, won&#x27;t get a fare back. I mean, y&#x27;know, cab drivers are legally obliged to take you on any distance journey but the lack of accountability meant that they wouldn&#x27;t. Sometimes there were no choices: Cab home or you won&#x27;t get there. In those cases, I&#x27;d take cabs. The cab driver would be rubbing his eyes, swerving all over the road, tired after working a 16 hour shift, while talking on the phone to, I guess, whoever would listen. Doing anything they could not to pay attention to driving, apparently.<p>And now I take ubers instead. It&#x27;s not because I like uber. It&#x27;s not because I think that the laws around the cab drivers should be ignored and uber should be allowed to flaunt that however they like. It&#x27;s because I think that, at least right now, uber works better than laws. At least right now.<p>Is the contractor thing a little bit on the suspicious side? Definitely. Should they pay their &quot;driver partners&quot; more? Definitely. Do I think that this problem is uber&#x27;s fault? Most definitely not.<p>I don&#x27;t have lyft available to me. If I did, I&#x27;d probably use lyft. I&#x27;m happy with being slightly conscientious and paying a bit more, knowing that I&#x27;m not ripping off some guy who can&#x27;t do any better. Anecdotally, most of my friends think the same thing.<p>But what I won&#x27;t do is support the existing cab industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>collyw</author><text>I have managed to take taxis in plenty of countries where I don&#x27;t speak the language. Don&#x27;t pretend that its something difficult.</text></comment> |
34,260,057 | 34,258,694 | 1 | 2 | 34,257,837 | train | <story><title>How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)</title><url>https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66538/how-do-i-draw-a-pair-of-buttocks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metayrnc</author><text>For anyone interested in drawing&#x2F;sculpting with math, I would highly recommend this channel. There are some amazing things.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@InigoQuilez">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@InigoQuilez</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstrieb</author><text>I second this recommendation, Inigo Quilez is amazing!<p>If you&#x27;re interested in learning the fundamentals of some of the math he uses, I can highly recommend the CMU computer graphics course. It&#x27;s free on YouTube.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL9_jI1bdZmz2emSh0UQ5iOdT2xRHFHL7E">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL9_jI1bdZmz2emSh0UQ5iOdT2...</a><p>The professor, Keenan Crane, puts out a ton of super interesting, high-quality research as well. His website is awesome.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~kmcrane&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~kmcrane&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)</title><url>https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66538/how-do-i-draw-a-pair-of-buttocks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metayrnc</author><text>For anyone interested in drawing&#x2F;sculpting with math, I would highly recommend this channel. There are some amazing things.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@InigoQuilez">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@InigoQuilez</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joenot443</author><text>IQ is the man! He’s the dev behind ShaderToy. He’s seen as somewhat of a Gandalf figure in the amateur shader dev community; some of what he produces in GLSL is light years beyond what most devs can conceptualize in a shader.</text></comment> |
7,996,251 | 7,996,267 | 1 | 3 | 7,994,102 | train | <story><title>Rob Pike's Rules of Programming</title><url>http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I feel torn about the &quot;premature optimization&quot; stuff. On the one hand it&#x27;s clearly true that we&#x27;re terrible at predicting bottlenecks and it makes no real sense to second guess them at any fine level of detail. On the other hand, I think about products that I love to use and they are all fast. I think about the first iPhone and how utterly crucial that first user experience was. Did they achieve that by just writing giant gobs of code and then circling back afterwards to fix a few hotspots? I think about how Chrome was such a delight after FireFox got slower and slower and more bogged down. Clearly, Chrome was written from the ground up to avoid that. I am not so sure you can really optimise for performance after the fact, at least not universally. There are times when you have to build it into the very fabric of a project right from the start. Once a project has a giant mass of moderately slow code, there&#x27;s nothing you can do except rewrite it to get better performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comlonq</author><text>Yes, that is exactly what Apple did with the iPhone. They wrote the interface then tested it over and over again and made optimisations on every iteration.. This was before it was released to the general public.<p>The article is talking about optimising before you can prove where the problems are... Apple had excellent testing which showed where a lot of issues were. Some issues may well have not been discovered until a wider audience had access though.<p>Testing can happen before you release a product you know? You new fangled startup MVP types only think good testing happens on paying customers. Fuck you guys.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rob Pike's Rules of Programming</title><url>http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I feel torn about the &quot;premature optimization&quot; stuff. On the one hand it&#x27;s clearly true that we&#x27;re terrible at predicting bottlenecks and it makes no real sense to second guess them at any fine level of detail. On the other hand, I think about products that I love to use and they are all fast. I think about the first iPhone and how utterly crucial that first user experience was. Did they achieve that by just writing giant gobs of code and then circling back afterwards to fix a few hotspots? I think about how Chrome was such a delight after FireFox got slower and slower and more bogged down. Clearly, Chrome was written from the ground up to avoid that. I am not so sure you can really optimise for performance after the fact, at least not universally. There are times when you have to build it into the very fabric of a project right from the start. Once a project has a giant mass of moderately slow code, there&#x27;s nothing you can do except rewrite it to get better performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrScruff</author><text>I think there&#x27;s some truth to this. The assumption that there will be low hanging fruit in the profiler when you eventually start worrying about performance isn&#x27;t always true.<p>Also, the more you worry about writing performant code, the easier it will be for you to write it that way in the first place without making sacrifices in code readability or maintainability. It&#x27;s a myth that high performance code is always more complex and error prone. If performance is always something put off as something to address later, you can end up with as you describe &#x27;a giant mass of moderately slow code&#x27;.<p>What I do agree with is that picking the correct data structures has more of an impact that algorithm noodling, though that has it&#x27;s place.</text></comment> |
3,726,356 | 3,726,421 | 1 | 2 | 3,726,164 | train | <story><title>Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazon-acquiring-kiva-systems-for-775-million/71976</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>candre717</author><text>Kiva is a great company. They have been innovating since day 1, tapping into various industries. Last year, they put their robots on the floors of Boston Scientific's fulfillment center - a first for them in the highly-sensitive, highly-regulated medical arena. And, to be bought in CASH... I hope employees and the founding team made out well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazon-acquiring-kiva-systems-for-775-million/71976</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iandanforth</author><text>It's a great time to start a robotics company and I hope this exit will further accelerate the pace of new companies being created! Kiva is also a great example of nailing a single high-value problem even if it's not the sexiest challenge.</text></comment> |
25,193,293 | 25,190,703 | 1 | 2 | 25,188,493 | train | <story><title>Iconic Star Wars Book Author Claims Disney Owes Him 4 Years of Overdue Royalties</title><url>https://movieweb.com/star-wars-books-alan-dean-foster-disney-royalties/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>No, the more accurate headline would be the one that is currently in place (that the author is claiming that he is owed royalties).<p>As it stands, the irrefutable evidence from the US Copyright Office is that these novelizations were works-for-hire, so ADF would never have been owed any royalties, let alone for the past 4 years, unless he had a non-standard WFH agreement which he has thus far failed to produce.</text></item><item><author>hairofadog</author><text>I’m no lawyer, but from my perspective a more accurate headline would be “Disney owes iconic Star Wars book author 4 years of overdue royalties”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>SFWA seems to be saying that Disney&#x27;s argument is that when they bought the rights from George Lucas, the royalties didn&#x27;t come along with that. It seems Disney is not asserting there are no royalties in the contract, just rather that they don&#x27;t have to pay them.<p>I assume SFWA and ADF have discussed this beyond what they are posting to twitter. Him not posting the contract to everyone on the internet seems like a weird detail to call out as a point against him.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iconic Star Wars Book Author Claims Disney Owes Him 4 Years of Overdue Royalties</title><url>https://movieweb.com/star-wars-books-alan-dean-foster-disney-royalties/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>No, the more accurate headline would be the one that is currently in place (that the author is claiming that he is owed royalties).<p>As it stands, the irrefutable evidence from the US Copyright Office is that these novelizations were works-for-hire, so ADF would never have been owed any royalties, let alone for the past 4 years, unless he had a non-standard WFH agreement which he has thus far failed to produce.</text></item><item><author>hairofadog</author><text>I’m no lawyer, but from my perspective a more accurate headline would be “Disney owes iconic Star Wars book author 4 years of overdue royalties”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigzero</author><text>That may be the case since he WAS getting the royalties before Disney snatched it up.</text></comment> |
12,108,498 | 12,108,504 | 1 | 2 | 12,108,311 | train | <story><title>Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden?</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/spy-or-whistleblower-should-obama-settle-snowden-479813</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraca</author><text>For me, Hillary being let off changed how I view the Snowden affair. Before Hillary was let off without penalty, I thought that exposing or acting carelessly with classified information was a really big deal, that it seriously put American lives at risk - AND that others were doing a good job keeping that information under wraps, so breaches would be meaningful. Now it seems more like a political game. Hillary put us in more danger than Snowden. Punishing snowden is more about keeping info out of eyes of American public (i.e., Hillary&#x27;s emails still need to be redacted, even though her server was likely hacked and info is almost certainly out there and America&#x27;s ememies have it.) I hope that Hillary skating will set a precedent that will allow more whistleblowers to come forward to the public with information when needed without being penalized. Perhaps whistleblowers might use the strategy of releasing information &#x27;unintentionally&#x27; and then use the Hillary defense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Hillary stored classified information on a privately owned email server. Snowden collected a cache of classified documents and gave them to foreign journalists. There&#x27;s really no comparison between the two. One is an instance of careless information security by someone who found the official systems inconvenient to use and the other is deliberately disclosing classified information.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden?</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/spy-or-whistleblower-should-obama-settle-snowden-479813</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraca</author><text>For me, Hillary being let off changed how I view the Snowden affair. Before Hillary was let off without penalty, I thought that exposing or acting carelessly with classified information was a really big deal, that it seriously put American lives at risk - AND that others were doing a good job keeping that information under wraps, so breaches would be meaningful. Now it seems more like a political game. Hillary put us in more danger than Snowden. Punishing snowden is more about keeping info out of eyes of American public (i.e., Hillary&#x27;s emails still need to be redacted, even though her server was likely hacked and info is almost certainly out there and America&#x27;s ememies have it.) I hope that Hillary skating will set a precedent that will allow more whistleblowers to come forward to the public with information when needed without being penalized. Perhaps whistleblowers might use the strategy of releasing information &#x27;unintentionally&#x27; and then use the Hillary defense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrenalinelol</author><text>Leaking classified material was sacrilege in Washington... Until someone of privilege (HRC) did it... Now the the obvious hypocrisy has been exposed, we can stop pretending there were intractable operational risks created be Edward Snowden and pardon him. Before the leaks, anyone who claimed we were turning into a police state was branded a conspiracy theorist, now it&#x27;s part of the public record. Had it remained in the shadows it&#x27;d be a far scarier monstrosity than we have today.</text></comment> |
7,213,124 | 7,212,263 | 1 | 3 | 7,211,341 | train | <story><title>Why don’t software development methodologies work?</title><url>http://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msluyter</author><text>It&#x27;s fun to watch observations like the following re-discovered again and again. From the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968:<p><i>Ross: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it. And that is where most of our troubles come from.</i><p><i>Fraser: One of the problems that is central to the software production process is to identify the nature of progress and
to find some way of measuring it. Only one thing seems to be clear just now. It is that program construction is
not always a simple progression in which each act of assembly represents a distinct forward step and that the
final product can be described simply as the sum of many sub-assemblies.</i><p>(Full transcript of the 1968 conference here. <a href="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk&#x2F;brian.randell&#x2F;NATO&#x2F;nato1968.PD...</a> It&#x27;s a really fun read!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jshen</author><text>Imagine you are a large company and there are 10 ideas for things you can build next, and you can&#x27;t do them all. You gather the people that build such things and ask them, &quot;how much will it cost to make each of these, and how long will it take&quot;. Do you think it is an acceptable answer if the builders reply, &quot;I have no idea how much it will cost, I don&#x27;t know how long it will take, and I don&#x27;t know what you will have at the end of the process.&quot; How should a business handle this problem?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why don’t software development methodologies work?</title><url>http://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msluyter</author><text>It&#x27;s fun to watch observations like the following re-discovered again and again. From the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968:<p><i>Ross: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it. And that is where most of our troubles come from.</i><p><i>Fraser: One of the problems that is central to the software production process is to identify the nature of progress and
to find some way of measuring it. Only one thing seems to be clear just now. It is that program construction is
not always a simple progression in which each act of assembly represents a distinct forward step and that the
final product can be described simply as the sum of many sub-assemblies.</i><p>(Full transcript of the 1968 conference here. <a href="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk&#x2F;brian.randell&#x2F;NATO&#x2F;nato1968.PD...</a> It&#x27;s a really fun read!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emddudley</author><text>The 1968 NATO SE conference is also the earliest reference I know of discussing software reuse (page 79 of the PDF, &quot;Mass Produced Software Components&quot;). Interesting to see how some of the problems then are still problems today.</text></comment> |
22,869,272 | 22,869,645 | 1 | 2 | 22,868,054 | train | <story><title>Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-warehou/amazon-fires-two-employees-critical-of-warehouse-working-conditions-idUSKCN21W0UI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A4ET8a8uTh0</author><text>Uhh, I don&#x27;t want to be Amazon defender, but in US most of the employment is at will. In practical terms, they can fire you for any or no reason at all. There are practicalities that come into play that have to do with unemployment insurance and whatnot, but company policy violation is a defensible &#x27;cause&#x27; for firing.<p>I am not a lawyer nor am I condoning this, but them is the facts.<p>edit: added play</text></item><item><author>advisedwang</author><text>&gt; “We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions, but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies,” Herdener said.<p>&gt; Amazon’s external communications policy prohibits employees from commenting publicly on its business without corporate justification and approval from executives. Herdener previously said the policy did not allow employees to “publicly disparage or misrepresent the company.”<p>Amazon is straight up firing these people for expressing their personal opinions. Amazon isn&#x27;t even claiming they lied, or pretend to speak officially, or any other reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>I think people are outraged not because it&#x27;s illegal, but because it&#x27;s unconscionable. I think the general understanding is people shouldn&#x27;t have outside-work activities be held against them, maybe it&#x27;s time for the law to catch up.<p>It&#x27;s pretty easy to come up with a lot of absurd and &quot;legal&quot; at-will policies (e.g. we&#x27;ll fire anybody who watches porn)</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-warehou/amazon-fires-two-employees-critical-of-warehouse-working-conditions-idUSKCN21W0UI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A4ET8a8uTh0</author><text>Uhh, I don&#x27;t want to be Amazon defender, but in US most of the employment is at will. In practical terms, they can fire you for any or no reason at all. There are practicalities that come into play that have to do with unemployment insurance and whatnot, but company policy violation is a defensible &#x27;cause&#x27; for firing.<p>I am not a lawyer nor am I condoning this, but them is the facts.<p>edit: added play</text></item><item><author>advisedwang</author><text>&gt; “We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions, but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies,” Herdener said.<p>&gt; Amazon’s external communications policy prohibits employees from commenting publicly on its business without corporate justification and approval from executives. Herdener previously said the policy did not allow employees to “publicly disparage or misrepresent the company.”<p>Amazon is straight up firing these people for expressing their personal opinions. Amazon isn&#x27;t even claiming they lied, or pretend to speak officially, or any other reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenocyon</author><text>&gt; nor am I condoning this<p>Nobody&#x27;s questioning the legality. The question is whether it should be condoned.<p>Private censorship is legal, but IMHO it can be unethical, especially when the balance of power is so far askew. An employer firing or threatening to fire an employee for speaking can have a large chilling effect.</text></comment> |
16,270,157 | 16,269,733 | 1 | 2 | 16,269,228 | train | <story><title>How to Beat Amazon</title><url>http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/how-to-beat-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrenotgiant</author><text>I think people are starting to also notice cracks emerge in Amazon&#x27;s e-commerce quality as it scales, whether&#x2F;when it becomes enough of a problem to change shopper behavior is another question, but here are some examples I&#x27;ve seen:<p>- Blatant fake thumbdrives - this entire section is thumb drive scammers using the hack that makes a drive appear larger in system info <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_8?fst=as%3Aoff&amp;rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A1292110011%2Cn%3A3151491%2Ck%3Athumb+drive%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A10285020011&amp;keywords=thumb+drive&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1513525301&amp;rnid=1259751011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_8?f...</a><p>- $23 knock-off magsafes rife with fake reviews, that break&#x2F;fry in days - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_7?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&amp;field-keywords=magsafe+charger&amp;sprefix=magsafe%2Caps%2C185&amp;crid=J0KJGT8BMTT6&amp;rh=n%3A541966%2Ck%3Amagsafe+charger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_7?url=search-alias...</a><p>- The level of chaos in shopping categories effectively prevents you from doing things like sorting by price or reviews.<p>In my experience, Amazon is always happy to refund on these things and chalk it up as cost of scaling, but when does it start to become too much, similar to what happened to ebay?</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Beat Amazon</title><url>http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/how-to-beat-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>Complicating beating Amazon is the fact that it is lead by the arguably the best CEO in all of tech (and maybe in any company).<p>Whatever else may be said about Bezos, he has the ability to think long-term, create new markets, and execute on his vision. He also has the trust of investors who still buy Amazon stock even though he pretty much reinvests all the profits. The combination of existing market dominance, excellent leadership, and ready access to vast amounts of capital is a very hard combination to beat.</text></comment> |
12,037,630 | 12,037,276 | 1 | 2 | 12,037,042 | train | <story><title>FBI Statement on Clinton Email System</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tanderson92</author><text>&gt; From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, <i>110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received</i>. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.<p>(emphasis mine)<p>This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point, that none of the e-mails were classified <i>at the time they were sent</i>. Director Comey even goes so far as to use the same language the Clintons have been employing. Will we see a walk-back of that line in light of this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nanny</author><text>&gt;This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point<p>Straight from her website:<p>&gt;Clinton only used her account for unclassified email. No information in Clinton&#x27;s emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillaryclinton.com&#x2F;briefing&#x2F;factsheets&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;email-facts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillaryclinton.com&#x2F;briefing&#x2F;factsheets&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;1...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FBI Statement on Clinton Email System</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tanderson92</author><text>&gt; From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, <i>110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received</i>. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.<p>(emphasis mine)<p>This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point, that none of the e-mails were classified <i>at the time they were sent</i>. Director Comey even goes so far as to use the same language the Clintons have been employing. Will we see a walk-back of that line in light of this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>When has Clinton ever flipped on an issue? <i>cough</i></text></comment> |
11,193,569 | 11,192,512 | 1 | 3 | 11,182,648 | train | <story><title>A hunt for the government's oldest computer</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/feb/24/hunt-governments-oldest-computer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huntsman</author><text>At one stage I suspected I was in charge of the oldest in use computer still running in the world.<p>In 2001, the Australian Navy still used the Mk152 computer. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;UNIVAC_418" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;UNIVAC_418</a> on the last remaining Charles F Adams class destroyer, HMAS BRISBANE.<p>It was a general purpose computer entirely constructed from individual transistors with magnetic core memory. We had two of these onboard and if both were down we couldn&#x27;t fire the missile system. I had 3 sailors dedicates solely to keeping these ancient machines running.<p>We got to diagnose some pretty cool bugs, like what happens when the card corresponding the the lowest significant bit of the least use register has an intermittent fault due to a bad mechanical connection.</text></comment> | <story><title>A hunt for the government's oldest computer</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/feb/24/hunt-governments-oldest-computer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevewilhelm</author><text>NORAD? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;assets&#x2F;140&#x2F;133240.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;assets&#x2F;140&#x2F;133240.pdf</a><p>Voyager 1? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voyager.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;mission&#x2F;didyouknow.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voyager.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;mission&#x2F;didyouknow.html</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;history.nasa.gov&#x2F;computers&#x2F;Ch6-2.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;history.nasa.gov&#x2F;computers&#x2F;Ch6-2.html</a></text></comment> |
12,553,956 | 12,553,659 | 1 | 3 | 12,551,863 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37435425</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kendallpark</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re putting money into medical research, but I kinda roll my eyes when people make big claims about curing X, especially when X is something incredibly broad like &quot;cancer&quot; or in this case, &quot;all diseases.&quot; AI&#x2F;ML has barely scratched the surface of its potential in medicine, however, I find it naive to think that you can throw AI&#x2F;ML at any random disease and always get a cure. Even after a century. Will we have a cure for trisomy 21? For antisocial personality disorder? For obesity and addiction? These things are far more complicated than just creating the right drug.<p>But as much as I&#x27;m rolling my eyes at their blanket statement, the spirit of &quot;yes we can!&quot; does way more for science and progress than naysay of critics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>segmondy</author><text>People would have rolled their eyes, if someone said. I wanted to connect the world. I want to connect virutally everyone, where you can just reach anyone at anyplace at any time for cheap.<p>30 yrs ago, in a different part of the world. My father had to catch a bus from a village to the city, then catch a plane to a major city to make international phone call to the US to his business partners. Today, people in that same village can sign on to HN and reply to this very post. Or tweet and facebook real time.<p>Maybe they won&#x27;t be the one to solve it, maybe it would take a bit longer, who knows? Gotta give it a shot. Maybe we won&#x27;t cure all the disease. Perhaps we eliminate 85%. That would be great too. Stay optimistic my friend.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37435425</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kendallpark</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re putting money into medical research, but I kinda roll my eyes when people make big claims about curing X, especially when X is something incredibly broad like &quot;cancer&quot; or in this case, &quot;all diseases.&quot; AI&#x2F;ML has barely scratched the surface of its potential in medicine, however, I find it naive to think that you can throw AI&#x2F;ML at any random disease and always get a cure. Even after a century. Will we have a cure for trisomy 21? For antisocial personality disorder? For obesity and addiction? These things are far more complicated than just creating the right drug.<p>But as much as I&#x27;m rolling my eyes at their blanket statement, the spirit of &quot;yes we can!&quot; does way more for science and progress than naysay of critics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toufka</author><text>Without disagreeing with your point, there are actually <i>currently</i> gene therapies to cure trisomy 21 [1] (a clever trick of affixing the signal that is used to silence a (female&#x27;s)&#x2F;the (male&#x27;s) X chromosome to the 3rd of the 21st chromosomes). I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s all the way through FDA approval, and is still very much experimental, but is exactly the kind of thing that is curable. And that is where your point stands: it is hard to know which unknowns are easy unknowns, and which unknowns are nearly impossible unknowns because both are currently of the same quality - unknown. The grandiose claim is fancy, and much will be accomplished in 80 years, but even ill-defined language of &#x27;disease&#x27; and &#x27;cure&#x27; belies our ignorance.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;down-syndromes-extra-chromosome-silenced&#x2F;303003" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;down-syndromes-extra-chromosome...</a></text></comment> |
15,662,906 | 15,662,843 | 1 | 3 | 15,662,447 | train | <story><title>The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2017/11/greater-fool-theory-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autokad</author><text>I was having a conversation about bitcoin, and I was saying the fact that the price goes up so fast means people cant&#x2F;wont actually use it as a currency. I think someone bought a pizza with 10k bitcoin? thats now 70 million $. Even in the last year it has moved up so fast, and if people think it will continue to grow &#x27;because of adoption&#x27;, people cant actually &#x27;adopt&#x27; it and use it as a currency, because todays bitcoin is worth a lot less than tomorrows.<p>then i realized, i was describing deflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrock</author><text>It definitely means people won&#x27;t use it as a unit of account (for debts, budgets, etc), which is one primary use for a currency...<p>But I don&#x27;t think it means people won&#x27;t spend it or trade it for some other currency or asset. If you held a bunch of bitcoin while the price in USD doubled, and you happened to want a new smartphone, you&#x27;re sure you wouldn&#x27;t buy one?<p>If you were absolutely confident the price would quickly rise even more, maybe you would prefer holding, but if you really want the phone and you think BTC&#x2F;USD has some risk?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2017/11/greater-fool-theory-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autokad</author><text>I was having a conversation about bitcoin, and I was saying the fact that the price goes up so fast means people cant&#x2F;wont actually use it as a currency. I think someone bought a pizza with 10k bitcoin? thats now 70 million $. Even in the last year it has moved up so fast, and if people think it will continue to grow &#x27;because of adoption&#x27;, people cant actually &#x27;adopt&#x27; it and use it as a currency, because todays bitcoin is worth a lot less than tomorrows.<p>then i realized, i was describing deflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>You are describing an insane rate of deflation. People do very different things with currencies that evaluate a more normal 3% an year.</text></comment> |
39,330,493 | 39,330,237 | 1 | 2 | 39,324,956 | train | <story><title>Cloud Egress Costs</title><url>https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PreInternet01</author><text>The cost of egress traffic is a <i>very</i> good reason for many organizations to not fully migrate to a cloud provider anytime soon. And since, unlike with storage costs, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be an actual <i>reason</i> (other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases), that seems kind of... weird?<p>Small example: an actual company I do some work for is in the business of delivering creative assets to distributors. This results in an egress of around 180TB per month, which is, on average just, around 500Mb&#x2F;s.<p>So, this company currently operates 2 racks in commercial data centers, linked via 10Gb&#x2F;s Ethernet-over-DWDM, with 2x512Mb&#x2F;s and 1x1Gb&#x2F;s Internet uplinks per DC. Each rack has 2 generic-OEM servers with ~64 AMD Zen cores, 1&#x2F;2TB RAM, ~8TB NVMe and ~100TB SAS RAID6 storage per node.<p>Just the cost-savings over egress on AWS is enough to justify that setup, including the cost of an engineer to keep it all up and running (even though the effort required for that turns out to be minimal).<p>So, are cloud providers ignoring a significant market here, or is the markup on their current customers lucrative enough?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases<p>My theory: it forces third party services into the same cloud.<p>Suppose you use AWS and you want to pay a third party SaaS provider for some service involving moderate-to-large amounts of data. Here’s one of many examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snowflake.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;pricing-options&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snowflake.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;pricing-options&#x2F;</a><p>And look at this remarkable choice: you get to pick AWS, Azure, or GCP! Snowflake is paying a <i>lot</i> of money to host on those clouds, and they’re passing those costs on to customers.<p>Snowflake is big. They have lots of engineers. They are obviously cloud-agnostic: they already support three clouds. It would surely be <i>much</i> cheaper to operate a physical facility, and they could plausibly offer better performance (because NVMe is amazing), and they could split the cost savings with customers. But they don’t, and my theory is that egress from customers to Snowflake would negate any cost savings, and the <i>variable</i> nature of the costs would scare away customers.<p>So my theory is that the ways that customers <i>avoid</i> egress fees makes the major clouds a lot of money. IMO regulators should take a very careful look at this, but it’s an excellent business decision on the parts of the clouds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloud Egress Costs</title><url>https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PreInternet01</author><text>The cost of egress traffic is a <i>very</i> good reason for many organizations to not fully migrate to a cloud provider anytime soon. And since, unlike with storage costs, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be an actual <i>reason</i> (other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases), that seems kind of... weird?<p>Small example: an actual company I do some work for is in the business of delivering creative assets to distributors. This results in an egress of around 180TB per month, which is, on average just, around 500Mb&#x2F;s.<p>So, this company currently operates 2 racks in commercial data centers, linked via 10Gb&#x2F;s Ethernet-over-DWDM, with 2x512Mb&#x2F;s and 1x1Gb&#x2F;s Internet uplinks per DC. Each rack has 2 generic-OEM servers with ~64 AMD Zen cores, 1&#x2F;2TB RAM, ~8TB NVMe and ~100TB SAS RAID6 storage per node.<p>Just the cost-savings over egress on AWS is enough to justify that setup, including the cost of an engineer to keep it all up and running (even though the effort required for that turns out to be minimal).<p>So, are cloud providers ignoring a significant market here, or is the markup on their current customers lucrative enough?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thimp</author><text>I saw a hilarious fuck up a few months ago. Company sets up an AWS hosted always on VPN solution. Connects 1000 staff through it. Celebrates how they saved $50k on the VPN solution. Gets $25k AWS bill for the just the first month of egress traffic. Turns out the data was leaving AWS egress three separate times.</text></comment> |
11,156,447 | 11,156,430 | 1 | 2 | 11,156,168 | train | <story><title>Vinod Khosla asks for $30M for access to public beach</title><url>http://www.abc10.com/news/local/california/billionaire-asks-for-30m-for-access-to-public-beach/50023553</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmspring</author><text>Tone deaf as usual. Roughly 90 acres purchased in 2008 for $32.5mil, easement according to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;Vinod-Khosla-wants-30-million-for-Martins-Beach-6847689.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;Vinod-Khosla-wants-30-...</a> is about an acre. That&#x27;s quite a bit of appreciation.<p>Khosla is wrong in this one and continues to be an example of tone deafness on access rights and how the Bay Area sees beach access as compared to Malibu, etc. (They have similar fights down there, but, well, the gentrification and blockage is more established).</text></comment> | <story><title>Vinod Khosla asks for $30M for access to public beach</title><url>http://www.abc10.com/news/local/california/billionaire-asks-for-30m-for-access-to-public-beach/50023553</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>Man, Vinod is burning up every shred of street cred he had with this fight over the beach in front of his property. For someone who has often taken liberal or progressive positions on other things, this seems remarkably tone deaf.<p>The law on public beaches in California is clear. You can&#x27;t privatize a beach by trying to obstruct people from getting to it.</text></comment> |
18,955,725 | 18,954,423 | 1 | 3 | 18,953,697 | train | <story><title>Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl</title><url>https://github.com/martinraison/ascii-tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m45t3r</author><text>Not ASCII, however a cool hack using mpv is that it can display actual videos in a terminal emulator that supports true color output [1]. Just run the following command:<p><pre><code> mpv -vo tct video_file.mkv
</code></pre>
Reduce the font size to increase resolution. Also, a GPU accelerated terminal like Kitty [2] is recommended, or the video will be painfully slow.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;XVilka&#x2F;8346728" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;XVilka&#x2F;8346728</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl</title><url>https://github.com/martinraison/ascii-tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamiek88</author><text>Now <i>this</i> is hacker news!!<p>Ludicrous on the surface yet brilliant.<p>Kudos to the creator, and it’s great that such a senior engineer with his track record and contributions still has that spirit in him.</text></comment> |
27,502,071 | 27,501,261 | 1 | 2 | 27,490,596 | train | <story><title>Untapped potential in Rust's type system</title><url>https://www.jakobmeier.ch/blogging/Untapped-Rust.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richardwhiuk</author><text>Note, you have to be quite careful with typeid - you can end up with types not matching because you have two different versions of a crate.<p>Normally this would be a compile time error, but using typeid can turn this into a runtime error.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;assert-type-eq&#x2F;0.1.0&#x2F;assert_type_eq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;assert-type-eq&#x2F;0.1.0&#x2F;assert_type_eq&#x2F;</a> allows you to assert that two types are the same, forcing a compile time error for this scenario.</text></comment> | <story><title>Untapped potential in Rust's type system</title><url>https://www.jakobmeier.ch/blogging/Untapped-Rust.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eptcyka</author><text>An interesting, yet somewhat unrelated discussion could be had about cases where one might want the type ID to not change when the type changes structurally. There are many structures in many ABI interfaces that are structurally different between releases, yet still binary compatible. This particular characteristic has always been defined adhoc, and I do wonder what a more formal system might mean. This almost feels like the issue of identity in distributed systems.</text></comment> |
11,754,152 | 11,753,547 | 1 | 2 | 11,752,917 | train | <story><title>The Dark Art of Mastering Music</title><url>http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9894-the-dark-art-of-mastering-music/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text>This is a long article that starts off stating that mastering is difficult to explain, and then proceeds to not explain mastering.<p>They&#x27;re implying that poor mastering was to blame for Metallica&#x27;s album. Weren&#x27;t people complaining it was over-compressed? That&#x27;s mixing <i>not</i> mastering!<p>Mastering is a matter of making sure that listening to an album from start to finish sounds consistent. That&#x27;s why songs that go on compilation albums are mastered once on the original album, and again on the compilation - they most certainly aren&#x27;t mixed again.<p>Mastering may involve a small amount of compression across all components of the song (although it really shouldn&#x27;t), but it&#x27;s mostly controlling loudness, and loudness at different parts of the audio spectrum (more low-end, more high-end). Mastering is effectively something you could do yourself with your stereo&#x27;s settings (if you were constantly adjusting the settings through-out the song), mixing is fundamentally different and consists of combining &quot;tracks&quot;; vocals, guitar, harmonies, drums, sound effects, adding samples over drums (i.e. mix in a better sounding drum, or hit there-of, over the drumming recorded for the song).<p>EDIT: For clarity, me stating:<p>&gt; Mastering may involve a small amount of compression across all components of the song (although it really shouldn&#x27;t)<p>is my subjective opinion. Master-bus compression does happen regularly enough <i>during mastering</i> (in addition to during mixing), but as stated, it is typically only a <i>small amount</i>, compared to what a Mixing Engineer can get away with on a per &quot;track&quot; basis.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dark Art of Mastering Music</title><url>http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9894-the-dark-art-of-mastering-music/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilh23</author><text>It&#x27;s hard getting something that sounds consistently good in all listening environments - I&#x27;ve seen cases where music is offered in digital format either as &#x27;play anywhere&#x27; loud .mp3s or 24-bit high dynamic-range .flacs for DJs, but most commercial music is mastered for the poorest environments (in the car, over the radio).<p>Getting a good master is very important - I&#x27;m reminded of a story I heard about an album that was mastered by the artist, and pressed to CD with a high-pitched whine over the top which the artist hadn&#x27;t been able to hear - like Aphex Twin&#x27;s Ventolin, but unintentional.</text></comment> |
20,266,233 | 20,263,678 | 1 | 3 | 20,262,695 | train | <story><title>Productivity brought by Clojure [slides]</title><url>https://www.slideshare.net/humorless/the-productivity-brought-by-clojure-149170292/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keymone</author><text>Clojure&#x27;s immutable data structures (lists, vectors, maps and sets) are actually <i>not</i> copy on write, they&#x27;re based on red-black trees such that when you &quot;mutate&quot; the value, a new one is created that shares everything but the mutated part with the original.<p>Clojure is amazing and i can&#x27;t recommend it enough. I wish more people looked past the unfamiliar syntax and understood why it exists and how it makes you achieve more with simpler code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Productivity brought by Clojure [slides]</title><url>https://www.slideshare.net/humorless/the-productivity-brought-by-clojure-149170292/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dimitar</author><text>Really nice to see stories about Clojure on HN.<p>Initially, it wasn&#x27;t clear for me what editor is used but it appears to be Vim&#x2F;Neovim with Fireplace: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tpope&#x2F;vim-fireplace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tpope&#x2F;vim-fireplace</a><p>Actually looks pretty simple and straightforward. There is a healthy choice of different editors and IDEs for Clojure right now, thanks to building on common foundations of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;tools.nrepl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;tools.nrepl</a></text></comment> |
9,885,214 | 9,884,960 | 1 | 3 | 9,884,566 | train | <story><title>The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising</title><url>http://arc.applause.com/2015/07/14/flash-vulnerability-html5-replacement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cwyers</author><text>Let&#x27;s say that we can get every major site to stop using Flash going forward, and that we can paper over it with HTML5 and polyfills. Great.<p>What do we do about the historic content that will never, ever be ported to anything other than Flash? Every thing on Kongregate? Newgrounds? Homestarrunner.com? Desktop Tower Defense? We&#x27;re talking about taking a decade&#x27;s worth of interactive web content and declaring it no longer relevant. Without a plan for preserving that material and continuing to make it accessible, I think that killing off Flash rather than deprecating it is a terrible idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising</title><url>http://arc.applause.com/2015/07/14/flash-vulnerability-html5-replacement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>velcro</author><text>A colleague of mine was a very vocal anti-Flash proponent - he used to say that he&#x27;s tired of his laptop overheating from those 5 stupid animated Flash banners (on his favourite news site).<p>The irony of it is - I&#x27;m not sure 5 animated WebGL banners would keep his laptop any cooler...</text></comment> |
39,379,177 | 39,378,076 | 1 | 3 | 39,377,055 | train | <story><title>Machine Assisted Proof [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayZuuDDKP0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jumploops</author><text>It&#x27;s refreshing to see someone like Terence Tao embrace GPT-4 as an assistant.<p>A few friends of mine (who are ML practitioners!) still don&#x27;t trust LLMs or find them useful in their day-to-day work.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed a similar trend among folks who work on compilers, preferring to &quot;stay in their lane&quot; instead of embracing GPT-4. The opposite appears true among those who work on user-facing applications, adoption of LLMs is much higher in their day-to-day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>An observation I&#x27;ve made is that people that were early adopters and effective users of web search such as AltaVista or these days Google are also good at using LLMs.<p>Almost every criticism of generative chat AI that I&#x27;ve seen in forums is someone holding it wrong, the direct equivalent of troubleshooting by searching for the term &quot;my PC crashed&quot; instead of a specific error code or whatever.<p>Similarly, the people complaining about ChatGPT not being very good don&#x27;t realise they&#x27;re using the free-tier v3.5 instead of the paid GPT4 that&#x27;s much smarter. The equivalent is people who use the default browser (IE) and use the default search engine (Bing) and complain that &quot;the Internet is not useful&quot;.<p>Just recently I had to review a bunch of legacy C# code, and I&#x27;ve found GPT4 to be enormously useful. It can find bugs and security issues in seconds, will suggest fixes to them, explain why they&#x27;re bad, etc...<p>Note that I don&#x27;t have to <i>trust it</i> to write security-bug-free code! I&#x27;m asking it to <i>find</i> bugs that I will then fix myself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Machine Assisted Proof [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayZuuDDKP0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jumploops</author><text>It&#x27;s refreshing to see someone like Terence Tao embrace GPT-4 as an assistant.<p>A few friends of mine (who are ML practitioners!) still don&#x27;t trust LLMs or find them useful in their day-to-day work.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed a similar trend among folks who work on compilers, preferring to &quot;stay in their lane&quot; instead of embracing GPT-4. The opposite appears true among those who work on user-facing applications, adoption of LLMs is much higher in their day-to-day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moonchild</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve noticed a similar trend among folks who work on compilers, preferring to &quot;stay in their lane&quot; instead of embracing GPT-4<p>Research into ML-guided optimisation predates chatjippity.</text></comment> |
8,575,518 | 8,574,596 | 1 | 3 | 8,571,728 | train | <story><title>What can I only do in Erlang?</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-November/081570.html#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ixiaus</author><text>Huh?<p>&quot;Hardcore feel&quot; is definitely there and the language is anything but &quot;writing config txt files to some underlying system&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve built applications in the &gt; 10k SLOC range that use a consensus algorithm for distributed computing and it was <i>hard</i> but made <i>tremendously easier</i> because of Erlang&#x27;s built in primitives.<p>No hardcore feel was lost at all and neither was it writing a config txt file...<p>[EDIT] I would love to know why the downvoter disagrees with me, unless you&#x27;re being a downvote kiddie.</text></item><item><author>zerr</author><text>Agree, and to look at it from a different angle - to me writing Erlang felt like I was writing config txt files to some underlying system. The system performs good following your &quot;config&quot; but all the hardcore feel is lost for you.</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>In 2005, I worked in software development for 6 months before abandoning it for another field.<p>In my new job, I was given the task of writing a server for a messaging application - which would allow users to send a &quot;hand-drawn&quot; message from our own proprietary handheld device to Windows phones. I was told to learn Erlang and get it done - the company was barely 30 people and had no formal training programs. While I have a degree in theoretical computer science, I didn&#x27;t do much functional programming before - learnt some Haskell in 2001 in college (just the basics, equivalent of first 6 chapters of LYAH, no monads). I remember learning Erlang over the weekend and delivering it in the first week of my job. Obviously, the code was neither great nor scalable - but I write this not to boast but to tell people that Erlang was so beautiful and easy that even an average intelligence person like me could use to produce functional software in a week. Today, my only regret is that I am not a programmer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burkaman</author><text>I would never downvote someone for it, but starting a comment with &quot;Huh?&quot; is always incredibly annoying to me, although it happens a ton on HN. To me it reads like something you would only say if a comment was literally unintelligible, or logically impossible or something. If you changed it to &quot;I disagree,&quot; or &quot;What do you mean?&quot; it would change the whole tone of the comment, at least for me.<p>Anyway, just a guess, I don&#x27;t even have enough karma to downvote.</text></comment> | <story><title>What can I only do in Erlang?</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-November/081570.html#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ixiaus</author><text>Huh?<p>&quot;Hardcore feel&quot; is definitely there and the language is anything but &quot;writing config txt files to some underlying system&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve built applications in the &gt; 10k SLOC range that use a consensus algorithm for distributed computing and it was <i>hard</i> but made <i>tremendously easier</i> because of Erlang&#x27;s built in primitives.<p>No hardcore feel was lost at all and neither was it writing a config txt file...<p>[EDIT] I would love to know why the downvoter disagrees with me, unless you&#x27;re being a downvote kiddie.</text></item><item><author>zerr</author><text>Agree, and to look at it from a different angle - to me writing Erlang felt like I was writing config txt files to some underlying system. The system performs good following your &quot;config&quot; but all the hardcore feel is lost for you.</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>In 2005, I worked in software development for 6 months before abandoning it for another field.<p>In my new job, I was given the task of writing a server for a messaging application - which would allow users to send a &quot;hand-drawn&quot; message from our own proprietary handheld device to Windows phones. I was told to learn Erlang and get it done - the company was barely 30 people and had no formal training programs. While I have a degree in theoretical computer science, I didn&#x27;t do much functional programming before - learnt some Haskell in 2001 in college (just the basics, equivalent of first 6 chapters of LYAH, no monads). I remember learning Erlang over the weekend and delivering it in the first week of my job. Obviously, the code was neither great nor scalable - but I write this not to boast but to tell people that Erlang was so beautiful and easy that even an average intelligence person like me could use to produce functional software in a week. Today, my only regret is that I am not a programmer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvcc</author><text>Could possibly be that your comment comes across a bit harsh. Even if not the intention, my inner dialogue read it as someone speaking with anger.</text></comment> |
23,014,950 | 23,014,677 | 1 | 2 | 23,014,461 | train | <story><title>Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/thuan-pham-who-fled-vietnam-as-a-child-and-became-ubers-cto-in-2013-is-leaving-the-company/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>This article lifts from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uber-discusses-plan-to-lay-off-about-20-of-employees?&amp;pu=hackernews0hocd3&amp;utm_source=hackernews&amp;utm_medium=unlock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uber-discusses-plan-...</a>, which is discussed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23011146" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23011146</a>.<p>That thread was buried because of the hard paywall (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html</a>), but The Information sometimes unlocks their articles for HN readers, and they agreed to do so with this one. Thanks!<p>We&#x27;ll merge the relevant comments thither. It&#x27;s a bit tricky, as we don&#x27;t want the supercapitary carp to end up in the wrong thread.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/thuan-pham-who-fled-vietnam-as-a-child-and-became-ubers-cto-in-2013-is-leaving-the-company/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; and offering only a carp over their heads<p>Is this an American term? Or is it a typo for &#x27;tarp&#x27;.</text></comment> |
37,244,069 | 37,244,193 | 1 | 3 | 37,243,527 | train | <story><title>The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%</title><url>https://pranshum.yarn.tech/24dade67-68e3-4e18-b597-94acfab46a61</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&#x27;m always somewhat amazed that Chamath Palihapitiya doesn&#x27;t have a much worse reputation:<p>1. My understanding is that he was the primary initial architect of &quot;A&#x2F;B testing for engagement&quot; at Facebook that turned social media into a tribalistic, outrage generating machine (nothing engages like hate), and that the rest of SV essentially copied. I think this trajectory would have happened regardless, but he was first, so to speak.<p>2. He was the primary booster of selling the shit sandwiches known as SPACs as filet mignon. I&#x27;m sure he made out, any downstream investors not so much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>The interesting thing is a few years ago (before becoming the &quot;SPAC King&quot;) he did a media tour where he criticized Venture Capital as being a &quot;massive Ponzi scheme&quot;. [1]<p>Then he went all-in on SPACs... Which ended up being the ultimate Ponzi.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;start-up-economy-is-a-ponzi-scheme-says-chamath-palihapitiya.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;start-up-economy-is-a-ponzi-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%</title><url>https://pranshum.yarn.tech/24dade67-68e3-4e18-b597-94acfab46a61</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&#x27;m always somewhat amazed that Chamath Palihapitiya doesn&#x27;t have a much worse reputation:<p>1. My understanding is that he was the primary initial architect of &quot;A&#x2F;B testing for engagement&quot; at Facebook that turned social media into a tribalistic, outrage generating machine (nothing engages like hate), and that the rest of SV essentially copied. I think this trajectory would have happened regardless, but he was first, so to speak.<p>2. He was the primary booster of selling the shit sandwiches known as SPACs as filet mignon. I&#x27;m sure he made out, any downstream investors not so much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Having a billion dollars in your bank account is all the reputation that is needed. He could murder someone in broad daylight and would still have a long line of Twitter simps and &quot;influencers&quot; cheering him on.</text></comment> |
28,974,451 | 28,973,053 | 1 | 3 | 28,972,431 | train | <story><title>.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-hot-reload-support-via-cli/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oaiey</author><text>There are people on record that it was the Azure division head Scott Guthrie who gave permission to open source ASP.NET Core (which at the time was part of Azure). Later the asp.net team merged with the .net team and brought the open sourcing with them.<p>VS has no place anymore. The velocity and mindshare is with VS Code. VS with its visual designers had its place .. but desktop is dead and Xamarin competes with frameworks without costly IDEs.</text></item><item><author>fabian2k</author><text>This feels more like an internal turf war inside Microsoft. The general open source strategy with .NET Core and VS Code has been running long enough that I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s just a smoke screen. But there&#x27;s probably plenty of different interests inside Microsoft that are at least partially in conflict.<p>The Azure side probably doesn&#x27;t care about selling Visual Studio, but they care about developer mindshare and reputation. The Visual Studio side seems to be in a more difficult position, I assumed they can just live from the enterprise&#x2F;everyone else split and focus on enterprise-y stuff to still sell Visual Studio. But it looks a bit to me like VS Code and the .NET cli have become more of a competition than they&#x27;d like.<p>And the worst mistake here might not have been pissing off the .NET community, but pissing of the people working on .NET for Microsoft. I mean in the end this is the same, but pissing off the people working on .NET would result in a much more thorough destruction of trust with the community in the end.<p>But I have zero inside knowledge here, might just be weird decisions driven by internal politics or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ynx</author><text>As a very longtime iOS and Linux dev turned Windows and .NET dev (with some rust on the side) - who has used VSCode, VS, and Xamarin for multiple years - no.<p>There is a place for a featureful IDE with robustly implemented build, debug, and package management capabilities working out of the box with multiple languages and entrenched technologies.<p>I do very much like VSC and use it all the time for anything involving text, markdown, cross-platform C++, javascript, and even rust...but Visual Studio is as much of the Windows or .NET dev&#x27;s toolkit as Xcode is a part of a dev in the Apple ecosystem.<p>VSCode is great. However, there is plenty of space for VS: it is also very strong, and has a long history of deep and extensive integration into very mature technologies. VS is still getting better year over year and while I see VSCode as competitive in some spaces, it is no contest in others. If VSCode is to replace VS, it has a very long tail of issues to address, the resolution of which would probably raise both boats anyways.</text></comment> | <story><title>.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-hot-reload-support-via-cli/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oaiey</author><text>There are people on record that it was the Azure division head Scott Guthrie who gave permission to open source ASP.NET Core (which at the time was part of Azure). Later the asp.net team merged with the .net team and brought the open sourcing with them.<p>VS has no place anymore. The velocity and mindshare is with VS Code. VS with its visual designers had its place .. but desktop is dead and Xamarin competes with frameworks without costly IDEs.</text></item><item><author>fabian2k</author><text>This feels more like an internal turf war inside Microsoft. The general open source strategy with .NET Core and VS Code has been running long enough that I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s just a smoke screen. But there&#x27;s probably plenty of different interests inside Microsoft that are at least partially in conflict.<p>The Azure side probably doesn&#x27;t care about selling Visual Studio, but they care about developer mindshare and reputation. The Visual Studio side seems to be in a more difficult position, I assumed they can just live from the enterprise&#x2F;everyone else split and focus on enterprise-y stuff to still sell Visual Studio. But it looks a bit to me like VS Code and the .NET cli have become more of a competition than they&#x27;d like.<p>And the worst mistake here might not have been pissing off the .NET community, but pissing of the people working on .NET for Microsoft. I mean in the end this is the same, but pissing off the people working on .NET would result in a much more thorough destruction of trust with the community in the end.<p>But I have zero inside knowledge here, might just be weird decisions driven by internal politics or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>I mean at this point I have truly no idea what I&#x27;m talking about. But I would always bet on Azure against Visual Studio in a fight. The earning potential for Azure is simply far, far higher than for Visual Studio. AWS has shown that the cloud is a recipe for printing money, and I trust Microsoft to follow the money.</text></comment> |
15,627,760 | 15,627,331 | 1 | 2 | 15,624,881 | train | <story><title>The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalChris</author><text>I always liked Samuel Butler&#x27;s idea in <i>The Authoress of the Odyssey</i> that the Odyssey was written by a woman. I&#x27;m looking forward to Wilson&#x27;s translation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;authoress-odyssey&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;authoress-odyssey&#x2F;</a><p>My favorite <i>Iliad</i> is Lattimore. I&#x27;ve tried others (Fagles, Green, Lombardo) and always come back to Lattimore. I remember when I first read it, my prof said we didn&#x27;t have to read the Catalog of the Ships. I actually love that section now. It&#x27;s like the opening credits.<p>My favorite <i>Odyssey</i> is Fitzgerald. Fagles is good too.<p>Now if you want a deeply bad translation, a fraud really, Mitchell is the worst. He leaves out chapters. Edward Luttwak ripped it apart.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&#x2F;v34&#x2F;n04&#x2F;edward-luttwak&#x2F;homer-inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&#x2F;v34&#x2F;n04&#x2F;edward-luttwak&#x2F;homer-inc</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingemote</author><text>I&#x27;m going to speak up for Stephen Mitchell&#x27;s work. I spent a good hour in the bookshop comparing translations and his rang truest, read easiest and sounded more lyical in a way. It wasnt dry and accurate or academic that&#x27;s for sure but it was in the common tongue. Also his missing chapters were included at the end as appendices and his reasons were given for that inclusion.</text></comment> | <story><title>The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalChris</author><text>I always liked Samuel Butler&#x27;s idea in <i>The Authoress of the Odyssey</i> that the Odyssey was written by a woman. I&#x27;m looking forward to Wilson&#x27;s translation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;authoress-odyssey&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;authoress-odyssey&#x2F;</a><p>My favorite <i>Iliad</i> is Lattimore. I&#x27;ve tried others (Fagles, Green, Lombardo) and always come back to Lattimore. I remember when I first read it, my prof said we didn&#x27;t have to read the Catalog of the Ships. I actually love that section now. It&#x27;s like the opening credits.<p>My favorite <i>Odyssey</i> is Fitzgerald. Fagles is good too.<p>Now if you want a deeply bad translation, a fraud really, Mitchell is the worst. He leaves out chapters. Edward Luttwak ripped it apart.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&#x2F;v34&#x2F;n04&#x2F;edward-luttwak&#x2F;homer-inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&#x2F;v34&#x2F;n04&#x2F;edward-luttwak&#x2F;homer-inc</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>+1 for Lattimore&#x27;s <i>Iliad</i><p>I tried to read Fagles&#x27; and kept going back to Lattimore&#x27;s. For the <i>Odyssey</i> though, Fagles&#x27; translation was very good.</text></comment> |
21,889,549 | 21,889,399 | 1 | 2 | 21,888,096 | train | <story><title>C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Something about this constantly appearing trope bugs me.<p>I began programming C and assembler on the VAX and the original PC. At that time, C was a reasonable approximation of the assembly code level. We didn&#x27;t get into expanding C to assembly that much but the translation was reasonably clear.<p>As far as I know, what&#x27;s changed that mid-80s world and now is that a number of levels below ordinary assembler have been added. These naturally are somewhat confusing <i>but</i> they aim to emulate the C&#x2F;assembler model that existed way back then. These levels involve memory protection, task switching, caches and all things involved with having the current zillion-element Intel CPU behave approximately like the 16-register CPU of yore but much-much faster.<p>I get the &quot;there&#x27;s more on heaven and earth than your flat memory model, Horatio&quot; (apologies to Shakespeare).<p>BUT, I still don&#x27;t see any of that making these &quot;Your Ceeee ain&#x27;t low-level no more sucker&quot; headlines enlightening. A clearer way to say it would &quot;now the plumbing is much more complicated and even c programmers have to think about it&quot;.<p>Because... adding levels below C and conventional assembler still leaves C exactly as many levels below &quot;high level&quot; language as it was before and if there&#x27;s a &quot;true low level language&quot; for today I&#x27;d like to hear about it. And the same sorts of programmers use C as when it was a low level language and the declaration doesn&#x27;t even give any context, doesn&#x27;t even bother to say &quot;anymore&quot; and yeah, I&#x27;m sick of it.<p>Edit: plus this particular actual article is primarily a rant about processor design with C just pulled into the fight as a stand-in for how people normally program and modern processors treat that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; Because... adding levels below C and conventional assembler still leaves C exactly as many levels below &quot;high level&quot; language as it was before and if there&#x27;s a &quot;true low level language&quot; for today I&#x27;d like to hear about it. And the same sorts of programmers use C as when it was a low level language and the declaration doesn&#x27;t even give any context, doesn&#x27;t even bother to say &quot;anymore&quot; and yeah, I&#x27;m sick of it.<p>Not really. For many purposes, C is not any more low-level than a supposedly &quot;higher level&quot; language. 20 years ago one could argue that it made sense to choose C over Java for high-performance code because C exposed the low-level performance characteristics that you cared about. More concretely, you could be confident that a small change to C code would not result in a program with radically different performance characteristics, in a way that you couldn&#x27;t be for Java. Today that&#x27;s not true: when writing high-performance C code you have to be very aware of, say, cache line aliasing, or whether a given piece of code is vectorisable, even though these things are completely invisible in your code and a seemingly insignificant change can make all the difference. So to a large extent writing high-performance C code today is the same kind of programming experience (heavily dependent on empirical profiling, actively counterintuitive in a lot of areas) as writing high-performance Java, and choosing to write a program with extreme performance requirements in C rather than Java because it&#x27;s easier to control performance in C is likely to be the wrong tradeoff.</text></comment> | <story><title>C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Something about this constantly appearing trope bugs me.<p>I began programming C and assembler on the VAX and the original PC. At that time, C was a reasonable approximation of the assembly code level. We didn&#x27;t get into expanding C to assembly that much but the translation was reasonably clear.<p>As far as I know, what&#x27;s changed that mid-80s world and now is that a number of levels below ordinary assembler have been added. These naturally are somewhat confusing <i>but</i> they aim to emulate the C&#x2F;assembler model that existed way back then. These levels involve memory protection, task switching, caches and all things involved with having the current zillion-element Intel CPU behave approximately like the 16-register CPU of yore but much-much faster.<p>I get the &quot;there&#x27;s more on heaven and earth than your flat memory model, Horatio&quot; (apologies to Shakespeare).<p>BUT, I still don&#x27;t see any of that making these &quot;Your Ceeee ain&#x27;t low-level no more sucker&quot; headlines enlightening. A clearer way to say it would &quot;now the plumbing is much more complicated and even c programmers have to think about it&quot;.<p>Because... adding levels below C and conventional assembler still leaves C exactly as many levels below &quot;high level&quot; language as it was before and if there&#x27;s a &quot;true low level language&quot; for today I&#x27;d like to hear about it. And the same sorts of programmers use C as when it was a low level language and the declaration doesn&#x27;t even give any context, doesn&#x27;t even bother to say &quot;anymore&quot; and yeah, I&#x27;m sick of it.<p>Edit: plus this particular actual article is primarily a rant about processor design with C just pulled into the fight as a stand-in for how people normally program and modern processors treat that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snaky</author><text>&gt; if there&#x27;s a &quot;true low level language&quot; for today I&#x27;d like to hear about it<p>&quot;Steel Bank Common Lisp: because sometimes C abstracts away too much&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pvk.ca&#x2F;Blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pvk.ca&#x2F;Blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;sbcl-the-ultimate-assembl...</a><p>ATS - C plus everything you could get from modern types, including type-safe pointer arithmetics <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zt0OQb1DBko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zt0OQb1DBko</a><p>Compiling Haskell to hardware <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conal.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conal.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs</a></text></comment> |
12,855,036 | 12,853,669 | 1 | 3 | 12,852,912 | train | <story><title>Tor Browser User Manual</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/announcing-tor-browser-user-manual</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sun_n_surf</author><text>Lol, it&#x27;s a trap. I get an untrusted certificate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>overlordalex</author><text>It&#x27;s because they&#x27;re using a stricter form of https, which fails if your company messes with the certs (I&#x27;m guessing proxy problems).<p>This is what it looks like for me:<p>&gt; Certificate Error
There are issues with the site&#x27;s certificate chain (net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID).<p><pre><code> Issued To
Common Name (CN) blog.torproject.org
Organisation (O) &lt;Not Part Of Certificate&gt;
Organisational Unit (OU) &lt;Not Part Of Certificate&gt;
Issued By
Common Name (CN) $my_company Web Gateway
Organisation (O) $my_company
Organisational Unit (OU) $my_company_infrastructure_unit</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Tor Browser User Manual</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/announcing-tor-browser-user-manual</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sun_n_surf</author><text>Lol, it&#x27;s a trap. I get an untrusted certificate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akerro</author><text>Yup, same here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PsYzYmV.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PsYzYmV.png</a></text></comment> |
31,684,100 | 31,682,213 | 1 | 3 | 31,681,373 | train | <story><title>Rust without the async (hard) part</title><url>https://lunatic.solutions/blog/rust-without-the-async-hard-part/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaphar</author><text>Anything using the green&#x2F;lightweight or OS thread model is usually easier to use at the cost of some runtime performance. Whether the runtime performance matters for your use case can only be determined by measuring stuff.<p>The perception that async rust is where you should start for concurrent rust because it&#x27;s built in and everyone uses it perhaps should be revisited. I would argue that the other options are worth consideration first and dropping down to low level async code might be warranted when you need the performance it gives and that justifies the increase in development costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>Rust used to have green threads before 1.0 (libgreen). Early Rust was meant to be more like Erlang[1]. The problem with them wasn&#x27;t only the overhead, but also interoperability and how they affect every interaction of the language with the OS and other libraries. It made the whole language dependent on its own custom runtime.<p>Rust isn&#x27;t meant to be a language for CRUD apps (despite making inroads in this space). It&#x27;s meant to be a C&#x2F;C++ alternative that can work every difficult niche where these two can, including processes that already have their own runtimes, kernel space, microcontrollers, and other situations where any overhead or bringing custom threads with magic I&#x2F;O and special stack handling is unacceptable.<p>Rust&#x27;s async is designed to be separate from the core language, and work on top of arbitrary runtimes. Most people use tokio, but it can also work with your custom loop on microcontrollers, or on top of another runtime, e.g. WASM + browser&#x27;s event loop, or gtk-rs that can work on top of GTK&#x27;s event loop.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venge.net&#x2F;graydon&#x2F;talks&#x2F;intro-talk-2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venge.net&#x2F;graydon&#x2F;talks&#x2F;intro-talk-2.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust without the async (hard) part</title><url>https://lunatic.solutions/blog/rust-without-the-async-hard-part/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaphar</author><text>Anything using the green&#x2F;lightweight or OS thread model is usually easier to use at the cost of some runtime performance. Whether the runtime performance matters for your use case can only be determined by measuring stuff.<p>The perception that async rust is where you should start for concurrent rust because it&#x27;s built in and everyone uses it perhaps should be revisited. I would argue that the other options are worth consideration first and dropping down to low level async code might be warranted when you need the performance it gives and that justifies the increase in development costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianbutler</author><text>I started writing rust ~6mo ago and while I agree with your sentiment, the issue I&#x27;ve run into is that so many packages I need to use, because there isn&#x27;t an alternative and I don&#x27;t want to build it myself, already uses async. I then have to either heavily wall off that part of my code or at a certain threshold realize I may have to adopt async myself because keeping two concurrency models going is really a lot of overhead.<p>It&#x27;s hard to wind down that existing momentum.</text></comment> |
12,527,017 | 12,526,267 | 1 | 2 | 12,526,211 | train | <story><title>Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes in the US House of Representatives</title><url>http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-parity-act-passes-in-the-us-house-of-representatives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AstroJetson</author><text>This is to give hams some leverage over HOA&#x2F;COA to be allowed to put up antennas. This will also help with some communities that have not allowed antennas, even with the FCC coverage. It&#x27;s a huge expense &#x2F; pain to go to lots of zoning hearings.<p>Lots of hams put up HF towers and beams now days. On the other hand lots of hams also use hidden antennas or something like a vertical that&#x27;s not as obtrusive. The ability to put up something that&#x27;s small or not obtrusive is a big win for people living in HOA&#x27;s.<p>The existing ham base is excited for two reason, one it gives new hams the chance to put antennas up. The other is as hams move into retirement communities that have a HOA&#x2F;COA they can still be part of the hobby.<p>The ARRL is amazing, it&#x27;s not &quot;just a hobby&quot; to them. They have been working on this for years and they have been very diligent about keeping on top of this. As a ham, I&#x27;ve helped by sending letters to my congress people.<p>Someone mentioned frequency assignments, the ARRL guards ours like a mother bear watching cubs. They have successfully fought off multiple attempts across decades. We have also gotten some new band access, those efforts have been appreciated.<p>While the vote passed by a voice vote in the House, the Senate isn&#x27;t a done deal. It would be possible for an amendment to be added that will kill it off. If you are a ham send a letter&#x2F;email to your Senator, we can still use all the help we can muster.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes in the US House of Representatives</title><url>http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-parity-act-passes-in-the-us-house-of-representatives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jMyles</author><text>Is there a Ham radio comeback happening right now? I&#x27;m hearing about it more and more. Can anyone recommend a post or series of posts about the process of obtaining the license?</text></comment> |
10,706,918 | 10,706,730 | 1 | 2 | 10,706,228 | train | <story><title>The Content Marketing Handbook</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>One assumption that goes more or less unchallenged is that &quot;content marketing&quot; == &quot;writing blog posts&quot;. It&#x27;s what they are really good at and what they&#x27;ve optimized and hired for.<p>However, for developers, I think there is a much easier path in the form of building online tools and mini experiences that just destroy &quot;blogging&quot; in terms of ROI and traffic generation.<p>This is things like WPEngine&#x27;s speed test, Site Checker&#x27;s, Buffer&#x27;s Pablo Image tool, ForAGoodStrftime.com, etc. purposeful, useful tools that people love to share as they are genuinely helpful.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Content Marketing Handbook</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxtonab</author><text>I&#x27;m normally skeptical about these types of articles (every SEO website has one) but the intro is very interesting, and they hit on some fundamental issues with content marketing right off of the bat i.e. every company blogs because they &quot;have&quot; to, but very few get traction out of it.<p>The other issue they hit on was that half of the companies that pay for their service never actually published anything. To negate this they decided to &quot;make content for companies based on their data and then just charge them based on the performance.&quot;<p>While they are still charging for the content, I really like the concept of paying for performance (and not in some shady black-hat SEO way that gets your website banned from Google). No content marketing firms that I have ever worked with have even had this as an option...</text></comment> |
21,823,970 | 21,824,098 | 1 | 2 | 21,823,413 | train | <story><title>Google claims copyright on employee side projects</title><url>https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1207234468928356352</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>draugadrotten</author><text>Does society accept this behaviour outside tech? Imagine that a Michelin restaurant would claim copyright on the dishes cooked by the chef in his spare time. Or that the big farm would ask for a piece of those carrots grown in the back yard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akuji1993</author><text>This is mostly a US thing. If I don&#x27;t implement a DIRECT competitor to my company in my free time, the company can do absolutely nothing about it here. IF I implement a competitor and put it on the market, they can fire me. They can&#x27;t however, sue me for the posession of the software. That&#x27;s just a legal nightmare in the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google claims copyright on employee side projects</title><url>https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1207234468928356352</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>draugadrotten</author><text>Does society accept this behaviour outside tech? Imagine that a Michelin restaurant would claim copyright on the dishes cooked by the chef in his spare time. Or that the big farm would ask for a piece of those carrots grown in the back yard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text><i>&quot;Imagine that a Michelin restaurant would claim copyright on the dishes cooked by the chef in his spare time.&quot;</i><p>Not a Michelin restaurant, but apparently Outback Steakhouse makes that exact claim.<p><i>&quot;Inventions, Ideas, Processes, and Designs. All inventions, ideas, recipes, processes, programs, software, and designs ...conceived or made by Employee during the course of Employee’s employment with the Employer (whether or not actually conceived during regular business hours) and for a period...&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;874691&#x2F;000119312508109842&#x2F;dex1016.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;874691&#x2F;0001193125081...</a></text></comment> |
24,731,339 | 24,730,502 | 1 | 2 | 24,725,693 | train | <story><title>Common Causes of Bad Decisions</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/bad-decisions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xixixao</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to also think about why all these reasons are good&#x2F;reasonable when making decisions.<p>Example: Incentives can tempt good people to push the boundaries farther than they’d ever imagine.<p>You often need incentives though to focus people in the right directionn.<p>Example 2: Tribal instincts reduce the ability to challenge bad ideas because no one wants to get kicked out of the tribe.<p>It&#x27;s important to form a tribe, and to maintain its cohesiveness, otherwise you can&#x27;t really get anything done.<p>And so on. It&#x27;s good to consider both sides of each coin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Common Causes of Bad Decisions</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/bad-decisions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HashingtheCode</author><text>&gt; Tribal instincts reduce the ability to challenge bad ideas because no one wants to get kicked out of the tribe.<p>Spot on. In the work place, this is toxic. Especially if on top of this fear of being kicked out, you have a psychopathic boss.<p>What happens in this scenario? Bad decision after bad decision with workers even though they know it is wrong, won&#x27;t challenge out of fear.<p>&gt;So people either willingly nod along with bad ideas, or become blinded by tribal loyalty to how bad the ideas are to begin with.<p>Damn office sheep....</text></comment> |
26,307,996 | 26,307,490 | 1 | 2 | 26,306,478 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it</title><url>https://blog.jse.li/posts/ten-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahub</author><text>I think the author wants to prevent his&#x2F;her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing.<p>I accidentaly discover a different method to the same effect. To circumvent censorship in my country, I began regularly using a tor proxy. (Not the tor browser, just my regular browser setup). Of course everything became slow, reminding me of the good old 56k days. At first I was annoyed, it&#x27;s not only slow, it&#x27;s also full of CAPTCHAs. Most websites using cloudflare ask me to &quot;prove I&#x27;m human&quot;. Annoying as it might seem, it&#x27;s my ultimate &quot;anti-compulsive-click&quot; tool.<p>If I don&#x27;t bother filling a captcha and&#x2F;or waiting a few (~10-20) seconds to read something online, is it worth it ?<p>Most likelly not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ip26</author><text>My version of this has been saving news to a reader. I read very few articles in the moment, it&#x27;s all pushed onto the reader stack.<p>The stack gets a little out of control, but it also makes it easier to make reading news a discrete time chunk of acceptable duration. It also makes clickbait a waste of effort.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s like the news version of sleeping on a purchasing decision. See if you still care about it tomorrow.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it</title><url>https://blog.jse.li/posts/ten-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahub</author><text>I think the author wants to prevent his&#x2F;her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing.<p>I accidentaly discover a different method to the same effect. To circumvent censorship in my country, I began regularly using a tor proxy. (Not the tor browser, just my regular browser setup). Of course everything became slow, reminding me of the good old 56k days. At first I was annoyed, it&#x27;s not only slow, it&#x27;s also full of CAPTCHAs. Most websites using cloudflare ask me to &quot;prove I&#x27;m human&quot;. Annoying as it might seem, it&#x27;s my ultimate &quot;anti-compulsive-click&quot; tool.<p>If I don&#x27;t bother filling a captcha and&#x2F;or waiting a few (~10-20) seconds to read something online, is it worth it ?<p>Most likelly not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outime</author><text>We’re all getting used to insta-load but around half of us will leave a site if it takes more than ~3 seconds to load about half of the people give up and the majority won’t come back [1]. It’s that dramatic, and I’ve seen myself doing it - or well, I just fallback to Google cache&#x2F;web archive.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hostingmanual.net&#x2F;3-seconds-how-website-speed-impacts-visitors-sales&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hostingmanual.net&#x2F;3-seconds-how-website-speed-im...</a></text></comment> |
24,356,292 | 24,355,994 | 1 | 2 | 24,355,229 | train | <story><title>Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/print/16063/intel-launches-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-processors-and-evo-branding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>From a quick read, in case anyone is wondering, this is built on the latest-gen 10nm process which is a refinement on the previous 10nm process. Intel&#x27;s goal was to focus on clock increases, so the instruction per clock is apparently not much changed. From looking at the tables, the whole line of processors appear to have nicely improved one core max clock speeds, which should hopefully help single core performance, which isn&#x27;t something that has been increasing much lately.<p>Anecdote: a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn&#x27;t perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines. He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Anecdote: a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn&#x27;t perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines. He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.<p>It really depends on the workload. My old MacBook Pro feels the same as the newer model 98% of the time that I&#x27;m using it, but I really appreciate the extra RAM and double the core count when I need it.<p>Reducing build times from 30 seconds down to 15 seconds doesn&#x27;t sound like much when you&#x27;re not pressing the compile button very often, but it really does help improve my engagement and focus.<p>The newer graphics cards are also much better at handling large and high-resolution external monitors. The difference isn&#x27;t pronounced if you&#x27;re just using the built-in laptop screen, but start using multiple external 4K+ monitors and the faster GPU starts to shine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/print/16063/intel-launches-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-processors-and-evo-branding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>From a quick read, in case anyone is wondering, this is built on the latest-gen 10nm process which is a refinement on the previous 10nm process. Intel&#x27;s goal was to focus on clock increases, so the instruction per clock is apparently not much changed. From looking at the tables, the whole line of processors appear to have nicely improved one core max clock speeds, which should hopefully help single core performance, which isn&#x27;t something that has been increasing much lately.<p>Anecdote: a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn&#x27;t perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines. He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tashoecraft</author><text>Worked swapped out my mid 2015, 2-core 16gb with a 2019 8 core, 32gb, and this machine is night and day better. It&#x27;s so much faster at every task I throw at it.</text></comment> |
1,087,798 | 1,087,671 | 1 | 2 | 1,087,596 | train | <story><title>Tinkerer’s Sunset</title><url>http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/01/29/tinkerers-sunset</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yan</author><text>I really don't understand the wave of alarmist posts on the 'end of a tinkering era'. Today, we have more communities and devices for tinkering than we've ever had. Magazines like Make, sites like Hack-a-day, platforms like Arduino, and <i>countless</i> open source projects that are simply there to be messed with, and one device that comes out with a (probably) justified need to be locked down, and everyone raises panic? If I ever have the desire to mess with anything technological today, I can literally get my hands on anything, from affordable FPGA boards with great I/O, to open mobile devices, to even RF hacking! (GNU Radio's great.)<p>The iPad will <i>never</i> harm anyone's ability to tinker with technology that want to. There will <i>always</i> be platforms that are open by design and <i>always</i> be platforms that have been rooted/hacked/jailbroken/etc. Being a geek/hacker today is far more socially acceptable and wide-spread than it was in the 80s. I'd even argue that it is doing much more to advance the technology than a completely open device like OpenMoko. Completely open devices are rarely better designed than their commercial counterparts. They don't inspire complete neophytes ("I have to do <i>what</i> just to get a decent resolution?"), they don't push boundaries -- they only appeal to people who are already waist-deep in tinkering.<p>Frankly, if anything, all of this comes off as elitist. God forbid people get their hands on technology that doesn't have a steep learning curve or require you to write BASIC to be useful. Well-designed products that have a lot of concentrated money (and more importantly, talent) inspire people much more so than completely open systems. I think of them as (and please pardon the extremely hyperbolic analogy) well-polished, completed works of art. They won't teach you how to paint or let you alter them, but they'll show you what's possible with the canvas and advance the art.<p>I'm actually now thinking back to a discussion with a friend of mine, who's a collector of 60's-era oscilloscopes. He was raving about them as being the pinnacle of electronics engineering. Not only were these scopes beautifully designed, but their manuals detailed <i>everything</i> about them, how they worked, what tricks they used to function, what micro-components they used. Their documentation authors really <i>wanted</i> you to understand exactly what made it function. Maybe that's the ideal, but I still believe that beautifully-designed products, even closed, further the state of hacking far far more than completely open platforms. If you don't believe in it, don't buy it.<p>If you believe they're a step in the wrong direction for open platforms, make another blog post tomorrow when you have <i>less</i> open platforms, <i>less</i> hobbyist projects, <i>less</i> educational materials, and <i>less</i> hobbyist communities than yesterday.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tinkerer’s Sunset</title><url>http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/01/29/tinkerers-sunset</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdminhbg</author><text>This whole tinkering panic is ridiculous. Did tinkering end when Nintendo released the NES? Or more recently with the Wii? His dad could have bought a word processor instead of a ][e, would he have been able to tinker with that?<p>Some devices are more open than others. This is not a new phenomenon, nor did anything change on Wednesday.</text></comment> |
4,180,717 | 4,180,652 | 1 | 3 | 4,180,543 | train | <story><title>AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zacharyvoase</author><text>By what stretch of the imagination is this icon suitable for representing a total loss of availability due to a power outage?: <a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif</a><p>Is this not a 'service disruption' situation? At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with 'performance issues'.<p>If there's one thing that's shocked me about AWS, it's the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions. Like the above case, or the fact that a 3-hour loss of connectivity is displayed on the service history as a green tick with a small 'i' box: <a href="http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyt</author><text>Or that there is absolutely no way to deep link to an ongoing outage, and users must reload, then expand the link every single time, or subscribe to an RSS feed.<p>AWS needs to blantantly copy Heroku's status system, which is worlds better for people needing fast updates on their infrastructure.<p><a href="https://status.heroku.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.heroku.com/</a> vs <a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zacharyvoase</author><text>By what stretch of the imagination is this icon suitable for representing a total loss of availability due to a power outage?: <a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif</a><p>Is this not a 'service disruption' situation? At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with 'performance issues'.<p>If there's one thing that's shocked me about AWS, it's the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions. Like the above case, or the fact that a 3-hour loss of connectivity is displayed on the service history as a green tick with a small 'i' box: <a href="http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hristov</author><text>It is obvious we are dealing with the imagination of a marketing exec here. And that is a sick cynical place.</text></comment> |
22,250,082 | 22,250,106 | 1 | 2 | 22,248,239 | train | <story><title>The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]</title><url>http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>I love L-Systems. I somehow obtained a couple of VHS tapes in the 90s when I was a kid of early computer graphics, and was really taken by the generative artists — like Karl Sims. This was also the heyday of big bookstores like Borders, and I’d spend hours in the “Computers” aisle, where I found “Advanced Animation and Rendering”, which covered L-Systems.<p>These are fun things to code because they can surprise you. Even when you understand the rules, it can be delightful to see what grows.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]</title><url>http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>Anyone interested in fooling around with algorithmic art should check out the Context Free Art software&#x2F;language: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contextfreeart.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contextfreeart.org&#x2F;</a> ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MtnViewJohn&#x2F;context-free&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;About" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MtnViewJohn&#x2F;context-free&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;About</a></text></comment> |
11,943,239 | 11,942,842 | 1 | 3 | 11,941,130 | train | <story><title>Building a more power-efficient browser</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/06/20/edge-battery-anniversary-update/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>Honestly I&#x27;d be happy if they could stop Windows 10 from turning my laptop into a hair dryer randomly while it is otherwise <i>entirely</i> idle. The thing is sitting there doing nothing, suddenly the fan will start roaring and the CPU utilization spikes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a more power-efficient browser</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/06/20/edge-battery-anniversary-update/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zZorgz</author><text>Google did make battery life improvements by reducing wakes at least on the Mac in response to Safari performing better. Some interesting details are at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plus.google.com&#x2F;+PeterKasting&#x2F;posts&#x2F;GpL63A1K2TF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plus.google.com&#x2F;+PeterKasting&#x2F;posts&#x2F;GpL63A1K2TF</a><p>Perhaps Edge will a nice competitive impact on the Windows side :P.</text></comment> |
27,819,346 | 27,819,449 | 1 | 2 | 27,818,667 | train | <story><title>France fines Google €500M over copyright row</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-fines-google-500-mln-over-copyright-row-2021-07-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>From a previous article[1] with some more context:<p><i>&gt;In 2019, Google announced it was going to stop displaying &quot;snippets&quot; from French news articles in search results. Google believed that showing only news story headlines, not brief excerpts from articles, would bring it into compliance with the new law.</i><p>So even just linking the headlines _without_ the snippets was still not in compliance.<p>We have 30+ years of the world wide web being built on referred url links (with no snippets) without monetary payment but now French news organizations want compensation for it. I don&#x27;t understand that logic. They get extra visibility + traffic clicks from Google -- but also want to be paid for it?!?<p>If after a Apple WWDC event, the front page of HN is filled with url links to Apple press releases and announcements, it doesn&#x27;t mean HN should pay money to Apple Inc to send eyeballs to &quot;apple.com&quot;. Linking to other urls and showing the text between &quot;&lt;title&gt;...&lt;&#x2F;title&gt;&quot; (for free) is how the web works.<p>IMO, removing the embedded snippets should have been enough. This feels more like a shakedown from French newspapers with backing from the France government rather than fair business compensation.<p>Right now, on the HN frontpage is this headline <i>&quot;France fines Google €500M over copyright row (reuters.com)&quot;</i> -- with no snippet -- but according to logic of French newspapers, HN still needs to pay Reuters in Canada a license fee.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-agrees-to-pay-french-news-sites-to-send-them-traffic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-agrees-to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johbjo</author><text>&gt; They get extra visibility + traffic clicks from Google -- but also want to be paid for it?!?<p>Visibility is not a meaningful &quot;reward&quot; for established European newspapers (they are not unknown hobby bloggers.) The issue is who is capturing revenue from the work. The newspapers make money from people browsing their site (long ad exposure) or paying for subscriptions.<p>The news model: journalists discover &quot;news facts&quot; which they make into &quot;news stories&quot; that can hold reader attention.<p>If Google collects all &quot;news facts&quot; in one place with their own ads, they are benefiting from journalists while undercutting the newspapers.</text></comment> | <story><title>France fines Google €500M over copyright row</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-fines-google-500-mln-over-copyright-row-2021-07-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>From a previous article[1] with some more context:<p><i>&gt;In 2019, Google announced it was going to stop displaying &quot;snippets&quot; from French news articles in search results. Google believed that showing only news story headlines, not brief excerpts from articles, would bring it into compliance with the new law.</i><p>So even just linking the headlines _without_ the snippets was still not in compliance.<p>We have 30+ years of the world wide web being built on referred url links (with no snippets) without monetary payment but now French news organizations want compensation for it. I don&#x27;t understand that logic. They get extra visibility + traffic clicks from Google -- but also want to be paid for it?!?<p>If after a Apple WWDC event, the front page of HN is filled with url links to Apple press releases and announcements, it doesn&#x27;t mean HN should pay money to Apple Inc to send eyeballs to &quot;apple.com&quot;. Linking to other urls and showing the text between &quot;&lt;title&gt;...&lt;&#x2F;title&gt;&quot; (for free) is how the web works.<p>IMO, removing the embedded snippets should have been enough. This feels more like a shakedown from French newspapers with backing from the France government rather than fair business compensation.<p>Right now, on the HN frontpage is this headline <i>&quot;France fines Google €500M over copyright row (reuters.com)&quot;</i> -- with no snippet -- but according to logic of French newspapers, HN still needs to pay Reuters in Canada a license fee.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-agrees-to-pay-french-news-sites-to-send-them-traffic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-agrees-to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;This feels more like a shakedown from French newspapers with backing from the France government rather than fair business compensation.<p>Not saying Google is right or wrong in this case but;<p>EU have had problems with US tech giant for years with their aggressive business practice and Tax avoidance. Aggressive or ruthless from European perspective but the norm from American&#x27;s POV. Now that even US government are on their side, EU or France in this case are taking every single opportunity to squeeze them.<p>I see it as political power play more than anything else. Google and Apple have been showing middle fingers to government and regulators around the world for years. They have been waiting for the political climate to act on it.</text></comment> |
12,682,657 | 12,682,655 | 1 | 2 | 12,680,380 | train | <story><title>Major Investor Sues Theranos</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/major-investor-sues-theranos-1476139613</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely not a friend of Theranos, <i>but</i>: they failed to do due diligence before investing, the error is theirs. I wonder if they would sue as well if Theranos had scored big time.<p>If you treat investing as gambling don&#x27;t sue if you lose a hundred million dollars of <i>your</i> customers money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>The investor&#x27;s argument is that Theranos <i>lied</i>. The investor believes Theranos fraudulently produced evidence that their product worked in order to fake the responses to the investor&#x27;s due diligence. If that&#x27;s true, and the investor can prove it, then that&#x27;s not simply part of the typical risk of investing, that makes the investor the victim of a serious crime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Major Investor Sues Theranos</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/major-investor-sues-theranos-1476139613</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely not a friend of Theranos, <i>but</i>: they failed to do due diligence before investing, the error is theirs. I wonder if they would sue as well if Theranos had scored big time.<p>If you treat investing as gambling don&#x27;t sue if you lose a hundred million dollars of <i>your</i> customers money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmadan</author><text>When I walk into the casinos, I know the odds of each game and know there is a possibility of losing my money. However if the casino rigs the machines to reduce my odds, then it isn&#x27;t a fair game anymore and now goes into the realm of cheating.</text></comment> |
15,779,206 | 15,777,087 | 1 | 2 | 15,775,548 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?</title><text>Can you please point me to some papers that you consider very influential for your work or that you believe they played significant role on how we structure our software nowdays?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>I used to be very interested in Software Architecture, in fact I&#x27;ve read many of the papers cited here.<p>When I did a startup many years ago, I committed the mistake of paying too much attention to the architecture of the software [1] I was writing, and not enough attention to the product&#x2F;customer side of it.<p>The last couple of years I&#x27;ve been de-emphasizing software architecture as an interest, and have been paying much more attention to how product teams build successful products, what the patterns are, etc. I was lucky enough to work at Facebook for a while and got to see (and learn) a very successful working model of product development.<p>So, while I&#x27;m not saying that software architecture is not important (it is), also pay attention to the product&#x2F;customer side: what choices (software, organizational, hiring, business) allow you to move fast and iterate, to release early and often, to run A&#x2F;B tests, etc.<p>I think good software engineers are just as much product guys (and data guys) as they are software guys.<p>-<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scalien&#x2F;scaliendb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scalien&#x2F;scaliendb</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text><i>I was lucky enough to work at Facebook for a while and got to see (and learn) a very successful working model of product development.</i><p>Facebook has been extremely successful commercially, but I think it&#x27;s dangerous to read too much into how a unicorn like that develops its software, partly because there is survivorship bias at work here, and partly because the most important things Facebook has achieved have relatively little to do with software.<p>Facebook&#x27;s golden goose is the network effect. Once it reached a critical mass of users, it was all but unstoppable. Arguably its most impressive technical feat was achieving enough scalability in its infrastructure that it could keep up with that many users and that much data. That was a remarkable success story by any standard, but while it surely has a software element, no doubt it involved much more than just code.<p>On the other hand, to a first approximation Facebook has had infinite resources for most of its existence. It operates in an online environment where problems can be fixed even in production. And it doesn&#x27;t really do anything that is going to cause catastrophic, unfixable consequences if something does break for a while. That is a list of luxuries that few software development teams enjoy, and what works if you can make those assumptions won&#x27;t necessarily be a good idea if you can&#x27;t.<p>As you say, you do have to pay attention to other factors as well, but there are not many organisations that have as much room to manoeuvre on the software side as Facebook does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?</title><text>Can you please point me to some papers that you consider very influential for your work or that you believe they played significant role on how we structure our software nowdays?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>I used to be very interested in Software Architecture, in fact I&#x27;ve read many of the papers cited here.<p>When I did a startup many years ago, I committed the mistake of paying too much attention to the architecture of the software [1] I was writing, and not enough attention to the product&#x2F;customer side of it.<p>The last couple of years I&#x27;ve been de-emphasizing software architecture as an interest, and have been paying much more attention to how product teams build successful products, what the patterns are, etc. I was lucky enough to work at Facebook for a while and got to see (and learn) a very successful working model of product development.<p>So, while I&#x27;m not saying that software architecture is not important (it is), also pay attention to the product&#x2F;customer side: what choices (software, organizational, hiring, business) allow you to move fast and iterate, to release early and often, to run A&#x2F;B tests, etc.<p>I think good software engineers are just as much product guys (and data guys) as they are software guys.<p>-<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scalien&#x2F;scaliendb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scalien&#x2F;scaliendb</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Clubber</author><text>Agreed, good architecture doesn&#x27;t come into play until you need to add a lot of complex features or scale significantly. Initially architecture doesn&#x27;t really mean squat. I would concentrate on making the codebase flexible, but that&#x27;s about it. I&#x27;ve regretted making some of my software with a cool but complex architecture when I should have been focused on what the product does.</text></comment> |
40,438,903 | 40,439,026 | 1 | 3 | 40,437,379 | train | <story><title>"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-4323/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdimitar</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing programming for ~31 years in total and ~22 years professionally and at this point I have lost all hope that programmers at large will ever gain these mythic qualities called &quot;self-reflection&quot; and &quot;introspection&quot;.<p>Truth is, these people are simply afraid for their cozy jobs, that&#x27;s all there is to it. Derivative states of mind like Stockholm Syndrome and Sunk Cost Fallacy are quite normal to appear in these conditions.<p>On OP: I could not agree more. People always downplay their fuck-ups, that&#x27;s sadly part of being a Homo Sapiens, but the lack of awareness is still both despairing and hilarious to watch.<p>And finally, C&#x2F;C++&#x27;s niches have decreased but these people will not adapt, of course. Almost anything I&#x27;ve done with those languages 15-20 years can today be done with Rust. Or if you are on a tight time budget -- Golang, and you still won&#x27;t lose too much speed.<p>But sure, &quot;nothing can be done, these things sometimes happen&quot;. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jokteur</author><text>I would love to be able to use Rust in my professional project. Unfortunately, I am doing high performance scientific computing. Rust doesn&#x27;t even come close to offer any good alternative to cross-plateform, cross-device (CPU&#x2F;GPU) libraries such as OpenMP Target, Kokkos, SYCL, ... I believe we need Nvidia&#x2F;AMD to take Rust seriously (I&#x27;m not sure it is even possible without unsafe everywhere) to be able to offer good libraries.<p>In my world, using C++ is the modern language, because most project are stuck with Fortran.</text></comment> | <story><title>"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-4323/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdimitar</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing programming for ~31 years in total and ~22 years professionally and at this point I have lost all hope that programmers at large will ever gain these mythic qualities called &quot;self-reflection&quot; and &quot;introspection&quot;.<p>Truth is, these people are simply afraid for their cozy jobs, that&#x27;s all there is to it. Derivative states of mind like Stockholm Syndrome and Sunk Cost Fallacy are quite normal to appear in these conditions.<p>On OP: I could not agree more. People always downplay their fuck-ups, that&#x27;s sadly part of being a Homo Sapiens, but the lack of awareness is still both despairing and hilarious to watch.<p>And finally, C&#x2F;C++&#x27;s niches have decreased but these people will not adapt, of course. Almost anything I&#x27;ve done with those languages 15-20 years can today be done with Rust. Or if you are on a tight time budget -- Golang, and you still won&#x27;t lose too much speed.<p>But sure, &quot;nothing can be done, these things sometimes happen&quot;. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon-3988</author><text>No, more people should be using memory managed languages like Java and Golang. Then educate and expose people to sum types and pattern matching. It is actually insane how people is still unconvinced about sum types. Imagine how insane it is to program without product types? That&#x27;s exactly what it felt like.</text></comment> |
41,472,136 | 41,472,235 | 1 | 2 | 41,438,343 | train | <story><title>Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores, Part I: The Silicon</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/zen-cuda-and-tensor-cores-part-i</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raphlinus</author><text>Here&#x27;s my quick take.<p>A top of the line Zen core is a powerful CPU with wide SIMD (AVX-512 is 16 lanes of 32 bit quantities), significant superscalar parallelism (capable of issuing approximately 4 SIMD operations per clock), and a high clock rate (over 5GHz). There isn&#x27;t a lot of confusion about what constitutes a &quot;core,&quot; though multithreading can inflate the &quot;thread&quot; count. See [1] for a detailed analysis of the Zen 5 line.<p>A single Granite Ridge core has peak 32 bit multiply-add performance of about 730 GFLOPS.<p>Nvidia, by contrast, uses the marketing term &quot;core&quot; to refer to a single SIMD lane. Their GPUs are organized as 32 SIMD lanes grouped into each &quot;warp,&quot; and 4 warps grouped into a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM). CPU and GPU architectures can&#x27;t be directly compared, but just going by peak floating point performance, the most comparable granularity to a CPU core is the SM. A warp is in some ways more powerful than a CPU core (generally wider SIMD, larger register file, more local SRAM, better latency hiding) but in other ways less (much less superscalar parallelism, lower clock, around 2.5GHz). A 4090 has 128 SMs, which is a lot and goes a long way to explaining why a GPU has so much throughput. A 1080, by contrast, has 20 SMs - still a goodly number but not mind-meltingly bigger than a high end CPU. See the Nvidia Ada whitepaper [2] for an extremely detailed breakdown of 4090 specs (among other things).<p>A single Nvidia 4090 &quot;core&quot; has peak 32 bit multiply-add performance of about 5 GFLOPS, while an SM has 640 GFLOPS.<p>I don&#x27;t know anybody who counts tensor cores by core count, as the capacity of a &quot;core&quot; varies pretty widely by generation. It&#x27;s almost certainly best just to compare TFLOPS - also a bit of a slippery concept, as that depends on the precision and also whether the application can make use of the sparsity feature.<p>I&#x27;ll also note that not all GPU vendors follow Nvidia&#x27;s lead in counting individual SIMD lanes as &quot;cores.&quot; Apple Silicon, by contrast, uses &quot;core&quot; to refer to a grouping of 128 SIMD lanes, similar to an Nvidia SM. A top of the line M2 Ultra contains 76 such cores, for 9728 SIMD lanes. I found Philip Turner&#x27;s Metal benchmarks [3] useful for understanding the quantitative similarities and differences between Apple, AMD, and Nvidia GPUs.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.numberworld.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.numberworld.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardo...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.nvidia.com&#x2F;aem-dam&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;Data-Center&#x2F;l4&#x2F;nvidia-ada-gpu-architecture-whitepaper-V2.02.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.nvidia.com&#x2F;aem-dam&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;Data-Center&#x2F;l4&#x2F;n...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philipturner&#x2F;metal-benchmarks">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philipturner&#x2F;metal-benchmarks</a></text></item><item><author>fulafel</author><text>The answer to the leading question &quot;What’s the difference between a Zen core, a CUDA core, and a Tensor core?&quot; is not covered in Part 1, so you may want to wait if this interests you more than chip layouts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>An x64 core roughly corresponding to a SM, or in the amdgpu world a compute unit (CU) seems right. It&#x27;s in the same ballpark for power consumption, represents the component handling an instruction pointer and a local register file and so forth.<p>A really big CPU is a couple of hundred cores, a big GPU is a few hundred SM &#x2F; CUs. Some low power chips are 8 x64 cores and 8 CUs on the same package. All roughly lines up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores, Part I: The Silicon</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/zen-cuda-and-tensor-cores-part-i</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raphlinus</author><text>Here&#x27;s my quick take.<p>A top of the line Zen core is a powerful CPU with wide SIMD (AVX-512 is 16 lanes of 32 bit quantities), significant superscalar parallelism (capable of issuing approximately 4 SIMD operations per clock), and a high clock rate (over 5GHz). There isn&#x27;t a lot of confusion about what constitutes a &quot;core,&quot; though multithreading can inflate the &quot;thread&quot; count. See [1] for a detailed analysis of the Zen 5 line.<p>A single Granite Ridge core has peak 32 bit multiply-add performance of about 730 GFLOPS.<p>Nvidia, by contrast, uses the marketing term &quot;core&quot; to refer to a single SIMD lane. Their GPUs are organized as 32 SIMD lanes grouped into each &quot;warp,&quot; and 4 warps grouped into a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM). CPU and GPU architectures can&#x27;t be directly compared, but just going by peak floating point performance, the most comparable granularity to a CPU core is the SM. A warp is in some ways more powerful than a CPU core (generally wider SIMD, larger register file, more local SRAM, better latency hiding) but in other ways less (much less superscalar parallelism, lower clock, around 2.5GHz). A 4090 has 128 SMs, which is a lot and goes a long way to explaining why a GPU has so much throughput. A 1080, by contrast, has 20 SMs - still a goodly number but not mind-meltingly bigger than a high end CPU. See the Nvidia Ada whitepaper [2] for an extremely detailed breakdown of 4090 specs (among other things).<p>A single Nvidia 4090 &quot;core&quot; has peak 32 bit multiply-add performance of about 5 GFLOPS, while an SM has 640 GFLOPS.<p>I don&#x27;t know anybody who counts tensor cores by core count, as the capacity of a &quot;core&quot; varies pretty widely by generation. It&#x27;s almost certainly best just to compare TFLOPS - also a bit of a slippery concept, as that depends on the precision and also whether the application can make use of the sparsity feature.<p>I&#x27;ll also note that not all GPU vendors follow Nvidia&#x27;s lead in counting individual SIMD lanes as &quot;cores.&quot; Apple Silicon, by contrast, uses &quot;core&quot; to refer to a grouping of 128 SIMD lanes, similar to an Nvidia SM. A top of the line M2 Ultra contains 76 such cores, for 9728 SIMD lanes. I found Philip Turner&#x27;s Metal benchmarks [3] useful for understanding the quantitative similarities and differences between Apple, AMD, and Nvidia GPUs.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.numberworld.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.numberworld.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardo...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.nvidia.com&#x2F;aem-dam&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;Data-Center&#x2F;l4&#x2F;nvidia-ada-gpu-architecture-whitepaper-V2.02.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.nvidia.com&#x2F;aem-dam&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;Data-Center&#x2F;l4&#x2F;n...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philipturner&#x2F;metal-benchmarks">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philipturner&#x2F;metal-benchmarks</a></text></item><item><author>fulafel</author><text>The answer to the leading question &quot;What’s the difference between a Zen core, a CUDA core, and a Tensor core?&quot; is not covered in Part 1, so you may want to wait if this interests you more than chip layouts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Remnant44</author><text>Hi Raph, first of all thank you for all of your contributions and writings - I&#x27;ve learned a ton from reading your blog!<p>A minor quibble amidst your good comparison above ;)<p>For a zen5 core, we have 16-wide SIMD with 4 pipes; 2 are FMA (2 flop), and 2 are FADD @ ~5GHZ. I math that out to 16 * 6 * 5 = 480 GFLOP&#x2F;core... am I missing something?</text></comment> |
27,902,971 | 27,902,684 | 1 | 2 | 27,902,544 | train | <story><title>NSO Group Hacked</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/nso-group-hacked.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shank</author><text>I suppose that broadly, the takeaway here (and in all of this) that I’ve missed is that fundamentally, this list of phones that were targeted shouldn’t exist, or shouldn’t be leakable in this way, if we want to believe that NSO Group is targeting the most genuine targets.<p>To frame it differently: NSO Group sells tools to governments that are apparently trustworthy. Its security and system architecture should be decentralized enough that a list of all targets should be extremely difficult to obtain. If the list is obtainable, then what else is? Are their exploit toolkits just as leakable? Are the internal controls not sufficient to stop these leaks?<p>How can we continue to allow orgs like NSO Group to exist if they surely can’t keep something like their entire target list safe? Even if we assume of the targets are legitimate threats (which, again, requires enough suspension of disbelief to hold a small army at this point), why would we want that list leakable? If they’re all the most legitimate targets, then that list is essentially 50k people who can now discover this fact and change their patterns to hide. It’s pretty bad to tip off “all the people who we find important enough to 0-day” if that assumption holds.<p>Now the real question? I’m not sure I know what we can do, actionably. Call Congress and ask them to care?</text></comment> | <story><title>NSO Group Hacked</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/nso-group-hacked.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rollulus</author><text>The &quot;hacked&quot; part is only an assumption, isn&#x27;t it? The leaked information could also come from, say, a whistleblower. An employee that suddenly developed a sense of ethics.</text></comment> |
38,225,580 | 38,225,680 | 1 | 2 | 38,224,950 | train | <story><title>Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/apple-discriminated-against-us-citizens-in-hiring-doj-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I suspect that this is more a &quot;certain managers wanted certain types of employees,&quot; as opposed to a systemic, companywide decree from Up High (like IBM&#x27;s ageism).<p>Apple just makes too damn much money to worry overmuch about salaries. If anything, a lot of managers like H1Bs, because they can drive them like slaves. I&#x27;ve seen exactly that, in front of my own eyes. It&#x27;s pretty disturbing, if you are a manager like me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jochim</author><text>Weren&#x27;t Apple one of the ringleaders in the conspiracy to suppress wages between the large tech companies a few years back?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/apple-discriminated-against-us-citizens-in-hiring-doj-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I suspect that this is more a &quot;certain managers wanted certain types of employees,&quot; as opposed to a systemic, companywide decree from Up High (like IBM&#x27;s ageism).<p>Apple just makes too damn much money to worry overmuch about salaries. If anything, a lot of managers like H1Bs, because they can drive them like slaves. I&#x27;ve seen exactly that, in front of my own eyes. It&#x27;s pretty disturbing, if you are a manager like me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raincom</author><text>Well, if X is working for a manager M for 3 years at Apple(for that matter, any company), M wants to make sure that wheoever applies to X&#x27;s role during the PERM process (labor certification to ensure that no US citizens&#x2F;perm residents are available to fill X&#x27;s role) gets dinged 100%, no exceptions whatsoever. The way they can ding applicants takes shape in different forms: (a) make the job very very specific, thereby showing that other applicants don&#x27;t have specific skills (b) make the job very generic, then ask for very very precise skills that X&#x27;s role needs (c) make the interview really tough (d) add extra rounds of interviews (e) a combination of all of the foregoing.</text></comment> |
8,559,775 | 8,559,541 | 1 | 2 | 8,559,267 | train | <story><title>NTFS now supported in ReactOS LiveCD</title><url>http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>I think a lot of people ignore the fact that the ReactOS and Wine projects have a symbiotic relationship. Work on ReactOS will lead to improvements on Wine, and vice versa.<p>So it&#x27;s still a useful project for the common user, even if the final product of a fully functional Windows NT clone is still far from being realized.<p>But actually - there&#x27;s another, even more interesting use for ReactOS that I&#x27;m surprised has yet to be attempted.<p>A lot of people seem to praise the NT kernel on an architectural level for its microkernel-like features and object system, but it&#x27;s buried between the cruft that forms the rest of the Windows stack. A free software reimplementation like ReactOS could actually allow for people to exploit the untapped potential of the NT kernel by fusing it with other userlands. Think in the vein of GNU&#x2F;kFreeBSD. Perhaps a FreeDOS one? Either way, the novelty value is certainly high.</text></comment> | <story><title>NTFS now supported in ReactOS LiveCD</title><url>http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RexRollman</author><text>I love the idea of ReactOS but it is moving so slowly that I don&#x27;t see how they can ever be a relevant alternative to Windows. Is my impression wrong?</text></comment> |
23,537,808 | 23,537,666 | 1 | 3 | 23,537,448 | train | <story><title>Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app</title><url>https://github.com/corona-warn-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kovah</author><text>It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona-tracing-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gspr</author><text>What I find far more unbelievable is that countries – at least European countries that through the EU have a common legal framework – did not get together and share the bill for the development of a common open source app. Perhaps each country would have to do some minor local customization, but surely the vast majority of the code could be shared?<p>I frequently find myself pondering this whenever my government announces yet another contract for (the admittedly decent) IT services for interacting with state entities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app</title><url>https://github.com/corona-warn-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kovah</author><text>It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona-tracing-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>The 20 million are also for the backend. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible from the public information to determine whether that&#x27;s a reasonable sum or not.</text></comment> |
23,816,387 | 23,816,278 | 1 | 2 | 23,815,839 | train | <story><title>Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone</title><url>https://github.com/cpetrich/counterfeit_DS18B20</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>myself248</author><text>I&#x27;d never expect to find these in official products from trusted brands, but off-brand crap? Oh yeah. DIY kits? Absolutely. The parts drawer at the makerspace? One hundred percent.<p>So much stuff on eBay is free shipping, that&#x27;s huge when you only need a few dollars worth of stuff. If I could convince Digi-Key to lick a 55-cent stamp when I need ten of something, instead of charging me $7 for shipping, I&#x27;d have a lot fewer counterfeit parts around.</text></item><item><author>as-j</author><text>This affects temperature sensors&#x2F;parts bought from un-official distributors like ebay or AliExpress, not digikey, farnel, etc. Perhaps I&#x27;ve been too lucky in my career and practiced EE for work, but who would you ever go to ebay instead of digikey?? &lt;mind blown&gt;<p>Digikey certainly has a premium, but their speciality is small numbers&#x2F;cut tape&#x2F;etc and they have a small order size which makes them ok for hobby work, and I&#x27;ve used them for small production runs when I didn&#x27;t want to end up with a ton of excess materials.<p>Makes you wonder what other junk is out there, and what purchasing guy figured he&#x27;d save $10 and get it from ebay...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>These show up in &quot;trusted&quot; Chinese brands too. Whenever you see a teardown where the markings are ground off a chip with obvious, non-trade secret function (USB serial converter for instance), its most likely a counterfeit that needs to have its fake markings removed to get past first world customs inspectors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone</title><url>https://github.com/cpetrich/counterfeit_DS18B20</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>myself248</author><text>I&#x27;d never expect to find these in official products from trusted brands, but off-brand crap? Oh yeah. DIY kits? Absolutely. The parts drawer at the makerspace? One hundred percent.<p>So much stuff on eBay is free shipping, that&#x27;s huge when you only need a few dollars worth of stuff. If I could convince Digi-Key to lick a 55-cent stamp when I need ten of something, instead of charging me $7 for shipping, I&#x27;d have a lot fewer counterfeit parts around.</text></item><item><author>as-j</author><text>This affects temperature sensors&#x2F;parts bought from un-official distributors like ebay or AliExpress, not digikey, farnel, etc. Perhaps I&#x27;ve been too lucky in my career and practiced EE for work, but who would you ever go to ebay instead of digikey?? &lt;mind blown&gt;<p>Digikey certainly has a premium, but their speciality is small numbers&#x2F;cut tape&#x2F;etc and they have a small order size which makes them ok for hobby work, and I&#x27;ve used them for small production runs when I didn&#x27;t want to end up with a ton of excess materials.<p>Makes you wonder what other junk is out there, and what purchasing guy figured he&#x27;d save $10 and get it from ebay...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>There will be no licking of 55 cent stamps. US stamps have been 100% self-adhesive since 2016ish.<p>The envelope is of course another matter.</text></comment> |
39,823,751 | 39,823,744 | 1 | 2 | 39,822,184 | train | <story><title>Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture</title><url>https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hipadev23</author><text>How is it that Google invented the TPU and Google Research came up with <i>the</i> paper on LLM and NVDA and AI startup companies have captured ~100% of the value</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>There&#x27;s an old joke explanation about Xerox and PARC, about the difficulty of &quot;pitching a &#x27;paperless office&#x27; to a photocopier company&quot;.<p>In Google&#x27;s case, an example analogy would be pitching making something like ChatGPT widely available, when that would disrupt revenue from search engine paid placements, and from ads on sites that people wouldn&#x27;t need to visit. (So maybe someone says, better to phase it in subtly, as needed for competitiveness, but in non-disruptive ways.)<p>I doubt it&#x27;s as simple as that, but would be funny if that was it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture</title><url>https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hipadev23</author><text>How is it that Google invented the TPU and Google Research came up with <i>the</i> paper on LLM and NVDA and AI startup companies have captured ~100% of the value</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>Because Google can’t focus on a product for more than 18 months if it isn’t generating several billion in PROFIT. They are punch drunk on advertising.</text></comment> |
15,997,064 | 15,995,893 | 1 | 2 | 15,995,240 | train | <story><title>Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-safe-parking-20171224-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>I&#x27;ll be facing this soon as well, at least they&#x27;ve got RV&#x27;s. After getting back from my third open house for the week, with double digit atendees, I think the bay area just isn&#x27;t for me. A perfect credit score and a job making double the median wage is not enough to land a 1 bedroom apartment apparently. I&#x27;ll probably end up sleeping on someones couch for a few months to finish my work contract, and get out of this hellscape for somewhere people can actually live.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>I grew up in California. It&#x27;s a beautiful place. But I fail to understand the point of living or doing business there in 2017. High state taxes, high crime rates (that will only get higher as more people are driven to homelessness), impossible housing market, etc. I now live in Nevada. I can easily drive or fly to California for vacation if I want, housing is relatively reasonable, and there are no state taxes.<p>If you are doing consulting that can be done remotely, live in Nevada and fly to California when you need. Flights are cheap and plentiful. If you&#x27;re running or starting a web-based business, then you can run that from pretty much anywhere, and you&#x27;d be insane to do it in California with such a punitive tax system. There&#x27;s just no point to living in California these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-safe-parking-20171224-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>I&#x27;ll be facing this soon as well, at least they&#x27;ve got RV&#x27;s. After getting back from my third open house for the week, with double digit atendees, I think the bay area just isn&#x27;t for me. A perfect credit score and a job making double the median wage is not enough to land a 1 bedroom apartment apparently. I&#x27;ll probably end up sleeping on someones couch for a few months to finish my work contract, and get out of this hellscape for somewhere people can actually live.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justherefortart</author><text>Move outside the city. I lived in Pacifica. Pretty much anything along BART is easy to get into the city. I parked at Colma where fortunately the dead don&#x27;t drive :-)<p>Pacifica was awesome because you&#x27;re just a hill from the hustle and bustle but it felt like a detached town. So many nice people there. Hwy 1 is annoying at rush hour (or most hours) but it was a really nice community.</text></comment> |
34,877,580 | 34,877,162 | 1 | 2 | 34,875,305 | train | <story><title>Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)</title><url>https://news.uchicago.edu/story/chemists-create-artificial-photosynthesis-system-10-times-more-efficient-existing-systems</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petesergeant</author><text>&gt; besides abysmal efficiency<p>How much does abysmal efficiency matter when there are places in the world with virtually unlimited sunlight? Serious question.</text></item><item><author>enslavedrobot</author><text> This stuff is not competitive with electrochemical methods.<p>A big problem with these methods, besides abysmal efficiency is that the light that drives the photochemical processes has some probability of generating side reactions that destroy the artificial enzyme. Nature overcomes this with unbelievably complex protein repair structures that literally swap out defective proteins for new ones. We have zero chance of replicating this type of thing anytime soon.<p>Bio oil from algae is much closer to practical utility than this tech. And electrochemical CO2 reduction will be an even more scalable and practical solution in the near term in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djmips</author><text>The figure that stands out for me is according to this one fossil fuel animation on YouTube they calculate we are using 100 times the amount of carbon that exists in all living creatures on the face of the earth every year.<p>That&#x27;s food for thought... Even if we used all the forests and all the sea life we still wouldn&#x27;t have enough energy. So we really need to be eat more efficient than natural systems.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;SD9yVca6hHI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;SD9yVca6hHI</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)</title><url>https://news.uchicago.edu/story/chemists-create-artificial-photosynthesis-system-10-times-more-efficient-existing-systems</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petesergeant</author><text>&gt; besides abysmal efficiency<p>How much does abysmal efficiency matter when there are places in the world with virtually unlimited sunlight? Serious question.</text></item><item><author>enslavedrobot</author><text> This stuff is not competitive with electrochemical methods.<p>A big problem with these methods, besides abysmal efficiency is that the light that drives the photochemical processes has some probability of generating side reactions that destroy the artificial enzyme. Nature overcomes this with unbelievably complex protein repair structures that literally swap out defective proteins for new ones. We have zero chance of replicating this type of thing anytime soon.<p>Bio oil from algae is much closer to practical utility than this tech. And electrochemical CO2 reduction will be an even more scalable and practical solution in the near term in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudhirj</author><text>Good point. I&#x27;ve had discussions with friends about things like the Einstein-Slizard refrigeration and efficiency keeps coming up, and it&#x27;s always a struggle to point out that we&#x27;re trying to do things in an environment where there&#x27;s tons of tropical and equatorial sunlight, and little or no access to electricity. Efficiency is not the primary factor when the energy source is free and unlimited.</text></comment> |
31,019,486 | 31,018,269 | 1 | 2 | 31,017,098 | train | <story><title>You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off</title><url>https://news.wisc.edu/youre-muted-or-are-you-videoconferencing-apps-may-listen-even-when-mic-is-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sakos</author><text>Honestly, it feels like most people here aren&#x27;t reading the article.<p>&gt; The researchers then decided to see if they could use data collected on mute from that app to infer the types of activities taking place in the background. Using machine learning algorithms, they trained an activity classifier using audio from YouTube videos representing six common background activities, including cooking and eating, playing music, typing and cleaning. Applying the classifier to the type of telemetry packets the app was sending, the team could identify the background activity with an average of 82% accuracy.<p>How is this not extremely concerning for anybody who cares about privacy?<p>How about we not make the default that companies can do whatever they want and users have to take steps like a hardware-muted mic (which isn&#x27;t always an option) to ensure a basic expectation of privacy?</text></item><item><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>I feel like they&#x27;re trying to make an insidious suggestion about the usage of these. IMO, there&#x27;s likely a good reason - user experience.<p>At a hardware level, grabbing the microphone can take time. Even worse that timing is inconsistent across devices, workloads, etc. That leads to a bad experience when unmuting and needing to delay your commentary. The solution to this is to keep the microphone on, but mute at a software level. This way the mic is always hot and ready to relay audio as fast as the software can switch.<p>I&#x27;d be somewhat willing to bet continue to stream audio is also a quality assurance mechanism. Some networks will shape traffic according to load. A quick jump in bandwidth can introduce unexpected jitter and latency. By continuing to stream audio (but not necessarily process or re-transmit), video conferencing can better ensure an un-interupted experience.<p>----<p>With that being said, if you really care about privacy, consider getting a hardware mute microphone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghostpepper</author><text>&quot;They found that all of the apps they tested occasionally gather raw audio data while mute is activated, with one popular app gathering information and delivering data to its server at the same rate regardless of whether the microphone is muted or not.&quot;<p>The way I read that is, only one of the apps actually sends audio data to the server when the mic is muted. I&#x27;m not sure why they don&#x27;t say which one, and I&#x27;m not sure what is meant by &quot;occasionally gather raw audio data&quot; but it could be as innocuous as the mute button not updating and a half second of audio being sent before muting starts. Nobody is building a machine learning profile out of that.<p>The real story here should be that one app where the mute button doesn&#x27;t actually work. The others are all operating normally as far as I can tell.</text></comment> | <story><title>You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off</title><url>https://news.wisc.edu/youre-muted-or-are-you-videoconferencing-apps-may-listen-even-when-mic-is-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sakos</author><text>Honestly, it feels like most people here aren&#x27;t reading the article.<p>&gt; The researchers then decided to see if they could use data collected on mute from that app to infer the types of activities taking place in the background. Using machine learning algorithms, they trained an activity classifier using audio from YouTube videos representing six common background activities, including cooking and eating, playing music, typing and cleaning. Applying the classifier to the type of telemetry packets the app was sending, the team could identify the background activity with an average of 82% accuracy.<p>How is this not extremely concerning for anybody who cares about privacy?<p>How about we not make the default that companies can do whatever they want and users have to take steps like a hardware-muted mic (which isn&#x27;t always an option) to ensure a basic expectation of privacy?</text></item><item><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>I feel like they&#x27;re trying to make an insidious suggestion about the usage of these. IMO, there&#x27;s likely a good reason - user experience.<p>At a hardware level, grabbing the microphone can take time. Even worse that timing is inconsistent across devices, workloads, etc. That leads to a bad experience when unmuting and needing to delay your commentary. The solution to this is to keep the microphone on, but mute at a software level. This way the mic is always hot and ready to relay audio as fast as the software can switch.<p>I&#x27;d be somewhat willing to bet continue to stream audio is also a quality assurance mechanism. Some networks will shape traffic according to load. A quick jump in bandwidth can introduce unexpected jitter and latency. By continuing to stream audio (but not necessarily process or re-transmit), video conferencing can better ensure an un-interupted experience.<p>----<p>With that being said, if you really care about privacy, consider getting a hardware mute microphone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>Because a video conferencing app with a bad UX is going to be quickly supplanted with one with a better UX; the privacy concerns of being spied on by a video conferencing app while you are muted is very minute for most people.<p>There should be a line between &quot;companies doing whatever they want&quot; because of some implied &quot;nefarious&quot; reasons, and &quot;companies doing whatever they want&quot; because their customers want a better experience even if it has security&#x2F;privacy implications.</text></comment> |
12,492,693 | 12,490,758 | 1 | 2 | 12,489,839 | train | <story><title>Evernote is moving all its data, machine learning to Google Cloud</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/evernote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>&gt; As a result, Evernote will be shutting down its previous storage architecture that was based around a private cloud infrastructure, along with some of its own tech.<p>Good riddance! Deploying Openstack Swift was a nightmare in my personal experience. A few outages and I decided I&#x27;ll never work a job supporting it again.<p>If a recruiter mentions &quot;Openstack&quot; to me what I hear is a shamble mess of a services with components you&#x27;ll be on-call for which will break in unique ways. Oh and of course you&#x27;re expected to maintain the entire infrastructure while you do your normal job.<p>Just move to the cloud already.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evernote is moving all its data, machine learning to Google Cloud</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/evernote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmyjavec</author><text>What exactly does a company like Evernote have to do with machine learning ? Do they have a targeted advertising platform? I can see how it might be good for things like image recognition but what else are they doing with it?<p>I am Genuinely curious, I&#x27;ve not used Evernote for several years, it just got out of hand and bloated I found.<p>Machine learning is really starting to feel just like another trigger phrase.</text></comment> |
26,858,604 | 26,858,084 | 1 | 2 | 26,855,037 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?</title><text>Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;ve been using AWS lambda a bit recently, mostly as a way to glue together various bits and pieces.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m doing this wrong but does anyone else find the experience to be really frustrating?<p>I can unit test bits of the code just fine, but at some point I always end up stuck in a slow feedback loop where I deploy the code, do some manual invoking, go and dig through the logs in CloudWatch, add another print statement in my lambda... and so on.<p>What I want is to run the lambdas locally, ideally more than one, and then exercise them with streams of test events (perhaps captured from a real environment). It would be quite cool if I could define BDD style tests around them too.<p>Anyone have any suggestions or share my frustrations?<p>I have heard localstack is quite good although I haven&#x27;t given it a go yet. Would that work for me? I did try SAM but I was a bit underwhelmed and I don&#x27;t want to use a separate IaC tool for these.<p>Alternatively, do other FaaS providers solve this problem?<p>Thanks for any help.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>You&#x27;ve discovered what many other people have: The cloud is the new time-share mainframe.<p>Programming in the 1960s to 80s was like this too. You&#x27;d develop some program in isolation, unable to properly run it. You &quot;submit&quot; it to the system, and it would be scheduled to run along with other workloads. You&#x27;d get a printout of the results back hours later, or even tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.<p>This work loop is incredibly inefficient, and was replaced by development that happened entirely locally on a workstation. This dramatically tightened the edit-compile-debug loop, down to seconds or at most minutes. Productivity skyrocketed, and most enterprises shifted the majority of their workload away from mainframes.<p>Now, in the 2020s, mainframes are back! They&#x27;re just called &quot;the cloud&quot; now, but not much of their essential nature has changed other than the vendor name.<p>The cloud, just like mainframes:<p>- Does not provide all-local workstations. The only full-fidelity platform is the shared server.<p>- Is closed source. Only Amazon provides AWS. Only Microsoft provides Azure. Only Google provides GCP. You can&#x27;t peer into their source code, it is all proprietary and even secret.<p>- Has a poor debugging experience. Shared platforms can&#x27;t generally allow &quot;invasive&quot; debugging for security reasons. Their sheer size and complexity will mean that your visibility will always be limited. You&#x27;ll never been able to get a stack trace that crosses into the internal calls of the platform services like S3 or Lambda. Contrast this with typical debugging where you can even trace into the OS kernel if you so choose.<p>- Are generally based on the &quot;print the logs out&quot; feedback mechanism, with all the usual issues of mainframes such as hours-long delays.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Olreich</author><text>While that’s generally true, the inputs and outputs and execution environment that you can count on is well-documented on AWS Lambda. That means that recreation of execution environment for the function in question is pretty reasonable locally (why is this not a thing then Amazon?!?). For the rest of AWS, you can either get credentials in place for access or mock those out somehow, but that’s not officially supported either.<p>I feel like the service is leaving a bunch of easy work on the table that would let people have a local development process that mirrors the remote development reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?</title><text>Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;ve been using AWS lambda a bit recently, mostly as a way to glue together various bits and pieces.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m doing this wrong but does anyone else find the experience to be really frustrating?<p>I can unit test bits of the code just fine, but at some point I always end up stuck in a slow feedback loop where I deploy the code, do some manual invoking, go and dig through the logs in CloudWatch, add another print statement in my lambda... and so on.<p>What I want is to run the lambdas locally, ideally more than one, and then exercise them with streams of test events (perhaps captured from a real environment). It would be quite cool if I could define BDD style tests around them too.<p>Anyone have any suggestions or share my frustrations?<p>I have heard localstack is quite good although I haven&#x27;t given it a go yet. Would that work for me? I did try SAM but I was a bit underwhelmed and I don&#x27;t want to use a separate IaC tool for these.<p>Alternatively, do other FaaS providers solve this problem?<p>Thanks for any help.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>You&#x27;ve discovered what many other people have: The cloud is the new time-share mainframe.<p>Programming in the 1960s to 80s was like this too. You&#x27;d develop some program in isolation, unable to properly run it. You &quot;submit&quot; it to the system, and it would be scheduled to run along with other workloads. You&#x27;d get a printout of the results back hours later, or even tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.<p>This work loop is incredibly inefficient, and was replaced by development that happened entirely locally on a workstation. This dramatically tightened the edit-compile-debug loop, down to seconds or at most minutes. Productivity skyrocketed, and most enterprises shifted the majority of their workload away from mainframes.<p>Now, in the 2020s, mainframes are back! They&#x27;re just called &quot;the cloud&quot; now, but not much of their essential nature has changed other than the vendor name.<p>The cloud, just like mainframes:<p>- Does not provide all-local workstations. The only full-fidelity platform is the shared server.<p>- Is closed source. Only Amazon provides AWS. Only Microsoft provides Azure. Only Google provides GCP. You can&#x27;t peer into their source code, it is all proprietary and even secret.<p>- Has a poor debugging experience. Shared platforms can&#x27;t generally allow &quot;invasive&quot; debugging for security reasons. Their sheer size and complexity will mean that your visibility will always be limited. You&#x27;ll never been able to get a stack trace that crosses into the internal calls of the platform services like S3 or Lambda. Contrast this with typical debugging where you can even trace into the OS kernel if you so choose.<p>- Are generally based on the &quot;print the logs out&quot; feedback mechanism, with all the usual issues of mainframes such as hours-long delays.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>People sometimes don’t understand the “why” of something like Literate Programming - it wasn’t really for documentation purposes. Part of it was to reduce as much as possible what we would call “compiler errors” as much as possible.<p>Arguably that’s a more dignified form of programming for a more elegant time but it doesn’t really mesh with the reality of “try fail print retry”.</text></comment> |
34,058,763 | 34,058,857 | 1 | 2 | 34,045,748 | train | <story><title>AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/2e97b7ce-8223-431e-a61d-1e462b6893c3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aeternum</author><text>Training people (or anything) using a flawed objective function is not useful.<p>Writing essays, specifically expanding a list of well-reasoned bullet points into communicative written prose will be a worthless operation in the future, and likely already is.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Yeah, no. Training people doesn&#x27;t work like that. Education is about training people, we don&#x27;t utilize the output of the kids and reward them with grades that they can exchange for food and toys.<p>The whole point of testing is to put them in hypothetical situations and grade their progress with purpose of being aware of their development so we can improve it. Another thing we do is selecting the particularly good ones for further advanced training.<p>The problem with cheating is that it provides wrong data about their progress, you don&#x27;t want to end up with a generation that cheated their way up without learning anything.<p>The selection for further training is probably not that big of a problem, its mostly about supply and demand and ChatGPT won&#x27;t change that.</text></item><item><author>kypro</author><text>I guess I have a fairly cynical take on this. I think this just exposes that AI is fundamentally going to undermine the value of education in certain fields. The fact some tests can be &quot;cheated&quot; by AI really just suggests that some skills have little to no value in our future AI-prevalent world. Stopping people cheating is going to change that.<p>In the same way that in the past being able to do fast, accurate calculations in your head or on paper might have landed you job as a &quot;computer&quot;, today technology makes the idea of hiring someone to be a computer absurd. And therefore any tests that test someone&#x27;s ability to multiply and divide large numbers is basically a worthless test in today&#x27;s world.<p>Fields where there&#x27;s value humans can add won&#x27;t be cheatable by AI (at least today&#x27;s generations). Tests in these fields will hold value. In some cases it will mean the education and tests will evolve to educate and test areas where humans can still add value - arguably this has already happened in maths. But many fields could be replaced entirely.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to sound unsympathetic to those who&#x27;s jobs and professions will replaced by AI in the coming years and decades. It makes me sad that someone could spend years obtaining and perfecting skills which might soon become redundant, but for better or worse AI systems like ChatGPT will fundamentally change the value of some skills and educational fields. The sooner we accept this the better we can adapt society for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>Have you not noticed that when you write something down with the purpose of summarising it in a structured way you tend to understand it better?<p>There&#x27;s no market for kids essays, we never made them write these things with the purpose of being useful output. The market for essays for grown ups is also very small, making kids write things down was not with the purpose of covering the case of them becoming journalists or something. It&#x27;s just that makes them learn to think and structure their thought process. That&#x27;s why people take notes and write down things even if its not going to be graded or read by anyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/2e97b7ce-8223-431e-a61d-1e462b6893c3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aeternum</author><text>Training people (or anything) using a flawed objective function is not useful.<p>Writing essays, specifically expanding a list of well-reasoned bullet points into communicative written prose will be a worthless operation in the future, and likely already is.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Yeah, no. Training people doesn&#x27;t work like that. Education is about training people, we don&#x27;t utilize the output of the kids and reward them with grades that they can exchange for food and toys.<p>The whole point of testing is to put them in hypothetical situations and grade their progress with purpose of being aware of their development so we can improve it. Another thing we do is selecting the particularly good ones for further advanced training.<p>The problem with cheating is that it provides wrong data about their progress, you don&#x27;t want to end up with a generation that cheated their way up without learning anything.<p>The selection for further training is probably not that big of a problem, its mostly about supply and demand and ChatGPT won&#x27;t change that.</text></item><item><author>kypro</author><text>I guess I have a fairly cynical take on this. I think this just exposes that AI is fundamentally going to undermine the value of education in certain fields. The fact some tests can be &quot;cheated&quot; by AI really just suggests that some skills have little to no value in our future AI-prevalent world. Stopping people cheating is going to change that.<p>In the same way that in the past being able to do fast, accurate calculations in your head or on paper might have landed you job as a &quot;computer&quot;, today technology makes the idea of hiring someone to be a computer absurd. And therefore any tests that test someone&#x27;s ability to multiply and divide large numbers is basically a worthless test in today&#x27;s world.<p>Fields where there&#x27;s value humans can add won&#x27;t be cheatable by AI (at least today&#x27;s generations). Tests in these fields will hold value. In some cases it will mean the education and tests will evolve to educate and test areas where humans can still add value - arguably this has already happened in maths. But many fields could be replaced entirely.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to sound unsympathetic to those who&#x27;s jobs and professions will replaced by AI in the coming years and decades. It makes me sad that someone could spend years obtaining and perfecting skills which might soon become redundant, but for better or worse AI systems like ChatGPT will fundamentally change the value of some skills and educational fields. The sooner we accept this the better we can adapt society for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lemmsjid</author><text>There is a progression though.<p>For students, the objective is to write what to an adult would be mediocre essays, because they are on a path to writing adult level essays.<p>The AI can write mediocre essays, but not adult level essays.<p>Assuming that a student must write a bunch of mediocre essays in order to progress past the AI to write adult level essays, then they need to be evaluated on writing a bunch of mediocre essays.<p>If the teacher cannot distinguish between AI output and the student&#x27;s output, and the result is that we give up on evaluating mediocre student essays, then the students are ultimately inhibited from progression to adult level essays, which, currently, are superior to the AI&#x27;s output.</text></comment> |
40,563,720 | 40,563,745 | 1 | 3 | 40,552,548 | train | <story><title>FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale</title><url>https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyyp</author><text>I&#x27;m always happy to see the proliferation of open-source resources for the next generative models. But I strongly suspect that OpenAI and friends are all using copywritten content from the wealth of shadow book repositories available online [1]. Unless open models are doing the same, I doubt they will ever get meaningfully close to the quality of closed-source models.<p>Related: I also suspect that this is one reason we get so little information about the exact data used to train Meta&#x27;s Llama models (&quot;open weights&quot; vs &quot;open source&quot;).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.annas-archive.org&#x2F;llm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.annas-archive.org&#x2F;llm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale</title><url>https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ipython</author><text>Reading the section on [synthetic data](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingfacefw-blogpost-fineweb-v1.static.hf.space&#x2F;dist&#x2F;index.html#synthetic_data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingfacefw-blogpost-fineweb-v1.static.hf.space&#x2F;di...</a>) was eye-opening for me. The hockey-stick growth of words associated with common ChatGPT output in the common crawl database over the past ~18 months is worrying.</text></comment> |
7,115,249 | 7,115,181 | 1 | 2 | 7,114,291 | train | <story><title>King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard?</title><url>http://junkyardsam.com/kingcopied/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>officemonkey</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people think Candy Crush is bad. I&#x27;ve played Candy Crush for close to a year (I&#x27;m on level 153) and I haven&#x27;t spent a dime.<p>Sure, I&#x27;ve played the same level for weeks on end, but I haven&#x27;t bought anything.<p>Of course I&#x27;ve been tempted to push the button, spend 99 cents and bypass the level, but I have something called willpower and a certain amount of pride that every level I&#x27;ve beaten is legit.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>I don&#x27;t care about people liking Candy Crush. Match 3 is a huge genre.<p>It&#x27;s just sad that there isn&#x27;t a clone that costs $4.99 to buy and doesn&#x27;t need more purchases. It&#x27;s even sadder that even if the clone did exist few people would buy it.<p>I really miss the Doom model of give away a few levels cor free and buy the rest.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus2</author><text><i>Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent. After seeing the success of Rovio, Zynga and King, I don&#x27;t think they will be made sadly.</i><p>It&#x27;s important to realize that our tastes aren&#x27;t necessarily representative of people&#x27;s tastes in general. Most people probably wouldn&#x27;t enjoy Chrono Trigger or FF3 compared to Candy Crush. The evidence is that Final Fantasy games have been available for smartphones for a long time now, but they just aren&#x27;t selling. The storytelling experience is the same, but people aren&#x27;t as into them.<p>It&#x27;s easy to label the industry as &quot;low confidence&quot; but reality is more along the lines of &quot;acts on hard data.&quot; It&#x27;s wise to be cautious when it only takes one or two mistakes to kill your company.</text></item><item><author>zyb09</author><text>The success of King.com really bothers me. Sure their games are not cheap and made very well, but it seems the whole &quot;game&quot; and all mechanics are just designed to slowly get you hooked and extract money at the most susceptible time. And it&#x27;s executed almost to the point of perfection.<p>It&#x27;s a shame it&#x27;s working so well, because they are eating the cake in front of a very low confidence game industry. Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent. After seeing the success of Rovio, Zynga and King, I don&#x27;t think they will be made sadly. Let&#x27;s just hope this doesn&#x27;t affect other platforms as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jader201</author><text><i>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand why people think Candy Crush is bad.</i><p><i>&gt; ...but I have something called willpower</i><p>This is why people think Candy Crush is bad -- because most people don&#x27;t have this willpower, and it plays on this weakness, almost to an exact science.</text></comment> | <story><title>King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard?</title><url>http://junkyardsam.com/kingcopied/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>officemonkey</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people think Candy Crush is bad. I&#x27;ve played Candy Crush for close to a year (I&#x27;m on level 153) and I haven&#x27;t spent a dime.<p>Sure, I&#x27;ve played the same level for weeks on end, but I haven&#x27;t bought anything.<p>Of course I&#x27;ve been tempted to push the button, spend 99 cents and bypass the level, but I have something called willpower and a certain amount of pride that every level I&#x27;ve beaten is legit.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>I don&#x27;t care about people liking Candy Crush. Match 3 is a huge genre.<p>It&#x27;s just sad that there isn&#x27;t a clone that costs $4.99 to buy and doesn&#x27;t need more purchases. It&#x27;s even sadder that even if the clone did exist few people would buy it.<p>I really miss the Doom model of give away a few levels cor free and buy the rest.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus2</author><text><i>Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent. After seeing the success of Rovio, Zynga and King, I don&#x27;t think they will be made sadly.</i><p>It&#x27;s important to realize that our tastes aren&#x27;t necessarily representative of people&#x27;s tastes in general. Most people probably wouldn&#x27;t enjoy Chrono Trigger or FF3 compared to Candy Crush. The evidence is that Final Fantasy games have been available for smartphones for a long time now, but they just aren&#x27;t selling. The storytelling experience is the same, but people aren&#x27;t as into them.<p>It&#x27;s easy to label the industry as &quot;low confidence&quot; but reality is more along the lines of &quot;acts on hard data.&quot; It&#x27;s wise to be cautious when it only takes one or two mistakes to kill your company.</text></item><item><author>zyb09</author><text>The success of King.com really bothers me. Sure their games are not cheap and made very well, but it seems the whole &quot;game&quot; and all mechanics are just designed to slowly get you hooked and extract money at the most susceptible time. And it&#x27;s executed almost to the point of perfection.<p>It&#x27;s a shame it&#x27;s working so well, because they are eating the cake in front of a very low confidence game industry. Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent. After seeing the success of Rovio, Zynga and King, I don&#x27;t think they will be made sadly. Let&#x27;s just hope this doesn&#x27;t affect other platforms as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliottcarlson</author><text>I&#x27;ve been somewhat addicted to Candy Crush for the last few months (at level 305 now - long commutes give me way too much free time) and I haven&#x27;t spent a dime either. What was surprising to hear was that some co-workers have paid at every &quot;world&quot; change - and they didn&#x27;t know there was a way to get through to the next world without paying. It seems, when it is hooked up to your Facebook account, you don&#x27;t have the option to play the three bonus levels over the course of 24 hours each - only nagging FB friends and paying. The trick is to just sign-out of FB in-game, play the three levels and then connect it back up if you wanted to.</text></comment> |
26,798,543 | 26,796,631 | 1 | 2 | 26,794,228 | train | <story><title>A top-grossing scam on the App Store</title><url>https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1381986746661892096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>Apple has just engineered the worst possible situation for themselves by being the <i>only</i> way to get apps on the store and by simultaneously incessantly marketing the store as &quot;Safe and Secure&quot;. The former encourages them to maximize the number of apps on the store, while the latter encourages them to shoot first and ask questions later.<p>If side-loading or alternative ways of getting apps onto the iPhone existed, then they could implement far stricter controls knowing that, worst case scenario, you <i>can</i> still get an app onto the iPhone. This is how it works on the Mac. Tor isn&#x27;t on the Mac App Store, but that of course doesn&#x27;t mean Tor can&#x27;t be used on the Mac.<p>This is one of the tricky parts about AppStore discussions, it&#x27;s not about being for or against the AppStore. In fact, I wish the AppStore was <i>MUCH pickier</i> about the apps it let in, and I also wish there was an alternative to the AppStore to catch cases that didn&#x27;t meet that strict bar. Then the AppStore could <i>actually</i> be about curation as opposed to fear-induced isolationism. Then Apple wouldn&#x27;t have to inadvertently have political side-effects when it disallowed apps like HKMap.live.<p>Being on the AppStore could still be advantageous beyond just &quot;either that or you don&#x27;t get to be on the iPhone at all.” Apple payment processing, iCloud integrations, Family-sharing, etc. could all be tied to being ON the AppStore, so there&#x27;d still be a huge incentive to try to ship that way. And side-loading doesn&#x27;t have to be easy or even on by default.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>If side-loading or alternative ways of getting apps onto the iPhone existed, then they could implement far stricter controls knowing that, worst case scenario, you can still get an app onto the iPhone. This is how it works on the Mac. Tor isn&#x27;t on the Mac App Store, but that of course doesn&#x27;t mean Tor can&#x27;t be used on the Mac.</i><p>And if side-loading was alowed then every big player whose app users &quot;have to have&quot;, e.g. Google, Facebook, Abobe, Zoom, Epic, would start their own independent app store (or distribution just for their apps).<p>Users would have no recourse than to install the app for there (or do without Facebook or Zoom etc).<p>Then every scammer and scamster does the same for their apps, and lures enough people to get them, and depending on what&#x27;s allowed, you also get pirated app &quot;stores&quot;. In the end the result is not so great for the devs complaining either...<p>Now instead of 1 method of payment, 1 way to enforce subscriptions&#x2F;cancellations and other rules, one checkpoint, you have 2 or 5 or 10.</text></comment> | <story><title>A top-grossing scam on the App Store</title><url>https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1381986746661892096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>Apple has just engineered the worst possible situation for themselves by being the <i>only</i> way to get apps on the store and by simultaneously incessantly marketing the store as &quot;Safe and Secure&quot;. The former encourages them to maximize the number of apps on the store, while the latter encourages them to shoot first and ask questions later.<p>If side-loading or alternative ways of getting apps onto the iPhone existed, then they could implement far stricter controls knowing that, worst case scenario, you <i>can</i> still get an app onto the iPhone. This is how it works on the Mac. Tor isn&#x27;t on the Mac App Store, but that of course doesn&#x27;t mean Tor can&#x27;t be used on the Mac.<p>This is one of the tricky parts about AppStore discussions, it&#x27;s not about being for or against the AppStore. In fact, I wish the AppStore was <i>MUCH pickier</i> about the apps it let in, and I also wish there was an alternative to the AppStore to catch cases that didn&#x27;t meet that strict bar. Then the AppStore could <i>actually</i> be about curation as opposed to fear-induced isolationism. Then Apple wouldn&#x27;t have to inadvertently have political side-effects when it disallowed apps like HKMap.live.<p>Being on the AppStore could still be advantageous beyond just &quot;either that or you don&#x27;t get to be on the iPhone at all.” Apple payment processing, iCloud integrations, Family-sharing, etc. could all be tied to being ON the AppStore, so there&#x27;d still be a huge incentive to try to ship that way. And side-loading doesn&#x27;t have to be easy or even on by default.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ProjectArcturis</author><text>If they allowed side-loading, they might not capture 30% of revenue from apps sold through the app store. If they disallowed scams, they might not capture 30% of the scammers&#x27; revenue.</text></comment> |
9,865,482 | 9,863,184 | 1 | 2 | 9,862,410 | train | <story><title>The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexggordon</author><text>I grew up in St. Louis and I found out about chemical testing[0] that went on here awhile ago.<p>I think the scariest part was that I&#x27;m sure it was specifically tested in a low-income area purposely, because the people there could probably do less about it. A relevant bit from the article:<p>&gt; Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family&#x27;s apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn&#x27;t know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air.<p>&gt; Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages.<p>The fact that there probably are still people in the US government making similar decisions makes me a lot more nervous about life.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;army-sprayed-st-louis-with-toxic-dust-2012-10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;army-sprayed-st-louis-with-to...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abhinai</author><text>&quot;... the court held that the government was immune to a lawsuit for negligence and that they were justified in conducting tests without subjects&#x27; knowledge.&quot;.<p>I sincerely hope there was some rationale to this decision that I do not know or understand. Otherwise it would be very hard for me to have any faith left in our judicial system.</text></comment> |
16,802,763 | 16,802,799 | 1 | 3 | 16,790,664 | train | <story><title>My experience with off-shoring teams and what went wrong</title><url>https://return.co.de/blog/articles/india-scaling-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t1o5</author><text>The author forgot to mention how much he paid for the offshore team. There was no mention of money in the things that went wrong. I think the cost is a very important factor if you expect a high quality project.<p>I have seen many people who bash India and Indian engineers for low quality work, but lets get to the crux of the problem. Its not that Indian engineers are all bad. They come in all shapes and sizes. You will get the best ones if you pay enough. You pay cheap, you get cheap.<p>Where can you get cheap ones ? From those big IT companies who treats employees as resources. The employees in turn will also treat their jobs along those lines.<p>So if you need high quality work, please don&#x27;t go to these giant corporations. If you look hard enough, you will find small high quality places, but they are not cheap and not &#x27;scalable&#x27; like your manager wants them to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>The last time I managed outsourced developers I made this joke.<p>&quot;There are some truly amazing Indian developers, it&#x27;s just a shame none of them are in India&quot;.<p>My observation was that the outsourced developers I managed, the good ones usually got visa&#x27;s and buggered off abroad even though they where getting near UK wages in India they could earn more by moving.</text></comment> | <story><title>My experience with off-shoring teams and what went wrong</title><url>https://return.co.de/blog/articles/india-scaling-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t1o5</author><text>The author forgot to mention how much he paid for the offshore team. There was no mention of money in the things that went wrong. I think the cost is a very important factor if you expect a high quality project.<p>I have seen many people who bash India and Indian engineers for low quality work, but lets get to the crux of the problem. Its not that Indian engineers are all bad. They come in all shapes and sizes. You will get the best ones if you pay enough. You pay cheap, you get cheap.<p>Where can you get cheap ones ? From those big IT companies who treats employees as resources. The employees in turn will also treat their jobs along those lines.<p>So if you need high quality work, please don&#x27;t go to these giant corporations. If you look hard enough, you will find small high quality places, but they are not cheap and not &#x27;scalable&#x27; like your manager wants them to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debaserab2</author><text>In my experience with off shore development I found the people I worked with to be extremely hard working and eager to learn. The programming was never the problem, the problem was the lack of understanding the business use cases of what we were building. Because they had no proximity to the business problem we were attempting to solve, they had a hard time making the right decision on their own. Specs had to be very, very detailed.</text></comment> |
12,063,501 | 12,063,483 | 1 | 3 | 12,062,988 | train | <story><title>Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/06/28/483805061/has-physics-gotten-something-really-important-really-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzyz</author><text>Maybe, but sadly philosophy doesn&#x27;t have a good track record when it comes to actually solving problems.</text></item><item><author>dmfdmf</author><text>&gt; Physics has been stuck on this problem for almost a century now. Philosophy won&#x27;t help.<p>It sure seems to be an epistemology problem which puts it squarely in the realm of philosophy, not physics.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>This is Smolin, making his usual, and valid, criticisms of modern physics. Smolin&#x27;s basic complaint is that there is no experimental evidence for string theory. The math is pretty, and a whole generation of physicists have worked on it, but nothing is experimentally testable. Everything is too small or at too high an energy level. A practical implication is that it doesn&#x27;t lead to any technology.<p>Smolin also doesn&#x27;t like many-worlds, because it talks about unreachable regions. This he considers too speculative. There&#x27;s a basic problem in quantum mechanics, which leads to Schroedinger&#x27;s Cat, the Copenhagen Interpretation, and, in the end, many-worlds.[1]<p>Physics has been stuck on this problem for almost a century now. Philosophy won&#x27;t help.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Copenhagen_interpretation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Copenhagen_interpretation</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beefield</author><text>It may be that my memory does not serve me well, but I think I got an impression from the history of the philosophy that once there is a field of philosophy that actually starts solving problems, it very fast changes its name to something else than philosophy. For example[1], Newton&#x27;s 1687 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy later became classified as a book of physics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philosophy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philosophy</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/06/28/483805061/has-physics-gotten-something-really-important-really-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzyz</author><text>Maybe, but sadly philosophy doesn&#x27;t have a good track record when it comes to actually solving problems.</text></item><item><author>dmfdmf</author><text>&gt; Physics has been stuck on this problem for almost a century now. Philosophy won&#x27;t help.<p>It sure seems to be an epistemology problem which puts it squarely in the realm of philosophy, not physics.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>This is Smolin, making his usual, and valid, criticisms of modern physics. Smolin&#x27;s basic complaint is that there is no experimental evidence for string theory. The math is pretty, and a whole generation of physicists have worked on it, but nothing is experimentally testable. Everything is too small or at too high an energy level. A practical implication is that it doesn&#x27;t lead to any technology.<p>Smolin also doesn&#x27;t like many-worlds, because it talks about unreachable regions. This he considers too speculative. There&#x27;s a basic problem in quantum mechanics, which leads to Schroedinger&#x27;s Cat, the Copenhagen Interpretation, and, in the end, many-worlds.[1]<p>Physics has been stuck on this problem for almost a century now. Philosophy won&#x27;t help.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Copenhagen_interpretation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Copenhagen_interpretation</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmfdmf</author><text>This reminds me of the old adage about the drunk looking for his keys under the lamp post because &quot;that&#x27;s where the light is&quot;. If the solution in physics requires a revolution in philosophy then that is where we must look.</text></comment> |
20,309,078 | 20,308,617 | 1 | 3 | 20,306,119 | train | <story><title>$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE</title><url>https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-intel-core-i9/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sureste</author><text>Are you gaming with the 2700X by chance? How is it?</text></item><item><author>MrMember</author><text>I put a 2700X in my most recent desktop and a 2400G in my HTPC. For the price they can&#x27;t be beat.</text></item><item><author>boyadjian</author><text>My next CPU will be an AMD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>I game with my 2700X&#x2F;RTx2080 and it’s phenomenal, Battlefield 5 is gorgeous in 4K (though I have to drop to 1440 if I enable RT and ultra settings, that’s the GPU though not the cpu).<p>It’s so good I’m probably going to defer my upgrade for Zen 2 til Zen 2+ or whatever it’s called.</text></comment> | <story><title>$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE</title><url>https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-intel-core-i9/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sureste</author><text>Are you gaming with the 2700X by chance? How is it?</text></item><item><author>MrMember</author><text>I put a 2700X in my most recent desktop and a 2400G in my HTPC. For the price they can&#x27;t be beat.</text></item><item><author>boyadjian</author><text>My next CPU will be an AMD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iaml</author><text>Not GP, but gaming on 2700x+1070ti w&#x2F; 144hz 1440p monitor. It&#x27;s suboptimal, but usually I can play games on high&#x2F;ultra settings ~60fps or full 144 on low-medium. Not having any problems with VR either.</text></comment> |
29,168,406 | 29,167,907 | 1 | 2 | 29,167,629 | train | <story><title>Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tim--</author><text>Wow. Weta works on some really big films, so it will be exciting to see the work that they have done become available in the asset store.<p>In the PR they say:
&gt; [...] the asset library we’ll inherit [...], which includes urban and natural environments, flora and fauna, humans, man-made objects, materials, textures, and more. The WetaFX team will continue their [...] work for major film and TV productions and feed into this asset library for years to come.<p>Peter Jackson (of LoTR fame) is one of the founders of Weta.<p>Sad to see another one of New Zealand&#x27;s large, well known employers get sold.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwuxiytayq</author><text>Unity is trying real hard to convince investors that it can compete with Unreal in the movie production space, while their actual capabilities are embarrassingly limited. Especially if you want to get shit done out-of-the-box, but also in terms of the max no-matter-the-budget end result quality. Hopefully they can catch up in the long run. The space needs competition.</text></comment> |
13,825,771 | 13,825,960 | 1 | 2 | 13,825,282 | train | <story><title>Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare</title><url>http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>df3</author><text>A well-executed single-payer system would make California even more attractive for entrepreneurship and increase labor mobility for everyone. Life would be much easier if we could start companies or switch jobs without worrying about healthcare.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neltnerb</author><text>Completely agree. The trick is making sure it&#x27;s well-executed so that other states can use it as a template. Once one state proves that single-payer can be done well, I suspect it will cascade inevitably.<p>With 100% seriousness, if the ACA is repealed I will likely be choosing between Massachusetts (where Romneycare would hopefully take priority again) or another country. It&#x27;s too risky to do otherwise.<p>My extended and immediate family members have too many horror stories about being denied coverage or it being prohibitively expensive. Like a cousin who had to choose working over being a stay-at-home mom to take care of her kids, since her husband&#x27;s policy as an entrepreneur wouldn&#x27;t cover her. She didn&#x27;t even have any ongoing health problems, just a technical pre-existing condition.<p>I am unwilling to be stuck in a job or forced to accept unreasonable compensation or a nasty work environment because I have to have health coverage. Which is a decision too many in my family have been forced to make. Many family members (including myself) have far worse chronic illnesses, so it&#x27;s utterly involuntary -- work or die. And thankfully I have a choice in where to live by virtue of my education and credentials.<p>I have been blessed so far to not have to deal with it because I&#x27;ve only lived in MA as an adult prior to Obamacare -- where Romneycare was in place by the time I finished undergrad. But I&#x27;ve heard enough first hand accounts and seen the suffering that kind of horrible choice creates. And the absolutely perverse incentives it puts onto the job market, and onto individuals. Health care is not a voluntary market, and treating it like one is bonkers.<p>Now I&#x27;m in California. I seriously doubt I will be able to stay without a guarantee that I can manage medical expenses, and I&#x27;m definitively privileged economically compared to the majority of the US population.</text></comment> | <story><title>Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare</title><url>http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>df3</author><text>A well-executed single-payer system would make California even more attractive for entrepreneurship and increase labor mobility for everyone. Life would be much easier if we could start companies or switch jobs without worrying about healthcare.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genericpseudo</author><text>This is the point where America discovers European liberal political theory and praxis! This is one of their key points; universal healthcare is a hard-L liberal position because only the state can insure certain classes of catastrophic risk, and by doing so you increase individual freedom of action.<p>(European liberalism is clearly culturally distinct from social democratic thought; where it comes to the same positions it&#x27;s typically by other means – not that there&#x27;s anything wrong with social democracy or democratic Socialism, for that matter.)<p>A good starting point would be, at pan-Europe level, the ALDE; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alliance_of_Liberals_and_Democrats_for_Europe_Party" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alliance_of_Liberals_and_Democ...</a>. National-level parties you might have heard of are the Liberal Democrats (UK) and Democraten 66 (Netherlands).</text></comment> |
21,854,745 | 21,853,981 | 1 | 3 | 21,853,654 | train | <story><title>Google forbids login with niche Linux browsers</title><url>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/couldnt-sign-you-in-google-browser-error-linux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21765615" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21765615</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21791337" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21791337</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21786672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21786672</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google forbids login with niche Linux browsers</title><url>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/couldnt-sign-you-in-google-browser-error-linux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>okasaki</author><text>&gt;Google is known for A&#x2F;B testing changes to its various web services all the time, so this specific hiccup could resolve itself in time.<p>&gt;“Couldn’t sign you in. This browser or app may not be secure. Try using a different browser. If you’re already using a supported browser, you can refresh your screen and try again to sign in.”<p>A&#x2F;B testing security? Is this what peak A&#x2F;B looks like?<p>Can we go back to giving users a consistent experience and develop software based on some other type of reasoning, rather than this A&#x2F;B gaslighting?</text></comment> |
38,203,516 | 38,203,229 | 1 | 2 | 38,202,403 | train | <story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okeuro49</author><text>The UK Home Office has not raised an eyebrow about people shouting &quot;jihad&quot; on the streets of London. The UK government also gave a housing allowance to a leader of Hamas. [1]<p>The Home Office doesn&#x27;t seem to care either about child exploitation in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, if it is committed by a protected group. [2]<p>One could suggest that before implementing dragnet surveillance on the public, that the UK government could first investigate what is happening in public view, but is not talked about because it is politically inconvenient.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;what-i-told-oxford" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;what-i-told-oxford</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>The Rotherham failings were not so much because of the &quot;wrong type&quot; of perpetrators, but the wrong type of <i>victims</i>. Sexual assault and rape have pretty miserable conviction rates at the best of times, and victims experience substantial misogyny. In the case of Rotherham, most of the victims were young girls who were in the local authority &quot;care&quot; system, many of whom were known to the police already. So the police reacted to their complaints with the old &quot;of course you were raped, you shouldn&#x27;t have been there &#x2F; doing that&quot;.<p>(Think about it: do you know the names or faces of any of the Rotherham victims? Are they doing the campaigning? Or is it people using them to grind an axe which has little to do with the actual crimes?)<p>What is the actual reason for not giving Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, a person with no UK criminal convictions, the rights of any other resident? Are we saying that local authorities should screen people for political views before offering them housing as they are statutorily required to?</text></comment> | <story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okeuro49</author><text>The UK Home Office has not raised an eyebrow about people shouting &quot;jihad&quot; on the streets of London. The UK government also gave a housing allowance to a leader of Hamas. [1]<p>The Home Office doesn&#x27;t seem to care either about child exploitation in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, if it is committed by a protected group. [2]<p>One could suggest that before implementing dragnet surveillance on the public, that the UK government could first investigate what is happening in public view, but is not talked about because it is politically inconvenient.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;what-i-told-oxford" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;what-i-told-oxford</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leoedin</author><text>The home office aren&#x27;t giving enough funding (and&#x2F;or organisational change?) to the police either. Bike stolen? Car stolen? House broken into? Mugged on the street? They don&#x27;t have time to investigate any of it.<p>This stuff is what actually reduces the quality of life of the average person. Why waste time and money putting this sort of draconian and technically infeasible law through when they&#x27;re doing nothing about petty (or increasingly less petty) crime?</text></comment> |
37,507,060 | 37,506,760 | 1 | 2 | 37,506,386 | train | <story><title>How mobile apps illegally share personal data</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqpabc123</author><text>Long story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.<p>Progressive Web Apps on the other hard are actively restricted by the browser sandbox and are ganerally a preferred solution from a privacy perspective.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cubesnooper</author><text>GrapheneOS allows disabling network for a particular app, alongside the other permission settings. As a rule, I’ll give an app either file permissions or network permissions, but almost never both.<p>A lot of apps are perfectly usable without file access by sharing a file to them from the file manager.<p>GrapheneOS also has “Contact Scopes,” so you can grant an app contacts access (so it thinks) but it’s actually a subset or blank list of contacts.<p>Another feature that’s commonly recommended is using multiple profiles. I often see people use this to run Google apps in an environment isolated from the rest of their data.</text></comment> | <story><title>How mobile apps illegally share personal data</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqpabc123</author><text>Long story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.<p>Progressive Web Apps on the other hard are actively restricted by the browser sandbox and are ganerally a preferred solution from a privacy perspective.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>Except the only difference is that PWAs in Chrome&#x27;s &quot;sandbox&quot; just collect data for Google, and Google alone. Do you believe they do it for the greater good?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;googles-widely-oppos...</a></text></comment> |
14,795,993 | 14,795,456 | 1 | 3 | 14,791,925 | train | <story><title>Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance</title><url>https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3.6-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cupcakestand</author><text>Just about to decide between Mongo and Rethink. I know HN is not on good terms with Mongo but I&#x27;d like to have insights on...<p>- Setup of a replica set: is it easier&#x2F;faster than with Mongo (which I find complicated)?<p>- Sharding: Easier than with Mongo?<p>- Rethink&#x27;s query language: Is it really better than Mongo&#x27;s after you used it for some time?<p>Happy to hear more insights if you know more noteworthy stuff and please no bashing of any of them. Just try to make an educated decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance</title><url>https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3.6-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>I&#x27;m really happy to see progress again. Hopefully we&#x27;ll see more... I appreciate everyone that worked to make this possible.<p>side note: the node driver in npm still hasn&#x27;t been re-published with the license type in the package.json, so doesn&#x27;t show the license. Only noting as this can cause issues in some organizations.</text></comment> |
1,964,042 | 1,964,137 | 1 | 2 | 1,963,945 | train | <story><title>You must learn JavaScript </title><url>http://thenerdary.net/articles/entry/you_must_learn_javascript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aplusbi</author><text>JavaScript isn't really important for non-web development. I used to program video games for hand held consoles and JavaScript was the last thing on my mind.<p>Okay, maybe I was working for the unmentioned 1% (and for what it's worth, the company I currently work for uses JavaScript). And really, it's not a bad idea to learn JavaScript - it's pretty ubiquitous and chances are you will work for a company that uses it at some point in your career. But honestly, I'm getting a little sick of all these articles that seem to forget that there is more to programming than web apps.<p>Edited to remove snarkiness.</text></comment> | <story><title>You must learn JavaScript </title><url>http://thenerdary.net/articles/entry/you_must_learn_javascript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reduxredacted</author><text>I <i>very reluctantly</i> conceded this point a few years ago, but in a slightly different way. I've been doing JavaScript-as-a-kludge-for-whatever-server-side-framework-I-happen-to-discover-the-limitations-of for a while. I'm discovering that the complexity of every browser's quirks means I'm going to have to do more than just "learn it". And therein lies the problem.<p>JavaScript isn't an awful language (all languages have their pluses and minuses and developers are so touchy on this subject, I don't even want to broach it). It's the sheer number of platforms (browser/hardware/OS combinations) that make JavaScript painful to learn properly. Every browser on every device must perform adequately. It's not a matter of supporting Windows or MacOS, it's every variant of RIM device, i* device, every browser on Windows Mobile taking into account the performance/memory footprint (to a lesser extent anymore), and devices with browser variants running on Android.<p>For the sake of my current set of projects -- requiring reasonable compatibility across platforms, but not a universally good user experience on all, learning jQuery became a necessity. Though I'd prefer to not be framework dependent, I've found that understanding how to use jQuery has also improved my understanding of the various quirky implementations of JavaScript in general.<p>I have no doubt that future projects will require a good user experience on most platforms. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding good, comprehensive resources in this area? The blog post mentions several online resources for folks wishing to learn/understand the language (some of which I haven't used before), but I'm wondering if there are particularly excellent tools beyond that (IDEs, good debuggers beyond Firebug) or anything else out there that can assist in identifying code that <i>won't work</i>, or <i>won't work well</i> in cross platform scenarios (for free or not).</text></comment> |
15,094,588 | 15,094,276 | 1 | 2 | 15,093,617 | train | <story><title>Making your first dollar from a SaaS project</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/@czue/what-actually-goes-into-making-your-first-dollar-from-a-saas-project-49d98f7d45</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangero</author><text>I&#x27;ve crashed and burned on SaaS enough that I&#x27;m very into the landing page approach -- don&#x27;t build the product, but convince people you have so that they can click the &quot;buy now&quot; button. That way you feel more confident that the market exists while you&#x27;re actually building it. After all the projects I&#x27;ve failed at, nothing is harder for me to do than spend 200+ hours on something without having a clue whether it will reap benefits or not. Corey spent 100 hours trying to gather traction. He could have potentially skipped the 100 hours it took to build it and instead just tested the sales side.<p>There are people who can know where a market is and confidently blaze straight into it without any validation. I think I&#x27;m just not that genius or lucky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MediumD</author><text>If I understand you correctly: You whip up a bootstrap page that describes the product with a &#x27;beta sign-up &amp; pay&#x27; button, and if enough people sign up and pay, you build it?<p>- What sort of demo do you have on the website? Or is it just a basic description of the product and a list of features?<p>- Does this mean you get payment processing setup before development every time?<p>- How do you manage returning money if you decide not to do it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Making your first dollar from a SaaS project</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/@czue/what-actually-goes-into-making-your-first-dollar-from-a-saas-project-49d98f7d45</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangero</author><text>I&#x27;ve crashed and burned on SaaS enough that I&#x27;m very into the landing page approach -- don&#x27;t build the product, but convince people you have so that they can click the &quot;buy now&quot; button. That way you feel more confident that the market exists while you&#x27;re actually building it. After all the projects I&#x27;ve failed at, nothing is harder for me to do than spend 200+ hours on something without having a clue whether it will reap benefits or not. Corey spent 100 hours trying to gather traction. He could have potentially skipped the 100 hours it took to build it and instead just tested the sales side.<p>There are people who can know where a market is and confidently blaze straight into it without any validation. I think I&#x27;m just not that genius or lucky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianstormtaylor</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, if you&#x27;re willing to share, what were the projects you worked on that failed?</text></comment> |
2,073,081 | 2,072,898 | 1 | 3 | 2,072,774 | train | <story><title>Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing</title><url>http://cheeptalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/be-very-afraid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>The author seems to be upset by this, but why? If you don't want to sell your seat back to the airline, don't.<p>Personally, I can't get upset with a situation where I have 100% control. Amazon's pricing experiments are similar; if I don't like Amazon's price + value add, I can just buy from one of their many competitors. So no need to get mad at them for changing their prices randomly. Similarly, I would probably be willing to give up my $50 seat for $2000, so I'd type that number in. If I got my $2000, great; I would walk over to the competitor's counter and pay the $500 walk-up fare. If not, travel proceeds as planned.<p>What is there to be upset about?</text></comment> | <story><title>Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing</title><url>http://cheeptalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/be-very-afraid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>I wonder if this could be used as a part time business. You could buy several tickets on days when flights are usually overbooked months ahead of time. Good time to do this would be Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, etc.<p>Then show up at the airport that day and sell each ticket for a premium above what you paid for.</text></comment> |
30,045,856 | 30,045,094 | 1 | 2 | 30,007,120 | train | <story><title>A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004)</title><url>https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/dice/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kej</author><text>For a while they sold a pack of 36 cards as a Catan accessory, labeled with 2 through 12 in the same frequencies as two six sided dice, and instead of rolling the dice you flip over the top card and then you shuffle them and start over when you reach the bottom.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting change to gameplay, since the numbers are no longer independent and the gambler&#x27;s fallacy (&quot;I haven&#x27;t had a 12 for a while, so it&#x27;s more likely to come soon&quot;) actually makes sense here. You could restore independent numbers by reshuffling the entire deck after each turn.<p>That seems like an easy way to get the results from the article, without worrying about biased dice or repainting. If you want to alter the deck&#x27;s probability you can just add or remove cards.</text></comment> | <story><title>A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004)</title><url>https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/dice/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>&gt; re-rolling a pair of dice until you get a result you like seemed ugly.<p>... then proceed to:<p>- create an entire new pair of dice for 2 turns of a game they play once in a while<p>- one die now has 2 values on each face with separate meaning<p>- for the first 2 turns, you have a special procedure to read the value of the dice that is quite convoluted<p>I understand the fun of it, but that&#x27;s also how I see code being written in the corporate world, and that makes me sad.</text></comment> |
11,594,963 | 11,594,968 | 1 | 2 | 11,594,816 | train | <story><title>Infinit announces Project Dropboxe</title><url>http://blog.infinit.one/infinit-announces-project-dropboxe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sephr</author><text>Both infinite and dropbox are standard dictionary words.<p>Dropboxes are also not limited to the physical world, as many online educational software platforms (that pre-date Dropbox the company) call their shared storage areas for assignment submissions a &quot;dropbox&quot;.</text></item><item><author>tux3</author><text>I have to admit the situation is a little funny, but Dropbox will probably have an easier time justifying their use of the word &quot;Infinite&quot; that Infinit justifying &quot;Dropboxe&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curryhoward</author><text>I think the parent comment meant that Infinite is a word, and also a sensible name for Dropbox to name their product. Dropboxe is a silly neologism that only makes sense in the context of Dropbox&#x27;s recent press, and not a good name for a product outside of this context.</text></comment> | <story><title>Infinit announces Project Dropboxe</title><url>http://blog.infinit.one/infinit-announces-project-dropboxe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sephr</author><text>Both infinite and dropbox are standard dictionary words.<p>Dropboxes are also not limited to the physical world, as many online educational software platforms (that pre-date Dropbox the company) call their shared storage areas for assignment submissions a &quot;dropbox&quot;.</text></item><item><author>tux3</author><text>I have to admit the situation is a little funny, but Dropbox will probably have an easier time justifying their use of the word &quot;Infinite&quot; that Infinit justifying &quot;Dropboxe&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>Also, for ages Macs have had a &quot;Public&#x2F;Drop Box&quot; folder as a write-only way for other people to give you things (and it actually makes a lot more sense in that interpretation). It did make it a little confusing when starting to use Dropbox itself, as then you have &quot;~&#x2F;Dropbox&quot; and &quot;~&#x2F;Public&#x2F;Drop Box&quot;.</text></comment> |
26,313,993 | 26,313,523 | 1 | 2 | 26,309,925 | train | <story><title>Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_r0fz</author><text>&gt; Tech&#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them<p>Correct. We hate nazis.</text></item><item><author>abernard1</author><text>&gt; Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is &quot;you can say what you want without getting banned&quot;, your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.<p>And in Hong Kong, it&#x27;s anti-CCP protestors. In Iran, it is opponents of the theocracy. We can play this game all day.<p>Tech&#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them, not on whether offensive or not-sanctioned speech should be allowed in general.</text></item><item><author>gizmo686</author><text>Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is &quot;you can say what you want without getting banned&quot;, your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.<p>Compounding this is PR and network effects. Once they become known as the place for the far right, then more far righters go there, and more distant people avoid it.</text></item><item><author>mikepost001</author><text>&quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“<p>For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter&#x27;s basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter&#x27;s tweet&#x2F;like&#x2F;retweet.<p>Gab&#x27;s current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don&#x27;t participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn&#x27;t have.<p>Gab has been along for longer and seems to be more popular. Both market to the (mostly American) far right, with their shtick being basically &quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation&quot;. Gab seems to have been more competent in coming back up after bans from their hosting provider and other partners.</text></item><item><author>ignoranceprior</author><text>Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khmmr</author><text>As a European from a country with actual experience with various totalitarian regimes, based on current actions in US like restricting free speech, banning books, enforcing ideology through propaganda and forced &quot;reeducation&quot; courses for those whose beliefs are considered &quot;wrong&quot;, &quot;positive&quot; discrimination based on racial features etc, I&#x27;m more inclined to think that you are not hating the nazis, you are the nazis.<p>Also, blaming problems in the country&#x2F;world on a group of people identified by their racial features (white males), accusing them in abusing their privilege for oppression of other groups also defined by racial features. Where have I seen this before? Oh, right, nazis again..</text></comment> | <story><title>Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_r0fz</author><text>&gt; Tech&#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them<p>Correct. We hate nazis.</text></item><item><author>abernard1</author><text>&gt; Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is &quot;you can say what you want without getting banned&quot;, your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.<p>And in Hong Kong, it&#x27;s anti-CCP protestors. In Iran, it is opponents of the theocracy. We can play this game all day.<p>Tech&#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them, not on whether offensive or not-sanctioned speech should be allowed in general.</text></item><item><author>gizmo686</author><text>Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is &quot;you can say what you want without getting banned&quot;, your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.<p>Compounding this is PR and network effects. Once they become known as the place for the far right, then more far righters go there, and more distant people avoid it.</text></item><item><author>mikepost001</author><text>&quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“<p>For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter&#x27;s basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter&#x27;s tweet&#x2F;like&#x2F;retweet.<p>Gab&#x27;s current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don&#x27;t participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn&#x27;t have.<p>Gab has been along for longer and seems to be more popular. Both market to the (mostly American) far right, with their shtick being basically &quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation&quot;. Gab seems to have been more competent in coming back up after bans from their hosting provider and other partners.</text></item><item><author>ignoranceprior</author><text>Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nix23</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it beautiful how the American and western society&#x27;s rips itself apart? Man vs Women, Woman vs Trans, Gay vs Lesbians, White vs Black..oh sorry i mean People of no Color vs People of Color, Democrats vs Republicans and so on...zero consensus on each side what our society should be.<p>It&#x27;s like the KGB wins the cold war after all...with a small delay.<p>Yuri Bezmenov:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KLdDmeyMJls" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KLdDmeyMJls</a></text></comment> |
10,712,928 | 10,711,131 | 1 | 3 | 10,710,980 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.5</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/12/10/Rust-1.5.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mangeletti</author><text>I&#x27;ve been excited to try Rust for some time now, but I&#x27;ve been holding off, only because I&#x27;m primarily developing web applications and I&#x27;ve heard from a few people that Rust is better suited for other tasks (based on the built-ins, packages, etc.?), despite there being at least a few frameworks out there.<p>What are your thoughts on this? Have things changed? Is the assumption just dead wrong, and Rust is in fact tremendous for web application development?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been toying with a web app[1][2] using hyper[3] as for http connections and ws[4] for web socket connections. This was my first project using anything lower level than Javascript. I had a fairly good experience, my problems stemmed more from not knowing the least bit about memory management rather than lack of libraries. In fact the libraries that are already there tend to be very well documented, with lots of examples and explanations.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theremins.club" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theremins.club</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;runarberg&#x2F;theremins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;runarberg&#x2F;theremins</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;hyper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;hyper</a><p>4: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;ws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;ws</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.5</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/12/10/Rust-1.5.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mangeletti</author><text>I&#x27;ve been excited to try Rust for some time now, but I&#x27;ve been holding off, only because I&#x27;m primarily developing web applications and I&#x27;ve heard from a few people that Rust is better suited for other tasks (based on the built-ins, packages, etc.?), despite there being at least a few frameworks out there.<p>What are your thoughts on this? Have things changed? Is the assumption just dead wrong, and Rust is in fact tremendous for web application development?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>I have historically been skeptical of Rust as an application-tier language, but my experiments with it as of late have made me reconsider a bit. The largest weakness, imho, is the lack of libraries for various standards and formats: do you really want to implement OAuth yourself? (EDIT: Apparently we do have OAuth now. ha!) The maturity of the Rails ecosystem has spoiled me.<p>Here&#x27;s a random fact that I&#x27;ve always found interesting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;</a> uses Rust on the server. It links to libgit, it does a lot of stuff. It uses about 30 megs of memory, resident, at all times. Coming from Rails, that&#x27;s... shocking.</text></comment> |
24,856,356 | 24,855,793 | 1 | 3 | 24,855,342 | train | <story><title>The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices</title><url>https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=news.ycombinator.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exyi</author><text>It just seems to be a bunch of iframes and it renders the website in your browser. HTML is just downloaded through CORS proxy...</text></comment> | <story><title>The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices</title><url>https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=news.ycombinator.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LoSboccacc</author><text>&gt; you no longer need random time.sleep()<p>you never needed that, selenium always had multiple method available to wait for page loads or to wait for specific div to become available in the dom or visible in the viewport.<p>anyway, I don&#x27;t understand the usefulness of a mobile web render into a browser: a tall, narrow frame is no substitute of a mobile device. for one the rendering engine is not the same, secondly you don&#x27;t get touch events generated for it, thirdly hover and pixel density media queries straight up won&#x27;t work</text></comment> |
28,454,296 | 28,453,790 | 1 | 2 | 28,453,165 | train | <story><title>Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse</title><url>https://join-lemmy.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unraveller</author><text>The front-end is still buggy and needs a designer&#x27;s touch. And the real-time aspects wear thin at scale with all the notifications in a mismatch of languages showing up in the main feed. Lemmy is practically unusable without a personal feed filter, it seems that of the new reddit alternatives only retalk_[1] want to get this right.<p>If you do decide to run an instance of lemmy be sure to nuke the absurd word filter - the code is designed to make it as difficult as possible to change out. Thankfully some nice souls [2] are maintaining that anti-feature removal.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retalk.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retalk.com</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;innereq&#x2F;lenny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;innereq&#x2F;lenny</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strenholme</author><text>The problem with Retalk is this: It’s closed sourced.<p>If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reddit-archive&#x2F;reddit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reddit-archive&#x2F;reddit</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;mastodon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;mastodon</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;discourse&#x2F;discourse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;discourse&#x2F;discourse</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LemmyNet&#x2F;lemmy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LemmyNet&#x2F;lemmy</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;innereq&#x2F;lenny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;innereq&#x2F;lenny</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phpbb&#x2F;phpbb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phpbb&#x2F;phpbb</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mybb&#x2F;mybb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mybb&#x2F;mybb</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse</title><url>https://join-lemmy.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unraveller</author><text>The front-end is still buggy and needs a designer&#x27;s touch. And the real-time aspects wear thin at scale with all the notifications in a mismatch of languages showing up in the main feed. Lemmy is practically unusable without a personal feed filter, it seems that of the new reddit alternatives only retalk_[1] want to get this right.<p>If you do decide to run an instance of lemmy be sure to nuke the absurd word filter - the code is designed to make it as difficult as possible to change out. Thankfully some nice souls [2] are maintaining that anti-feature removal.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retalk.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retalk.com</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;innereq&#x2F;lenny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;innereq&#x2F;lenny</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reginold</author><text>How strange they would include word filters that are hard to edit. Seems counter to their whole mission...what?<p>Edit: actually it would make sense if word filters themselves were hard to add. But having their own filter and making that hard to edit is bonkers.</text></comment> |
35,405,495 | 35,405,282 | 1 | 2 | 35,392,288 | train | <story><title>The Contradictions of Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-b0e1c8c9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mezzie</author><text>tl;dr: Nobody is steering the ship because they don&#x27;t know they&#x27;re on a ship. Or that the ocean exists.<p>It&#x27;s hard without doxxing myself or calling out specific people and organizations which I&#x27;d rather not because I&#x27;m a nobody and can&#x27;t afford lawsuits, but for various reasons I ended up political education and marketing for civics advocacy. Ish. To be semi on topic, I know some people who are published in the WSJ (as well as the people who actually <i>wrote</i> the pieces). I&#x27;m also a 3rd generation tech nerd in my mid 30s so I&#x27;m very comfortable with the digital world - easily the most so outside of the actual software engineering team.<p>I&#x27;ve spoken with and to a lot of politicians and candidates from across the US - mostly on the local and state level but some nationally. And journalists from publications that are high profile, professors of legal studies, heads of think tanks, etc.<p>My read of the situation is that our political class is entangled in a snare of perverse disincentives for action while also being so disassociated from the world outside of their bubble that they&#x27;ve functionally no idea what&#x27;s going on. Our systems (cultural, political, economic, etc.) have grown exponentially more complex in the past 30 years and those of us on HN (myself included) understand this and why this happened. I&#x27;m a 3rd generation tech nerd, I can explain pretty easily how we got here and why things are different. The political class, on the other hand, has had enough power to not need to adapt and to force other people to do things their way. If your 8500 year old senator wants payment by check and to send physical mail, you do it. (Politicians and candidates that would not use the internet were enough of a problem in <i>2020</i> that we had to account for it in our data + analyses and do specific no tech outreach). Since they didn&#x27;t know how the world is changing, they also <i>haven&#x27;t been considering the effects of the changes at all</i>.<p>Furthermore, even those of them that have some idea still don&#x27;t know how to problem solve <i>systems</i> instead of <i>relationships</i>. Complex systems thinking is <i>the</i> key skill needed to navigate these waters, and <i>none of them have it</i>. It&#x27;s fucking <i>terrifying</i>. At best, they can conceive of systems where everything about them is known and their outputs can be precisely predicted. <i>At best</i>. Complex systems are beyond them.<p>Add to this that we have a system which has slowly ground itself to a deadlocked halt. Congress has functionally abandoned most of its actual legislative duties because it&#x27;s way better for sitting congresspeople to not pass any bills - if you don&#x27;t do anything, then you don&#x27;t piss any of your constituents off. Or make mistakes. And you can spend more time campaigning.<p>I left and became a hedonist with a drug problem after a very frank conversation with a colleague who was my political opposite at the time. I&#x27;m always open to being wrong, and hearing that they didn&#x27;t have any answer either was a very &#x27;welp, we&#x27;re fucked&#x27; moment. I&#x27;m getting better.</text></item><item><author>trendroid</author><text>Possible to Elaborate?</text></item><item><author>Mezzie</author><text>&gt; beyond that are we just telling a story and really nobody is &#x27;in control&#x27;?<p>Basically. Or at least that&#x27;s the impression I&#x27;m left with after spending a couple of years in politics work.<p>I had a nice long breakdown.</text></item><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, isn&#x27;t history really just a series of specific people doing concrete actions?<p>Do you think on some level the idea of some abstract &#x27;government&#x27; taking care of things is just a narrative we apply to make ourselves feel better?<p>Sure individual decision makers <i>in</i> that government can concretely affect reality, but beyond that are we just telling a story and really nobody is &#x27;in control&#x27;?</text></item><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>Stop asking the market to look after collective interest. This is the job of the government. The ultimate effect of virtue wanking CEOs and corporate governance is to deceive people into thinking democracy is something that can be achieved by for profit organizations and that they can forsake the formal binding of collective interest through law.<p>It&#x27;s nice if people are nice but it is not a bulwark of the collective good. It is a temporary social convenience. The higher that niceness exists in the social order, the greater its contemporary benefit but also, the more it masks the vulnerability of that social benefit.<p>It matters if Sam Altman is Ghandi or Genghis Khan in a concrete way but you, as a citizen must act as if it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>If AI poses a danger to the social good, no amount of good guy CEOs will protect us. The only thing that will is organization and direct action.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanwallace</author><text>As a software developer who found myself elected to state level public office and had to spin-up my education around the legislative process and all of politics, I concur.<p>Their are only a couple of things I&#x27;d add.<p>As much knowledge as I brought in about technology and the idea of being aware of system thinking, I also brought in a great amount of ignorance about all the other areas that are legislated (healthcare, interplay between local, state, and fedearl issues, budgetary concerns, tax policy, banking, etc.). Good legislation is truly collaborative.<p>Sadly, for the second part, good legislation is rarer than it should be as much of legislation is about politics and perception of the voters. And voter perceptions are not necessarily logical or reasoned.<p>This makes it all the more important, IMHO, that everyone who is reasonable, logical, and educated spend their precious, valuable time involving themselves to advocate for elected officials who behave similar in what is essentially a zero-sum game.<p>p.s. Have faith. I saw enough during my time that gave me reason for that faith. (But that faith requires time and effort -- we don&#x27;t get good government or democracy for free.) I&#x27;m glad to hear you&#x27;re getting better.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Contradictions of Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-b0e1c8c9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mezzie</author><text>tl;dr: Nobody is steering the ship because they don&#x27;t know they&#x27;re on a ship. Or that the ocean exists.<p>It&#x27;s hard without doxxing myself or calling out specific people and organizations which I&#x27;d rather not because I&#x27;m a nobody and can&#x27;t afford lawsuits, but for various reasons I ended up political education and marketing for civics advocacy. Ish. To be semi on topic, I know some people who are published in the WSJ (as well as the people who actually <i>wrote</i> the pieces). I&#x27;m also a 3rd generation tech nerd in my mid 30s so I&#x27;m very comfortable with the digital world - easily the most so outside of the actual software engineering team.<p>I&#x27;ve spoken with and to a lot of politicians and candidates from across the US - mostly on the local and state level but some nationally. And journalists from publications that are high profile, professors of legal studies, heads of think tanks, etc.<p>My read of the situation is that our political class is entangled in a snare of perverse disincentives for action while also being so disassociated from the world outside of their bubble that they&#x27;ve functionally no idea what&#x27;s going on. Our systems (cultural, political, economic, etc.) have grown exponentially more complex in the past 30 years and those of us on HN (myself included) understand this and why this happened. I&#x27;m a 3rd generation tech nerd, I can explain pretty easily how we got here and why things are different. The political class, on the other hand, has had enough power to not need to adapt and to force other people to do things their way. If your 8500 year old senator wants payment by check and to send physical mail, you do it. (Politicians and candidates that would not use the internet were enough of a problem in <i>2020</i> that we had to account for it in our data + analyses and do specific no tech outreach). Since they didn&#x27;t know how the world is changing, they also <i>haven&#x27;t been considering the effects of the changes at all</i>.<p>Furthermore, even those of them that have some idea still don&#x27;t know how to problem solve <i>systems</i> instead of <i>relationships</i>. Complex systems thinking is <i>the</i> key skill needed to navigate these waters, and <i>none of them have it</i>. It&#x27;s fucking <i>terrifying</i>. At best, they can conceive of systems where everything about them is known and their outputs can be precisely predicted. <i>At best</i>. Complex systems are beyond them.<p>Add to this that we have a system which has slowly ground itself to a deadlocked halt. Congress has functionally abandoned most of its actual legislative duties because it&#x27;s way better for sitting congresspeople to not pass any bills - if you don&#x27;t do anything, then you don&#x27;t piss any of your constituents off. Or make mistakes. And you can spend more time campaigning.<p>I left and became a hedonist with a drug problem after a very frank conversation with a colleague who was my political opposite at the time. I&#x27;m always open to being wrong, and hearing that they didn&#x27;t have any answer either was a very &#x27;welp, we&#x27;re fucked&#x27; moment. I&#x27;m getting better.</text></item><item><author>trendroid</author><text>Possible to Elaborate?</text></item><item><author>Mezzie</author><text>&gt; beyond that are we just telling a story and really nobody is &#x27;in control&#x27;?<p>Basically. Or at least that&#x27;s the impression I&#x27;m left with after spending a couple of years in politics work.<p>I had a nice long breakdown.</text></item><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, isn&#x27;t history really just a series of specific people doing concrete actions?<p>Do you think on some level the idea of some abstract &#x27;government&#x27; taking care of things is just a narrative we apply to make ourselves feel better?<p>Sure individual decision makers <i>in</i> that government can concretely affect reality, but beyond that are we just telling a story and really nobody is &#x27;in control&#x27;?</text></item><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>Stop asking the market to look after collective interest. This is the job of the government. The ultimate effect of virtue wanking CEOs and corporate governance is to deceive people into thinking democracy is something that can be achieved by for profit organizations and that they can forsake the formal binding of collective interest through law.<p>It&#x27;s nice if people are nice but it is not a bulwark of the collective good. It is a temporary social convenience. The higher that niceness exists in the social order, the greater its contemporary benefit but also, the more it masks the vulnerability of that social benefit.<p>It matters if Sam Altman is Ghandi or Genghis Khan in a concrete way but you, as a citizen must act as if it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>If AI poses a danger to the social good, no amount of good guy CEOs will protect us. The only thing that will is organization and direct action.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huijzer</author><text>Isn’t history full of examples of governments being slow and seemingly incompetent? Standard Oil was broken up many years after everyone knew that they were a ruthless monopoly which made too much profits. Note also that it didn’t take senators to figure out the monopoly, it was everyone, including the voters, who did.<p>There is one big benefit that democratic governments have though. They have a monopoly on physical force.</text></comment> |
37,884,818 | 37,881,727 | 1 | 2 | 37,880,667 | train | <story><title>The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)</title><url>https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hettygreen</author><text>For those that are interested in seeing artists conjure up hit songs, check out the documentary &quot;Billie Eilish: The World&#x27;s A Little Blurry&quot;. There are some scenes showing Billie and her brother sitting on a bed in their parents&#x27; house coming up with lyrics and melodies for songs that would go on to sell millions, win grammys and totally change their lives.<p>I&#x27;m a huge beatles fan, and while Get Back shows sparks of creativity - for the most part it, it shows a few childish rich dudes high as all hell dicking around in front of cameras in a super-weird situation that they put themselves in trying to document themselves writing an album.<p>The World&#x27;s A Little Blurry on the other hand shows two siblings battling through some tough shit and turning it into gold on a shoestring recording budget.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)</title><url>https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>indigoabstract</author><text>I liked the quote mentioned about the Beatles being &quot;proof of the existence of God&quot;:<p>&quot;It transcends everything. It’s much bigger than four kids from Liverpool. For me the Beatles are proof of the existence of God. It’s so good and so far beyond everyone else that it’s not them.&quot;<p>I hadn&#x27;t heard that one before.<p>I think what the Beatles did can be called &quot;riding the wave of fortune&quot; or &quot;being on a roll&quot;, but they somehow did it year after year instead of just a few times, like most people manage to.</text></comment> |
29,190,284 | 29,190,199 | 1 | 3 | 29,188,877 | train | <story><title>The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones”</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaiju0</author><text>This is a pretty typical growth pattern. Industrial zone establishes and city is set far away in a safe area. City expands and resident need cheap housing. The cheap housing is built near the industrial zone as that is how economic forces work. People then see this and say they built industrial next to the poor people when the opposite occurred. Now the industry is giving cancer to poor people and needs to be punished. Who is right and who is wrong?</text></comment> | <story><title>The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones”</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yellow_lead</author><text>Some anecdotes as someone who lived near one of these locations growing up (fortunately about 30 mi away)<p>1) Every now and then, our entire town would smell terrible, presumably from the winds carrying the emissions to us<p>2) A friend who moved here during my high school had to move away since his whole family suffered from asthma and it was made much noticeably worse here<p>3) Heard a couple huge explosions during my lifetime from these refineries sadly.</text></comment> |
22,228,009 | 22,227,541 | 1 | 3 | 22,226,532 | train | <story><title>Swift Crypto</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/crypto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&gt; On Apple platforms, Swift Crypto defers directly to CryptoKit, while on all other platforms it uses a brand-new implementation built on top of the BoringSSL library.<p>Oh great, more pointless differences. Just pick one and stick to it. If you trust the BoringSSL version then use it everywhere. If you don&#x27;t, well, why are you using it on the other platforms?<p>I could understand it if it was very platform-specific (async networking, GUI controls, whatever). But come on, BSSL already exists everywhere, you&#x27;re not saving yourself any porting work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jws</author><text>From most of the way down the page…<p><i>Given that we had do to this extra work, what advantage is gained from having two backends, instead of consolidating onto a single backend for both CryptoKit and Swift Crypto? The primary advantage is verification. With two independent implementations of the CryptoKit API, we are able to test the implementations against each other as well as their own test suites. This improves reliability and compatibility for both implementations, reducing the changes of regression and making it easy to identify errors by comparing the output of the two implementations.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Swift Crypto</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/crypto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&gt; On Apple platforms, Swift Crypto defers directly to CryptoKit, while on all other platforms it uses a brand-new implementation built on top of the BoringSSL library.<p>Oh great, more pointless differences. Just pick one and stick to it. If you trust the BoringSSL version then use it everywhere. If you don&#x27;t, well, why are you using it on the other platforms?<p>I could understand it if it was very platform-specific (async networking, GUI controls, whatever). But come on, BSSL already exists everywhere, you&#x27;re not saving yourself any porting work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markonen</author><text>Something like hardware offload comes to mind as potentially platform-specific.</text></comment> |
26,840,693 | 26,839,618 | 1 | 3 | 26,837,926 | train | <story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sparrc</author><text>It&#x27;s always strange to me how certain studies seem to gain so many upvotes on hackernews....a few thoughts:<p>1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anything from this?<p>2. The journal is EBioMedicine, which is not nothing but not exactly pre-eminent either.<p>3. This seems like just a common sense conclusion: &quot;In Cox proportional hazard models, inflammation predicted all-cause mortality&quot;. So...people who die have inflammation? Wouldn&#x27;t that be expected that people who are dieing are likely experiencing significant inflammation of at least one organ of their body?<p>4. In short, the conclusion of this paper seems like essentially &quot;people who are dying are likely to die&quot;. Am I missing something here?</text></comment> | <story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TimSchumann</author><text>Anecdote, but this may explain why I feel so much healthier when I&#x27;m fasting regularly.<p>Turns out, if you stop putting everything but water&#x2F;salt in your body, there&#x27;s not much left that causes inflammation.</text></comment> |
40,819,903 | 40,818,217 | 1 | 3 | 40,810,986 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version</title><text>Hey HN - this is Alexander and Gabe from Hatchet (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hatchet.run">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hatchet.run</a>). We’re building a modern task queue as an alternative to tools like Celery for Python and BullMQ for Node. Our open-source repo is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hatchet-dev&#x2F;hatchet">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hatchet-dev&#x2F;hatchet</a> and is 100% MIT licensed.<p>When we did a Show HN a few months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39643136">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39643136</a>), our cloud version was invite-only and we were focused on our open-source offering.<p>Today we’re launching our self-serve cloud so that anyone can get started creating tasks on our platform - you can get started at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.onhatchet.run" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.onhatchet.run</a>, or you can use these credentials to access a demo (should be prefilled):<p><pre><code> URL: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.hatchet-tools.com
Email: [email protected]
Password: HatchetDemo123!
</code></pre>
People are currently using Hatchet for a bunch of use-cases: orchestrating RAG pipelines, queueing up user notifications, building agentic LLM workflows, or scheduling image generation tasks on GPUs.<p>We built this out of frustration with existing tools and a conviction that PostgreSQL is the right choice for a task queue. Beyond the fact that many developers are already using Postgres in their stack, which makes it easier to self-host Hatchet, it’s also easier to model higher-order concepts in Postgres, like chains of tasks (which we call workflows). In our system, the acknowledgement of the task, the task result, and the updates to higher-order models are done as part of the same Postgres transaction, which significantly reduces the risk of data loss&#x2F;race conditions when compared with other task queues (which usually pass acknowledgements through a broker, storing the task results elsewhere, and only then figuring out the next task in the chain).<p>We also became increasingly frustrated with tools like Celery and the challenges it introduces when using a modern Python stack (&gt; 3.5). We wrote up a list of these frustrations here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;blog&#x2F;problems-with-celery">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;blog&#x2F;problems-with-celery</a>.<p>Since our Show HN, we’ve (partially or completely) addressed the most common pieces of feedback from the post, which we’ll outline here:<p>1. The most common ask was built-in support for fanout workflows — one task which triggers an arbitrary number of child tasks to run in parallel. We previously only had support for DAG executions. We generalized this concept and launched child workflows (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;child-workflows">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;child-workflows</a>). This is the first step towards a developer-friendly model of durable execution.<p>2. Support for HTTP-based triggers — we’ve built out support for webhook workers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;webhooks">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;webhooks</a>), which allow you to trigger any workflow over an HTTP webhook. This is particularly useful for apps on Vercel, who are dealing with timeout limits of 60s, 300s, or 900s (depending on your tier).<p>3. Our RabbitMQ dependency — while we haven’t gotten rid of this completely, we’ve recently launched hatchet-lite (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;hatchet-lite">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;hatchet-lite</a>), which allows you to run the various Hatchet components in a single Docker image that bundles RabbitMQ along with a migration process, admin CLI, our REST API, and our gRPC engine. Hopefully the lite was a giveaway, but this is meant for local development and low-volume processing, on the order of hundreds per minute.<p>We’ve also launched more features, like support for global rate limiting, steps which only run on workflow failure, and custom event streaming.<p>We’ll be here the whole day for questions and feedback, and look forward to hearing your thoughts!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>krick</author><text>Can somebody explain why would I use it instead a simple Redis&#x2F;SQS&#x2F;Postgres queue implemented in 50 LOC (+ some grafana panel for monitoring) (which is pretty much mandatory even for a wrapper of this or any other service)? I&#x27;m not trying to mock it, it&#x27;s a serious question. What is implied by &quot;task queue&quot; that makes it worth bothering to use a dedicated service?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abelanger</author><text>You&#x27;re right, if all you need is a queue with a small number of workers connected at low volume, you don&#x27;t need Hatchet or any other managed queue - you can get some pretty performant behavior with something like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abelanger5&#x2F;postgres-fair-queue&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;internal&#x2F;dbsqlc&#x2F;tasks.sql">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abelanger5&#x2F;postgres-fair-queue&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;...</a>.<p>The point of Hatchet is to support more complex behavior - like chaining tasks together, building automation around querying and retrying failed tasks, handling a lot of the fairness and concurrency use-cases you&#x27;d otherwise need to build yourself, etc - or just getting something that works out of the box and can support those use-cases in the future.<p>And if you are running at low volume and trying to debug user issues, a grafana panel isn&#x27;t going to get you the level of granularity or admin control you need to track down the errors in your methods (rather than just at the queue level). You&#x27;d need to integrate your task queue with Sentry and a logging system - and in our case, error tracing and logging are available in the Hatchet UI.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version</title><text>Hey HN - this is Alexander and Gabe from Hatchet (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hatchet.run">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hatchet.run</a>). We’re building a modern task queue as an alternative to tools like Celery for Python and BullMQ for Node. Our open-source repo is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hatchet-dev&#x2F;hatchet">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hatchet-dev&#x2F;hatchet</a> and is 100% MIT licensed.<p>When we did a Show HN a few months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39643136">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39643136</a>), our cloud version was invite-only and we were focused on our open-source offering.<p>Today we’re launching our self-serve cloud so that anyone can get started creating tasks on our platform - you can get started at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.onhatchet.run" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.onhatchet.run</a>, or you can use these credentials to access a demo (should be prefilled):<p><pre><code> URL: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.hatchet-tools.com
Email: [email protected]
Password: HatchetDemo123!
</code></pre>
People are currently using Hatchet for a bunch of use-cases: orchestrating RAG pipelines, queueing up user notifications, building agentic LLM workflows, or scheduling image generation tasks on GPUs.<p>We built this out of frustration with existing tools and a conviction that PostgreSQL is the right choice for a task queue. Beyond the fact that many developers are already using Postgres in their stack, which makes it easier to self-host Hatchet, it’s also easier to model higher-order concepts in Postgres, like chains of tasks (which we call workflows). In our system, the acknowledgement of the task, the task result, and the updates to higher-order models are done as part of the same Postgres transaction, which significantly reduces the risk of data loss&#x2F;race conditions when compared with other task queues (which usually pass acknowledgements through a broker, storing the task results elsewhere, and only then figuring out the next task in the chain).<p>We also became increasingly frustrated with tools like Celery and the challenges it introduces when using a modern Python stack (&gt; 3.5). We wrote up a list of these frustrations here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;blog&#x2F;problems-with-celery">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;blog&#x2F;problems-with-celery</a>.<p>Since our Show HN, we’ve (partially or completely) addressed the most common pieces of feedback from the post, which we’ll outline here:<p>1. The most common ask was built-in support for fanout workflows — one task which triggers an arbitrary number of child tasks to run in parallel. We previously only had support for DAG executions. We generalized this concept and launched child workflows (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;child-workflows">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;child-workflows</a>). This is the first step towards a developer-friendly model of durable execution.<p>2. Support for HTTP-based triggers — we’ve built out support for webhook workers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;webhooks">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;webhooks</a>), which allow you to trigger any workflow over an HTTP webhook. This is particularly useful for apps on Vercel, who are dealing with timeout limits of 60s, 300s, or 900s (depending on your tier).<p>3. Our RabbitMQ dependency — while we haven’t gotten rid of this completely, we’ve recently launched hatchet-lite (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;hatchet-lite">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.hatchet.run&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;hatchet-lite</a>), which allows you to run the various Hatchet components in a single Docker image that bundles RabbitMQ along with a migration process, admin CLI, our REST API, and our gRPC engine. Hopefully the lite was a giveaway, but this is meant for local development and low-volume processing, on the order of hundreds per minute.<p>We’ve also launched more features, like support for global rate limiting, steps which only run on workflow failure, and custom event streaming.<p>We’ll be here the whole day for questions and feedback, and look forward to hearing your thoughts!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>krick</author><text>Can somebody explain why would I use it instead a simple Redis&#x2F;SQS&#x2F;Postgres queue implemented in 50 LOC (+ some grafana panel for monitoring) (which is pretty much mandatory even for a wrapper of this or any other service)? I&#x27;m not trying to mock it, it&#x27;s a serious question. What is implied by &quot;task queue&quot; that makes it worth bothering to use a dedicated service?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vasco</author><text>You can use celery with postgres without issues if you want the stuff you don&#x27;t get with that, like tweakable retries, tweakable amounts of prefetch and other important-at-scale things. Plus out of the box working sdk with higher level patterns for you developers. Like what if devs want to track how long something waited in the queue or a metric about retries etc, things that you&#x27;d have to roll by hand.</text></comment> |
28,866,993 | 28,864,564 | 1 | 3 | 28,855,330 | train | <story><title>Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65</title><url>https://www.natecation.com/accredited-investor-investing-startups-series-65/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackcosgrove</author><text>I thought the name of the game in VC was investing in 20+ companies and seeing what sticks. You would need enough money at that point that being an accredited investor would be a foregone conclusion according to the net worth standard.<p>Investing several thousand here or there on one or two companies seems incredibly risky, riskier than what the pros are willing to tolerate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65</title><url>https://www.natecation.com/accredited-investor-investing-startups-series-65/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsjsbdkj</author><text>If you&#x27;re a college student and you put 1k into your friend&#x27;s startup, is there a risk that&#x27;s actually a negative signal for future investors? Do investors in a real series A want a cap table that has a bunch of friends and family chipping in a grand, or are they just going to ask to wipe the slate clean?</text></comment> |
22,213,098 | 22,212,761 | 1 | 2 | 22,210,782 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service</title><url>https://github.com/fterh/heimdall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcclure</author><text>This is a really cool project, so I don&#x27;t mean to be overly negative, but personally this workflow feels quite a bit more laborious than just having a catch-all email address. Before signing up for a service, I need to email myself to get an address to use for the service?<p>I have all emails for my domain route to me, so when I use a service I just do [service-name]@my-domain.com. If a bad actor gets a hold of it I set up an inbox filter or black hole the email address at the service level. The big advantage of this project seems to be that you can reply, but I&#x27;ve found that a huge proportion of these email aliases are inbound only for me.<p>I&#x27;m using GSuite for my personal email but I&#x27;ve been considering Fastmail. Just checked and it looks like they also support sending from those catchall aliases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastmail.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;receive&#x2F;alias-catchall.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastmail.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;receive&#x2F;alias-catchall.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btmiller</author><text>Totally agreed, I do <i>not</i> want to manage my own workflow in a manner like this. I actually just put a doc together[1] last month for anyone looking to do the same through providers that support this workflow.<p>The one killer feature that is missing in Fastmail right now is the ability to reply to email as the same alias it was received as. I.e. if Airbnb support emails me at [email protected], it&#x27;ll default replay as [email protected] unless I go manually setup the airbnb alias.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;btmiller.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;regain-control-over-your-inbox-by-rejecting-email-with-a-custom-domain-wildcard-and-aliases.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;btmiller.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;regain-control-over-your-inb...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service</title><url>https://github.com/fterh/heimdall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcclure</author><text>This is a really cool project, so I don&#x27;t mean to be overly negative, but personally this workflow feels quite a bit more laborious than just having a catch-all email address. Before signing up for a service, I need to email myself to get an address to use for the service?<p>I have all emails for my domain route to me, so when I use a service I just do [service-name]@my-domain.com. If a bad actor gets a hold of it I set up an inbox filter or black hole the email address at the service level. The big advantage of this project seems to be that you can reply, but I&#x27;ve found that a huge proportion of these email aliases are inbound only for me.<p>I&#x27;m using GSuite for my personal email but I&#x27;ve been considering Fastmail. Just checked and it looks like they also support sending from those catchall aliases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastmail.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;receive&#x2F;alias-catchall.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastmail.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;receive&#x2F;alias-catchall.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>You&#x27;re going to get an astronomical amount of junk mail with a catchall email address. Google is great at filtering spam, but not perfect. If you&#x27;re running your own mail server, you&#x27;re going to have a hard time dealing with it, even if you use SpamAssassin and other tools. It&#x27;s also going to get worse over time, because every address that accepts delivery is going to get added to a database for future spamming.<p>I use Postfix and ViMbAdmin to manage my whitelist via a simple web UI, and I don&#x27;t find it to be onerous. I don&#x27;t sign up for new services every day, and it takes about ten seconds to add or delete a service-specific alias.</text></comment> |
41,554,400 | 41,553,809 | 1 | 3 | 41,551,909 | train | <story><title>18 Months with a Framework 13</title><url>https://www.projectgus.com/2024/09/18-months-with-framework-laptop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roland35</author><text>Last year I crunched my Framework laptop - basically bent the screen and the top shell badly enough that the screen was dead. Luckily I was able to purchase a new top shell and screen for ~$150 and replace it myself! I also popped in another stick of RAM while I had it open.<p>I am not sure that level of diy servicability is even possible with any other laptop!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Purism. I got shipped a dud screen and they told me to open it up and check all the cables, etc.<p>Then the battery died and I had to replace the motherboard - they shipped me a replacement (for not much) and I did the replacement myself. Kinds fun and very simple. All the screws and fasteners are standard and obvious.</text></comment> | <story><title>18 Months with a Framework 13</title><url>https://www.projectgus.com/2024/09/18-months-with-framework-laptop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roland35</author><text>Last year I crunched my Framework laptop - basically bent the screen and the top shell badly enough that the screen was dead. Luckily I was able to purchase a new top shell and screen for ~$150 and replace it myself! I also popped in another stick of RAM while I had it open.<p>I am not sure that level of diy servicability is even possible with any other laptop!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minkles</author><text>I did that with my previous MBP (2015 15&quot; retina). The lid cost a lot more but was quite easy to replace. Also I&#x27;ve replaced many many bits on thinkpads before for myself and other people.</text></comment> |
40,850,992 | 40,848,506 | 1 | 2 | 40,847,963 | train | <story><title>Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-capitol-riot-immunity-2dc0d1c2368d404adc0054151490f542</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyuser583</author><text>Sure.<p>The Founders envisioned an extremely weak criminal justice system, especially for &quot;their class of people.&quot; Defendants were given extremely strong protections, and convictions were the exception, not the rule.<p>The Founders were more concerned about facing a duel than a criminal conviction.<p>So they added other mechanisms for presidential accountability: impeachment, elections, and the weakness of the office.<p>These other mechanisms have become weaker and weaker, while the criminal justice system has become stronger and stronger.<p>Impeachment&#x27;s happen, but not Senate convictions. The political parties have created a duopoloy on power which allow them to run weak candidates. Congress is less and less willing to hold presidents of their own party accountable. Dueling is prohibited not just criminally, but constitionally in most states.<p>At the same time the criminal justice system is becoming more and more powerful. Convictions are in the high 90%. Juries are very weak and at the mercy of powerful prosecutors.<p>The Constitution simply didn&#x27;t envision a situation where the criminal justice system is more likley to hold someone accountable than an election or Congress.<p>Impeachment, elections, and duels no longer deter bad conduct. Convictions do.<p>So we have an edge case: a system that can only hold an ex-President accountable via a criminal charge.<p>Edge cases are weird. They create &quot;sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn&#x27;t&quot; situations. And that&#x27;s where we are now.</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>I&#x27;m dismayed by this ruling but I&#x27;m curious: can someone defend it? I&#x27;m able to understand the counter-perspectives to my own on many hot-button issues (2nd amendment, abortion bans) but this one seems very nakedly bad. But maybe I&#x27;m just not seeing the counterpoint?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glial</author><text>&gt; The Founders were more concerned about facing a duel than a criminal conviction.<p>This is because &quot;their class of people&quot; were an honor-based society, in which reputation was the currency of power, and people with honor were expected to prioritize the national interests above their own. That is no longer the case.<p>In other words, there <i>hasn&#x27;t</i> been a duel. So there should be another enforcement mechanism for making Presidents prioritize the nation above themselves that actually works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-capitol-riot-immunity-2dc0d1c2368d404adc0054151490f542</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyuser583</author><text>Sure.<p>The Founders envisioned an extremely weak criminal justice system, especially for &quot;their class of people.&quot; Defendants were given extremely strong protections, and convictions were the exception, not the rule.<p>The Founders were more concerned about facing a duel than a criminal conviction.<p>So they added other mechanisms for presidential accountability: impeachment, elections, and the weakness of the office.<p>These other mechanisms have become weaker and weaker, while the criminal justice system has become stronger and stronger.<p>Impeachment&#x27;s happen, but not Senate convictions. The political parties have created a duopoloy on power which allow them to run weak candidates. Congress is less and less willing to hold presidents of their own party accountable. Dueling is prohibited not just criminally, but constitionally in most states.<p>At the same time the criminal justice system is becoming more and more powerful. Convictions are in the high 90%. Juries are very weak and at the mercy of powerful prosecutors.<p>The Constitution simply didn&#x27;t envision a situation where the criminal justice system is more likley to hold someone accountable than an election or Congress.<p>Impeachment, elections, and duels no longer deter bad conduct. Convictions do.<p>So we have an edge case: a system that can only hold an ex-President accountable via a criminal charge.<p>Edge cases are weird. They create &quot;sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn&#x27;t&quot; situations. And that&#x27;s where we are now.</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>I&#x27;m dismayed by this ruling but I&#x27;m curious: can someone defend it? I&#x27;m able to understand the counter-perspectives to my own on many hot-button issues (2nd amendment, abortion bans) but this one seems very nakedly bad. But maybe I&#x27;m just not seeing the counterpoint?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadash</author><text><i>&gt; Convictions are in the high 90%. Juries are very weak and at the mercy of powerful prosecutors.</i><p>This is a bit misleading. DAs have latitude about what to prosecute and if they don&#x27;t think they can win, they dont have to bring it to court.</text></comment> |
1,841,364 | 1,841,255 | 1 | 2 | 1,840,444 | train | <story><title>Why PHP Is Fun and Easy But Python Is Marriage Material</title><url>http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/20493/Why-PHP-Is-Fun-and-Easy-But-Python-Is-Marriage-Material.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rick888</author><text>"The learning curve these days is not a new language (it takes a proficient programmer just a few days to get her arms around the basics of a new language). The learning curve is with the framework."<p>This is my main problem with this line of thinking. Developers aren't actually developing anymore. They are mashing together frameworks.<p>I've looked into frameworks like Django. It's not good because it abstracts away the functionality of the database. It's nice that everything is an object, but if you want to do something more complex and go around the framework, things get messy and start to feel hackish.<p>I am a PHP developer and I generally don't use a PHP framework. I have my own set of classes that I wrote (and improve on). I have also used the smarty template engine in the past, which works really well for keeping HTML separated from the actual code (and it has built-in caching). Jquery is also great for the front-end.<p>I started development with pascal, then moved to c/c++, and finally PHP. I like PHP because it is a high-level enough language that makes development easy, yet it's still powerful enough to allow for complexity and lower-level functionality. The c-style syntax doesn't hurt either.<p>PHP 4 and below had many security issues (what were they thinking with register_globals?), but 5.1+ has made some major changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>&#62; <i>This is my main problem with this line of thinking. Developers aren't actually developing anymore. They are mashing together frameworks.</i><p>Usually you have one framework and then you mash together a bunch of libraries. The framework exists as a way to abstract the most common functionality of your chosen platform. A good framework eliminates a lot of boilerplate without getting in your way when you need to go beyond the common functionality.<p>The ironic thing about your post is that PHP itself has a bit of a nascent framework quality to it. It was developed before web frameworks of course, at a time when everyone was writing Perl CGI scripts using a bunch of libraries. The revolutionary aspect of PHP and mod_php in particular, was that it had automatic hooks into all the common aspects of the HTTP cycle, including the page metaphor, which meant you could change a static page into a dynamic page with no effort. PHP was state of the art when websites were mostly still just pages. Serious programmers laughed of course, how could you build a serious application in this glorified templating language? So they continued to develop their "proper" frameworks like Struts, Zope and countless others rooted in the experience of GUI developers from ages past.<p>However as web development experience and understanding matured, there was a widening gap between PHP and the enterprise frameworks. And this gap is squarely where Rails was dropped in 2004. There are so many things that are common to all web applications that PHP doesn't handle. DHH's brilliance was not so much in the details of the original Rails code, but in picking and choosing best practices and unifying them in one package in a minimal way. I think this was instrumental in web framework developers from all languages re-evaluating what was really necessary and what cruft could be eliminated.<p>Nowadays Rails is pretty enterprisey in capability, but it still avoids most of the overhead present in enterprise frameworks of 10 years ago. The minimalist torch has been carried forward by upstarts such as Merb and now Sinatra.<p>The strength of these various frameworks is that they do things that tens of thousands of developers need to do every day in a standardized way that's had massive input and refinement over time. When you use these frameworks you can hire people and they hit the ground running. When you use your own personal library then every new developer has to get up to speed on your dime, and you foot the bill of maintenance yourself rather than gaining the advantage of a large open-source community.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why PHP Is Fun and Easy But Python Is Marriage Material</title><url>http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/20493/Why-PHP-Is-Fun-and-Easy-But-Python-Is-Marriage-Material.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rick888</author><text>"The learning curve these days is not a new language (it takes a proficient programmer just a few days to get her arms around the basics of a new language). The learning curve is with the framework."<p>This is my main problem with this line of thinking. Developers aren't actually developing anymore. They are mashing together frameworks.<p>I've looked into frameworks like Django. It's not good because it abstracts away the functionality of the database. It's nice that everything is an object, but if you want to do something more complex and go around the framework, things get messy and start to feel hackish.<p>I am a PHP developer and I generally don't use a PHP framework. I have my own set of classes that I wrote (and improve on). I have also used the smarty template engine in the past, which works really well for keeping HTML separated from the actual code (and it has built-in caching). Jquery is also great for the front-end.<p>I started development with pascal, then moved to c/c++, and finally PHP. I like PHP because it is a high-level enough language that makes development easy, yet it's still powerful enough to allow for complexity and lower-level functionality. The c-style syntax doesn't hurt either.<p>PHP 4 and below had many security issues (what were they thinking with register_globals?), but 5.1+ has made some major changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commanda</author><text>You say you don't believe that mashing together frameworks is actual development, yet you recommend the jQuery framework for front-end coding. Do you draw a distinction between front-end and back-end - is front-end work not really development?<p>In my experience, the time it takes to become proficient with an existing framework is generally a lot shorter than writing a framework yourself. And, generally, the existing one will have been vetted by thousands of people before me.</text></comment> |
18,641,575 | 18,639,977 | 1 | 2 | 18,637,703 | train | <story><title>No funding for uncomfortable results</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/no-funding-for-unwanted-news/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>In the 80:s, when I was a child, I was part of study about something called DAMP - Deficits in Attention Motor control and Perception). The DAMP diagnosis was roughly similar to ADHD, and kind of a precursor to it, invented by psychologists in the university in the city I grew up on. Back then, this Swedish university was very influential in the area of child psychology. Several renowned text books are written by researches on this university and so on. Luckily for me, I was part of the control group and not among the kids they thought suffered from DAMP.<p>Anyway, Gillberg the professor who led the study had promised all participating families total anonymity. But in the mid nineties, other researchers started to doubt the veracity of Gillberg&#x27;s results. They thought they had found flaws in his methodology and wanted access to the raw material to double-check his results. Gillberg refused, realizing that anonymizing the data sufficiently so as to not leak any identifying details would be impossible.<p>Eventually, the other researchers went to court and got a court order demanding that Gillberg give up his data. At which point he destroyed all the raw data thereby completely removing any scientific underpinnings the DAMP diagnosis had. There is a lot more to be said about this controversy, but one thing is clear and that is that you shouldn&#x27;t promise anonymity if you can&#x27;t keep it.</text></comment> | <story><title>No funding for uncomfortable results</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/no-funding-for-unwanted-news/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>new299</author><text>The statement in the original article linked is more interesting:<p>“In the few experiments a decade ago where publication would have been possible, academic journals refused to do so for reasons having nothing to do with the scientific quality of the work. Computer-science publications refused to publish re-identification experiments unless the paper also included a technological solution, notwithstanding assertions that publishing these experiments would inspire technological innovation to address the real-world problem. Health-policy publications refused to publish re-identification experiments related to health data from fear that reaction might make data sharing more difficult, despite assertions that because technology was fostering unprecedented levels of data-sharing, it was timely to scientifically re-examine data-sharing practices. Even my Weld example and related demographic analyses, despite making significant contributions to privacy regulations worldwide, were refused publication by more than 20 academic publications at the time.”<p>Personally if feels like the work was an important journalistic effort, but its scientific merit is less clear.</text></comment> |
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