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20,066,331 | 20,066,239 | 1 | 3 | 20,064,169 | train | <story><title>"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"</title><url>https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcooks</author><text>As DigitalOcean&#x27;s CTO, I&#x27;m very sorry for this situation and how it was handled. The account is now fully restored and we are doing an investigation of the incident. We are planning to post a public postmortem to provide full transparency for our customers and the community.<p>This situation occurred due to false positives triggered by our internal fraud and abuse systems. While these situations are rare, they do happen, and we take every effort to get customers back online as quickly as possible. In this particular scenario, we were slow to respond and had missteps in handling the false positive. This led the user to be locked out for an extended period of time. We apologize for our mistake and will share more details in our public postmortem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcooks</author><text>Thanks for the replies.
Let me try to address a few of the things I have seen here. We haven&#x27;t completed our investigation yet which will include details on the timeline, decisions made by our systems, our people, and our plans to address where we fell short. That said, I want to provide some information now rather than waiting for our full post-mortem analysis. A combination of factors, not just the usage patterns, led to the initial flag. We recognize and embrace our customers ability to spin up highly variable workloads, which would normally not lead to any issues. Clearly we messed up in this case.<p>Additionally, the steps taken in our response to the false positive did not follow our typical process. As part of our investigation, we are looking into our process and how we responded so we can improve upon this moving forward.</text></comment> | <story><title>"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"</title><url>https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcooks</author><text>As DigitalOcean&#x27;s CTO, I&#x27;m very sorry for this situation and how it was handled. The account is now fully restored and we are doing an investigation of the incident. We are planning to post a public postmortem to provide full transparency for our customers and the community.<p>This situation occurred due to false positives triggered by our internal fraud and abuse systems. While these situations are rare, they do happen, and we take every effort to get customers back online as quickly as possible. In this particular scenario, we were slow to respond and had missteps in handling the false positive. This led the user to be locked out for an extended period of time. We apologize for our mistake and will share more details in our public postmortem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>You&#x27;ve got an additional problem though, which is that this tells us you have two support channels: one that doesn&#x27;t work (i.e. yours, the one you built), and one that does (Twitter-shaming). The first channel represents how you act when no one&#x27;s watching; the second, how you act when they are. Most people prefer to deal with people for whom those two are the same.</text></comment> |
16,335,823 | 16,335,262 | 1 | 2 | 16,334,557 | train | <story><title>Being a perfectionist is an obstacle and how to beat it</title><url>https://mediatag.io/blog/why-being-a-perfectionist-is-an-obstacle-and-how-to-beat-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maldusiecle</author><text>I&#x27;m really skeptical of this attitude. In a lot of fields I&#x27;ve seen people who commit themselves to &quot;just getting it done.&quot; The result is that they do get a lot of work done: and it&#x27;s bad, it&#x27;s mediocre, it doesn&#x27;t have value. On the other hand, one can easily think of creators who spent a long time on one work (maybe &quot;too much&quot; time), and the result was work of lasting value.<p>Of course, this relates more to artistic work than technical matters. But I think it is damaging to act as if all work is equivalent to deadlined development work. Great things come from people being impractical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanwaggoner</author><text>I think you’re missing a few things:<p>1. Many great artists were extremely prolific and created lots of mediocre work, we just forget about those. There seem to be very few perfectionists who just created a few great works, not “releasing” them until they were perfect. There are some, but they’re the exception.<p>2. You’re also not seeing all the many perfectionists who waited until things were perfect and then never finished at all, which is by far the biggest risk. I’d argue there are orders of magnitude more of these than perfectionists who ship perfect things.<p>I suspect that many of the “just get it done” people who do lots of bad or mediocre work <i>will</i> end up creating great things, you’re just catching them earlier in their learning &#x2F; experimentation cycle. But those people will learn and adapt so much faster than the perfectionists will.</text></comment> | <story><title>Being a perfectionist is an obstacle and how to beat it</title><url>https://mediatag.io/blog/why-being-a-perfectionist-is-an-obstacle-and-how-to-beat-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maldusiecle</author><text>I&#x27;m really skeptical of this attitude. In a lot of fields I&#x27;ve seen people who commit themselves to &quot;just getting it done.&quot; The result is that they do get a lot of work done: and it&#x27;s bad, it&#x27;s mediocre, it doesn&#x27;t have value. On the other hand, one can easily think of creators who spent a long time on one work (maybe &quot;too much&quot; time), and the result was work of lasting value.<p>Of course, this relates more to artistic work than technical matters. But I think it is damaging to act as if all work is equivalent to deadlined development work. Great things come from people being impractical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frading</author><text>&gt; Great things come from people being impractical<p>Yes, but in my experience this is more an exception, compared to the vast majority of people who never ship anything, because &quot;it&#x27;s not quite right yet&quot;. That&#x27;s where the danger lies.<p>And I think there are plenty of similarities between art and tech, regarding this.<p>For a web app, it will have to be shared before growing in quality and becoming great. Github, Basecamp, Twitter all did that. It&#x27;s always about having a first released being a kick ass half or a half ass product (Getting Real was phrasing it like that if I recall correctly).<p>Same for a film. It might be released on a specific date to a wide audience, but it has gone through many iterations, discussed between dozens of people.<p>And just getting it done does not mean that you have to stop everything once your deadline has passed. If there is more work that you want to add to improve it, do it. But at least you&#x27;ve shared it as an intermediary stage, and you and your work have probably both grown from that. And you can now give yourself another deadline.</text></comment> |
27,205,378 | 27,205,403 | 1 | 2 | 27,205,201 | train | <story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I live here and to anyone who doesn’t know san francisco this might help explain why I am not surprised (and probably anyone living here isn’t as well):<p>- Everybody wears a mask here. Everyone. Even vaccinated people and children. It’s taken extremely seriously. And I’m not even talking about social distancing. Everything has been closed since the beginning of the virus and indoor dining is merely re-opening.<p>- san francisco has the largest homeless population I’ve seen in the world (and I’ve traveled and lived in a bit everywhere in the world including many poor countries). On top of that, drug is hitting homeless people hard. It’s extremely common to see someone shooting themselves with a syringe here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>For an article that doesn&#x27;t focus on SF, that&#x27;s an odd headline, and not a big surprise for anyone who&#x27;s seen the Civic Center Bart station: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk</a><p>SF is an oddity because of its homeless problem, open-air drug market, not being too concerned with either, but being incredibly concerned over covid, so this outcome isn&#x27;t surprising.</text></comment> |
24,424,252 | 24,423,975 | 1 | 2 | 24,422,491 | train | <story><title>Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language</title><url>https://elv.sh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaq</author><text>Elvish author here, AMA :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language</title><url>https://elv.sh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hjek</author><text>Amazing! Built-in file manager and folder history are wonderful, but it doesn&#x27;t set the pane title in tmux correctly out-of-the-box.</text></comment> |
23,841,690 | 23,841,057 | 1 | 3 | 23,840,364 | train | <story><title>Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams</title><url>https://www.passbolt.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smartbit</author><text>Pros<p><pre><code> - free open source
- group management can be delegated
- works fine with mac, linux &amp; windows browsers
- maintenance free self hosted on k8s for 2 years
- lack of mobile apps has not been issue
- UX is ok, no complaints
- requires little end-user support</code></pre>
Cons<p><pre><code> - only password field is encrypted
- no warning that Notes are not encrypted
- promises ‘Secure files &amp; notes (Coming soon)’
for more than year
- password generator has no complexity options
- requires browser plugin
- user passwords have no minimum entropy requirements
- no helm chart, used our own
</code></pre>
Experience based on free version with ~75 users. Plan to switch to paid version when <i>Secure files &amp; notes</i> become available.<p>Noticed that former lead developer <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;markstory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;markstory</a> now works on Sentry. Sentry has same list of <i>Pros</i> as above: it ’<i>just works</i>’ without maintenance or support, running self hosted on k8s for free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams</title><url>https://www.passbolt.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>senectus1</author><text>heh, i know a guy that will be having rage-fits of the use of &quot;on-Premise&quot; on their web site...<p>Premise:<p>noun
&#x2F;ˈprɛmɪs&#x2F;
LOGIC
a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.
&quot;if the premise is true, then the conclusion must be true&quot;
verb
&#x2F;prɪˈmʌɪz&#x2F;
base an argument, theory, or undertaking on.
&quot;the reforms were premised on our findings&quot;<p>Premises:<p>noun
a house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context.
&quot;the company has moved to new premises&quot;</text></comment> |
25,674,257 | 25,674,647 | 1 | 3 | 25,673,495 | train | <story><title>My stack is HTML+CSS</title><url>https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rauchg</author><text>This is an inaccurate over-simplification. If you just use HTML and CSS, you can also have really bad Lighthouse scores. For example, vanilla `&lt;img&gt;` will ship the same image to every device, regardless of viewport size. Vanilla `&lt;img&gt;` doesn&#x27;t enforce setting `width` and `height`, which makes your layouts shift. Slow-loading images and layout shifts are the very things that will downgrade the &quot;100&quot; score he&#x27;s currently proud of.<p>Frontend performance is basically an iceberg[1]. We tend to look at the top and that&#x27;s where the fashionable &quot;silver bullet&quot; currently is (whether Rust+wasm or HTML+CSS or a JS framework). Then we find deeper in the iceberg that even a `box-shadow` property[2] can ruin our day, and let alone images, YouTube and Twitter embeds, and all the things that make the web more interesting and powerful than a black page with white text.<p>Oh and it gets even more fun! A Lighthouse score in itself is an over-simplification. There&#x27;s more to a great experience than the initial impression the site makes, like what happens to FPS when you scroll or click around[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rauchg.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;next-for-vercel#realistic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rauchg.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;next-for-vercel#realistic</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ishadeed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;new-facebook-css#using-an-image-for-the-shadow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ishadeed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;new-facebook-css#using-an-image...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dceddia</author><text>Oh boy, YouTube embeds! I went through checking the Lighthouse score on a few of my pages a while back, and the ones that had videos were performing pretty badly.<p>It turned out that embedded YouTube videos were pulling down something like 1mb of JS, <i>just to show the thumbnail</i>, before the user even clicked Play.<p>I ended up making a static thumbnail with a hover-over &quot;play&quot; icon that would replace itself with the real embed when it was clicked. Got the Lighthouse score up and saved all those unnecessary downloads. But it was pretty amazing to me that while one arm of Google is pushing for web performance, another is building this YouTube player that auto-downloads a megabyte of JS just to show a thumbnail.</text></comment> | <story><title>My stack is HTML+CSS</title><url>https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rauchg</author><text>This is an inaccurate over-simplification. If you just use HTML and CSS, you can also have really bad Lighthouse scores. For example, vanilla `&lt;img&gt;` will ship the same image to every device, regardless of viewport size. Vanilla `&lt;img&gt;` doesn&#x27;t enforce setting `width` and `height`, which makes your layouts shift. Slow-loading images and layout shifts are the very things that will downgrade the &quot;100&quot; score he&#x27;s currently proud of.<p>Frontend performance is basically an iceberg[1]. We tend to look at the top and that&#x27;s where the fashionable &quot;silver bullet&quot; currently is (whether Rust+wasm or HTML+CSS or a JS framework). Then we find deeper in the iceberg that even a `box-shadow` property[2] can ruin our day, and let alone images, YouTube and Twitter embeds, and all the things that make the web more interesting and powerful than a black page with white text.<p>Oh and it gets even more fun! A Lighthouse score in itself is an over-simplification. There&#x27;s more to a great experience than the initial impression the site makes, like what happens to FPS when you scroll or click around[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rauchg.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;next-for-vercel#realistic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rauchg.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;next-for-vercel#realistic</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ishadeed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;new-facebook-css#using-an-image-for-the-shadow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ishadeed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;new-facebook-css#using-an-image...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alberth</author><text>You might not be aware of the ‘&lt;picture&gt;’ HTML tag that only sends the correct size img to the user based on their browser size.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Learn&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Multimedia_and_embedding&#x2F;Responsive_images" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Learn&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Multimed...</a></text></comment> |
40,783,197 | 40,783,099 | 1 | 2 | 40,782,541 | train | <story><title>iDOS 3 Rejected by Apple</title><url>https://litchie.com/2024/04/new-hope</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Original post is from April, but there is an update at the bottom from June:<p><i>&gt; Got a call from Apple after 2 months. They have decided that iDOS is not a retro game console, so the new rule is not applicable. They suggested I make changes and resubmit for review, but when I asked what changes I should make to be compliant, they had no idea, nor when I asked what a retro game console is.</i><p>We need a DMA over here yesterday.</text></comment> | <story><title>iDOS 3 Rejected by Apple</title><url>https://litchie.com/2024/04/new-hope</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Apple seriously needs to make all internal coms about rejecting apps public to the person being rejected. I do mean <i>all</i> this way, when people blog about it, there&#x27;s no more ambiguity and it can be assessed. Also, you can see if they&#x27;re rejecting it for something they already approved of prior. It feels like some people doing the reviews dont look at prior history at all. Maybe they dont even get access to it, or maybe they dont want to do it. Let the applicant see their entire history, let them better clarify.<p>This is so embarassing to see every time.</text></comment> |
16,183,924 | 16,182,773 | 1 | 2 | 16,182,318 | train | <story><title>Getting free of toxic tech culture</title><url>https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/01/17/getting-free-of-toxic-tech-culture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;What is toxic tech culture? Toxic tech cultures are those that demean and devalue you as holistic, multifaceted human beings. Toxic tech cultures are those that prioritize profits and growth over human and societal well being. Toxic tech cultures are those that treat you as replaceable cogs within a system of constant churn and burnout.<p>has there been any factory floor, farm, private or government office where things have been different? Except may be for a situation like a tenured professor at Stanford. Or a 4 star general who after having been a cog for like 30 years finally gets to be the one burning and replacing the cogs at his will&#x2F;choice.<p>If anything, i think tech is among the most progressive places, if only for the fact that one can easily switch jobs instead of suffering for years for example under harassing boss like it was before and still is in the other industries where job market is worse. With employees having such freedom, the tech companies and management are forced to treat the employees better than at the other industries. I wonder how many of the people complaining about toxic tech culture did actually work at non-tech places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Consultant32452</author><text>I feel like some of this may be more pronounced in areas like SV. Specifically, areas of the highest competition. The personality traits that correlate most strongly with success are: high conscientiousness, high stress tolerance, and low agreeableness. Of course it makes sense that the people in the areas of stiffest competition in tech are in an environment of high stress and are generally really disagreeable to be around. This is going to be the case at the top of any field with stiff competition.<p>I live in a 2nd tier city (not NY, SF, LA, etc) and these depictions of the &quot;tech industry&quot; are unfamiliar to me. Sure, there&#x27;s the odd asshole, but those are everywhere. I feel like people around SV and other high competition big cities are generalizing about the industry in a way that doesn&#x27;t reflect my day to day life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting free of toxic tech culture</title><url>https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/01/17/getting-free-of-toxic-tech-culture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;What is toxic tech culture? Toxic tech cultures are those that demean and devalue you as holistic, multifaceted human beings. Toxic tech cultures are those that prioritize profits and growth over human and societal well being. Toxic tech cultures are those that treat you as replaceable cogs within a system of constant churn and burnout.<p>has there been any factory floor, farm, private or government office where things have been different? Except may be for a situation like a tenured professor at Stanford. Or a 4 star general who after having been a cog for like 30 years finally gets to be the one burning and replacing the cogs at his will&#x2F;choice.<p>If anything, i think tech is among the most progressive places, if only for the fact that one can easily switch jobs instead of suffering for years for example under harassing boss like it was before and still is in the other industries where job market is worse. With employees having such freedom, the tech companies and management are forced to treat the employees better than at the other industries. I wonder how many of the people complaining about toxic tech culture did actually work at non-tech places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>Difference is that tech poses itself as &quot;new&quot; (i.e. different from old, traditional things&#x2F;companies) and its leaders (actual business magnates or your average CEO) either indirectly or directly talk about making the world&#x2F;people better. Therefore, when they do stuff any other company does (because they&#x27;re just like any other company, surprise), it feels or sounds a lot worse.<p>Also, stories on tech (maybe because of the above?) are trendier. No one cares if a factory or finance firm have toxic cultures (because we all expect them to?).</text></comment> |
37,436,360 | 37,436,625 | 1 | 2 | 37,433,495 | train | <story><title>Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy</title><url>https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isodev</author><text>Apple shows ads for apps in the App Store sans behavioural targeting. If there is a kind of “ethical ads” that’s as close as it gets.</text></item><item><author>nicce</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ad business, however, is growing all the time. And in significant margins.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue-worldwide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue...</a></text></item><item><author>goalieca</author><text>Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple&#x27;s main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.</text></item><item><author>daft_pink</author><text>I think it&#x27;s unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.<p>Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren&#x27;t Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthew-wegner</author><text>Apple advertising extends beyond the app store, both for iOS and macOS, and is personalized by default. You can disable this in Settings -&gt; Privacy and Security -&gt; Apple Advertising on both platforms.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy</title><url>https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isodev</author><text>Apple shows ads for apps in the App Store sans behavioural targeting. If there is a kind of “ethical ads” that’s as close as it gets.</text></item><item><author>nicce</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ad business, however, is growing all the time. And in significant margins.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue-worldwide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue...</a></text></item><item><author>goalieca</author><text>Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple&#x27;s main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.</text></item><item><author>daft_pink</author><text>I think it&#x27;s unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.<p>Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren&#x27;t Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zambyte</author><text>&gt; If there is a kind of “ethical ads” that’s as close as it gets.<p>A news paper ad? A builtin board? I think advertisements that hijack your attention are always unethical. You should have to look for ads to see them.</text></comment> |
19,074,469 | 19,074,378 | 1 | 3 | 19,073,851 | train | <story><title>Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks</title><url>https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-react-hooks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mharroun</author><text>Maybe I am crazy or old school but I though the concept of creating component as a class with standard functions to override (and defining a contract with props types) took a unwieldy language like JS and gave a sane and standard approach to it.<p>I now look at more &quot;modern&quot; functional components &#x2F;w hooks and find it VERY hard to understand the data a component takes and how it uses&#x2F;responses to interactions.<p>It feels like react was class based... and now that functional coding is the &quot;in thing&quot; its trying to shoehorn everything into functional components. In the end it really turns me off to functional programming as I see many developers sacrificing readable&#x2F;understandable components to save a few lines of code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mambodog</author><text>Hooks address a very specific problem with classes: composability.<p>You can use the various builtin hooks to do stuff that (in class-based React) previously required implementing methods (eg. componentDidUpdate). Using those methods works fine until you want to split out and reuse part of those methods in other components.<p>You can certainly try class composition: creating little classes that you call in each of the relevant lifecycle methods. However this adds a lot of boilerplate to components which use the composed objects (as is common with class composition). It&#x27;s also awkward to share the setState API with these composed classes.<p>The Custom Hooks approach[1] with React Hooks just makes it really easy to use state and lifecycle functionality when extracting common behaviour to can be shared between multiple components.<p>React has tried to address this composition issue several times in the past, and I think hooks are the nicest yet:<p>React&#x27;s old &#x27;Mixins&#x27; feature got a lot of the way there, but still didn&#x27;t compose perfectly. For example, you had to avoid method and state key name collisions between mixins.<p>Creating a &#x27;Higher Order Component&#x27; is another approach, which is less verbose than class composition, but makes your component tree deeper, and can also be annoying to statically type.<p>The community also came up with &#x27;Render Props&#x27; to address much the same issue.<p>And of course, you can always just continue to use classes if you aren&#x27;t experiencing any of these pain points.<p>Hooks just compose quite nicely in cases where none of these other approaches do.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hooks-custom.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hooks-custom.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks</title><url>https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-react-hooks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mharroun</author><text>Maybe I am crazy or old school but I though the concept of creating component as a class with standard functions to override (and defining a contract with props types) took a unwieldy language like JS and gave a sane and standard approach to it.<p>I now look at more &quot;modern&quot; functional components &#x2F;w hooks and find it VERY hard to understand the data a component takes and how it uses&#x2F;responses to interactions.<p>It feels like react was class based... and now that functional coding is the &quot;in thing&quot; its trying to shoehorn everything into functional components. In the end it really turns me off to functional programming as I see many developers sacrificing readable&#x2F;understandable components to save a few lines of code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Same. React passed the, &quot;this is obvious and it&#x27;s clear where it fits into the real world&quot; test for me years ago with class based components.<p>But these new features aren&#x27;t passing that test at all. I struggle to grok what hooks do that I was missing before.<p>It gets me wondering if the React team is in a position to know when React is good enough and needs to be left alone for the most part.<p>The good news is that I seem to be able to just ignore hooks and remain very productive. I even started ignoring advice on when to use an SFC instead of a class and found myself happier and more productive with better code.</text></comment> |
2,621,992 | 2,621,895 | 1 | 2 | 2,621,844 | train | <story><title>Sony Music Brazil hacked </title><url>http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/06/sony-music-brazil-hacked.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkalla</author><text>At this point I'm curious if this is the result of any large company becoming the whipping boy of multiple hacking groups, or if this is just unique to Sony.<p>For example, if Microsoft were focused on next... or Ford or GE or IBM, would the same endless embarrassment ensue?<p>When Sony originally got hacked, I commented like everyone else: Sony is incompetent, their security team is subpar, etc, but after the 12th hack... is this just how shoddy most systems are and they just have the spotlight on them at the moment?<p>I believe back on the announcement thread of the latest hack here on HN, there was an entire sub-thread about "Is this the norm at big companies?" and the consensus was "yes". Someone mentioned security was between "horribly broken" and "totally laughable". Of course that's always juicy to read, but I wonder how true it is.<p>If this endless list of penetration is any sort of barometer, it looks to be true.<p>I'll be curious what the global fallout of this is. I would hate to be the next company that does something socially unacceptable that gets the baton passed to them from Sony.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sony Music Brazil hacked </title><url>http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/06/sony-music-brazil-hacked.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sucuri2</author><text>If they have a security team (which I hope they do), I feel bad for them (considering the last few weeks). Probably were under staffed and ignored for a long time and now are under a terrible pressure.</text></comment> |
31,744,823 | 31,744,583 | 1 | 2 | 31,743,327 | train | <story><title>US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/us-quietly-urges-russia-fertilizer-deals-to-unlock-grain-trade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snemvalts</author><text>&gt; Meanwhile RUB to USD is at its highest in nearly 5 years<p>Is that meant to demonstrate economic strength?<p>* Russians have massive amount of brain drain. Most of tech employees have left, leaving only people extracting oil, people who turn it into fertilizer and gasoline and supporting roles.<p>* They can&#x27;t build military tech because of sanctions. Starting to use 1950s and 1960s tanks.<p>* They&#x27;ve privatized and violated tons of foreign companies (for example Renault gave away 68% of car manufacturer Avtovaz to the state). Nobody in their right mind will bring money there in the future.<p>* They can&#x27;t import smartphones, tech or luxury cars (things that keep russian upper middle class happy).<p>&gt; Cutting Russia off from SWIFT has only strengthened their ties to India and China<p>There has been both strengthening and weakening. Russia depends on China, not the other way around.<p>&gt; and now we&#x27;re dealing with soaring food and energy prices at home<p>It hurts both ways. This is normal. Appeasement would be a better choice?</text></item><item><author>dxhdr</author><text>Meanwhile RUB to USD is at its highest in nearly 5 years. Cutting Russia off from SWIFT has only strengthened their ties to India and China. Russia is still invading Ukraine, and now we&#x27;re dealing with soaring food and energy prices at home. At some point you have to consider whether this level of diplomatic incompetence is intentional.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5e92cb50239222b</author><text>&gt; Most of tech employees have left<p>Yeah, you just keep believing that. Western media was happy to report the mass exodus at the beginning of the war, but <i>for some reason</i> didn&#x27;t notice that the vast majority of them have returned by now. Undoubtedly, some will be better prepared next time and will leave for good, but that definitely won&#x27;t be &#x27;most of tech employees&#x27; because there&#x27;s nowhere for them to go. It&#x27;s <i>really hard</i> to emigrate to the West (you have no idea how difficult it is even for those working in IT), and neighboring countries can&#x27;t soak up that many (I&#x27;m from one of them).</text></comment> | <story><title>US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/us-quietly-urges-russia-fertilizer-deals-to-unlock-grain-trade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snemvalts</author><text>&gt; Meanwhile RUB to USD is at its highest in nearly 5 years<p>Is that meant to demonstrate economic strength?<p>* Russians have massive amount of brain drain. Most of tech employees have left, leaving only people extracting oil, people who turn it into fertilizer and gasoline and supporting roles.<p>* They can&#x27;t build military tech because of sanctions. Starting to use 1950s and 1960s tanks.<p>* They&#x27;ve privatized and violated tons of foreign companies (for example Renault gave away 68% of car manufacturer Avtovaz to the state). Nobody in their right mind will bring money there in the future.<p>* They can&#x27;t import smartphones, tech or luxury cars (things that keep russian upper middle class happy).<p>&gt; Cutting Russia off from SWIFT has only strengthened their ties to India and China<p>There has been both strengthening and weakening. Russia depends on China, not the other way around.<p>&gt; and now we&#x27;re dealing with soaring food and energy prices at home<p>It hurts both ways. This is normal. Appeasement would be a better choice?</text></item><item><author>dxhdr</author><text>Meanwhile RUB to USD is at its highest in nearly 5 years. Cutting Russia off from SWIFT has only strengthened their ties to India and China. Russia is still invading Ukraine, and now we&#x27;re dealing with soaring food and energy prices at home. At some point you have to consider whether this level of diplomatic incompetence is intentional.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logifail</author><text>&gt; Appeasement would be a better choice?<p>Pope Francis says Ukraine war was ‘perhaps somehow provoked’<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2022&#x2F;jun&#x2F;14&#x2F;pope-francis-ukraine-war-provoked-russian-troops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2022&#x2F;jun&#x2F;14&#x2F;pope-francis-u...</a><p>&quot;The pontiff warned [..] against what he said was a fairytale perception of the conflict as good versus evil&quot;<p>&quot;We need to move away from the usual Little Red Riding Hood pattern, in that Little Red Riding Hood was good and the wolf was the bad one [..] something global is emerging and the elements are very much entwined.&quot;</text></comment> |
35,874,712 | 35,874,367 | 1 | 2 | 35,873,732 | train | <story><title>Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-brings-final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-to-ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dagmx</author><text>Having a full DAW on the go is a killer feature imho.<p>The promise has been there since stuff like 8tracks on the iPhone 3G, and various Audio Units already on iOS. But I’ve always found the workflow very limiting or clunky. (Edit: I’m a Logic Pro user on macOS so my comments reflect getting things into that specifically)<p>The divide from putting down an idea when it hits, to working it into something, has always been really high.<p>Having something where I can potentially work out an idea with just my iPad , and then take it to my desktop is really exciting to me.<p>FCPX seems neat as well. I doubt it’ll be something people use in touch mode, but I can see some folks using it for quick on the go edits for things like social media stings. Go to an event, shoot, edit and upload. I don’t see it being used for more than that level of work.<p>But also, as much as both the things I mentioned are very spur of the moment things, I think the real value here is having a step ladder through the ecosystem.<p>A lot of people, especially youths, only need an iPad for more of their computing use. Having more pro apps on the iPad signals to them that they can shift more of their computer life to it. A lot may just even need to add a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.<p>Conversely, the people who do want to use it more seriously after whetting their teeth on the mobile platform, will then see the Mac as the next logical stepping point.<p>It’s a smart way imho to get people on either side of the fence to consider the other side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jahnu</author><text>As developers of professional audio plugins this is very exciting for us. The horsepower is there and the touch interface allows for some really cool possibilities. We already enjoy using AUM and Cubasis, but will be very interested to see if support for pro hardware improves now on iPad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-brings-final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-to-ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dagmx</author><text>Having a full DAW on the go is a killer feature imho.<p>The promise has been there since stuff like 8tracks on the iPhone 3G, and various Audio Units already on iOS. But I’ve always found the workflow very limiting or clunky. (Edit: I’m a Logic Pro user on macOS so my comments reflect getting things into that specifically)<p>The divide from putting down an idea when it hits, to working it into something, has always been really high.<p>Having something where I can potentially work out an idea with just my iPad , and then take it to my desktop is really exciting to me.<p>FCPX seems neat as well. I doubt it’ll be something people use in touch mode, but I can see some folks using it for quick on the go edits for things like social media stings. Go to an event, shoot, edit and upload. I don’t see it being used for more than that level of work.<p>But also, as much as both the things I mentioned are very spur of the moment things, I think the real value here is having a step ladder through the ecosystem.<p>A lot of people, especially youths, only need an iPad for more of their computing use. Having more pro apps on the iPad signals to them that they can shift more of their computer life to it. A lot may just even need to add a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.<p>Conversely, the people who do want to use it more seriously after whetting their teeth on the mobile platform, will then see the Mac as the next logical stepping point.<p>It’s a smart way imho to get people on either side of the fence to consider the other side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meghan_rain</author><text>&gt; Having a full DAW on the go is a killer feature imho.<p>Macbook?</text></comment> |
11,508,327 | 11,508,332 | 1 | 3 | 11,507,737 | train | <story><title>House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/house-passes-bill-sabotage-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Some clarity is badly needed here. If you don&#x27;t know some fairly arcane details of what&#x27;s going on in Internet regulation, this looks as though it just prevents the FCC from setting price floors and price ceilings, which would be fine.<p>What&#x27;s actually going on is fairly complicated, because there are five different parties involved: the consumer, a consumer ISP such as Verizon or Comcast, a backbone provider such as Cogent or Level 3, a business ISP such as Linode or AWS, and a business with a web site. The wires look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --- Consumer-ISP --- Backbone-provider --- Business-ISP --- Website
</code></pre>
And the flow of money looks like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
</code></pre>
For each connection, there is someone paying money who can take their money elsewhere if that connection is too slow. What&#x27;s happening is that some consumer ISPs aren&#x27;t happy with only being paid by consumers, and want websites to also pay them. That would make the flow of money look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
^_____________________________________________________|
</code></pre>
The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn&#x27;t choose, and can&#x27;t walk away from. From a consumer&#x27;s perspective, if a web site is slow, it looks like the website&#x27;s fault rather than their ISP&#x27;s fault, which distorts the incentives. This sort of arrangement isn&#x27;t really compatible with free-market incentives, since the flow of money doesn&#x27;t match who&#x27;s providing services to who; it&#x27;s less like normal business, and more like extortion.<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t expect Congress to have access to clear explanations of all of this. But if you happen to have a congressperson&#x27;s ear: rather than convince them of a position, please make sure they understand the full shape of what&#x27;s happening. They&#x27;re smart enough to draw the correct conclusion, but are constantly bombarded by misinformation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>Consumer ISPs are not a free market, they&#x27;re a collection of regional monopolies. The solution is not regulation, it&#x27;s increasing competition. If every consumer had a choice of 5 or more competitive ISPs, then the market would sort this out. ISPs could literally advertise &quot;We won&#x27;t slow down your favourite websites! All websites equally fast!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/house-passes-bill-sabotage-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Some clarity is badly needed here. If you don&#x27;t know some fairly arcane details of what&#x27;s going on in Internet regulation, this looks as though it just prevents the FCC from setting price floors and price ceilings, which would be fine.<p>What&#x27;s actually going on is fairly complicated, because there are five different parties involved: the consumer, a consumer ISP such as Verizon or Comcast, a backbone provider such as Cogent or Level 3, a business ISP such as Linode or AWS, and a business with a web site. The wires look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --- Consumer-ISP --- Backbone-provider --- Business-ISP --- Website
</code></pre>
And the flow of money looks like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
</code></pre>
For each connection, there is someone paying money who can take their money elsewhere if that connection is too slow. What&#x27;s happening is that some consumer ISPs aren&#x27;t happy with only being paid by consumers, and want websites to also pay them. That would make the flow of money look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
^_____________________________________________________|
</code></pre>
The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn&#x27;t choose, and can&#x27;t walk away from. From a consumer&#x27;s perspective, if a web site is slow, it looks like the website&#x27;s fault rather than their ISP&#x27;s fault, which distorts the incentives. This sort of arrangement isn&#x27;t really compatible with free-market incentives, since the flow of money doesn&#x27;t match who&#x27;s providing services to who; it&#x27;s less like normal business, and more like extortion.<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t expect Congress to have access to clear explanations of all of this. But if you happen to have a congressperson&#x27;s ear: rather than convince them of a position, please make sure they understand the full shape of what&#x27;s happening. They&#x27;re smart enough to draw the correct conclusion, but are constantly bombarded by misinformation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>This sort of thing helps explain projects like the Google Video Quality Report ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;get&#x2F;videoqualityreport&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;get&#x2F;videoqualityreport&#x2F;</a> ) or the Netflix ISP Speed Index ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ispspeedindex.netflix.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ispspeedindex.netflix.com&#x2F;</a> ). They could be viewed as attempts to shift the public perspective from saying &quot;Netflix is slow&quot; to &quot;my ISP is bad at Netflix.&quot;</text></comment> |
21,419,241 | 21,419,001 | 1 | 2 | 21,418,033 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame how poor the command-line usability of the git client is. Commands are poorly named and often do the wrong thing. It&#x27;s really hard to explain to new users why you need to run `git checkout HEAD *` instead of `git reset` as you&#x27;d expect, why `git branch [branchname]` just switches to a branch whereas `git checkout -b [branchname]` actually creates it, etc.<p>I really wish he&#x27;d collaborated with some more people in the early stages of writing git to come up with an interface that makes sense, because everyone is constantly paying the cost of those decisions, especially new git learners.</text></item><item><author>wbl</author><text>Linux in part won because the Regents were getting sued at a critical time. Without linux we would run BSD and it would be fine.<p>Git is good in some ways, terrible in others. I&#x27;ve used it for years and still don&#x27;t feel really comfortable with it, but I&#x27;ve never had something as multiheaded as the linux repo.</text></item><item><author>empath75</author><text>He’s probably responsible for more wealth creation than anybody in the last hundred years just from those two projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>I don&#x27;t even know what `git checkout HEAD * ` does lol. Does it just checkout the current branch to the HEAD of that branch?<p>I can never seem to guess what things do in Git, and I consider myself fairly comfortable with the core concepts of Git. Having written many types of append-only &#x2F; immutable &#x2F; content address data systems <i>(they interest me)</i>, you&#x27;d think Git would be natural to me. While the core concepts are natural, Git&#x27;s presentation of them is not.. at least, to me.<p><i>edit</i>: formatting with the * .</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame how poor the command-line usability of the git client is. Commands are poorly named and often do the wrong thing. It&#x27;s really hard to explain to new users why you need to run `git checkout HEAD *` instead of `git reset` as you&#x27;d expect, why `git branch [branchname]` just switches to a branch whereas `git checkout -b [branchname]` actually creates it, etc.<p>I really wish he&#x27;d collaborated with some more people in the early stages of writing git to come up with an interface that makes sense, because everyone is constantly paying the cost of those decisions, especially new git learners.</text></item><item><author>wbl</author><text>Linux in part won because the Regents were getting sued at a critical time. Without linux we would run BSD and it would be fine.<p>Git is good in some ways, terrible in others. I&#x27;ve used it for years and still don&#x27;t feel really comfortable with it, but I&#x27;ve never had something as multiheaded as the linux repo.</text></item><item><author>empath75</author><text>He’s probably responsible for more wealth creation than anybody in the last hundred years just from those two projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnmaguire2013</author><text>A small correction...<p>`git branch [branchname]` creates a branch without switching to it.<p>`git checkout -b [branchname]` creates a branch and checks it out.<p>And `git reset --hard` will also discard changes. (Arguably, this is better than `git reset` discarding local changes, as it is more explicit.)</text></comment> |
32,093,610 | 32,092,053 | 1 | 2 | 32,086,973 | train | <story><title>When rustc explodes</title><url>https://fasterthanli.me/articles/when-rustc-explodes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbittich</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how rust will manage to fix async await, unless making a v2 of the language. While working with sync rust is often a very pleasant experience, everytime I used async await was awful.
To the point that I avoid using rust for web &#x2F;networking stuff, any other option is better.
It&#x27;s also very discouraging to read some people telling there&#x27;s no issue with async await. Of course if you use a thousands of libraries (that are more or less hacks), and never use trait and generics, it&#x27;s probably a decent experience half of the time I&#x27;d say.<p>It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve only encountered with rust community, in Java when a feature sucks, we just say it sucks. Even the architect that approved it will say it sucks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surrTurr</author><text>I recently built a little Rust project, which I wanted to integrate into a Web App using Web-assembly (wasm-binden). Writing the Rust code was super fun, however, when I execute one of my functions (which takes around 10 seconds to complete), the whole Web App freezes. Well, this should be an easy fix, just make the Rust function async - right? Nope. Making the Rust function async to return a Promise: Web App freezes. Wrapping the call of the Rust code in Promises: Web App freezes. Using Web Workers to run any Rust code in a separate thread: Great, now you can’t share ANY state whatsoever with the UI thread (and no, you can’t pass any Rust objects to another Web Worker thread, because any wasm objects only consist of _binding_ which need an initialised WASM instance in their own thread. To fix this problem, people on GitHub redirected me to a parallel retracer example, which requires nightly Rust and some other tacky tricks to get running. Maybe I will figure out how to integrate this into my project, maybe I won’t. All I wanted to do, is to run one simple async function using WASM. But as it turned out I will have to implement a frikin raytracer first.</text></comment> | <story><title>When rustc explodes</title><url>https://fasterthanli.me/articles/when-rustc-explodes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbittich</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how rust will manage to fix async await, unless making a v2 of the language. While working with sync rust is often a very pleasant experience, everytime I used async await was awful.
To the point that I avoid using rust for web &#x2F;networking stuff, any other option is better.
It&#x27;s also very discouraging to read some people telling there&#x27;s no issue with async await. Of course if you use a thousands of libraries (that are more or less hacks), and never use trait and generics, it&#x27;s probably a decent experience half of the time I&#x27;d say.<p>It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve only encountered with rust community, in Java when a feature sucks, we just say it sucks. Even the architect that approved it will say it sucks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blacksmithgu</author><text>The core problem I see is Rust tried too hard to avoid allocations&#x2F;copies and a heavy async runtime. The result is confusing and difficult types and very unclear errors due to apis producing ridiculous types like Future&lt;Arc&lt;Box&lt;dyn Thing&gt;&gt;&gt;.<p>The language should have defined a consistent async model (like coroutines with message passing) and kept &quot;raw async&quot; confined to high performance special libraries and embedded use cases.</text></comment> |
25,959,807 | 25,960,177 | 1 | 2 | 25,943,085 | train | <story><title>I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study</title><url>https://twitter.com/JimmyBernot/status/1354443833388503043</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>todd8</author><text>The inverse correlation between parasitic infections and autoimmune disease is interesting and is explored in <i>Parasitic worms and inflammatory diseases</i>, P. Zaccone et. al. [1].<p>In parts of the world, for example USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, other locations, serious parasitic infection are now not common. The immune system, which co-evolved with parasites over millions of years appears to turn on our own bodies because of the lack of parasites to attack. This hypothesis (the <i>hygiene hypothesis</i>) is investigated in the cited paper.<p>I referred to serious parasitic infections above because virtually everyone host some benign parasites such as the Demodex mite, a microscopic mite that lives on our eye lashes. See [2].<p>Finally, let me recommend <i>Parasite Rex...</i> by Carl Zimmer. [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC1618732&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC1618732&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3884930&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3884930&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatures&#x2F;dp&#x2F;074320011X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study</title><url>https://twitter.com/JimmyBernot/status/1354443833388503043</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttraub</author><text>There are numerous accounts on the internet of medical tourists trekking to Southeast Asia or Mexico to acquire helminths or similar parasitical organisms reputed to calm down the body&#x27;s immune response. Specifically, sufferers of Crohn&#x27;s Disease have reported relief from symptoms after taking in (via a cut in the skin, or walking barefoot in feces, or drinking contaminated water) a few helminths.[1]<p>Too many helminths seems to have deleterious effects, however, so there seems to be a balance that must be struck.<p>There is evidence that these worms affect the microbial mixture in the gut.[2]<p>Generally speaking, modern humans live in sterile conditions whereas we have ferocious immune systems which evolved to handle filthy conditions. The theory is, given too little work to do, some people&#x27;s immune systems start to attack the self.<p>Anecdotally, I have an incredibly healthy daughter; we never hesitated to expose her to as many strangers as possible. &quot;Would you like to hold our baby?&quot; She also got mother&#x27;s milk for several years (advantage of being an only child). Almost never gets sick and when she does, it&#x27;s for less than 24 hours. Hopefully it stays that way :)<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthline.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;crohns-disease&#x2F;hook-worms#purpose-and-procedure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthline.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;crohns-disease&#x2F;hook-worms#...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;parasitic-worms-may-prevent-crohn-s-disease-altering-bacterial-balance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;parasitic-worms-may-...</a></text></comment> |
39,468,210 | 39,467,840 | 1 | 3 | 39,465,485 | train | <story><title>The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children</title><url>https://20y.hu/~slink/journal/xylophone-duplo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdonahoe</author><text>My daughter and I play &quot;dadbot&quot; where I&#x27;m the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightbot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightbot.com&#x2F;</a> but we like the &quot;screen-free&quot; nature of dadbot better.<p>Eventually she jumps on my back and the game doesn&#x27;t last much longer because dadbot gets tired.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children</title><url>https://20y.hu/~slink/journal/xylophone-duplo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_spduchamp</author><text>This is an excellent activity in that it has multiple modalities for tacit learning. Keep in mind that when you are playing with young children, it is the time you are spending together that is most important, so if they want to not follow the rules, make up new games, or just bang away on that xylophone, let them, and enjoy the time you have.</text></comment> |
17,953,457 | 17,952,564 | 1 | 3 | 17,952,273 | train | <story><title>Introducing Azure DevOps</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-devops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I wonder if Azure DevOps will have a day long outage like VSTS had last week? That had a legitimately productivity cost to a lot of companies, and the more vested in the VSTS toolchain you were the harder hit you were.<p>I&#x27;m legitimately surprised they&#x27;re launching this so soon after that, particularly considering there&#x27;s been no real post-mortem, and no update on how they&#x27;ll stop this happening again.<p>&quot;It is Azure&#x27;s fault&quot; isn&#x27;t an answer, and re-branding this Azure DevOps makes that excuse almost hilarious. I&#x27;m well aware that Azure AD was down, and that VSTS has a strong dependency on it, but ultimately we&#x27;re still talking about a single data center bringing down VSTS for all of North America for an entire work-day.<p>It has been a week and now they&#x27;re trying to encourage you to push your whole deployment toolchain (manage, build, test) into their cloud.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Azure DevOps</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-devops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsr_</author><text>The term &quot;DevOps&quot; is now meaningless. The search for a new short term to describe &quot;operations and development teams working together using high quality software tools to define, automate and distribute configuration and management information, integrating QA, release management and security&quot; has begun.</text></comment> |
25,943,763 | 25,944,245 | 1 | 3 | 25,942,863 | train | <story><title>Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddits-gamestop-stock-surge-is-a-terrifying-new-occupy-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djoldman</author><text>1. There isn&#x27;t any one entity that is short 140% of the GME float.
2. If a stock shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to be sold short past 100% then we should outlaw subletting apartments.<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t someone be allowed to pay to borrow something, and then rent it out? How is that manipulative in and of itself?</text></item><item><author>protomyth</author><text>Shorting a stock 140% is the market manipulation and should be criminal. Anything a large group does after some hedge fund pulls that stunt is fair game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hospadar</author><text>I see the subletting analogy, but there&#x27;s a big difference between subletting an apartment over the summer to minimize your losses (usually for ≤ your rent) and renting all the apartments in manhattan, then subletting them for profit after you corner the market.<p>The former seems fine, and yah, I guess I do think that the latter should be illegal, because it only benefits some wealthy jerk who can afford to corner a market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddits-gamestop-stock-surge-is-a-terrifying-new-occupy-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djoldman</author><text>1. There isn&#x27;t any one entity that is short 140% of the GME float.
2. If a stock shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to be sold short past 100% then we should outlaw subletting apartments.<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t someone be allowed to pay to borrow something, and then rent it out? How is that manipulative in and of itself?</text></item><item><author>protomyth</author><text>Shorting a stock 140% is the market manipulation and should be criminal. Anything a large group does after some hedge fund pulls that stunt is fair game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Can the subletting of apartments lead to a Volkswagen Squeeze? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moxreports.com&#x2F;vw-infinity-squeeze&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moxreports.com&#x2F;vw-infinity-squeeze&#x2F;</a>)<p>The GME heavily-shorted position specifically has directly led to significant manipulation on the parts of investment firms that are now endangered by the very positions they created. If the end game of the stock market is an unregulated free-for-all, then it can&#x27;t be manipulated by definition and there&#x27;s going to be short cycles of calm punctuated by terrifying chaos like 2008 and today; if people want to avoid that chaos, then they have to accept the regulation of chaos-causing behavior.</text></comment> |
8,586,327 | 8,584,704 | 1 | 3 | 8,583,430 | train | <story><title>Self-tightening nut that provides tight fastening with a unique screw thread</title><url>http://akihabaranews.com/2014/10/22/article-en/self-tightening-nut-provides-tight-fastening-aid-unique-screw-thread</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roneesh</author><text>I&#x27;m a former mechanical engineer specializing in fastening (now I&#x27;m a Javascript developer).<p>It&#x27;s certainly interesting that they&#x27;re managing to keep the tightness up without resorting to any truly strange designs.<p>However as some have noted, cost will keep it from being adopted. Let&#x27;s face it, fastening is the last thing considered in a project and the last thing bought. Even for large projects it&#x27;s at most a few percent of budget and people are desperate to limit it&#x27;s cost as much as possible.<p>Also, truly there&#x27;s no need for a product like this unless the stress on the bolt, nut and what&#x27;s being fastened have to be manage just perfectly. Otherwise the simplest solution to relaxation is just tightening more. Then it relaxes to an appropriate stress.<p>Almost all bolts in the world are under-tightened. Greater analysis of the joint you&#x27;re tightening rather than a fancier nut will pay off many more dividends.<p>Let me clarify. I applaud the effort, fastening needs research and development badly, but this is no miracle nut, rather it&#x27;s a specialized application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awkward</author><text>As a cyclist who does my own maintenance as a hobby, I am pretty willing to pay retail-type prices on exotic hardware that requires less effort on my part and is more reliable on the road.<p>Not the biggest market, sure, but it&#x27;s a market where you could very plausibly sell a single fastener for ten-plus dollars with the right marketing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Self-tightening nut that provides tight fastening with a unique screw thread</title><url>http://akihabaranews.com/2014/10/22/article-en/self-tightening-nut-provides-tight-fastening-aid-unique-screw-thread</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roneesh</author><text>I&#x27;m a former mechanical engineer specializing in fastening (now I&#x27;m a Javascript developer).<p>It&#x27;s certainly interesting that they&#x27;re managing to keep the tightness up without resorting to any truly strange designs.<p>However as some have noted, cost will keep it from being adopted. Let&#x27;s face it, fastening is the last thing considered in a project and the last thing bought. Even for large projects it&#x27;s at most a few percent of budget and people are desperate to limit it&#x27;s cost as much as possible.<p>Also, truly there&#x27;s no need for a product like this unless the stress on the bolt, nut and what&#x27;s being fastened have to be manage just perfectly. Otherwise the simplest solution to relaxation is just tightening more. Then it relaxes to an appropriate stress.<p>Almost all bolts in the world are under-tightened. Greater analysis of the joint you&#x27;re tightening rather than a fancier nut will pay off many more dividends.<p>Let me clarify. I applaud the effort, fastening needs research and development badly, but this is no miracle nut, rather it&#x27;s a specialized application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjradcliffe</author><text>I agree it&#x27;s a little specialized and likely quite pricy, but as a sometime roboticist this kind of innovation makes me hopeful. Fasteners and connectors are unsolved problems, and robotics is plagued with such issues. Even an expensive solution for a few critical points would be valuable. Loc-tite works OK most of the time, but the ideal is a nut that actually stays tight all by itself.</text></comment> |
21,588,606 | 21,588,602 | 1 | 2 | 21,586,996 | train | <story><title>Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director</title><url>https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/11/dont-rush-quantum-proof-encryption-warns-nsa-research-director/161217/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Perseids</author><text>The whole premise of the article is broken:<p>1. Every respectable cryptographic protocol designer would hedge their bets by combining a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm with a classical one, preferable elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), such that you first have to break ECC in order to attack the post-quantum cryptography. ECC is great in that it is both fast, secure, its signatures, ciphertexts and keys are small. Every post-quantum algorithm fails in at least one of the categories, but as ECC excels everywhere, the overhead is basically bound by a factor of two.<p>2. Our focus can&#x27;t be on choosing one PQC algorithm now (and keep it forever), as it is a very young field comparably (as the article agrees). Instead, we need to built up <i>algorithm agility</i> in our protocols and software, as we are probably going to change PQC algorithms at least once, when the cryptographic community has gained experience in PQC design&#x2F;cryptanalysis and we switch to the second wave PQC algorithms. In practice that means: Never assume keys, ciphertext, signatures are small. Investigate whether it is possible for keys to have <i>state</i> (see Lamport signature). And the only way to show these properties about protocols and software <i>is to try out some PQC algorithms now</i>. (Why the urgency? Because software and protocol turnaround time is bonkers in commercial applications. Heck, parts of the payment industry still use single DES in 2019...)<p>Given that the NSA knows both of this, the question is whether the author was clueless or the NSA spokesperson is malicious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>My employer produces low-power devices with hardware cryptography built into them. Without the crypto hardware, almost all crypto (including ECC) is too slow for practical use. It&#x27;s all well and good to have &quot;crypto agility&quot; but that ends when it comes to depending on silicon. So if we&#x27;re making our 20 year plan for, say, the next generation hardware platform that we&#x27;re going to invest many millions of dollars and thousands of engineer hours to build, then which PQC algorithms will we select to be built into our platform? It&#x27;s very unclear at this point.<p>Certainly we can be flexible in key and cert sizes, but also I happen to live in a world where a 1200 byte MTU actually matters a great deal, so it&#x27;s easier to just push the requirement for dealing with enormous certificates down the road for the day when we actually have enormous certificates. Future-proofing isn&#x27;t an issue yet because legacy devices will <i>never</i> be able to do PQC.<p>The premise is not broken at all, for us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director</title><url>https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/11/dont-rush-quantum-proof-encryption-warns-nsa-research-director/161217/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Perseids</author><text>The whole premise of the article is broken:<p>1. Every respectable cryptographic protocol designer would hedge their bets by combining a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm with a classical one, preferable elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), such that you first have to break ECC in order to attack the post-quantum cryptography. ECC is great in that it is both fast, secure, its signatures, ciphertexts and keys are small. Every post-quantum algorithm fails in at least one of the categories, but as ECC excels everywhere, the overhead is basically bound by a factor of two.<p>2. Our focus can&#x27;t be on choosing one PQC algorithm now (and keep it forever), as it is a very young field comparably (as the article agrees). Instead, we need to built up <i>algorithm agility</i> in our protocols and software, as we are probably going to change PQC algorithms at least once, when the cryptographic community has gained experience in PQC design&#x2F;cryptanalysis and we switch to the second wave PQC algorithms. In practice that means: Never assume keys, ciphertext, signatures are small. Investigate whether it is possible for keys to have <i>state</i> (see Lamport signature). And the only way to show these properties about protocols and software <i>is to try out some PQC algorithms now</i>. (Why the urgency? Because software and protocol turnaround time is bonkers in commercial applications. Heck, parts of the payment industry still use single DES in 2019...)<p>Given that the NSA knows both of this, the question is whether the author was clueless or the NSA spokesperson is malicious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morelisp</author><text>Algorithm agility has been a hilarious disaster for designing secure systems. In reality even protocols like TLS that are nominally agile advance primarily by versioning, not agility - and TLS is somewhat of a best case here compared to e.g. the mess of JOSE.</text></comment> |
32,241,751 | 32,241,430 | 1 | 2 | 32,230,612 | train | <story><title>Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1551662427606986752</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madrox</author><text>As a hiring manager, I&#x27;ve found entry level roles to be the hardest to fill well. No metric is a guarantee of a quality candidate. I loathe whiteboard programming, but for entry level jobs it&#x27;s at least a signal that they&#x27;re putting in the work to figure out how to be successful within a structure.<p>Beyond that, I want a narrative for the candidate&#x27;s career...both where they&#x27;ve been and where they want to go. It helps me figure out if their development goals will be a good fit and what their experience will bring to the team. I&#x27;ve run into a lot of candidates whose careers seem to be guided simply by &quot;I work for the highest bidder&quot; and they don&#x27;t end up being the best on the team...nor the most enduring.<p>I can see how this might equate to having the &quot;wrong experience.&quot; I hope candidates who wait to apply for that big dream job (or don&#x27;t get it) at least are taking jobs that prepare them for it. Barring that, I hope they&#x27;re finding other ways to gain experience. We can&#x27;t always choose the jobs we want, but I hope everyone is figuring out how to build towards it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbg721</author><text>How should they know where they want to go if they&#x27;re entry-level? They haven&#x27;t seen what the future paths are really like. This leads to a mentality of &quot;the only safe entry-level candidate is one with five years&#x27; experience doing exactly what we do,&quot; and I saw that in how one of the places I worked did their hiring. It led to much lower-quality entry-level candidates than if the company had accepted some risk and taken the plunge, recognizing that some of the time it wouldn&#x27;t work out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1551662427606986752</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madrox</author><text>As a hiring manager, I&#x27;ve found entry level roles to be the hardest to fill well. No metric is a guarantee of a quality candidate. I loathe whiteboard programming, but for entry level jobs it&#x27;s at least a signal that they&#x27;re putting in the work to figure out how to be successful within a structure.<p>Beyond that, I want a narrative for the candidate&#x27;s career...both where they&#x27;ve been and where they want to go. It helps me figure out if their development goals will be a good fit and what their experience will bring to the team. I&#x27;ve run into a lot of candidates whose careers seem to be guided simply by &quot;I work for the highest bidder&quot; and they don&#x27;t end up being the best on the team...nor the most enduring.<p>I can see how this might equate to having the &quot;wrong experience.&quot; I hope candidates who wait to apply for that big dream job (or don&#x27;t get it) at least are taking jobs that prepare them for it. Barring that, I hope they&#x27;re finding other ways to gain experience. We can&#x27;t always choose the jobs we want, but I hope everyone is figuring out how to build towards it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavenlyblue</author><text>&gt; &quot;I work for the highest bidder&quot;<p>Uhm, I find people like these are actually the easiest to keep. They know their price and define it. You know what to expect.</text></comment> |
11,802,785 | 11,802,846 | 1 | 2 | 11,802,491 | train | <story><title>Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'</title><url>http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/30/politics/axe-files-axelrod-eric-holder/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dandare</author><text>It is unbelievable how (self)censored the mainstream media&#x2F;politics discussion is. Keith Alexander lied to the congress on record, whistleblowers before Snowden were jailed for blowing the whistle and there was absolutely no chance he could reveal&#x2F;fix any illegal wrongdoing by the government via the official whistleblowers channels. He did not run away and ruin his sweet life for the lulz, there was clearly no other way. Why is this argument not immediately raised every time some clown uses the &quot;he broke the law, he has to face the music&quot; argument?</text></comment> | <story><title>Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'</title><url>http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/30/politics/axe-files-axelrod-eric-holder/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woodman</author><text>What a load of BS. He praises him for &quot;raising the debate&quot;, but condemns him for &quot;...the way he did it -- was inappropriate and illegal...&quot; then going on to invite him to &quot;Go to trial, try to cut a deal.&quot;<p>The issue has been brought up many times, with no positive change, because there was no massive dump of incredibly embarrassing evidence. All those hoping for some kind of Obama surprise turn around in the unprecedented level of whistleblower prosecution: you are setting yourself up for disappointment.</text></comment> |
4,908,807 | 4,908,753 | 1 | 3 | 4,908,672 | train | <story><title>IPv6 Attack Kills Mac OS X and makes Windows Server 2012 restart in Seconds</title><url>http://samsclass.info/ipv6/proj/RA_flood2.htm#1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>Disclosure to Apple - Apple notified 12-11-12.<p>I often wonder why disclosures of these types of exploits is now, "same day" instead of "Let vendor know you will be reporting this to public in a week."<p>I wonder if it is out of concern they will be pressured to keep quiet?<p>There is a good practical reason for not providing advance disclosure at major conference, particularly if you're subject to some kind of NDA, because, more often then not, the security researcher faces the risk of legal action and being shut down.<p>That pattern, though, "We are going to announce a security hole in major vendor product" followed by, "Shut down by legal action" - happens so frequently that I often wonder whether that's actually part of some larger pattern of entrepreneurial behavior that's opaque to me, it happens so frequently. Maybe it enhances your reputation? Gets you in the news?<p>I'm all for full disclosure, but, it might be nice to give the vendor a week to have a patch that can roll out at the same time as you let the world know what you found.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>splicer</author><text>When I discovered a vulnerability in Mac OS X that would allow a unprivileged user to keylog every user on the system (CVE-2007-0724), I let Apple know, then kept quiet until they fixed the issue. It took them 11 and a half months to fix. They thanked me in the security update note, and I now how a CVE on my resume. Was silence the most morally correct action? To this day, I am still unsure.</text></comment> | <story><title>IPv6 Attack Kills Mac OS X and makes Windows Server 2012 restart in Seconds</title><url>http://samsclass.info/ipv6/proj/RA_flood2.htm#1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>Disclosure to Apple - Apple notified 12-11-12.<p>I often wonder why disclosures of these types of exploits is now, "same day" instead of "Let vendor know you will be reporting this to public in a week."<p>I wonder if it is out of concern they will be pressured to keep quiet?<p>There is a good practical reason for not providing advance disclosure at major conference, particularly if you're subject to some kind of NDA, because, more often then not, the security researcher faces the risk of legal action and being shut down.<p>That pattern, though, "We are going to announce a security hole in major vendor product" followed by, "Shut down by legal action" - happens so frequently that I often wonder whether that's actually part of some larger pattern of entrepreneurial behavior that's opaque to me, it happens so frequently. Maybe it enhances your reputation? Gets you in the news?<p>I'm all for full disclosure, but, it might be nice to give the vendor a week to have a patch that can roll out at the same time as you let the world know what you found.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixl97</author><text><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/mac_os_x_java_fiasco_apple_still_doesnt_get_security" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.computerworld.com/mac_os_x_java_fiasco_apple_st...</a><p><a href="http://www.the4cast.com/apple/apples-flashback-fiasco-what-really-happened/" rel="nofollow">http://www.the4cast.com/apple/apples-flashback-fiasco-what-r...</a><p>2 years apart, same outcome. Apple has a terrible track record of fixing bugs. As of so far it seems giving them a minute, week, or month has no difference. In the past other vendors have had issues with timely fixing their bugs or trying to squash disclosers, that's why lists like full disclosure exist to this day.</text></comment> |
27,264,061 | 27,262,959 | 1 | 3 | 27,262,340 | train | <story><title>Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting</title><url>http://hccc.org.uk/retro/retro.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>IMHO older computers are more interesting because you can have much better relative understanding of what they consist of, how do they work and and much higher relative degree of control over them. They induce senses senses of curiosity, flexibility and security this way.<p>Compared to the computers from the previous century which could be built, modified, repaired and operated consciously, modern ones are more of disposable magic-button black boxes which will turn into pumpkins as soon as the vendor servers turn off and go extinct like ancient magical creatures as soon as the factory in Taiwan shuts down because nobody has a serious idea about all their internals and how to produce them anymore.<p>Sadly, there already is a generation of programmers who aren&#x27;t even interested in being able to assemble their own PC from a set of boards, let alone understanding anything about things like registers and the physics behind them.<p>UPDATE: yes, I would say the same about cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting</title><url>http://hccc.org.uk/retro/retro.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Most things are interesting simply due to the fact that they were produced by and through the constraints of their time. Seeing how people solved these contextual problems very often is fascinating. And then there&#x27;s the spirit&#x2F;aesthetics&#x2F;goals of the era.</text></comment> |
16,405,735 | 16,405,405 | 1 | 2 | 16,401,042 | train | <story><title>The Mess at Meetup</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/the-mess-at-meetup-1822243738</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mft_</author><text>I&#x27;m really conflicted by this article.<p>On the one hand, it&#x27;s always a shame to read of cases where a company with a great culture which people clearly enjoyed and valued is changed for &#x27;bad&#x27; reasons - takeover, or profit, or similar.<p>...but...<p>&gt; “I really don’t think they would have been able to attract the talent they did without it because the product wasn’t there. They didn’t innovate. Meetup is not attractive except for their culture, except for their values”<p>If the product sucks, then a) you&#x27;ve got to ask why, and b) that probably needs to change, for the sake of the company (which actually offers a valuable product, IMO) <i>and</i> its employees.<p>And here&#x27;s what seems to have been judged to be the issue: if your <i>priority</i> is to hire a diverse workforce that enables a gentle, happy, collaborative culture, then your <i>priority</i> isn&#x27;t to hire the best possible workforce, to create the best possible product.<p>I don&#x27;t want to come over as James Damore here (and I&#x27;m sure there are plenty of cases of a diverse workforce creating a great product) but this isn&#x27;t fundamentally unreasonable. If your priority is cultural excellence, you&#x27;re going to get cultural excellence, possibly to the exclusion of other factors: if your priority isn&#x27;t product excellence, you&#x27;re not going to get product excellence.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mess at Meetup</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/the-mess-at-meetup-1822243738</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TekMol</author><text>The slide deck looks like a persiflage to me. Something I would expect to see in a movie [1].<p>Are employees in the US really such ducklings that they swallow such insult and paternalism?<p>If I would be a manager at Meetup and would be shown a bunch of bullshit bingo slides about how my current approach is shit and that I am supposed to become better at my job by &#x27;pushing to achieve more&#x27; my reaction would be clear.<p>I would say &#x27;Dude, I have built and refined my management approach over many years. It&#x27;s based on these key values. And these metrics. Held together by the following theory. And I have a lot to show for it. I achieved this and this and this and this last year. Tell me again with a straight face how this is not exceptional performance. And now take your pile of cliches and fuck off.&#x27;.<p>[1] Popular movie version of the deck: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk</a></text></comment> |
6,770,780 | 6,770,536 | 1 | 3 | 6,770,145 | train | <story><title>How to make fake data look meaningful</title><url>http://danbirken.com/statistics/2013/11/19/ways-to-make-fake-data-look-meaningful.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>A great method for spotting (or at least suspecting) fake data is to see if it follows Benford&#x27;s law. (So remember to fit your fake data to conform!)<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford&#x27;s_law" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Benford&#x27;s_law</a><p>&gt; Benford&#x27;s Law, also called the First-Digit Law, refers to the frequency distribution of digits in many (but not all) real-life sources of data. In this distribution, the number 1 occurs as the leading digit about 30% of the time, while larger numbers occur in that position less frequently: 9 as the first digit less than 5% of the time. Benford&#x27;s Law also concerns the expected distribution for digits beyond the first, which approach a uniform distribution.<p>As one might imagine:<p>&gt; A test of regression coefficients in published papers showed agreement with Benford&#x27;s law. As a comparison group subjects were asked to fabricate statistical estimates. The fabricated results failed to obey Benford&#x27;s law.<p>So keep that in mind, data fabricators!</text></comment> | <story><title>How to make fake data look meaningful</title><url>http://danbirken.com/statistics/2013/11/19/ways-to-make-fake-data-look-meaningful.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>datphp</author><text>I worked in retail when I was younger. This would be excellent advice for a sales person working with uneducated customers.<p>I was the go-to guy, resulting in a lot of freedom when dealing with clients. It allowed me to do lot of social experimentation, especially when selling custom services (like fixing &quot;My PC is slow&quot;).<p>Explaining the in-and-outs of different options (goal, short&#x2F;long term consequences, risks, up&#x2F;downsides...), then saying it would cost 50$ would usually result in the guy becoming all suspicious, saying he wanted me to guarantee him stuff that I couldn&#x27;t, and that it was expensive.<p>Say &quot;Oh you&#x27;ll need our performance rejuvenation(tm) package, that&#x27;ll be 400$&quot; and the guy happily pulls out his credit card!</text></comment> |
11,345,700 | 11,344,834 | 1 | 3 | 11,344,145 | train | <story><title>Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”</title><url>http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/22/intel-corp-officially-kills-tick-tock.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unchocked</author><text>So now it&#x27;s &quot;Tick-Tock-Tweak&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maaku</author><text>Some PR person at Intel is kicking themselves now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”</title><url>http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/22/intel-corp-officially-kills-tick-tock.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unchocked</author><text>So now it&#x27;s &quot;Tick-Tock-Tweak&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>&quot;Tick-Tock-Tweak&quot; is a great summary, so much easier than the &quot;Process-Architecture-Optimization&quot; label that Intel gave to explain their new plan.</text></comment> |
6,483,310 | 6,482,512 | 1 | 2 | 6,481,881 | train | <story><title>Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary</title><url>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/global-celebration-for-the-gnu-systems-30th-anniversary</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whydo</author><text>The work of the FSF and GNU is one of the most important in the history of computing. We benefit daily from the values of freedom, respect, and choice it presents. We also benefit from the abundance of knowledge and technologies that is openly available to all.<p>However, these rights and privileges must not be taken for granted and must continue to be protected. It is also in our interest to choose solutions and businesses that respect their users and their liberties.</text></comment> | <story><title>Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary</title><url>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/global-celebration-for-the-gnu-systems-30th-anniversary</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlarkworthy</author><text>Its pretty inspiring that writing code with a philosophy can change the world.</text></comment> |
37,865,482 | 37,865,348 | 1 | 2 | 37,864,867 | train | <story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pannoniae</author><text>I have come to a funny realisation recently. It&#x27;s not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it&#x27;s the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I&#x27;ve recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it&#x27;s a joy to use without any eye strain.<p>These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It&#x27;s blatant how UI designers don&#x27;t give a damn about the users&#x27; needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it&#x27;s a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.<p>Also, we wouldn&#x27;t need &quot;dark mode&quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>I don&#x27;t use dark mode for contrast, I use because a lot of software &quot;light mode&quot; is just plain white. And screens been getting more and more powerful.<p>Often using software without white mode the thing is so bright, that the walls near me get lighted up as if I was using a flashlight or something.<p>Thus I have to make the screen less bright, but often this also make the screen colors and contrast get all screwy and I still can&#x27;t see anything.<p>I miss Win 9x era grey interface... it wasn&#x27;t beautiful but I could actually see stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pannoniae</author><text>I have come to a funny realisation recently. It&#x27;s not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it&#x27;s the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I&#x27;ve recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it&#x27;s a joy to use without any eye strain.<p>These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It&#x27;s blatant how UI designers don&#x27;t give a damn about the users&#x27; needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it&#x27;s a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.<p>Also, we wouldn&#x27;t need &quot;dark mode&quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwells89</author><text>&gt; Also, we wouldn&#x27;t need &quot;dark mode&quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.<p>Contrast is a factor yes, but the other thing that&#x27;s happened with the flat UI epidemic is banishment of mid grays and light grays in favor of stark white and off-whites, making &quot;light mode&quot; much more bright looking than it had been previously. It&#x27;s no wonder people were clamoring for dark mode after blinding flat UI had taken over.</text></comment> |
31,648,156 | 31,646,918 | 1 | 3 | 31,628,311 | train | <story><title>Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/adorable-japan-only-sega-mega-drive-mini-2-faithfully-recreates-the-sega-cd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fcsp</author><text>I would really appreciate if those reissue consoles would rather be FPGA based mimics of the original hardware instead of essentially correctly shaped plastic around a raspi and retropie. The perceived success of devices like the Analogue Pocket indicate to me there&#x27;s a market for this, and at the audience scale of first party devices this might actually hit non-enthusiast pricing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>I do share the sentiment[1], but I also believe that the target market neither cares nor really understands the difference. So from a perspective of both design and cost margins, it just makes much more sense to use whatever cheapest ARM SoCs is available as long as it is still &quot;adequate&quot;.<p>Of course form a hardware hacking perspective, the FPGA would be fantastic, but those toys are not meant for that.<p>[1] Even though my thoughts on what an FPGA can really do better in this situation are <i>complex</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/adorable-japan-only-sega-mega-drive-mini-2-faithfully-recreates-the-sega-cd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fcsp</author><text>I would really appreciate if those reissue consoles would rather be FPGA based mimics of the original hardware instead of essentially correctly shaped plastic around a raspi and retropie. The perceived success of devices like the Analogue Pocket indicate to me there&#x27;s a market for this, and at the audience scale of first party devices this might actually hit non-enthusiast pricing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>FPGA probably costs too much for these; and there&#x27;s not likely enough money in them to make an accurate single chip system. (single chip NES asics exist, but accuracy isn&#x27;t quite 100%; I&#x27;ve read that at least one of the atari 2600 retro consoles was built with one and they just ported the games to the NES)</text></comment> |
15,382,504 | 15,382,342 | 1 | 2 | 15,380,479 | train | <story><title>Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React</title><url>https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbreckmckye</author><text>I feel a little mixed about projects like this.<p>It&#x27;s fantastic to see people share their knowledge, and turn theory into practice. It&#x27;s very easy to spout on about best practices and good ideas without demonstrating how they can be implemented in the real world. And this application does demonstrate some good ideas.<p>...But some bad ideas also. I think one problem we have in the frontend world is that developers of very small, very simple sites are pulling in solutions entirely unsuited to their scale of problems. They think they are being careful and investing in an insurance against rapid expansion, but what they&#x27;re actually doing is overspending on the wrong investments, making things expensive that don&#x27;t need to be expensive, and betting against agility. This seems like a mistake.<p>I encounter too many teams who are building web applications by bunding a cornucopia of technologies they don&#x27;t understand and allow &quot;best practice&quot; examples on GitHub and Medium to do their decision-making for them. They disengage critically from their technology choices, which has the short term benefit of getting them moving faster, but the long term cost of never developing their research and evaluation skills.<p>This is not your fault, of course. People always want a silver bullet, a framework prefabricated and ready for drop-in domain code. And to be fair, most websites are very like each other. I just wish software developers chose their tech a little more critically.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arjie</author><text>That&#x27;s just how we learn to apply things correctly. If the first time you use a tool is to build a scale-appropriate project, you will stumble and likely fail.<p>Imagine you want to sail across the Atlantic and, to acclimate to the necessary tasks, you started small: sailing down the Thames, then sailing to Calais, then sailing farther and into the deeper ocean, before you decide to take the big trip. Now imagine you posted a blog post about this, and the first thing someone pointed out is that you can take the ferry to Calais.<p>That&#x27;s what you&#x27;ve done.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React</title><url>https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbreckmckye</author><text>I feel a little mixed about projects like this.<p>It&#x27;s fantastic to see people share their knowledge, and turn theory into practice. It&#x27;s very easy to spout on about best practices and good ideas without demonstrating how they can be implemented in the real world. And this application does demonstrate some good ideas.<p>...But some bad ideas also. I think one problem we have in the frontend world is that developers of very small, very simple sites are pulling in solutions entirely unsuited to their scale of problems. They think they are being careful and investing in an insurance against rapid expansion, but what they&#x27;re actually doing is overspending on the wrong investments, making things expensive that don&#x27;t need to be expensive, and betting against agility. This seems like a mistake.<p>I encounter too many teams who are building web applications by bunding a cornucopia of technologies they don&#x27;t understand and allow &quot;best practice&quot; examples on GitHub and Medium to do their decision-making for them. They disengage critically from their technology choices, which has the short term benefit of getting them moving faster, but the long term cost of never developing their research and evaluation skills.<p>This is not your fault, of course. People always want a silver bullet, a framework prefabricated and ready for drop-in domain code. And to be fair, most websites are very like each other. I just wish software developers chose their tech a little more critically.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techaddict009</author><text>This is exactly what I feel. I get heavy request to build projects in React where their use case is pretty simple even wordpress can suffice.</text></comment> |
15,505,404 | 15,504,237 | 1 | 3 | 15,502,811 | train | <story><title>Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Adutude</author><text>Interesting tidbit, in the sentence in the article &quot; To explore these patterns further, we conducted three studies that explored college students&#x27; ability to comprehend information on paper and from screens.&quot;<p>&quot;Three studies&quot; is linked to a single study, not three. The study is on the site tandfonline.com (Taylor and Francis), where you have to pay to read the study.<p>Also interesting is that Taylor and Francis, on their website taylorandfrancis.com, says &quot;Taylor &amp; Francis Group publishes books for all levels of academic study and professional development, across a wide range of subjects and disciplines.&quot;<p>So long story short, this is a study saying that books are better, that&#x27;s on a site who&#x27;s main business is publishing books. Not saying the study is inaccurate, but I find an article, about how books are better, on a book publishers site, somewhat suspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>I did an in depth review of the research for a Human Computer Interaction class in college a couple years back before the Taylor and Francis study and the research then generally agreed with the idea that reading a print book was the best for comprehension (I tried quickly searching for the paper to pull sources, but no luck). However that difference appeared to be mostly related to form factor and not necessarily from the screen itself. Studies that used tablets showed smaller gaps in performance than studies that used computers. Studies that used e-ink e-readers showed almost no difference in comprehension. I was not able to find a single study that compared more than 2 or 3 different devices using the same methodology. If I were to design a study I would want to see a full range of tests including print books, e-ink e-readers, tablets with full color screens, traditional computer monitors, and e-ink monitors. Hopefully then you could better isolate the cause of the lower comprehension.<p>My own hypothesis (I have a comp sci degree, so take this psychology explanation with a grain of salt) is that comprehension is more dependent on the person&#x27;s approach to the technology rather than the technology itself. Books are single purpose devices. When you have a book in your hand your brain knows it is time to focus on reading. When you sit down at a computer, the brain doesn&#x27;t know what to expect or to focus on. It is similar to other advice about training your brain to expect certain activities such as reserving your bedroom only for sleeping or to have a dedicated home office if you work remotely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Adutude</author><text>Interesting tidbit, in the sentence in the article &quot; To explore these patterns further, we conducted three studies that explored college students&#x27; ability to comprehend information on paper and from screens.&quot;<p>&quot;Three studies&quot; is linked to a single study, not three. The study is on the site tandfonline.com (Taylor and Francis), where you have to pay to read the study.<p>Also interesting is that Taylor and Francis, on their website taylorandfrancis.com, says &quot;Taylor &amp; Francis Group publishes books for all levels of academic study and professional development, across a wide range of subjects and disciplines.&quot;<p>So long story short, this is a study saying that books are better, that&#x27;s on a site who&#x27;s main business is publishing books. Not saying the study is inaccurate, but I find an article, about how books are better, on a book publishers site, somewhat suspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scw</author><text>It&#x27;s in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, written by academics in the field, not by T&amp;F itself, nor funded by them. While there are problems with the peer reviewed system, publisher interference with research results isn&#x27;t typically one of them.</text></comment> |
11,940,433 | 11,940,350 | 1 | 3 | 11,939,851 | train | <story><title>Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today</title><text>This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I&#x27;ll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>di</author><text>Hi Alan,<p>In &quot;The Power of the Context&quot; (2004) you wrote:<p><pre><code> ...In programming there is a wide-spread 1st order
theory that one shouldn’t build one’s own tools,
languages, and especially operating systems. This is
true—an incredible amount of time and energy has gone
down these ratholes. On the 2nd hand, if you can build
your own tools, languages and operating systems, then
you absolutely should because the leverage that can be
obtained (and often the time not wasted in trying to
fix other people’s not quite right tools) can be
incredible.
</code></pre>
I love this quote because it justifies a DIY attitude of experimentation and reverse engineering, etc., that generally I think we could use more of.<p>However, more often than not, I find the sentiment paralyzing. There&#x27;s so much that one could <i>probably</i> learn to build themselves, but as things become more and more complex, one has to be able to make a rational tradeoff between spending the time and energy in the rathole, or not. I can&#x27;t spend all day rebuilding everything I can simply because I <i>can</i>.<p>My question is: how does one decide when to DIY, and when to use what&#x27;s already been built?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alankay</author><text>This is a tough question. (And always has been in a sense, because every era has had projects where the tool building has sunk the project into a black hole.)<p>It really helped at Parc to work with real geniuses like Chuck Thacker and Dan Ingalls (and quite a few more). There is a very thin boundary between making the 2nd order work vs getting wiped out by the effort.<p>Another perspective on this is to think about &quot;not getting caught by dependencies&quot; -- what if there were really good <i>independent module systems</i> -- perhaps aided by hardware -- that allowed both worlds to work together (so one doesn&#x27;t get buried under &quot;useful patches&quot;, etc.)<p>One of my favorite things to watch at Parc was how well Dan Ingalls was able to bootstrap a new system out of an old one by really using what objects are good for, and especially where the new system was even much better at facilitating the next bootstrap.<p>I&#x27;m not a big Unix fan -- it was too late on the scene for the level of ideas that it had -- but if you take the cultural history it came from, there were several things they tried to do that were admirable -- including really having a tiny kernel and using Unix processes for all systems building (this was a very useful version of &quot;OOP&quot; -- you just couldn&#x27;t have small objects because of the way processes were implemented). It was quite sad to see how this pretty nice mix and match approach gradually decayed into huge loads and dependencies. Part of this was that the rather good idea of parsing non-command messages in each process -- we used this in the first Smalltalk at Parc -- became much too ad hoc because there was not a strong attempt to intertwine a real language around the message structures (this very same thing happened with http -- just think of what this could have been if anyone had been noticing ...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today</title><text>This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I&#x27;ll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>di</author><text>Hi Alan,<p>In &quot;The Power of the Context&quot; (2004) you wrote:<p><pre><code> ...In programming there is a wide-spread 1st order
theory that one shouldn’t build one’s own tools,
languages, and especially operating systems. This is
true—an incredible amount of time and energy has gone
down these ratholes. On the 2nd hand, if you can build
your own tools, languages and operating systems, then
you absolutely should because the leverage that can be
obtained (and often the time not wasted in trying to
fix other people’s not quite right tools) can be
incredible.
</code></pre>
I love this quote because it justifies a DIY attitude of experimentation and reverse engineering, etc., that generally I think we could use more of.<p>However, more often than not, I find the sentiment paralyzing. There&#x27;s so much that one could <i>probably</i> learn to build themselves, but as things become more and more complex, one has to be able to make a rational tradeoff between spending the time and energy in the rathole, or not. I can&#x27;t spend all day rebuilding everything I can simply because I <i>can</i>.<p>My question is: how does one decide when to DIY, and when to use what&#x27;s already been built?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the answer contained in the quote? Do a cost&#x2F;benefit analysis of the &quot;amount of time and energy&quot; that would go &quot;down these ratholes&quot; versus the &quot;the time not wasted in trying to fix other people’s not quite right tools.&quot;</text></comment> |
39,394,611 | 39,394,066 | 1 | 3 | 39,386,156 | train | <story><title>Sora: Creating video from text</title><url>https://openai.com/sora</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t having a good understanding of physics mean you know that a women doesn&#x27;t slide down the road when she walks? Wouldn&#x27;t it know that a woolly mammoth doesn&#x27;t emit profuse amounts steam when walking on frozen snow? Wouldn&#x27;t the model know that legs are solid objects in which other object cannot pass through?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m missing the big picture here, but the above and all the weird spatial errors, like miniaturization of people make me think you&#x27;re wrong.<p>Clearly the model is an achievement and doing something interesting to produce these videos, and they are pretty cool, but understanding physics seems like quite a stretch?<p>I also don&#x27;t really get the excitement about the girl on the train in Tokyo:<p><i>In the Tokyo one, the model is smart enough to figure out that on a train, the reflection would be of a passenger, and the passenger has Asian traits since this is Tokyo</i><p>I don&#x27;t know a lot about how this model works personally, but I&#x27;m guessing in the training data the vast majority of people riding trains in Tokyo featured asian people in them, assuming this model works on statistics like all of the other models I&#x27;ve seen recently from Open AI, then why is it interesting the girl in the reflection was Asian? Did you not expect that?</text></item><item><author>sebastiennight</author><text>I think the implications go much further than just the image&#x2F;video considerations.<p>This model shows a very good (albeit not perfect) understanding of the physics of objects and relationships between them. The announcement mentions this several times.<p>The OpenAI blog post lists &quot;Archeologists discover a generic plastic chair in the desert, excavating and dusting it with great care.&quot; as one of the &quot;failed&quot; cases.
But this (and &quot;Reflections in the window of a train traveling through the Tokyo suburbs.&quot;) seem to me to be 2 of the most important examples.<p>- In the Tokyo one, the model is smart enough to figure out that on a train, the reflection would be of a passenger, and the passenger has Asian traits since this is Tokyo.
- In the chair one, OpenAI says the model failed to model the physics of the object (which hints that it did try to, which is not how the early diffusion models worked ; they just tried to generate &quot;plausible&quot; images). And we can see one of the archeologists basically chasing the chair down to grab it, which does correctly model the interaction with a floating object.<p>I think we can&#x27;t underestimate how crucial that is to the building of a general model that has a strong model of the world. Not just a &quot;theory of mind&quot;, but a litteral understanding of &quot;what will happen next&quot;, independently of &quot;what would a human say would happen next&quot; (which is what the usual text-based models seem to do).<p>This is going to be much more important, IMO, than the video aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>&gt; Wouldn&#x27;t having a good understanding of physics mean you know that a women doesn&#x27;t slide down the road when she walks? Wouldn&#x27;t it know that a woolly mammoth doesn&#x27;t emit profuse amounts steam when walking on frozen snow? Wouldn&#x27;t the model know that legs are solid objects in which other object cannot pass through?<p>This just hit me but humans do not have a good understanding of physics; or maybe most of humans have no understanding of physics. We just observe and recognize whether it&#x27;s familiar or not.<p>AI will need to be, that being the case, way more powerful than a human mind. Maybe orders of magnitude more &quot;neural networks&quot; than a human brain has.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sora: Creating video from text</title><url>https://openai.com/sora</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t having a good understanding of physics mean you know that a women doesn&#x27;t slide down the road when she walks? Wouldn&#x27;t it know that a woolly mammoth doesn&#x27;t emit profuse amounts steam when walking on frozen snow? Wouldn&#x27;t the model know that legs are solid objects in which other object cannot pass through?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m missing the big picture here, but the above and all the weird spatial errors, like miniaturization of people make me think you&#x27;re wrong.<p>Clearly the model is an achievement and doing something interesting to produce these videos, and they are pretty cool, but understanding physics seems like quite a stretch?<p>I also don&#x27;t really get the excitement about the girl on the train in Tokyo:<p><i>In the Tokyo one, the model is smart enough to figure out that on a train, the reflection would be of a passenger, and the passenger has Asian traits since this is Tokyo</i><p>I don&#x27;t know a lot about how this model works personally, but I&#x27;m guessing in the training data the vast majority of people riding trains in Tokyo featured asian people in them, assuming this model works on statistics like all of the other models I&#x27;ve seen recently from Open AI, then why is it interesting the girl in the reflection was Asian? Did you not expect that?</text></item><item><author>sebastiennight</author><text>I think the implications go much further than just the image&#x2F;video considerations.<p>This model shows a very good (albeit not perfect) understanding of the physics of objects and relationships between them. The announcement mentions this several times.<p>The OpenAI blog post lists &quot;Archeologists discover a generic plastic chair in the desert, excavating and dusting it with great care.&quot; as one of the &quot;failed&quot; cases.
But this (and &quot;Reflections in the window of a train traveling through the Tokyo suburbs.&quot;) seem to me to be 2 of the most important examples.<p>- In the Tokyo one, the model is smart enough to figure out that on a train, the reflection would be of a passenger, and the passenger has Asian traits since this is Tokyo.
- In the chair one, OpenAI says the model failed to model the physics of the object (which hints that it did try to, which is not how the early diffusion models worked ; they just tried to generate &quot;plausible&quot; images). And we can see one of the archeologists basically chasing the chair down to grab it, which does correctly model the interaction with a floating object.<p>I think we can&#x27;t underestimate how crucial that is to the building of a general model that has a strong model of the world. Not just a &quot;theory of mind&quot;, but a litteral understanding of &quot;what will happen next&quot;, independently of &quot;what would a human say would happen next&quot; (which is what the usual text-based models seem to do).<p>This is going to be much more important, IMO, than the video aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pests</author><text>They could test this by trying to generate the same image but set in New York, etc. I bet it would still be asain.</text></comment> |
11,155,208 | 11,152,921 | 1 | 2 | 11,152,602 | train | <story><title>Beartooth</title><url>http://beartooth.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linksbro</author><text>It transmits via some sub-1ghz free spectrum bands, which travel a good distance and have decent structure penetration. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beartooth.zendesk.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;216797018-What-frequencies-does-Beartooth-cover-" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beartooth.zendesk.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;216797018-Wh...</a><p>This is why unlicensed spectrum bands are great; they allow for stuff like this to be built without a billion dollar spectrum price tag.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>micha_ross</author><text>Anyone else think its kinda sketchy that they&#x27;re just saying &quot;sub-1Ghz&quot; frequencies? There aren&#x27;t a ton of options there, and they aren&#x27;t secret information. This sounds like they&#x27;re either heavy on the vaporware side of things and haven&#x27;t figured out what they&#x27;re doing, which doesn&#x27;t bode well for them shipping anytime soon, or they are trying to do something which the FCC isn&#x27;t going to approve, which again doesn&#x27;t bode well for us getting this thing on pre-order<p>Anyone know if they&#x27;re encrypted? I&#x27;m not seeing any mention of that, I think I might grab a goTenna if only for that reason</text></comment> | <story><title>Beartooth</title><url>http://beartooth.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linksbro</author><text>It transmits via some sub-1ghz free spectrum bands, which travel a good distance and have decent structure penetration. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beartooth.zendesk.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;216797018-What-frequencies-does-Beartooth-cover-" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beartooth.zendesk.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;216797018-Wh...</a><p>This is why unlicensed spectrum bands are great; they allow for stuff like this to be built without a billion dollar spectrum price tag.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>I don&#x27;t think 2 miles is a good travel distance. (or maybe it is from a technical perspective but not from a practical one).<p>That would assume lots of users which I feel can be problematic with a $399 price range and big form factor.</text></comment> |
18,293,659 | 18,293,007 | 1 | 2 | 18,292,417 | train | <story><title>Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; Samsung told owners of its Galaxy Note 4 phone to install a new version of Google’s Android operating system intended for the more recent Galaxy Note 7, but which rendered the old model sluggish. Likewise, Apple told iPhone 6 owners to install an operating system designed for the iPhone 7, leading to problems for owners of the older mode<p>A bit of a scary precedent. The 5m fine on Apple for intentionally reducing resource usage to such a large extent without notification seems kinda reasonable. But the 5m fine for both Apple and Samsung for their updates causing slowdown on older devices is a different issue.<p>If I were a company fearing that suggesting an OS upgrade for an older phone would cause slowdown on that older phone, I am now incentivized to not suggest that update. We might want companies to support old OSs forever or stop adding resource-intensive features or feature gate them or whatever. But short of legislating that specifically, all this does is make old phones even more of a liability than they already were.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hrktb</author><text>I think making company think twice before offering the &quot;update&quot; is kind of the point.<p>There is two parts to consider I think:<p>- iOS updates are not reversible (technically it can be done, but for lambda users it&#x27;s a lost cause).<p>- Apple is very aggressive towards making users upgrade, nagging indefinitely if there is any available newer version<p>So, users are very aggressively pushed towards the newer version, can&#x27;t go back, but their phone becomes less useable, for new features they might not care about.
As it is now, not offering the major update to old phones will be a grace in a number of cases.<p>It would still be nice if users wanting to upgrade can have a path forward, understanding the trade-offs. But users should be less complaining if their device keeps working basically the same way as when they bought it years ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; Samsung told owners of its Galaxy Note 4 phone to install a new version of Google’s Android operating system intended for the more recent Galaxy Note 7, but which rendered the old model sluggish. Likewise, Apple told iPhone 6 owners to install an operating system designed for the iPhone 7, leading to problems for owners of the older mode<p>A bit of a scary precedent. The 5m fine on Apple for intentionally reducing resource usage to such a large extent without notification seems kinda reasonable. But the 5m fine for both Apple and Samsung for their updates causing slowdown on older devices is a different issue.<p>If I were a company fearing that suggesting an OS upgrade for an older phone would cause slowdown on that older phone, I am now incentivized to not suggest that update. We might want companies to support old OSs forever or stop adding resource-intensive features or feature gate them or whatever. But short of legislating that specifically, all this does is make old phones even more of a liability than they already were.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Yeah, you really have three options now. Either (1) never introduce features that require more processing power but newer phones are capable of handling, (2) have those new features but lock older phones out of being able to use them, or (3), stop supporting older phones with your updates.<p>The problem with (1) is now you&#x27;ve completely stagnated the market, and if your competitors choose either of the other options you&#x27;re left lagging behind and you lose sales.<p>The problem with (2) is now customers of older phones will be upset that they didn&#x27;t get the full upgrade for reasons they don&#x27;t understand. The iPhone 4S and Siri or the iPhone X and Animoji show the reaction you should expect.<p>The problem with (3) is now you have planned obsolescence and old phones just become throw-away leading to an ecological disaster.<p>None of these are good options.</text></comment> |
19,272,523 | 19,270,234 | 1 | 2 | 19,270,199 | train | <story><title>Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs</title><url>https://branchfree.org/2019/02/28/paper-hyperscan-a-fast-multi-pattern-regex-matcher-for-modern-cpus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slaymaker1907</author><text>One of the most interesting ways to handle regex and general parsing IMO is by using derivitives. I&#x27;m not sure if this uses any of the ideas from that area, but with derivitive based regex parsing instead of constructing some specific program to parse some language, you parse by instead transforming the original language to be the language of the union of the old language as well as the character just seen.<p>In addition to being incredibly simple to implement compared to traditional regex and parser generators, I think it is also interesting in that while it is really simple and looks like you are interpreting a language, it is actually powerful enough to parse arbitrary CFGs in O(n^3) with some help from memoization and fixpoints. See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt.might.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;parsing-with-derivatives&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt.might.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;parsing-with-derivatives&#x2F;</a> for more details.<p>I think the interesting aspect in terms of performance with something like this is that the derivitive based parsing system is explicitly streaming since it only stores the remaining input string and a regex string. Also, I think you can get around some of the performance issues with constructing these strings by replacing certain parts of the regex with more traditional NFAs&#x2F;DFAs. In particular, I think this method provides an easy way to use simple equality matching for constant strings, DFAs for Kleene star, NFAs for the rest of the typical NFA features like the or operator and negation, then finally using the derivitive for very complicated features like capturing groups and backreferences.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs</title><url>https://branchfree.org/2019/02/28/paper-hyperscan-a-fast-multi-pattern-regex-matcher-for-modern-cpus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glangdale</author><text>Author here, in case anyone wants to question, abuse, argue, etc.</text></comment> |
37,713,261 | 37,712,715 | 1 | 2 | 37,705,328 | train | <story><title>Making a music library without a SPA</title><url>https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Signez</author><text>At first, I thought it was a good exercise (and it still is), but going through the result [0] made me more skeptical.<p>It is... slow? I mean, Internet Explorer slow. Maybe I&#x27;m spoiled by the level of responsiveness of application-style web interfaces, but opening an album or returning to the library feels <i>slow</i>. Is it because I&#x27;m browsing from Western Europe and the application is hosted in the USA?<p>I&#x27;m used to browsing multi-page apps that don&#x27;t pretend to be apps, and having a 500ms load time after a click is expected and feels right. But waiting the same time for a click in a page that looks like an app makes me uncomfortable. It&#x27;s weird - is this the Uncanny Valley again?<p>[0] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enhance-music.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enhance-music.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hrun0</author><text>Looks like the enhance-styles.css doesn&#x27;t get cached properly and gets requested on every route. The browser then waits for 500ms for a response from a server, likely due to increased web traffic.<p>An issue which could have been avoided by using a SPA :D</text></comment> | <story><title>Making a music library without a SPA</title><url>https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Signez</author><text>At first, I thought it was a good exercise (and it still is), but going through the result [0] made me more skeptical.<p>It is... slow? I mean, Internet Explorer slow. Maybe I&#x27;m spoiled by the level of responsiveness of application-style web interfaces, but opening an album or returning to the library feels <i>slow</i>. Is it because I&#x27;m browsing from Western Europe and the application is hosted in the USA?<p>I&#x27;m used to browsing multi-page apps that don&#x27;t pretend to be apps, and having a 500ms load time after a click is expected and feels right. But waiting the same time for a click in a page that looks like an app makes me uncomfortable. It&#x27;s weird - is this the Uncanny Valley again?<p>[0] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enhance-music.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enhance-music.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowtimemania</author><text>This is what I got going from the main page to an album page:<p>55ms for html,
67ms for css,
15ms for webp image.<p>I&#x27;m in bay area so it might be slower in other places</text></comment> |
30,594,621 | 30,594,690 | 1 | 3 | 30,594,042 | train | <story><title>An update on the threat landscape</title><url>https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/update-threat-landscape-ukraine/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miohtama</author><text>Does anyone remember REvil arrest anymore?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;at-request-of-u-s-russia-rounds-up-14-revil-ransomware-affiliates&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;at-request-of-u-s-russia...</a><p>Those people must be now be back to the business, national heroes and the era of ransomware diplomacy ended as fast as it started.</text></comment> | <story><title>An update on the threat landscape</title><url>https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/update-threat-landscape-ukraine/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheeze</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me but these seem rather... tame?<p>Phishing campaigns? I&#x27;d assume those happen year round, war or not.<p>Am I wrong here? Missing something?</text></comment> |
23,987,752 | 23,985,532 | 1 | 3 | 23,984,098 | train | <story><title>Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams</title><url>https://kislayverma.com/organizations/independence-autonomy-and-too-many-small-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redredrobot</author><text>I worked at Amazon on two-pizza teams. I never thought the two pizza team was about reducing communication, but more allowing faster independent decision making. Once you work on something that is big and complicated enough that it requires dozens of engineers, there HAS to be communication and coordination. Hopefully you have good managers (and high level ICs) because they are supposed to do a lot of the coordination so that it is easy for the engineering team to focus on engineering. A goal of independent two-pizza teams is to have the independent teams define how their individual pieces will interface and then the small teams can independently decide on implementation details.<p>The two-pizza team concept is also about having a heuristic that tells you when to start looking into how to divide responsibilities between independent teams.<p>I don&#x27;t really get what this article is proposing. Never work on projects complicated enough to require lots of engineers and thus coordination? It is not realistic to deliver the complex projects that big companies need to do with a single small team doing everything. It will just never get delivered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdelgallego</author><text>The Two-pizza team concept is a very small part on how Amazon works. A few others on top of my head.<p>- Enable high-velocity decision making: Defining clear tenets that act as the north start for decision making at team level, and two-way doors thinking.<p>- Establish how you measure success, and how does relate to the goals of the organisation.<p>- Achieve team independency is a key factor, and having strong mechanisms such as the &quot;away teams&quot; concept, &quot;communication is terrible&quot; mental model and reducing cognitive overload by relying on platform teams<p>- Nominating a single-threaded owner for programs and business outcomes.<p>- Articulate how the organisation works across teams using mechanisms such as bar raisers, OP1&#x2F;OP2, PR&#x2F;FAQs, CoEs, WBRs, experiment-driven teams, ...</text></comment> | <story><title>Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams</title><url>https://kislayverma.com/organizations/independence-autonomy-and-too-many-small-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redredrobot</author><text>I worked at Amazon on two-pizza teams. I never thought the two pizza team was about reducing communication, but more allowing faster independent decision making. Once you work on something that is big and complicated enough that it requires dozens of engineers, there HAS to be communication and coordination. Hopefully you have good managers (and high level ICs) because they are supposed to do a lot of the coordination so that it is easy for the engineering team to focus on engineering. A goal of independent two-pizza teams is to have the independent teams define how their individual pieces will interface and then the small teams can independently decide on implementation details.<p>The two-pizza team concept is also about having a heuristic that tells you when to start looking into how to divide responsibilities between independent teams.<p>I don&#x27;t really get what this article is proposing. Never work on projects complicated enough to require lots of engineers and thus coordination? It is not realistic to deliver the complex projects that big companies need to do with a single small team doing everything. It will just never get delivered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s not about reducing communication, it&#x27;s about keeping the number communication channels and coordination manageable.<p>The &quot;two-pizza team&quot; is like a squad&#x2F;section in military organization. It&#x27;s the sweet spot of having enough people to get things but not too many people so that communication and coordination starts to be a problem.</text></comment> |
21,857,319 | 21,856,415 | 1 | 3 | 21,837,414 | train | <story><title>Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/recycling-rethink-what-to-do-with-trash-now-china-wont-take-it-11576776536</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>Milk in returnable bottles exists here. The bottles usually look like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contentpool.wirtschaftsverlag.at&#x2F;files&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;images&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;spar_natur_pur_bergbauern_bio-milch_jetzt_in_der_mehrweg-glasflasche.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contentpool.wirtschaftsverlag.at&#x2F;files&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;image...</a><p>From the look it is a half-liter bottle (we usually buy cream like this), there are 1 liter bottles for milk that look almost the same.</text></item><item><author>javajosh</author><text><i>&gt; developing countries around the world that have extremely good reuse programs for their bottles, and it works extremely well.</i><p>In fairness, Germany is a developed country with extremely good reuse programs. Glass beer bottles are often totally reused. You can, if you want, avoid plastics entirely and just buy drinks glass containers. The local supermarkets all have return bins; all restaurants will take them, although they won&#x27;t give you your deposit - which seems like a very fair deal to me.<p>The one odd exception is milk. A classic example of American container reuse, but I don&#x27;t see any milk sold in glass in Germany.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>It always staggers me that people in many developed countries are so proud they recycle.<p>Recycling is the <i>worst</i> good thing we should be doing.<p>Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. In that order.<p>I&#x27;ve been to many, many developing countries around the world that have extremely good reuse programs for their bottles, and it works extremely well.</text></item><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;m happy that personal recycling hit a bump when China rejected dirty channels.<p>It was marketed in the 80s-00s as more of a panacea than it is, and specifically seems to have inculcated a dangerously willful ignorance of further action. I.e. &quot;I already do the recycling thing, so I do my part.&quot;<p>From why I can tell, the toxicity, micro-plastic, and energy concerns are the primary mass-scale benefits? In that order?<p>The majority of which could be reaped at scale by funding toxic material collection programs, mandating less toxic material choices, and re-instituting a bottle tax+.<p>In return, we&#x27;ve let major, industrial-scale environmental catastrophes go unmitigated, because out of sight, out of mind.<p>From my reading, the 1970s push for recycling was always predicated as a <i>vanguard</i> movement, intended to educate the populace at large about environmental issues.<p>The expectation was that we would then pivot to tackle more difficult problems.<p>Instead, we have 50 years of patting ourselves on the back for hauling cardboard out to our suburban recycling containers.<p>+ Looking at you, Coke and Pepsi, for fighting bottle taxes around the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxfihdsgyxegaas</author><text>These bottles are sold at Spar, Aldi (Hofer) and many others.<p>However they don&#x27;t have Pfand and are not reused at the moment [1]. At least not comercially. They make great containers for sugar or flour. According to the source they will start the reusing &quot;beginning 2020&quot;.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spar.at&#x2F;nachhaltigkeit&#x2F;produkte&#x2F;verpackungen&#x2F;mehrweg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spar.at&#x2F;nachhaltigkeit&#x2F;produkte&#x2F;verpackungen&#x2F;meh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/recycling-rethink-what-to-do-with-trash-now-china-wont-take-it-11576776536</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>Milk in returnable bottles exists here. The bottles usually look like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contentpool.wirtschaftsverlag.at&#x2F;files&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;images&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;spar_natur_pur_bergbauern_bio-milch_jetzt_in_der_mehrweg-glasflasche.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contentpool.wirtschaftsverlag.at&#x2F;files&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;image...</a><p>From the look it is a half-liter bottle (we usually buy cream like this), there are 1 liter bottles for milk that look almost the same.</text></item><item><author>javajosh</author><text><i>&gt; developing countries around the world that have extremely good reuse programs for their bottles, and it works extremely well.</i><p>In fairness, Germany is a developed country with extremely good reuse programs. Glass beer bottles are often totally reused. You can, if you want, avoid plastics entirely and just buy drinks glass containers. The local supermarkets all have return bins; all restaurants will take them, although they won&#x27;t give you your deposit - which seems like a very fair deal to me.<p>The one odd exception is milk. A classic example of American container reuse, but I don&#x27;t see any milk sold in glass in Germany.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>It always staggers me that people in many developed countries are so proud they recycle.<p>Recycling is the <i>worst</i> good thing we should be doing.<p>Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. In that order.<p>I&#x27;ve been to many, many developing countries around the world that have extremely good reuse programs for their bottles, and it works extremely well.</text></item><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;m happy that personal recycling hit a bump when China rejected dirty channels.<p>It was marketed in the 80s-00s as more of a panacea than it is, and specifically seems to have inculcated a dangerously willful ignorance of further action. I.e. &quot;I already do the recycling thing, so I do my part.&quot;<p>From why I can tell, the toxicity, micro-plastic, and energy concerns are the primary mass-scale benefits? In that order?<p>The majority of which could be reaped at scale by funding toxic material collection programs, mandating less toxic material choices, and re-instituting a bottle tax+.<p>In return, we&#x27;ve let major, industrial-scale environmental catastrophes go unmitigated, because out of sight, out of mind.<p>From my reading, the 1970s push for recycling was always predicated as a <i>vanguard</i> movement, intended to educate the populace at large about environmental issues.<p>The expectation was that we would then pivot to tackle more difficult problems.<p>Instead, we have 50 years of patting ourselves on the back for hauling cardboard out to our suburban recycling containers.<p>+ Looking at you, Coke and Pepsi, for fighting bottle taxes around the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Hmm. They don&#x27;t sell that at Lidl - and are you sure the containers are reused? I don&#x27;t see the tell-tale scuff ring.</text></comment> |
28,176,288 | 28,176,112 | 1 | 3 | 28,174,901 | train | <story><title>U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1027390545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Unpopular suggestion: Actual imperial rule for a couple of generations.<p>Tax enough to pay for the effort but not for a &quot;profit&quot;. Build infrastructure by bringing outside expertise to train and build local business. Take control of schools, make them safe and required for all children. Respect the local culture but smash hard some cultural practices.<p>Would it be incredibly hard to do without abuse? Absolutely. Is it questionably moral? Absolutely. Could it even be done at all? Questionable.<p>We keep acting that the outcome of every military conflict is going to be like the liberation of France in WWII, kill the &quot;bad guys&quot; and then champagne and croissant parades with the locals.<p>The repeated failed attempts at just handing self-government to nations after we depose their governments shows that you can&#x27;t just win wars and fix problems with force alone. War is awful, it should happen as infrequently as possible, but if you&#x27;re going to do it, you better have a plan for winning the peace. Corrupt, half-assed nation building doesn&#x27;t cut it.</text></item><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>then let it be another Saigon, what alternative did the US have than pull out? If you know anybody in the military they all say it&#x27;s worse than it was years ago and only continuing to get worse<p>so the only option was pull out or continue with the sunk cost fallacy of thinking we can somehow fix Afghanistan by doubling down with another troop surge. I&#x27;m glad we are finally admitting it was a failure</text></item><item><author>jdhn</author><text>This is going to be Saigon all over again. The pictures coming out of this will be remarkable. That being said, my thoughts go out to the Afghanis who helped us for decades as interpreters and other support roles. Both parties are failing those brave men and women in not expediting approval for them to come to the US, as their lives will assuredly be in danger if they stay in Afghanistan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>Respect the local culture but smash hard some cultural practices.</i><p>If you want good self-government of a people, then you must eliminate tribal&#x2F;clan structures so that advantages aren&#x27;t given to uncles&#x2F;cousins, but rather to people independent of their relations.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ideas.repec.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;sfu&#x2F;sfudps&#x2F;dp17-17.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ideas.repec.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;sfu&#x2F;sfudps&#x2F;dp17-17.html</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.u4.no&#x2F;publications&#x2F;the-kinship-in-public-office-indicator-kin-connectivity-as-a-proxy-for-nepotism-in-the-public-sector" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.u4.no&#x2F;publications&#x2F;the-kinship-in-public-office-...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scirp.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;paperinformation.aspx?paperid=108992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scirp.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1017&#x2F;S0003055415000271" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1017&#x2F;S0003055415000271</a><p>How much of a tribal&#x2F;clan culture is present in Afghanistan?<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kinship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kinship</a></text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1027390545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Unpopular suggestion: Actual imperial rule for a couple of generations.<p>Tax enough to pay for the effort but not for a &quot;profit&quot;. Build infrastructure by bringing outside expertise to train and build local business. Take control of schools, make them safe and required for all children. Respect the local culture but smash hard some cultural practices.<p>Would it be incredibly hard to do without abuse? Absolutely. Is it questionably moral? Absolutely. Could it even be done at all? Questionable.<p>We keep acting that the outcome of every military conflict is going to be like the liberation of France in WWII, kill the &quot;bad guys&quot; and then champagne and croissant parades with the locals.<p>The repeated failed attempts at just handing self-government to nations after we depose their governments shows that you can&#x27;t just win wars and fix problems with force alone. War is awful, it should happen as infrequently as possible, but if you&#x27;re going to do it, you better have a plan for winning the peace. Corrupt, half-assed nation building doesn&#x27;t cut it.</text></item><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>then let it be another Saigon, what alternative did the US have than pull out? If you know anybody in the military they all say it&#x27;s worse than it was years ago and only continuing to get worse<p>so the only option was pull out or continue with the sunk cost fallacy of thinking we can somehow fix Afghanistan by doubling down with another troop surge. I&#x27;m glad we are finally admitting it was a failure</text></item><item><author>jdhn</author><text>This is going to be Saigon all over again. The pictures coming out of this will be remarkable. That being said, my thoughts go out to the Afghanis who helped us for decades as interpreters and other support roles. Both parties are failing those brave men and women in not expediting approval for them to come to the US, as their lives will assuredly be in danger if they stay in Afghanistan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Morality aside, as a practical matter sustaining an imperial occupation in Afghanistan would require also invading and occupying part of Pakistan. It&#x27;s a package deal. Nothing could ever be accomplished in Afghanistan as long as insurgents have a safe just across the border.</text></comment> |
23,290,153 | 23,289,146 | 1 | 2 | 23,282,546 | train | <story><title>The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200519-japans-forgotten-indigenous-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gabaix</author><text>I came across Ainu culture while driving through Kuchiro in Hokkaido. We stayed one night in the city, unbeknown to us it was the night of their yearly Marimo festival [1].<p>Marimo is an extremely odd moss ball that only grows in their lake [2]. Once to the brink of extinction, the Ainu celebrates every year by strolling around the city with the prettiest marimo. They celebrate through the night with traditional dances. It was a unique experience.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ohmatsuri.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;hokkaido-marimo-matsuri" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ohmatsuri.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;hokkaido-marimo-matsuri</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marimo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marimo</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200519-japans-forgotten-indigenous-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KhoomeiK</author><text>The vaguely &quot;caucasoid&quot; appearance they have is generally theorized as the result of either (or a combination of) two things:<p>1. A relatively recent (past ~20k years) migration from Central Siberia correlated with the Ancestral North Eurasians [1], who contributed significant ancestry to Amerindians, Europeans, and Central&#x2F;South Asians. They were phenotypically intermediate between modern East and West Eurasians, hence the unique combination of features often found in Amerindians.<p>2. A remnant of a much earlier (~50k years) population descended from humans who took the Southern Route [2] across Eurasia. They contributed significant ancestry to the Australian Aboriginals, certain South and Southeast Asian populations, and potentially some groups in the Amazon. The ancestry contributed to those Amerindians in the Amazon would&#x27;ve had to come from this population coming up across East Eurasia, where they could&#x27;ve left behind (or contributed to) populations like the Ainu.<p>West Eurasians (Caucasoids) and South Eurasians (Australoids) share a few distinctive traits that are shared by the Ainu, notably prominent brow ridges, lack of epicanthic folds, and heavier facial hair. So purely from a phenotypic point of view it&#x27;s difficult to determine their origin. Genomic analyses also tend to be inconclusive, with Ainu often clustering with other Siberian groups rather than some special outgroup.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ancient_North_Eurasian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ancient_North_Eurasian</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Southern_Dispersal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Southern_Dispersal</a></text></comment> |
12,713,980 | 12,713,899 | 1 | 2 | 12,713,056 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?</title><text>How should a software engineer with no machine learning background get started on the subject?
Do you think that getting started by learning a framework like TensorFlow is a good idea or should I gain a background knowledge first?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottmcdot</author><text>Thanks. Can you recommend any statistics books to be safe?</text></item><item><author>nl</author><text>DON&#x27;T LEARN NEURAL NETWORKS FIRST.<p>Instead, learn decision trees and more importantly enough statistics so you aren&#x27;t dangerous.<p>Do you know what the central limit theorem is and why it is important? Can you do 5-fold cross validation on a random forest model in your choice of tool?<p>Fine, now you are ready to do deep learning stuff.<p>The reason I say not to do neural networks first is because they aren&#x27;t very effective with small amounts of data. When you are starting out you want to be able to iterate quickly and learn, not wait for hours for a NN to train and then be unsure why it isn&#x27;t working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>master_yoda_1</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;</a> is not an statistics book. its a statistical machine learning book.<p>&quot;All of statistics&quot; is really a great book if you have time work through he exercise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?</title><text>How should a software engineer with no machine learning background get started on the subject?
Do you think that getting started by learning a framework like TensorFlow is a good idea or should I gain a background knowledge first?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottmcdot</author><text>Thanks. Can you recommend any statistics books to be safe?</text></item><item><author>nl</author><text>DON&#x27;T LEARN NEURAL NETWORKS FIRST.<p>Instead, learn decision trees and more importantly enough statistics so you aren&#x27;t dangerous.<p>Do you know what the central limit theorem is and why it is important? Can you do 5-fold cross validation on a random forest model in your choice of tool?<p>Fine, now you are ready to do deep learning stuff.<p>The reason I say not to do neural networks first is because they aren&#x27;t very effective with small amounts of data. When you are starting out you want to be able to iterate quickly and learn, not wait for hours for a NN to train and then be unsure why it isn&#x27;t working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnarayanan</author><text>I found this a really good book: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
23,963,135 | 23,962,015 | 1 | 3 | 23,956,541 | train | <story><title>Sledding athletes are taking their lives</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/sports/olympics/olympics-bobsled-suicide-brain-injuries.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnramires</author><text>This seems totally unacceptable. We should stop having this sport in the Olympics (implicitly supporting this madness) -- of course athletes are free to do as they chose, but we cannot encourage such pointless self-destruction and misery.<p>An alternative to save the sport is completely redesign it to limit maximum accelerations. Usually injuries follow power laws so I doubt even that much reduction would be necessary (shed maximum accel to 1&#x2F;3 current and I bet lifetime injuries could become acceptable). Mandatory equipment changes would probably help as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usgroup</author><text>I think the Olympics is just generally physically bad for the athletes. Runners, weightlifters, wrestlers, boxers, rowers, etc all these folks end up working so close o the edge of sustainable human tolerance and capacity that’s it’s unlikely they are not constantly going over it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sledding athletes are taking their lives</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/sports/olympics/olympics-bobsled-suicide-brain-injuries.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnramires</author><text>This seems totally unacceptable. We should stop having this sport in the Olympics (implicitly supporting this madness) -- of course athletes are free to do as they chose, but we cannot encourage such pointless self-destruction and misery.<p>An alternative to save the sport is completely redesign it to limit maximum accelerations. Usually injuries follow power laws so I doubt even that much reduction would be necessary (shed maximum accel to 1&#x2F;3 current and I bet lifetime injuries could become acceptable). Mandatory equipment changes would probably help as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matz1</author><text>&gt;pointless self-destruction and misery.<p>Maybe its pointless for you, fair enough but it can be meaningfull for other people, i myself think it&#x27;s interesting.</text></comment> |
37,615,363 | 37,615,567 | 1 | 3 | 37,614,793 | train | <story><title>An open letter to our community</title><url>https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmjosack</author><text>This is basically everything policy wise they needed to do to quell the storm. This is honestly what should have just been announced originally. So much reputational damage just to arrive at a reasonable model weeks later.<p>I&#x27;m happy for all the Unity developers out there that are breathing a sigh of relief. Hopefully they can ship their ongoing projects but I&#x27;d be hesitant about a continued long term relationship with Unity after this.<p>This isn&#x27;t the first Unity backlash and I&#x27;d be surprised if it&#x27;s the last.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misnome</author><text>How does this help anything when they have already demonstrated their willingness to alter terms and retrospectively add fees or alter licensing conditions. They already walked back changes once before saying “Okay you can keep the terms you agreed on your version” and went back on that promise for this clusterfuck.<p>They burned the trust bridge and nothing they _ever_ do or can say will bring that trust back.</text></comment> | <story><title>An open letter to our community</title><url>https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmjosack</author><text>This is basically everything policy wise they needed to do to quell the storm. This is honestly what should have just been announced originally. So much reputational damage just to arrive at a reasonable model weeks later.<p>I&#x27;m happy for all the Unity developers out there that are breathing a sigh of relief. Hopefully they can ship their ongoing projects but I&#x27;d be hesitant about a continued long term relationship with Unity after this.<p>This isn&#x27;t the first Unity backlash and I&#x27;d be surprised if it&#x27;s the last.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drpossum</author><text>Anyone breathing a sigh of relief on this isn&#x27;t paying attention</text></comment> |
19,367,980 | 19,366,255 | 1 | 3 | 19,365,916 | train | <story><title>Russia blocks ProtonMail</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/russia-blocks-protonmail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterZhizhin</author><text>This situation really pissed me off. FSB (Russian FBI) had problems with receiving bomb threats coming from Protonmail addresses. So, they secretly ordered (with an almost classified order) major ISPs to block Protonmail bypassing Russian&#x27;s existing website&#x2F;IP addresses blocking scheme.<p>Even worse, they ordered to __BLACKHOLE__ traffic coming to Protonmail. It means that ISPs were ordered to silently drop all traffic coming to Protonmail addresses. This raises problems not only for Russians, but for potentially for other countries as well.
So, for example, someone connects from Japan to Protonmail (server is located in Europe, for instance). So, if traffic decides to go through Russian channels, for a client in Japan it will be just like Protonmail is not just responding because a Russian ISP in the chain silently drops traffic.<p>Again. I want to repeat this once again. FSB had problems receiving bomb threats to their addresses. Instead of configuring their mail servers to ignore Protonmail incoming mail, they ordered major ISPs in Russia to block Protonmail for EVERYONE in the country. That&#x27;s so dumb.<p>Moreover, another recent leak coming from another Russian ISP indicates that FSB also ordered to block sending and receiving mail for certain mail addresses regardless of their domain. They ordered an ISP to block Email for certain addresses. Like, they ordered to ban all Email going from&#x2F;coming to Emails starting with &quot;putin666&quot;, like [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], any email coming from an email staring with &quot;putin666&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s so dumb, oh god. They cannot configure their mail servers, but they have power to threat ISPs to ban Email for the entire country.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russia blocks ProtonMail</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/russia-blocks-protonmail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SUr3na</author><text>I switched to protonmail after losing my gmail password.It was literally impossible to get my account back thanks to gmail &quot;security features&quot;. The 500mb free plan is enough for personal usage. I hope other 3rd world countries don&#x27;t block it following Russia.interestingly this happened not long after EU €2 million award.Probably someone read the news and googled protonmail, saw &quot;encrypted email&quot; in Wikipedia page and decided to block the whole thing.</text></comment> |
36,023,264 | 36,020,385 | 1 | 2 | 36,019,485 | train | <story><title>Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/21/dolphin-progress-report-february-march-april-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snailmailman</author><text>Dolphin is an <i>impressive</i> piece of software. And I always enjoy reading their thorough progress reports.<p>I still have my old Wii laying around, with all my old Wii and GameCube games. I followed the dumping guide on dolphin’s site (and a wii hacking guide) and it was shockingly simple.
I successfully dumped my entire Wii and GameCube library. And even backed up the Wii onboard memory to dolphin on my PC. And even got dumps of my GameCube memory cards. Dolphin now <i>exactly</i> matches my physical wii, including the complete home menu and all game saves.<p>I was surprised that all of this was possible. I click a button in dolphin and it’s <i>exactly</i> the same as my wii. All the Miis are there, all of the channels. Main difference is that I can swap disks with a click. I was shocked at how simple doing all of this was. The hardest part was just swapping disks and coming back every 15 minutes to swap another disk.<p>I didn’t really play these games anymore on the wii, and I don’t play them in dolphin now either, but it does give me comfort that I could go back and keep playing if my Wii finally bites the dust. I can connect my original Wiimotes via Bluetooth too. It’s really impressive what the dolphin team has done. It’s <i>identical</i> to my console. I could plug my pc into the TV and set the resolution lower and you probably couldn’t tell the difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/21/dolphin-progress-report-february-march-april-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>If you want to do release notes, these are quite the goal to copy. Explain the issue, what the developer did to solve it, and what is now enabled. Probably the best I’ve ever read and I’ve not used dolphin in a decade, but I still read each one.</text></comment> |
25,086,462 | 25,085,749 | 1 | 2 | 25,084,506 | train | <story><title>So you've made a mistake and it's public</title><url>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/So_you%27ve_made_a_mistake_and_it%27s_public...</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macspoofing</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure apologizing publicly has made anything better for any individual, especially in the current moral panic climate. Mobs don&#x27;t accept apologies.<p>Public apologies stamp official guilt on the individual and therefore serve as a license for the mob to further punish them because now they have admitted their fault and therefore are &#x27;officially&#x27; guilty of the crime. Public apologies, therefore, are the metaphorical equivalent of blood in the water for attracting sharks.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s better to just ignore and maintain innocence because then at least there is some gray area? I don&#x27;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DenisM</author><text>People in strong position stand to gain by apologizing, while people in weak position stand to lose. One must consider one&#x27;s standing before dabbling.<p>In my own company I try to apologize every time I screw something up. I know my position is unassailable, and my team members should have trust that their leadership is in touch with reality.<p>I am also cognizant of the fact that no hired employee has the same level of security, and it troubles me.</text></comment> | <story><title>So you've made a mistake and it's public</title><url>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/So_you%27ve_made_a_mistake_and_it%27s_public...</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macspoofing</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure apologizing publicly has made anything better for any individual, especially in the current moral panic climate. Mobs don&#x27;t accept apologies.<p>Public apologies stamp official guilt on the individual and therefore serve as a license for the mob to further punish them because now they have admitted their fault and therefore are &#x27;officially&#x27; guilty of the crime. Public apologies, therefore, are the metaphorical equivalent of blood in the water for attracting sharks.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s better to just ignore and maintain innocence because then at least there is some gray area? I don&#x27;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>microtherion</author><text>I think I understand where you&#x27;re coming from, but I see the &quot;never apologize&quot; philosophy as having an utterly corrosive effect on the person who made a mistake.<p>What I try to do is apologize concisely, but then feel free to ignore people who want to drag this out into &quot;that was not a REAL apology&quot; &#x2F; &quot;now confess to your OTHER crimes&quot; territory.</text></comment> |
33,362,162 | 33,362,002 | 1 | 3 | 33,359,835 | train | <story><title>CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5</title><url>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/cd-projekt-is-remaking-the-first-i-witcher-i-game-in-unreal-engine-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&gt; Now we know that it&#x27;s a ground-up remake of the game that introduced Geralt of Rivia to Witcher fans outside of Poland.<p>I was always of the impression that it was Witcher III that achieved this.<p>I&#x27;m Polish so I genuinely don&#x27;t know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>Witcher 1 made a big splash among fans of PC RPGs and action RPGs. Didn&#x27;t hurt that it landed in the middle of a relative doldrums for those genres—they got much healthier again a bit after that.<p>2 and 3 switched to a more console-friendly style of play and had good success there, though, so I expect they did more to spread the word than 1 did.</text></comment> | <story><title>CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5</title><url>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/cd-projekt-is-remaking-the-first-i-witcher-i-game-in-unreal-engine-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&gt; Now we know that it&#x27;s a ground-up remake of the game that introduced Geralt of Rivia to Witcher fans outside of Poland.<p>I was always of the impression that it was Witcher III that achieved this.<p>I&#x27;m Polish so I genuinely don&#x27;t know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giobox</author><text>Witcher 1 not so much, but Witcher 2 had a pretty good 360 port that a lot of people played in the West, and PC version did well too - across all platforms 1.7 million copies sold by 2012, another article I saw suggests 8 million by 2014.<p>I think thats getting towards very roughly ~1&#x2F;4 the success of Witcher 3, volume wise. Not bad, considering Witcher 3 volume includes a portable Switch release.<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurogamer.net&#x2F;the-witcher-2-sales-top-1-7-million" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurogamer.net&#x2F;the-witcher-2-sales-top-1-7-millio...</a><p>etc.</text></comment> |
10,981,327 | 10,981,390 | 1 | 2 | 10,980,147 | train | <story><title>Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer</title><url>https://github.com/fengyuanchen/viewerjs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjallingt</author><text>Why?<p>Its just an example gallery that happens to be of a photo shoot of Emma Watson. The photo&#x27;s aren&#x27;t even remotely suggestive... Are your female co-workers that sensitive and&#x2F;or unable to rationalize?
Would you have kept looking at the demo if it was filled with similar pictures of Brat Pitt?<p>Not trying to be mean or anything I genuinely don&#x27;t understand and would like to know.<p>EDIT:<p>I do see and agree that a more varied subject matter would probably do better to showcase the usage of the plugin but I still think that your reaction is slightly extreme as it seems like you look down on your female co-workers by removing their agency in the matter :S (although that might be taking it to the extreme from my side...)</text></item><item><author>xbryanx</author><text>Might be cool, but I closed my tab immediately. I work on an open team with quite a few women and other folks who would immediately react negatively to the sexy Emma Watson example photos. Bring on the downvotes, but even if this is an irrational negative reaction, it&#x27;s a real one. If you want this to be a useful and universal library consider your example images. If you want it to be used only by people who aren&#x27;t bothered by this, then plow straight ahead.<p>It&#x27;s 2016, let&#x27;s not propagate the mess that was Lenna:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenna" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenna</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>explorigin</author><text>Besides, Emma Watson (of all possible examples) is an outspoken advocate of women&#x27;s rights (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emma_Watson#Women.27s_rights_work" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emma_Watson#Women.27s_rights_w...</a>). I feel reasonably confident that she would have no problem with this application (IP issues aside).<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m not making any point about the appropriateness of this for your workplace. That depends entirely on your workplace.</text></comment> | <story><title>Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer</title><url>https://github.com/fengyuanchen/viewerjs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjallingt</author><text>Why?<p>Its just an example gallery that happens to be of a photo shoot of Emma Watson. The photo&#x27;s aren&#x27;t even remotely suggestive... Are your female co-workers that sensitive and&#x2F;or unable to rationalize?
Would you have kept looking at the demo if it was filled with similar pictures of Brat Pitt?<p>Not trying to be mean or anything I genuinely don&#x27;t understand and would like to know.<p>EDIT:<p>I do see and agree that a more varied subject matter would probably do better to showcase the usage of the plugin but I still think that your reaction is slightly extreme as it seems like you look down on your female co-workers by removing their agency in the matter :S (although that might be taking it to the extreme from my side...)</text></item><item><author>xbryanx</author><text>Might be cool, but I closed my tab immediately. I work on an open team with quite a few women and other folks who would immediately react negatively to the sexy Emma Watson example photos. Bring on the downvotes, but even if this is an irrational negative reaction, it&#x27;s a real one. If you want this to be a useful and universal library consider your example images. If you want it to be used only by people who aren&#x27;t bothered by this, then plow straight ahead.<p>It&#x27;s 2016, let&#x27;s not propagate the mess that was Lenna:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenna" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenna</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jean-Philipe</author><text>Yes, I for one would have kept looking at the demo if it was Brad Pitt.<p>But that&#x27;s not the point. Sexism, in reality, favours men and hurts women. That&#x27;s why an image of Brad Pitt is okay, whereas an image of Emma Watson is not okay! (and by the way, they <i>are</i> suggestive)<p>Any argument that goes &quot;But if we switched genders, then it would be fine!&quot; is completely missing the point that we are still living in a de-facto patriarchy, where objectification of men is not even an issue.<p>In any case, I found the choice of images immature and closed the website right away.</text></comment> |
32,833,042 | 32,833,017 | 1 | 3 | 32,828,669 | train | <story><title>Increase: Banking API</title><url>https://increase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Yes, but when your script splits money into random amounts and puts things like &quot;pizza money&quot;, &quot;rent&quot; and &quot;happy birthday&quot; into the reference field, across thousands of accounts, most of whom also have a real user doing real transactions intermingled, suddenly it gets a lot harder for the bank to filter.<p>The bank typically has a rather simplistic set of rules to decide to investigate transactions (because they need to be able to explain how the rules work in a meeting with the government whenever their rules miss someone). Things like &quot;Transaction was over $1000 to a new payee or the reference contained the word &#x27;bitcoin&#x27;&quot;. The investigation will typically involve a human calling the customer, and sometimes asking for more evidence of what the transfer was for - for example, please send us the receipt for the car you said you bought. It&#x27;s quite an expensive process for the bank.<p>So, when someone via the API sends tens of thousands of transfers, the bank is spending lots of human hours verifying some&#x2F;all of those. &quot;My script sent $55 to some stranger because I won a fully automated bet on the weather&quot; is far harder to verify with documentation too. And when some slip through the cracks, they get in trouble with the regulator.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments.<p>That would be noticed. It&#x27;s called &quot;structuring&quot; and is itself illegal. Banks watch for this stuff.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I made an API for a bank... I was a third party and made the API by screen scraping their webUI. I sent their devs a link and initially there were positive messages going back and forth.<p>The API allowed you to see balance, transaction history, and make payments.<p>Before long, the API got quite popular, and lots of people were using it to make lots of payments automatically.<p>You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments. And an API client which lets you treat each login cookie and account as an object in python.<p>Before long, the API and all users who had ever used it were perma-banned from the bank, because it was determined they posed too high a fraud&#x2F;money-laundering risk.<p>I&#x27;m still salty because, after spending a week of my life building and refining that API, they banned me and <i>6 years later</i> still claim they can&#x27;t return the $350 that was in the account because they are still &#x27;investigating&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>This is why every time I send money via Venmo I label it &quot;drugs&quot; (or a specific drug, like &quot;pure Colombian cocaine&quot; or &quot;crystal meth&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Increase: Banking API</title><url>https://increase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Yes, but when your script splits money into random amounts and puts things like &quot;pizza money&quot;, &quot;rent&quot; and &quot;happy birthday&quot; into the reference field, across thousands of accounts, most of whom also have a real user doing real transactions intermingled, suddenly it gets a lot harder for the bank to filter.<p>The bank typically has a rather simplistic set of rules to decide to investigate transactions (because they need to be able to explain how the rules work in a meeting with the government whenever their rules miss someone). Things like &quot;Transaction was over $1000 to a new payee or the reference contained the word &#x27;bitcoin&#x27;&quot;. The investigation will typically involve a human calling the customer, and sometimes asking for more evidence of what the transfer was for - for example, please send us the receipt for the car you said you bought. It&#x27;s quite an expensive process for the bank.<p>So, when someone via the API sends tens of thousands of transfers, the bank is spending lots of human hours verifying some&#x2F;all of those. &quot;My script sent $55 to some stranger because I won a fully automated bet on the weather&quot; is far harder to verify with documentation too. And when some slip through the cracks, they get in trouble with the regulator.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments.<p>That would be noticed. It&#x27;s called &quot;structuring&quot; and is itself illegal. Banks watch for this stuff.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I made an API for a bank... I was a third party and made the API by screen scraping their webUI. I sent their devs a link and initially there were positive messages going back and forth.<p>The API allowed you to see balance, transaction history, and make payments.<p>Before long, the API got quite popular, and lots of people were using it to make lots of payments automatically.<p>You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments. And an API client which lets you treat each login cookie and account as an object in python.<p>Before long, the API and all users who had ever used it were perma-banned from the bank, because it was determined they posed too high a fraud&#x2F;money-laundering risk.<p>I&#x27;m still salty because, after spending a week of my life building and refining that API, they banned me and <i>6 years later</i> still claim they can&#x27;t return the $350 that was in the account because they are still &#x27;investigating&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbreit</author><text>How is one even opening a dozen accounts, much less thousands?</text></comment> |
20,631,535 | 20,631,461 | 1 | 2 | 20,630,603 | train | <story><title>Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/elon-musk-says-driverless-cars-dont-need-lidar-experts-arent-so-sure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuantumGood</author><text>Musk&#x27;s point has always been to combine vision with radar, instead of Lidar. I&#x27;m amazed that this combination is usually overlooked in discussions of Tesla&#x2F;Lidar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BluSyn</author><text>Exactly. What is rarely mentioned is his exact quote on the reasoning for radar vs. lidar:<p>“If you’re going to use active photon generation, don’t use visible wavelength, because with passive optical you’ve taken care of all visible wavelength stuff. You want to use a wavelength that’s occlusion-penetrating like radar. LIDAR is just active photon generation in the visible spectrum.”<p>This article is still missing the point when talking about redundancies. LIDAR only works in essentially perfect weather (&quot;not occlusion-penetrating&quot;). Even if it serves only as a &quot;redundancy&quot; there&#x27;s no advantage in relying on a sensor suite that operates in a less-safe mode in the most adverse road conditions. So basically if you are driving in snow or fog, your LIDAR-based AV has to fall back to Radar+Cameras. If that system can pass all the safety tests in the <i>worst-case road condition</i> then there is no value in the additional sensors that add expense but no safety margin.<p>What&#x27;s even more overlooked is power consumption. LIDAR is far more power intensive, especially when we&#x27;re talking about multiple packages per vehicle. In the future world of Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleets, the vehicles using LIDAR will get significantly less range efficiency than their radar counterparts and cost significantly more to build. In a fleet scenario where every margin counts this will result in a significant economic pressure to ditch LIDAR.<p>So in the end I think Elon will be proved right. Those currently investing in LIDAR-based systems will eventually ditch it for purely practical economic reasons. Those that don&#x27;t will be completely destroyed in the open market.<p>The real competitive advantage for AEV&#x27;s is in the software, not hardware. LIDAR is a crutch for bad software that reaches a theoretical maximum far short of what is needed for economically-viable LVL5 autonomy.<p>I&#x27;ll restate this clearly: there&#x27;s simply no economic or technological advantage to using LIDAR for AEV&#x27;s.</text></comment> | <story><title>Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/elon-musk-says-driverless-cars-dont-need-lidar-experts-arent-so-sure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuantumGood</author><text>Musk&#x27;s point has always been to combine vision with radar, instead of Lidar. I&#x27;m amazed that this combination is usually overlooked in discussions of Tesla&#x2F;Lidar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liability</author><text>Musk badly wants for you to not realize that nobody is proposing LIDAR-only, but are rather proposing LIDAR+optical+radar. Musk argues against straw men.<p>(Also the radar Telsa is using has jack-shit for angular resolution. It can&#x27;t tell the difference between a tree next to the road and a fire truck parked right across it. Consequently that radar has very limited utility.)</text></comment> |
24,442,876 | 24,442,748 | 1 | 2 | 24,442,294 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query</title><url>https://octoproject.github.io/octo-cli/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a similar project that reads your db schema and generates a Go REST API and a TypeScript&#x2F;React web interface. (The code-generation is language agnostic so at some point I&#x27;d like to add at least a Java REST API as well.) It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.<p>Unlike PostgREST&#x2F;Hasura and some other dynamic tools you can &quot;eject&quot; at this point if you&#x27;d like and continue on development without the generator in a language you already know. But I&#x27;m working on exposing Lua-based hooks you could carry across whatever backend language you choose to generate and avoid the need to eject.<p>It has builtin support for paginated bulk GET requests with filtering, sorting, limiting. Built-in support for bcrypt-password authentication and optional SQL filters specified in configuration for authorization of particular endpoints based on session and request metadata.<p>Still very much a work in progress but the goal is to push the envelope on application boilerplate.<p>Screenshots are of the example&#x2F;notes project in the repo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcore.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcore.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eatonphil&#x2F;dbcore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eatonphil&#x2F;dbcore</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query</title><url>https://octoproject.github.io/octo-cli/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Trisell</author><text>The idea is interesting. But it looks like you end up with a yaml file that enumerates each of your tables&#x2F;endpoints and the queries that back them. So are we exchanging the “complexities” of code, where we have control and testing, for the “lack of complexity” of yaml that becomes unwieldy and untestable in the name of “simplicity?”</text></comment> |
16,374,996 | 16,374,829 | 1 | 3 | 16,374,075 | train | <story><title>Farewell from Rusty Russell</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>I loved the work Rusty performed so much! He started to work actively at Linux firewalling about at the same time as I became a Linux user and sysadmin, like more than 20 years ago, and I used what he made regularly and always found his work to have a sane UI to the admin: simple to use yet quite powerful stuff. In general kernel hackers are really a bunch of unicorns that are very focused on the code they are writing and the problems to solve, and I&#x27;ve the feeling that while in the 90s they were deeply recognized for their work, now instead in some way their work is a bit in the shadow... with much hype going into places where it&#x27;s not deserved. But apparently most of them want just to code at low level, don&#x27;t be annoyed, and get a salary. The essence of the old times programmer basically.<p>Impressed with:<p>&quot;disagreed with my approach so much and so continuously that I developed a dread of reading my mail every morning: eventually I wrote a filter to send their mail to a separate mbox&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m very sorry to read this. In the early days of Redis this happened to me as well, there were a group of people continuously attacking me and I was horrified by the idea of reading their Twitter replies at some point. However instead of filtering them, I found (without conscious efforts, it just happened) a different solution, I became more and more sentimentally disconnected from the chats focusing solely on the actual arguments, filtering most of the tone and human-level parts. This makes me a sadder person, not able to joy or be sad for things I read on social networks for the most part, however in the pro side there is that I can read the harsh criticisms and find some value, sometimes, without being affected. Moreover, as a secondary adjustment, I no longer reply after a given point if I may start to sound attacking towards another person. This does not mean to accept everything, but just say after N replies: &quot;we disagree but you are cool, I&#x27;ll do what I think, have a nice day&quot;.<p>I still believe that we can stay in the tech world, not accepting what other people say if we disagree from a technical standpoint, without being assholes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Farewell from Rusty Russell</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnflan</author><text>Nice closing<p><pre><code> To my fellow maintainers: stay harsh on code and
don&#x27;t be afraid to say &quot;No&quot; or &quot;Why?&quot;; there really
are more bad ideas than good ones, and complexity
is such a bright candle for us hacker-moths. But
be gentle, kind and forgiving of your peers:
respect from people you respect is really the only
reward that sticks[9].</code></pre></text></comment> |
36,102,490 | 36,102,235 | 1 | 2 | 36,097,777 | train | <story><title>TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/26/13029358/annual-physical-tv-doctors-america</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>Please. I&#x27;ve been through medical systems in several European countries, and the GP system is frustratingly bad. GPs will at best prescribe you some medication, but will otherwise act as entitled gatekeepers to the rest of the system. Unless you&#x27;re bleeding on their table, they&#x27;ll do their best to avoid sending you to a specialist. They&#x27;ll engage in the same charlatanism that GP is talking about.<p>Healthcare in Europe is not free. You&#x27;re taxed for it quite highly.<p>Calling this system &quot;healthcare&quot; is too generous. It only exists to keep people from complaining, and healthy enough so they can be productive enough to be taxed. There is no care.</text></item><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>This is so skewed towards the US. Eg here in Europe people go to their GP much more often because those visits are free, and hard data says we live longer than in the the US. So the problem isn&#x27;t &quot;doctors&quot; or &quot;medicine&quot;, the problem is the US medical system.</text></item><item><author>mrangle</author><text>A half-lifetime of experiencing and observing modern medicine, in good faith, has taught me that participating in the medical system while not in need of emergency care is risking one&#x27;s health and life.<p>Assuming that one doesn&#x27;t engage in risky behavior, the smartest path is to avoid the medical system altogether. That doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;seek alternative medicine&quot;. It&#x27;s just what I said.<p>The Medical system doesn&#x27;t highlight its failures. It obscures them, and only speaks in bullshit PR terms. Its failures (premature suffering and death) are almost always attributed to causes other than the malpractice that caused them. Even families are hoodwinked.<p>Laugh at anyone quoting &quot;evidence&quot; without citing it for critique. The medical profession hasn&#x27;t had broadly-intact scientific integrity for decades.<p>Much of medicine is charlatanism for billing. Doctors know this though most won&#x27;t admit it. The consequences range from annoyance, to minor malfunction, to catastrophic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IMSAI8080</author><text>What? I have never seen these alleged &quot;entitled gatekeepers&quot;. I have been passed to specialists with no issue. The public sector healthcare is excellent and the same medical standard as is received in the private sector.<p>Let&#x27;s talk about that price. So how does healthcare work out for you in the US system if you cannot pay for insurance? In a public sector system you still get healthcare just the same if your income is zero. The total tax cost for middle (or even higher) earners in European countries is often less than equivalent private insurance premiums paid in the US. In private sector systems you still ending up paying out of pocket even when you are &quot;covered&quot; with those deductibles. So your overall cost is even higher. Don&#x27;t forget in the US you still pay taxes for healthcare for schemes like Medicare so don&#x27;t forget to add that on when doing comparisons. What does the typical private insurance policy say about pre-existing conditions and congenital disorders? You&#x27;re fully covered in public sector healthcare. What if you suffer from an expensive illness? You may find your insurance premiums increase. Your taxes don&#x27;t increase in public sector healthcare regardless of what illness you have.</text></comment> | <story><title>TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/26/13029358/annual-physical-tv-doctors-america</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>Please. I&#x27;ve been through medical systems in several European countries, and the GP system is frustratingly bad. GPs will at best prescribe you some medication, but will otherwise act as entitled gatekeepers to the rest of the system. Unless you&#x27;re bleeding on their table, they&#x27;ll do their best to avoid sending you to a specialist. They&#x27;ll engage in the same charlatanism that GP is talking about.<p>Healthcare in Europe is not free. You&#x27;re taxed for it quite highly.<p>Calling this system &quot;healthcare&quot; is too generous. It only exists to keep people from complaining, and healthy enough so they can be productive enough to be taxed. There is no care.</text></item><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>This is so skewed towards the US. Eg here in Europe people go to their GP much more often because those visits are free, and hard data says we live longer than in the the US. So the problem isn&#x27;t &quot;doctors&quot; or &quot;medicine&quot;, the problem is the US medical system.</text></item><item><author>mrangle</author><text>A half-lifetime of experiencing and observing modern medicine, in good faith, has taught me that participating in the medical system while not in need of emergency care is risking one&#x27;s health and life.<p>Assuming that one doesn&#x27;t engage in risky behavior, the smartest path is to avoid the medical system altogether. That doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;seek alternative medicine&quot;. It&#x27;s just what I said.<p>The Medical system doesn&#x27;t highlight its failures. It obscures them, and only speaks in bullshit PR terms. Its failures (premature suffering and death) are almost always attributed to causes other than the malpractice that caused them. Even families are hoodwinked.<p>Laugh at anyone quoting &quot;evidence&quot; without citing it for critique. The medical profession hasn&#x27;t had broadly-intact scientific integrity for decades.<p>Much of medicine is charlatanism for billing. Doctors know this though most won&#x27;t admit it. The consequences range from annoyance, to minor malfunction, to catastrophic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>What we have in much of Europe is mostly a dream compared to clusterfuck that US healthcare is. US has by far the highest costs globally, unavoidable even if insured. People here never think &#x27;should I go to doctor, can I afford treatment&#x27;. Thats 3rd world country stuff.<p>Yes we pay for it, <i>much</i> less than US, but its not part of our net salary so nobody actually cares, this topic is simply not discussed by commin folks, and you can easily see how much stress it causes even to wealthy US folks.<p>We treat people in same way regardless of their origin, wealth, status, even homeless get top notch care if they dont run away from it.<p>Something in your words tell me you are not a standard patient.</text></comment> |
21,236,877 | 21,235,872 | 1 | 3 | 21,234,937 | train | <story><title>A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway57023</author><text>Writing code in research is quite different from writing code in industry. For starters, in research, absolutely no one will read your code. Not your boss, not your peer reviewers, not your colleagues, not your tech-savvy users. No one. They just care about getting the right results and will complain if they don&#x27;t, which <i>most of the time</i> steers you into producing correct code.<p>Also, most programs usually have a maintainer team that&#x27;s exactly <i>one</i> (1) person strong, and that person is usually an underpaid grad student or postdoc with a billion other tasks at hand and not much time left for that issue you opened three months ago.<p>On the other hand, hey, you never have to fear the dreaded &#x27;code review&#x27;, so it&#x27;s not all bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>&gt; Writing code in research is quite different from writing code in industry<p>Hah, not always.<p>A short while back I was tech lead for an AI project, the goal of which was to reduce the weight (and, ergo, cost) of large steel structures.<p>The megacorp consultancy I work for decided to staff this project <i>only</i> with AI people, about half of which were fairly fresh graduates. Now, they all had a great grasp of AI, both old-skool (neural networks, genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation etc) and more recent innovations. But these were <i>not</i> developers.<p>The customer was a Microsoft shop, and mandated that we use C# (which was cool, it&#x27;s my favourite language!), but it was immediately apparent that the &quot;devs&quot; had only basic training in Java. The code was a f<i>cking mess, and we had numerous issues around software engineering concerns such as source control, DevOps and processes - the customer eventually canned the project due to the bugginess of the platform. They really did have some brilliant minds on the project, but those were not the minds of software engineers.<p>On a more recent AI project, unusually I was consulted first on staffing, and I insisted on a mix of AI research types </i>and* software engineers - unsurprisingly, this project was far more successful.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway57023</author><text>Writing code in research is quite different from writing code in industry. For starters, in research, absolutely no one will read your code. Not your boss, not your peer reviewers, not your colleagues, not your tech-savvy users. No one. They just care about getting the right results and will complain if they don&#x27;t, which <i>most of the time</i> steers you into producing correct code.<p>Also, most programs usually have a maintainer team that&#x27;s exactly <i>one</i> (1) person strong, and that person is usually an underpaid grad student or postdoc with a billion other tasks at hand and not much time left for that issue you opened three months ago.<p>On the other hand, hey, you never have to fear the dreaded &#x27;code review&#x27;, so it&#x27;s not all bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dimtion</author><text>I imagine you said that as tongue in cheek, but good &quot;code reviews&quot; should not be feared. If it is the case it either means that environment you are coding is toxic, or that you have not made clear with your peers that code review is not about judging.<p>Code review should not be about being right or wrong, but as a team to provide the best work possible. People should accept that everybody make mistakes, and the goal of the environment&#x2F;society is to minimize the consequences of those inevitable mistakes, not judge individuals based on arbitrary metrics.</text></comment> |
36,518,818 | 36,518,697 | 1 | 3 | 36,516,237 | train | <story><title>Canada’s new tech talent strategy</title><url>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackpelican</author><text>I have tried to get into Canada as a FAANG engineer through internal transfer from within the company. The pay was hilarious compared to what I would have gotten in the US, but I had personal reasons to choose Canada instead.<p>It has been a total shitshow. I started the process in June of 2022, eventually the team I was moving to got bored of waiting for the work permit in March 2023.<p>Factoring out the (ridiculous) 3 months it took for the relocation agency to prepare and submit my work permit application, it was six months of waiting with no feedback at all from the IRCC about where the process is stuck. All inquiries went unanswered.<p>Once I lost the position, I emailed the local Canadian embassy to let them know my thoughts, I was (expectedly) greeted back with an automated email saying that emails about immigration will not be looked at.<p>All in all, the processes in Canada are very immature and if you value predictability and stability in your life, do not attempt to get a job there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>&gt; was six months of waiting with no feedback at all from the IRCC about where the process is stuck.<p>Since most governments went WFH, application processes for everything have, in my experience, gone to insane lengths. I don’t think the government union culture and WFH mixed well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada’s new tech talent strategy</title><url>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackpelican</author><text>I have tried to get into Canada as a FAANG engineer through internal transfer from within the company. The pay was hilarious compared to what I would have gotten in the US, but I had personal reasons to choose Canada instead.<p>It has been a total shitshow. I started the process in June of 2022, eventually the team I was moving to got bored of waiting for the work permit in March 2023.<p>Factoring out the (ridiculous) 3 months it took for the relocation agency to prepare and submit my work permit application, it was six months of waiting with no feedback at all from the IRCC about where the process is stuck. All inquiries went unanswered.<p>Once I lost the position, I emailed the local Canadian embassy to let them know my thoughts, I was (expectedly) greeted back with an automated email saying that emails about immigration will not be looked at.<p>All in all, the processes in Canada are very immature and if you value predictability and stability in your life, do not attempt to get a job there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juujian</author><text>The Canadian immigration policy is not what&#x27;s on paper, really it&#x27;s determined by funding. IRCC is understaffed and recently went on strike over pay and stuff. The funding level is giving the Canadian government a way to eat their cake and have it, too. Write a liberal immigration policy on paper, limit immigration by not having staff to process all the paperwork.</text></comment> |
603,515 | 603,524 | 1 | 3 | 603,364 | train | <story><title>Don’t! The secret of self-control</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>biohacker42</author><text>Does anyone here, like me, really appreciate Feynman's just the fact's style of writing?<p>Most people describe it as eerily cold, but I love it. Articles like the this one on the other hand, while excellent, bury their valuable information under a lot of fluff. And most people like that kind of writing, but I just find it annoying.<p>Good article, I just wish it was more direct.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t! The secret of self-control</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ambulatorybird</author><text>I've never had much trouble holding back -- it's pushing myself forward that's the hard part. Any tips on metacogitating my way out of that?</text></comment> |
16,266,407 | 16,264,755 | 1 | 3 | 16,264,434 | train | <story><title>Optimizing hash tables: hiding the hash code</title><url>https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/01/hash-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>&gt; In V8, the hash code is just a random number, independent of the object value. Therefore, we can’t recompute it, meaning we must store it.<p>That&#x27;s the most interesting point in the entire article, and there&#x27;s no explanation associated. Why are they using random numbers for the hash code?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>You might enjoy this blog post exploring the surprisingly deep (and interesting) rabbit-hole of Java&#x27;s Object#hashCode() method.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;srvaroa.github.io&#x2F;jvm&#x2F;java&#x2F;openjdk&#x2F;biased-locking&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;hashCode.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;srvaroa.github.io&#x2F;jvm&#x2F;java&#x2F;openjdk&#x2F;biased-locking&#x2F;20...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Optimizing hash tables: hiding the hash code</title><url>https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/01/hash-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>&gt; In V8, the hash code is just a random number, independent of the object value. Therefore, we can’t recompute it, meaning we must store it.<p>That&#x27;s the most interesting point in the entire article, and there&#x27;s no explanation associated. Why are they using random numbers for the hash code?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpnode</author><text>They only need a unique id for the object, they can&#x27;t hash based on the object contents because those can change and because two objects with exactly the same properties are not equal in JS:<p><pre><code> assert({} === {}); &#x2F;&#x2F; throws</code></pre></text></comment> |
38,818,145 | 38,817,932 | 1 | 3 | 38,817,190 | train | <story><title>Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Whoppertime</author><text>What were you getting out of EU regulations? Rules on the curvature of Cucumbers and bananas passed by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent your interests but that of the collective?</text></item><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn&#x27;t exist but to me, personally, I can&#x27;t. Many probably feel this way so they blame all the big issues we have like prices and immigration on Brexit. Is there direct causation here? Not sure, maybe. Either way I suspect we will end up joining again just might take a decade or two.<p>Edit: one positive this year was us becoming part of the Horizon programme.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;commission&#x2F;presscorner&#x2F;detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;IP_23_6327" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;commission&#x2F;presscorner&#x2F;detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;IP_23_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;What were you getting out of EU regulations?</i><p>Economies of scale. Post-Brexit, we&#x27;ve copy-and-pasted nearly all EU regulations, because it turns out that a) writing and maintaining regulations is really difficult and expensive and b) there are massive advantages to having the same regulations as your most important trade partners. A lot of people didn&#x27;t like the <i>idea</i> of EU regulations, but very few people have identified anything in those regulations that they actually want to change.<p>As a conservative, the whole Brexit project strikes me as antithetical to conservative principles - we abandoned the status quo with no clear idea of what we&#x27;d replace it with, nor any clear sense of what the advantages might be. The fallout of Brexit is an incredibly strong vindication of Chesterton&#x27;s Fence. Shortcomings in EU institutions are a valid justification for leaving only if you&#x27;re confident that you can replace them with something better; it was only <i>after</i> the referendum that we started seriously discussing what the decision to leave actually meant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Whoppertime</author><text>What were you getting out of EU regulations? Rules on the curvature of Cucumbers and bananas passed by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent your interests but that of the collective?</text></item><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn&#x27;t exist but to me, personally, I can&#x27;t. Many probably feel this way so they blame all the big issues we have like prices and immigration on Brexit. Is there direct causation here? Not sure, maybe. Either way I suspect we will end up joining again just might take a decade or two.<p>Edit: one positive this year was us becoming part of the Horizon programme.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;commission&#x2F;presscorner&#x2F;detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;IP_23_6327" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;commission&#x2F;presscorner&#x2F;detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;IP_23_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>No, a standard trade regulations and common way of dealing with businesses with a ton of consumer protection as voted in by a parliament more representative than my own national Parliament and a council comprised of my national government.</text></comment> |
23,394,408 | 23,393,032 | 1 | 2 | 23,391,669 | train | <story><title>The business of tear gas</title><url>https://www.axios.com/companies-produce-tear-gas-protests-58051fa3-8ac2-4fa7-817f-8cda0af1a14d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohlookabird</author><text>There are so many countries around the world that do fine without the violence, brutality and military gear the US forces use. I could not imagine images like the ones I see now in the US in countries like Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, … All use better tactics and seem to be able to handle even large crowds without shooting and explosives. They normally try to DE-escalate (unlike in the US).<p>But if I read the basic police training in the US is 6 month or less and even hair cutters need more training, this ship seems to have sailed until better training is in place. I am really shocked about what is going on in the US.</text></item><item><author>monoclechris</author><text>Do you have a better solution? Perhaps you should bring it to market.</text></item><item><author>geogra4</author><text>Right - that seems horribly wrong. It shouldn&#x27;t be allowed for law enforcement either.</text></item><item><author>oicu812</author><text>The article states, &quot;It also lives in a legal gray zone, due to international treaties that allow it to be used in domestic law enforcement but not in war.&quot;</text></item><item><author>splitrocket</author><text>Tear gas is a chemical weapon and as such is banned in war according to the Geneva Conventions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;morning-mix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;14&#x2F;tear-gas-is-a-chemical-weapon-banned-in-war-but-ferguson-police-shoot-it-at-protesters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;morning-mix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;1...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Do a google search for German police brutality on YouTube.[1] The German cops have a reputation for getting physical with protestors.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SyrCiq_pQuo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SyrCiq_pQuo</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The business of tear gas</title><url>https://www.axios.com/companies-produce-tear-gas-protests-58051fa3-8ac2-4fa7-817f-8cda0af1a14d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohlookabird</author><text>There are so many countries around the world that do fine without the violence, brutality and military gear the US forces use. I could not imagine images like the ones I see now in the US in countries like Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, … All use better tactics and seem to be able to handle even large crowds without shooting and explosives. They normally try to DE-escalate (unlike in the US).<p>But if I read the basic police training in the US is 6 month or less and even hair cutters need more training, this ship seems to have sailed until better training is in place. I am really shocked about what is going on in the US.</text></item><item><author>monoclechris</author><text>Do you have a better solution? Perhaps you should bring it to market.</text></item><item><author>geogra4</author><text>Right - that seems horribly wrong. It shouldn&#x27;t be allowed for law enforcement either.</text></item><item><author>oicu812</author><text>The article states, &quot;It also lives in a legal gray zone, due to international treaties that allow it to be used in domestic law enforcement but not in war.&quot;</text></item><item><author>splitrocket</author><text>Tear gas is a chemical weapon and as such is banned in war according to the Geneva Conventions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;morning-mix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;14&#x2F;tear-gas-is-a-chemical-weapon-banned-in-war-but-ferguson-police-shoot-it-at-protesters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;morning-mix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;1...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syshum</author><text>If the US Police was not militarized and&#x2F;or had proper disciplinary procedures for officers there would not be any protests right now for them to have to deescalate<p>Honestly is not the training (or lack there of) that is the problem, it is lack of accountability, the lack of transparency, and the Military Tactics&#x2F;Gear&#x2F;Structure that are the problem</text></comment> |
41,196,531 | 41,187,937 | 1 | 2 | 41,185,945 | train | <story><title>The Third Atomic Bomb</title><url>https://lflank.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/the-third-atomic-bomb/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dxs</author><text>This book is an incredibly good read: &quot;&#x27;The Making of the Atomic Bomb&#x27; is a history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon &amp; Schuster in 1987. The book won multiple awards, including Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The narrative covers people and events from early 20th century discoveries leading to the science of nuclear fission, through the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.&quot;<p>Possibly the best book that I have ever read. It deals with many of the issues raised in the comments here, and with politics, industrial development, economics, military capabilities, and the history of modern physics.<p>Rhodes also wrote &quot;&#x27;Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb&#x27;, which told the story of the atomic espionage during World War II, the debates over whether the hydrogen bomb ought to be produced, and the eventual creation of the bomb and its consequences for the arms race.&quot; Also impeccable<p>Info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Third Atomic Bomb</title><url>https://lflank.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/the-third-atomic-bomb/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billti</author><text>&gt; was foolishly violating the safety protocols by using a screwdriver to hold the two halves of the sphere apart. When the screwdriver slipped, the core dropped to form a critical mass<p>I always thought the material had to be forced together at high pressure for the chain reaction to start. Crazy that just dropping it had such dire consequences.</text></comment> |
37,170,870 | 37,167,818 | 1 | 2 | 37,140,831 | train | <story><title>Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>Rice paddies are responsible for 11% of the world’s methane emissions.<p>...researchers .. have discovered how to dramatically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions output of rice fields. Initial indications are showing a 70% reduction.</i><p>So ballpark: Looks like we could reduce (strikethrough: greenhouse gas) <i>methane</i> emissions by 7 percent or so a year while growing more rice to boot from this one change if enough farms adopted it and the article indicates that halfway through the planting season, farmers who had been reluctant to try it spontaneously changed to the new method simply because the crop yield was better:<p><i>Even when the pilot was halfway through, the crops were looking so healthy that a further 10 farmers in the village who weren’t part of the project chose to drain their land.</i><p>And I wondered what a 7 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses would do for climate change and found this opening paragraph:<p><i>Geneva, 26 November 2019 – On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will miss the opportunity to get on track towards the 1.5°C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mongabay.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mongabay.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;bali-rice-experiment-cuts-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myshpa</author><text>The father of this method is Masanobu Fukuoka - One Straw Revolution, aka natural farming.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Masanobu_Fukuoka" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Masanobu_Fukuoka</a><p>&quot;in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley ... organic and chemical-free rice farming&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;nzs8iFGNdBo?t=1412" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;nzs8iFGNdBo?t=1412</a></text></comment> |
16,730,083 | 16,729,988 | 1 | 3 | 16,729,745 | train | <story><title>The most honest Ponzi scheme of all time</title><url>https://ponzischeme.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fbonetti</author><text>I know this is a joke, but there are numerous real life Ponzi and pyramid schemes based on Ethereum smart contracts. PonziCoin, PoWH3D, and EthPhoenix transparently advertise themselves as Ponzi&#x2F;pyramid schemes. There&#x27;s also a whole genre of &quot;hot potato&quot; collectible games that operate like pyramid schemes. CryptoCelebrities and CryptoKitties are a couple well known games in this genre.<p>Personally, I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything unethical about transparent pyramid schemes. They&#x27;re essentially gambling games where players bet on the greed of other players. The greediest players end up &quot;holding the bag&quot; while every one else makes money. These games can be pretty profitable if you play conservatively.</text></comment> | <story><title>The most honest Ponzi scheme of all time</title><url>https://ponzischeme.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kerng</author><text>What is so great about this is that in today&#x27;s age anyone can create a great looking website, appear professional and really pull off things like this. Use fancy job titles, like Second Layer Expert (lol) and invent a bunch of other nonsense that sounds innovative and disruptive, as well of course publish the code to be open. It&#x27;s a great prank, unfortunately backed by too many real world cases that do exactly that, and make people lose money.</text></comment> |
11,489,341 | 11,488,070 | 1 | 2 | 11,487,667 | train | <story><title>Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)</title><url>https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morgante</author><text>This article was very inspirational for me when developing the CMS for a previous startup and informed that development extensively.<p>Personally, I found the most beneficial thing to be abandoning HTML entirely. Instead I developed a JSON data structure for documents which was stored internally. This is very powerful for a couple of reasons:<p>1. Any user input can be mapped as pure functions on top of your internal document structure. This way you can also enforce business rules easily. Additionally, any function which you don&#x27;t support will <i>never</i> occur. (No more Word garbage!) ContentEditable works fine as an <i>input</i> though.<p>2. You can write functionally pure mappings from your internal structure to other formats. This of course includes HTML, but isn&#x27;t exclusive to HTML. Content can also be mapped into native mobile components as well.<p>3. You can be flexible with input types. For example, it was fairly trivial to (for fun) add a Markdown mode which would map any Markdown input onto the internal document representation and then back to Markdown.<p>4. You can introduce new semantic concepts which HTML doesn&#x27;t have elements for, like a &quot;quiz.&quot; This makes it easy to rejigger the display of such elements later on, or to have the same semantic element render completely differently on mobile and desktop (for example). With HTML, you&#x27;re stuck doing error-prone tree parsing or Regexes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)</title><url>https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>On the basis that browser based WYSIWYG editors have become de-rigour in almost all big online publishing platforms, it surprises me that the browsers themselves are not being updated to provide a standard input field (standardised via w3c of course) whose &#x27;value&#x27; attribute outputs basic HTML mark-up. Something along the lines of:<p><pre><code> &lt;input type=&quot;editor&quot; supports=&quot;bold;italic;images;headings&quot; ... &gt;
</code></pre>
This would remove the massive amount of work that UI developers still have to do to hand crank something as simple as a good editor that GUI OSs have enjoyed for decades.</text></comment> |
40,169,065 | 40,169,308 | 1 | 3 | 40,167,884 | train | <story><title>Qwen1.5-110B</title><url>https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen1.5-110b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>Firstly, I&#x27;ll say that it&#x27;s always exciting to see more weight-available models.<p>However, I don&#x27;t particularly like that benchmark table. I saw the HumanEval score for Llama 3 70B and immediately said &quot;nope, that&#x27;s not right&quot;. It claims Llama 3 70B scored only 45.7. Llama 3 70B Instruct[0] scored 81.7, not even in the same ballpark.<p>It turns out that the Qwen team didn&#x27;t benchmark the chat&#x2F;instruct versions of the model on virtually any of the benchmarks. Why did they only do those benchmarks for the base models?<p>It makes it very hard to draw any useful conclusions from this release, since most people would be using the chat-tuned model for the things those base model benchmarks are measuring.<p>My previous experience with Qwen releases is that the models also have a habit of randomly switching to Chinese for a few words. I wonder if this model is better at responding to English questions with an English response? Maybe we need a benchmark for how well an LLM sticks to responding in the same language as the question, across a range of different languages.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net&#x2F;v&#x2F;t39.2365-6&#x2F;438037375_405784438908376_6082258861354187544_n.png?_nc_cat=106&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=e280be&amp;_nc_ohc=7AIeH58EojUAb7BXK2c&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&amp;oh=00_AfAs3tOUPoHfB2vkPKCZRfAhjDP0aOZH7SrYqgqVFGJWTg&amp;oe=6645F5CA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net&#x2F;v&#x2F;t39.2365-6&#x2F;438037375_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Qwen1.5-110B</title><url>https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen1.5-110b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manmal</author><text>Maybe this is the right thread to ask. If you were in the market for a new Mac (eg MacBook Pro), would you go for the 100+GB RAM option for running LLMs locally? Or is the difference between heavily quantized models and their unquantized versions so small, and progress so fast, that it wouldn’t be worth it?</text></comment> |
30,661,958 | 30,661,051 | 1 | 2 | 30,659,164 | train | <story><title>Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>There are basically three types of time: coordinated time, based on atomic clocks, zoned time, derived from coordinated time by applying a time zone rule to calculate an offset, and wall clock time. The latter two are often lumped together as local time but are not in practice the same thing.<p>TZ rules are one way, you can derive zoned time reliably from utc, but not the other way around unless you already know the offset. That’s why seemingly storing utc is best, because you can apply whatever tz rule you want. But, because tz rules are decided by politicians (dst, ramadan, date line shifts, it gets pretty weird, …) and often with little advance notice, tz rule databases are often wrong in practice, which means storing only utc and getting zoned time back out of it reliably is hard. That’s why storing iso timestamps with offsets is best. It preserves both utc and intended local (zoned) time at the time of storing, even if the tz database then changes.<p>But this is not the author’s problem. They’re dealing with wall clock time. They want to store 9 am and have it always be 9 am, no matter what happens with time zones. That is easy: store the timestamp without tz info. But, the hard part is knowing the instant in time (in coordinated time). Wall clock times may occur twice, so there is no single reliable way to get utc out of it, and even when calculating utc the result can be wrong or become wrong due to the political insanity that is zoned time so it is dangerous to store it and rely on it. You see this problem with anything that schedules people or resources. Something scheduled at 9 am is always 9 am, but if the system needs to send a reminder at 9 am, when do you schedule it? There are no solutions I’m aware of without edge cases.<p>I solved this for a reservation system by storing wall clock time without offsets and the time zone (id) of the resource separately, and then calculating zoned time for that zone and comparing it with the stored wall clock time every time the instant in time mattered. It worked but was tricky to code.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I think summary here is that if you are storing an exact moment in time then UTC does the job. If however you are storing a future date and time in a certain location, due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes you have to save it with time zone information in order to adjust for future changes to that system.<p>I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social&#x2F;political time (there is probably a better term for that).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I think it&#x27;s even more complicated than that. Human time is much richer even than wall-clock time. E.g., if I go out for a dawn run every day, to me that&#x27;s the same time. Or think of the Jewish Sabbath, which runs from sundown Friday to after dark on Saturday. Lunchtime. Teatime. Lunar calendars. Whatever people will do when they live on Mars. Or the way wall-clock time existed before railroads changed it.<p>It&#x27;s often our job to cram human concepts into a small number of bits, so I get why we do what we do. But I think it&#x27;s sometimes worth being explicit that the anthropological concepts we are dealing with are very complex, and we may leave a lot out when we simplify them enough to make sense to the sort of machine that can be cheaply built in its era.</text></comment> | <story><title>Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>There are basically three types of time: coordinated time, based on atomic clocks, zoned time, derived from coordinated time by applying a time zone rule to calculate an offset, and wall clock time. The latter two are often lumped together as local time but are not in practice the same thing.<p>TZ rules are one way, you can derive zoned time reliably from utc, but not the other way around unless you already know the offset. That’s why seemingly storing utc is best, because you can apply whatever tz rule you want. But, because tz rules are decided by politicians (dst, ramadan, date line shifts, it gets pretty weird, …) and often with little advance notice, tz rule databases are often wrong in practice, which means storing only utc and getting zoned time back out of it reliably is hard. That’s why storing iso timestamps with offsets is best. It preserves both utc and intended local (zoned) time at the time of storing, even if the tz database then changes.<p>But this is not the author’s problem. They’re dealing with wall clock time. They want to store 9 am and have it always be 9 am, no matter what happens with time zones. That is easy: store the timestamp without tz info. But, the hard part is knowing the instant in time (in coordinated time). Wall clock times may occur twice, so there is no single reliable way to get utc out of it, and even when calculating utc the result can be wrong or become wrong due to the political insanity that is zoned time so it is dangerous to store it and rely on it. You see this problem with anything that schedules people or resources. Something scheduled at 9 am is always 9 am, but if the system needs to send a reminder at 9 am, when do you schedule it? There are no solutions I’m aware of without edge cases.<p>I solved this for a reservation system by storing wall clock time without offsets and the time zone (id) of the resource separately, and then calculating zoned time for that zone and comparing it with the stored wall clock time every time the instant in time mattered. It worked but was tricky to code.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I think summary here is that if you are storing an exact moment in time then UTC does the job. If however you are storing a future date and time in a certain location, due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes you have to save it with time zone information in order to adjust for future changes to that system.<p>I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social&#x2F;political time (there is probably a better term for that).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WinterMount223</author><text>Wall clock is solved by having a camera pointed at local live news where local time is shown, and having your system updated periodically where this period is arbitrarily short.</text></comment> |
36,214,808 | 36,214,584 | 1 | 3 | 36,193,495 | train | <story><title>Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics</title><url>https://qri.org/blog/psycrypto-contest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>This is consistent with the idea that the geometric patterns of hallucinogenic drugs are just feedback artifacts in an analog system of your senses, and by imparing its &#x27;clock&#x27; signal chemically, you get periodic noise whose geometry is proportional to the signalling frequency and its failures. No higher dimensions, just maybe a lower, impaired, fractal dimension.<p>There are still theraputic uses for this impairment, and definitely a lot of recreational ones that allow you to discover things about yourself like any other testing or resistance, but hallucinogens are at best biohacking via chemical glitching, not spiritual gateways.</text></item><item><author>codeflo</author><text>All the people in this thread who decoded it used long exposure or faster playback. Using the latter, for me, it starts to become readable at 2.5x and is essentially a clear static image at 4x. (I had to download the video and play it back using VLC.)<p>Which for me, makes this claim a bit absurd:<p>&gt; At a theoretical level, this confirmation is significant because it is the first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states of consciousness.<p>LSD fans might hate this conclusion, but there&#x27;s no &quot;computational advantage&quot; to having a 2.5x to 4x slower processing speed, which his the only thing actually being shown here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nbardy</author><text>You admit that there is plenty of recreational and therapeutical use for them and then that leads you to the conclusion that they’re not spiritual gateways. I find this surprising as those are one in the same to me.<p>Spiritual experiences have been about recreation, understanding others, the self, personal growth, coming of age, etc…<p>I feel like your post in general is full of acknowledgment of these drugs capabilities followed by attempts to downplay it with pejoratives like “chemical glitching” or “lower dimension”. It’s quiet confusing that you seem to think positively of the drugs but then dunk on them in the same breath.<p>I don’t think being able to explain, categorize and describe phenomena needs to make them less significant or impact. The mechanism of action being non mystical doesn’t need to change the significance of the experience.<p>This reminds me of a quote from Margaret Boden about her work on understanding creativity in a academic context.<p>&gt; A scientific understanding of creativity does not destroy our wonder at it, nor does it make creative ideas predictable. Demystification does not imply dehumanization.</text></comment> | <story><title>Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics</title><url>https://qri.org/blog/psycrypto-contest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>This is consistent with the idea that the geometric patterns of hallucinogenic drugs are just feedback artifacts in an analog system of your senses, and by imparing its &#x27;clock&#x27; signal chemically, you get periodic noise whose geometry is proportional to the signalling frequency and its failures. No higher dimensions, just maybe a lower, impaired, fractal dimension.<p>There are still theraputic uses for this impairment, and definitely a lot of recreational ones that allow you to discover things about yourself like any other testing or resistance, but hallucinogens are at best biohacking via chemical glitching, not spiritual gateways.</text></item><item><author>codeflo</author><text>All the people in this thread who decoded it used long exposure or faster playback. Using the latter, for me, it starts to become readable at 2.5x and is essentially a clear static image at 4x. (I had to download the video and play it back using VLC.)<p>Which for me, makes this claim a bit absurd:<p>&gt; At a theoretical level, this confirmation is significant because it is the first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states of consciousness.<p>LSD fans might hate this conclusion, but there&#x27;s no &quot;computational advantage&quot; to having a 2.5x to 4x slower processing speed, which his the only thing actually being shown here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pulkitsh1234</author><text>This is a very interesting way to look at this. Do you have many more resources for this &quot;interpretation&quot; of a psychedelic experience.<p>I believe, the slowing down of the &quot;clock&quot; can be said for meditation as well in some sense. Because even in a deep meditation you lose a sense of &quot;time&quot; and that&#x27;s when it gets slightly &quot;psychedelic&quot;, for a lack of a better word.<p>One thing that is different with meditation is that the senses are somewhat rendered inactive. So that means, the feedback artifacts are generated on our internal networks, i.e. consciousness and not from external stimuli ?</text></comment> |
18,077,323 | 18,077,659 | 1 | 2 | 18,075,159 | train | <story><title>Mmm, Pi-hole</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked, which is absolutely mind-blowingly ridiculous.<p>I see absolutely no negative effects browsing like this. Everything I&#x27;ve come across still works fine. Even sites that detect uBlock Origin and tell me to disable it, will work with that disabled and Pi-hole still blocking the ads instead.<p>I heavily believe we should be supporting creators, and go out of my way to support them in direct ways (Patreon, buying merch, direct donations, Twitch subs, etc), but I absolutely will not submit my family&#x2F;kids to the mess that is online advertising these days.<p>Ads that look like legitimate download buttons, or that run scripts to do cryptomining popunders, autoplay video ads with sound, etc etc. Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>&gt; I heavily believe we should be supporting creators<p>As do I. There&#x27;s two significant issues I have supporting most sites:<p>1. They provide only a subscription that is comparable cost to an old-media full subscription. Like most people in the Internet age I have a small number of main sources that I visit daily, and a much larger secondary tier where I may average one or two stories a week. Or they&#x27;re the sites linked from here that I only visit when something interesting is waved under my nose.<p>There&#x27;s no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I <i>might</i> be getting £1 or 10p a month &quot;value&quot; from.<p>2. I&#x27;m yet to find a site that takes my subscription and turns off ads <i>and</i> invasive tracking. Just ads. Still not an equitable deal.<p>Leaves things a bit stuck, and me paying out a smaller amount than I&#x27;m willing to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mmm, Pi-hole</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked, which is absolutely mind-blowingly ridiculous.<p>I see absolutely no negative effects browsing like this. Everything I&#x27;ve come across still works fine. Even sites that detect uBlock Origin and tell me to disable it, will work with that disabled and Pi-hole still blocking the ads instead.<p>I heavily believe we should be supporting creators, and go out of my way to support them in direct ways (Patreon, buying merch, direct donations, Twitch subs, etc), but I absolutely will not submit my family&#x2F;kids to the mess that is online advertising these days.<p>Ads that look like legitimate download buttons, or that run scripts to do cryptomining popunders, autoplay video ads with sound, etc etc. Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greymeister</author><text>&gt; Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.<p>This is exactly the response for anyone that is frustrated by blocking ads impacting revenue for web publishers. Had the ad tech not become so invasive and pernicious, users wouldn&#x27;t be going out of the way for solutions like this. The advertisers have essentially forced our hand.</text></comment> |
5,428,481 | 5,428,544 | 1 | 2 | 5,427,985 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?</title><text>Maybe a Coinbase engineer can anonymously tell us what's going on over there, because nobody trying to trade with Coinbase can get a public answer.<p>Money is going missing. Transactions have been delayed for days and, in some cases, over a week. Even amounts already in BTC aren't leaving the system.<p>Coinbase claimed the other day this was all due to a database migration[1], but they're offline once again.<p>[1]: http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1051063-pending-transactions</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpsreport</author><text>&#62; -My account balance went from 10 to 0 to 10<p>That could potentially indicate a database infrastructure problem. Eventually consistent databases can issue responses that appear to travel backwards in time. And [1] says this:<p><pre><code> Coinbase uses MongoDB for their primary datastore for
their web app, api requests, etc. Coinbase is a
decentralized, digital currency that is changing
the world of payments.
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/</a></text></item><item><author>smallegan</author><text>Not sure if my story syncs up with what everyone else is seeing:
-I purchased 10 coins on the 14th.
-Money came out of my account on the 18th.
-They said they were available to me on the 20th via e-mail
-Have tried multiple times to send money to external wallets with no success
-My account balance went from 10 to 0 to 10
-Support has been horrible</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheaties</author><text>As much as I love MongoDB it has way too many issues to use it as a primary data store for financial transactions. I hope they backed up and tested their backup recovery. Something tells me they're dealing with a data corruption/loss which wiped out their master and slaves without a backup. Perhaps if they've got decent logging they can piece it together with logs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?</title><text>Maybe a Coinbase engineer can anonymously tell us what's going on over there, because nobody trying to trade with Coinbase can get a public answer.<p>Money is going missing. Transactions have been delayed for days and, in some cases, over a week. Even amounts already in BTC aren't leaving the system.<p>Coinbase claimed the other day this was all due to a database migration[1], but they're offline once again.<p>[1]: http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1051063-pending-transactions</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpsreport</author><text>&#62; -My account balance went from 10 to 0 to 10<p>That could potentially indicate a database infrastructure problem. Eventually consistent databases can issue responses that appear to travel backwards in time. And [1] says this:<p><pre><code> Coinbase uses MongoDB for their primary datastore for
their web app, api requests, etc. Coinbase is a
decentralized, digital currency that is changing
the world of payments.
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/</a></text></item><item><author>smallegan</author><text>Not sure if my story syncs up with what everyone else is seeing:
-I purchased 10 coins on the 14th.
-Money came out of my account on the 18th.
-They said they were available to me on the 20th via e-mail
-Have tried multiple times to send money to external wallets with no success
-My account balance went from 10 to 0 to 10
-Support has been horrible</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuffihavemade</author><text>It's absolutely insane if they are using Mongo as their source of truth (and not say some kind of caching layer). If there is one thing that should be ACID, it's financial transactions.</text></comment> |
34,273,517 | 34,273,470 | 1 | 2 | 34,272,215 | train | <story><title>No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)</title><url>https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>&gt;&gt; CNC machining at scale
CNC machining is fantastic for prototypes and pretty awesome for high margin parts like hip implants and turbine blades. It is not for consumer devices. Figure out a way to cast your metal parts.<p>Having a manufacturing back ground, I did extended workbench management early in my career, this is just wrong. Sure, at high volumes casting and injection moulding is unbeatable at per unit costs. At smaller volumes, not so much. Casting and moulding tools cost a fortune, and those upfront NRC are just prohibitive for small volumes. So smart CNC machining it is. Added benefit, there are tons of small CNC machining ships around that are really good at that.<p>Nothing to add on ejector pin marks, if you see those on the outside of your part, your part design and manufacturing &#x2F; tool design sucks. No need to be a billionaire genius, just a decent plastics engineer.<p>But since the target audiamce of this article are start-ups, it kind of makes sense, doesn&#x27;t it? Brcause how many start-up founders have a solid grasp of hardware manufacturing, design, tooling and manufacturing processes? Especially those that want &quot;Apple&quot; without understanding what that means deffinitely don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbieber</author><text>It stood out to me that the author of the post is the COO at a meditation service start-up, not a manufacturing one... Unless Ten Percent Happier is making physical products that I&#x27;m unaware of.<p>I think this guy was just musing about Apple&#x27;s quality and has watched a lot of AvE and This Old Tony on YouTube and wanted to share his opinions with the world. They&#x27;re not all entirely correct.<p>For anyone who wants to go on the whole manufacturing journey, don&#x27;t miss the Linus Tech Tips video about why their screwdriver took 3 years to bring to market (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM</a>). And they based their design on a fully functional production-ready screwdriver, they did not start from scratch.<p>Going from idea to production is really, really hard. Even today, even with CNC and 3D printing and other prototyping tools. Even with all the money LTT has to spend on it (millions of dollars, as I understand it).</text></comment> | <story><title>No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)</title><url>https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>&gt;&gt; CNC machining at scale
CNC machining is fantastic for prototypes and pretty awesome for high margin parts like hip implants and turbine blades. It is not for consumer devices. Figure out a way to cast your metal parts.<p>Having a manufacturing back ground, I did extended workbench management early in my career, this is just wrong. Sure, at high volumes casting and injection moulding is unbeatable at per unit costs. At smaller volumes, not so much. Casting and moulding tools cost a fortune, and those upfront NRC are just prohibitive for small volumes. So smart CNC machining it is. Added benefit, there are tons of small CNC machining ships around that are really good at that.<p>Nothing to add on ejector pin marks, if you see those on the outside of your part, your part design and manufacturing &#x2F; tool design sucks. No need to be a billionaire genius, just a decent plastics engineer.<p>But since the target audiamce of this article are start-ups, it kind of makes sense, doesn&#x27;t it? Brcause how many start-up founders have a solid grasp of hardware manufacturing, design, tooling and manufacturing processes? Especially those that want &quot;Apple&quot; without understanding what that means deffinitely don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>&gt; Casting and moulding tools cost a fortune<p>It depends very heavily on the complexity and size of the part.<p>Earlier in my career I worked in Medical&#x2F;BioTech product development for a consultancy working with startups. We found the most cost effective route (in the UK) was to have tooling manufactured in China, but then shipped to the UK. We worked with moulding companies who had in house experience building and modifying tools, so they could make alterations to the tools on site.<p>Tooling for small plastic &quot;clam shell&quot; type products would be in the £20k-£50k region by doing it that way.<p>Being able to visit your manufacturing partner, as a small startup, is essential when launching a product. Too often physical product startups try to run before they can walk. You can always ship a tool back to China once you are up and running, but realistically at that point you know what v2 should be and retooling is required.</text></comment> |
19,186,738 | 19,186,582 | 1 | 3 | 19,185,510 | train | <story><title>The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks</title><url>https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yitchelle</author><text>Why call it secret when &quot;It is intended for everyone and anyone&quot;? I can&#x27;t understand the idea behind it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>Obviously because it alludes at the &quot;books of secret knowledge&quot; of yore, hard to find books, compiled by masters of some domain and filled with useful knowledge.<p>It&#x27;s like calling your Chinese restaurant &quot;Golden Palace&quot;. It&#x27;s not golden and its not a palace. It&#x27;s just meant to convey &quot;typical chinese&quot;, &quot;luxury&quot;, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks</title><url>https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yitchelle</author><text>Why call it secret when &quot;It is intended for everyone and anyone&quot;? I can&#x27;t understand the idea behind it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dghughes</author><text>It&#x27;s the same as code names that describe exactly what a project is about leaving no doubt about its purpose.</text></comment> |
27,720,038 | 27,719,453 | 1 | 2 | 27,719,290 | train | <story><title>Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>Interesting. I use full Vue for this quite a lot, mount onto specific DOM points, replace their content with (most commonly) an enhanced form, or a data table. Works well, costs 30Kb plus compat layers. You can argue all day long about the cost of 30Kb, but then you put a 200Kb image in your header.<p>Anyway, looking at the docs, my approach wouldn&#x27;t be as easy in vue-petite. It looks like Components have been functionally gutted. You can still approximate something, but you seem to lose a lot of ecosystem benefits of Vue. Theirs looks great for<p>Ultimately, this all seems like something coverage and tree-shaking <i>should</i> be able to do. If you&#x27;re only using 5Kb of Vue, only 5Kb should be bundled. One day, eh? Until then, is the additional 25Kb actually hurting your users?</text></comment> | <story><title>Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Crazyontap</author><text>If anyone of you guys have access to Vue mastery watch the tutorial where Evan creates a mini-version of Vue js in vanilla JS in like 15 minutes.<p>He also explains some of the Vue optimization tricks like why they ditched the nested JSON and how Vue caches the @click handlers, etc so they don&#x27;t need to check this on every digest cycle.<p>I wish there was a free version to link here. Really interesting stuff, shows you how much thought and effort is put in by the creators to optimise so many little things which us users of the framework never even notice is happening.</text></comment> |
793,572 | 793,449 | 1 | 3 | 793,305 | train | <story><title>Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.</title><url>http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/08/28.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismear</author><text>Not that I'm condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date for 'months' with no contract and no deposit paid. They took a risk on a clearly flakey client, and it didn't pay off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nir</author><text>"We sent a contract, and asked for a deposit. Months went by. A few times they asked when they could stop by to drop off the deposit, but never actually did so."<p>The venue's actions seem pretty reasonable to me. They gave the organizers some slack, assuming these are basically decent people. It's not like they're dealing with some unknown or shady operation.<p>Still, discovering a Twitter-related operation turned out to be much noise/little signal shouldn't be <i>that</i> surprising :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.</title><url>http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/08/28.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismear</author><text>Not that I'm condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date for 'months' with no contract and no deposit paid. They took a risk on a clearly flakey client, and it didn't pay off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notaddicted</author><text>He does mention at the start that promoters are mostly like this, so it wasn't the red flag that it sounds like.</text></comment> |
18,095,256 | 18,094,863 | 1 | 3 | 18,094,560 | train | <story><title>How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-dirty-money-disappears-into-the-black-hole-of-cryptocurrency-1538149743</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>Meanwhile, a fully-regulated and ostensibly compliant EU bank in Denmark laundered $233 billion through a single bank branch [0].<p>I would argue that crypto is actually an investigator&#x27;s dream, as you can trace transactions instantly through the blockchain without needing to follow the money in multiple jurisdictions, faxes, waiting periods, cooperating with other law enforcement, etc. etc.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;ceo-denmark-bank-quits-amid-an-alleged-billion-money-laundering-investigation&#x2F;?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.fcf63e625508" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;ceo-denma...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-dirty-money-disappears-into-the-black-hole-of-cryptocurrency-1538149743</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rrggrr</author><text>Please... the metals markets, where holdings can be reconstituted, aggregated, faked and leveraged is the undisputed champion for big time laundering. Two favorite examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;216059&#x2F;chinas-investigation-into-missing-metal-could-spark-a-much-bigger-crisis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;216059&#x2F;chinas-investigation-into-missing-meta...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.miamiherald.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;article195552089.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.miamiherald.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;article195552089.html</a></text></comment> |
11,031,109 | 11,030,630 | 1 | 2 | 11,028,842 | train | <story><title>How to Survive an Acquisition</title><url>http://charity.wtf/2016/02/03/how-to-survive-an-acquisition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathgeek</author><text>&gt; 3-4 hour daily commute<p>It saddens me that anyone thinks this is acceptable. I know some people don&#x27;t mind it, but what a waste of your life to do this for any extended period of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peeky</author><text>My last CEO thought I was insane because I took a pay cut to swap a 90 minute each way commute for a 15 minute commute, but that&#x27;s about 600 hours of extra time per year I get to spend with my wife and kids. 25 whole days.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Survive an Acquisition</title><url>http://charity.wtf/2016/02/03/how-to-survive-an-acquisition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathgeek</author><text>&gt; 3-4 hour daily commute<p>It saddens me that anyone thinks this is acceptable. I know some people don&#x27;t mind it, but what a waste of your life to do this for any extended period of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knightofmars</author><text>mathgeek, your sentiment is seconded.<p>Seeing people saying, &quot;It&#x27;s me time.&quot; is a bit disconcerting. Respectfully as an opinion, spending between 2 and 4+ hours a day sitting on a bus&#x2F;train is not &quot;me time&quot;. Why do I think that? Because of what I suspect the answer to this question would be: If you had 2 free hours at home would you spend it doing the exact same task that you would do for 2 hours on a bus?<p>I understand that a two plus hour commute is a choice and obviously there are people willing to accept it. But I am suspicious that the &quot;me time&quot; argument is in reality a rationalization to make what would generally be unacceptable appear acceptable.<p>And as an appeal to the emotional side, you have one life. Do you really want to spend 10% of your life on a bus every month?</text></comment> |
33,074,949 | 33,074,933 | 1 | 2 | 33,043,945 | train | <story><title>The 'attention economy' corrupts science</title><url>https://bigthink.com/the-present/attention-economy-science-damaged/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jostmey</author><text>Having spent over 10 years in a university and been a professor, the problem isn’t attention seeking behavior but a lack of accountability. For example, you can literally make up any data you want in a grant proposal and so long as it sounds right no one can or will double check it. The foundation of academia is rotting, but maybe it’s always been like this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>club_tropical</author><text>It has not. And &quot;a lack of accountability&quot; is a band-aid on the real problem: bad gatekeeping. People getting into science, not for the search for truth, but in search of respectability, green card, money, or whatever else. Trying to whip them into real scientists through transparency and accountability is like trying to achieve security in your home by flinging the gates and doors wide open but slapping cameras and motion detectors everywhere. Either they win, or you get fatigued.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 'attention economy' corrupts science</title><url>https://bigthink.com/the-present/attention-economy-science-damaged/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jostmey</author><text>Having spent over 10 years in a university and been a professor, the problem isn’t attention seeking behavior but a lack of accountability. For example, you can literally make up any data you want in a grant proposal and so long as it sounds right no one can or will double check it. The foundation of academia is rotting, but maybe it’s always been like this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>&gt; lack of accountability.<p>I think this also applies at all levels. I&#x27;d argue that it is the big reason people feel very frustrated with reviewing, and especially in hyped areas (e.g. ML). There&#x27;s plenty of incentives to reject papers (low acceptance rates mean &quot;higher quality&quot; publications, advantage yourself by rejecting or being overly critical of your competitors, you get no clout for reviewing and no one will get upset if you take all of 5 minutes to review), but very few incentives (I can&#x27;t even name one) to accept papers. It is fairly easy to dismiss papers as not novel because we all build off the shoulders of giants and things are substantially more obvious post hoc. Metareviewers and Area Chairs will 99&#x2F;100 times stand with reviewers even if they are in the wrong and can be proven so (I had a reviewer give me a strong reject claiming I should compare to another work, which was actually our main comparitor and we compared to in 5+ tables and 5+ graphs). I can&#x27;t see these issues being resolved until we all agree that there needs to be some incentive to write high quality reviews. The worst of this is that the people it hurts the most is the grad students and junior researchers (prevents graduating and career advancement). I&#x27;m not saying we have to accept papers, but I am saying we need to ensure that we are providing high quality reviews. Rejections suck, but rejections that don&#x27;t provide valuable feedback are worse.<p>If the publication system is a noisy signal then we need to fix it AND recognize it as such. There&#x27;s been plenty of studies to show that this process is highly noisy but we&#x27;re all acting like publications are all that matters.<p>This is all before we even talk about advantages linked to connections even in double blind reviews, collusion rings, or citation hacking. I feel we can&#x27;t even get the first step right.</text></comment> |
21,679,765 | 21,679,206 | 1 | 2 | 21,674,752 | train | <story><title>Advent of Code 2019</title><url>https://adventofcode.com/2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Learning new environments can be painful so it’s good it starts off easy.<p>I’m trying to solve them with Swift Playgrounds on the iPad, for example. And I can’t figure out how to create a simple text file for the data.</text></item><item><author>aquova</author><text>Many of the comments are about the event as a whole, but I&#x27;d like to commend the author for the day 1 puzzle, which I think is very cleverly written. Many people (including myself) use these as an opportunity to try out learning a new language, and the first puzzle does a good job of making sure you know enough basic operations for some of the puzzles coming up. The puzzle itself wasn&#x27;t very difficult, you could do it by hand if you really wanted to, but it required you to know how to read and parse lines in a file, handle compound data structures, iterate through, and perform basic operations (floor, casting strings to ints, etc). I thought it was really well done, and creates the basic knowledge for the puzzles ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brantonb</author><text>I started last year using Swift Playgrounds. I was lazy and just pasted the input into a multi-line string. I had to switch away from Playgrounds after a couple of days because it would crash due to memory issues. It traces every line of execution and the intermediate values of all variables. I really enjoyed doing the challenges in Swift, but I did have to switch to using my Mac to do it.<p>This year, I’m learning Python by using a Raspberry Pi 4 directly connected to my iPad via USB. Should be another fun month!</text></comment> | <story><title>Advent of Code 2019</title><url>https://adventofcode.com/2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Learning new environments can be painful so it’s good it starts off easy.<p>I’m trying to solve them with Swift Playgrounds on the iPad, for example. And I can’t figure out how to create a simple text file for the data.</text></item><item><author>aquova</author><text>Many of the comments are about the event as a whole, but I&#x27;d like to commend the author for the day 1 puzzle, which I think is very cleverly written. Many people (including myself) use these as an opportunity to try out learning a new language, and the first puzzle does a good job of making sure you know enough basic operations for some of the puzzles coming up. The puzzle itself wasn&#x27;t very difficult, you could do it by hand if you really wanted to, but it required you to know how to read and parse lines in a file, handle compound data structures, iterate through, and perform basic operations (floor, casting strings to ints, etc). I thought it was really well done, and creates the basic knowledge for the puzzles ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>I solved the first part using the examples. Swift is nice.<p><pre><code> func calcFuel(_ mass:Int) -&gt; Int {mass &#x2F; 3 - 2}
let z0 = massList.map(calcFuel).reduce(0, +)
</code></pre>
or simply ...<p><pre><code> let z1 = massList.map({$0 &#x2F; 3 - 2}).reduce(0, +)
</code></pre>
Any idea how to read the data on the iPad?</text></comment> |
40,814,266 | 40,814,090 | 1 | 3 | 40,813,369 | train | <story><title>Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-bankruptcy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Considering the patience the US has with getting justice against other individuals who have fled our jurisdiction, we could do the same here. We also have an enormous amount of influence in the financial sector in other western nations, so we could at least make their lives less lavish and comfortable.<p>Throwing up our hands and declaring it an unsolvable issue just encourages others to misbehave and then escape the same way.</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>One problem of which I was unaware is that the Sackler family has largely fled the United States.<p>Pursuing their assets introduces vast complexities of international law.<p>&quot;In a brief filed on behalf of the relatives of Mortimer Sackler, most of whom are based overseas, lawyers warned of “significant litigation costs and risks” in seeking to enforce any foreign court judgments against the family if the settlement were thrown out.&quot;</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>I could see shielding from future civil liability as an option, but only after a true bankruptcy has occurred. Liquidate everything, and by that I mean <i>everything</i>, and then you can move on with your life. Definitely no shielding money in offshore accounts.<p>If you&#x27;re not willing to do that ... well, see you in court. Over and over, because every individual you hurt should have a chance to come at you with a liability claim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whycome</author><text>Hey, it&#x27;s not like they shared copyrighted movies on a server or something.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-bankruptcy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Considering the patience the US has with getting justice against other individuals who have fled our jurisdiction, we could do the same here. We also have an enormous amount of influence in the financial sector in other western nations, so we could at least make their lives less lavish and comfortable.<p>Throwing up our hands and declaring it an unsolvable issue just encourages others to misbehave and then escape the same way.</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>One problem of which I was unaware is that the Sackler family has largely fled the United States.<p>Pursuing their assets introduces vast complexities of international law.<p>&quot;In a brief filed on behalf of the relatives of Mortimer Sackler, most of whom are based overseas, lawyers warned of “significant litigation costs and risks” in seeking to enforce any foreign court judgments against the family if the settlement were thrown out.&quot;</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>I could see shielding from future civil liability as an option, but only after a true bankruptcy has occurred. Liquidate everything, and by that I mean <i>everything</i>, and then you can move on with your life. Definitely no shielding money in offshore accounts.<p>If you&#x27;re not willing to do that ... well, see you in court. Over and over, because every individual you hurt should have a chance to come at you with a liability claim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>The question is whether to allow a smaller settlement immediately, or pursue a less-likely and possibly larger set of judgements in the future. It&#x27;s not clear that it is possible to get more money out of them.</text></comment> |
23,378,573 | 23,377,984 | 1 | 2 | 23,376,960 | train | <story><title>Embedded Rules of Thumb (2018)</title><url>https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbegal</author><text>&gt;Keep ISRs small<p>I disagree. If you have interrupt priorities then you can treat your interrupt service routines as the highest priority tasks. As an example lets imagine a drone controller which has two functions it needs to perform in real time: it needs to vary the PWM signal to the motor controller and it needs to acknowledge radio packets. An interrupt is raised when the accelerometer has new data and another is raised when the radio has received a packet. You could write ISRs which just queues the accelerometer data and radio packets so they can be dealt with by a flight control task and a radio task respectively. Alternatively, you could run the whole of the flight controller inside the accelerometer ISR. This reduces copying of data and context switches. Because the accelerometer ISR now takes longer you need to use the radio ISR to acknowledge the radio packets itself. You split the radio task into two tasks: a low priority task for processing commands and the ISR task which does the acknowledgements.<p>&gt; Avoid blocking function calls<p>This can be rewritten as never call functions that block on an action of a lower priority task. It leads to priority inversion in normal tasks and deadlocks in ISRs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>Re: ISR priorities. I agree with you somewhat. Technology is always changing. Many architectures don&#x27;t have a rich interrupt controller. A system built to take advantage of the Cortex-M NVIC will have different characteristics than one that doesn&#x27;t.<p>For those who are unaware, the NVIC effectively turns the interrupt handling system into a hardware-based FIFO strict realtime task scheduler. The only hard limit is that since all of the tasks are executed on the same stack frame that you need an interrupt stack large enough for the maximum nesting depth. You can safely do much more work in an interrupt handler with such a system than you can in a classical non-nested interrupt-handling system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Embedded Rules of Thumb (2018)</title><url>https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbegal</author><text>&gt;Keep ISRs small<p>I disagree. If you have interrupt priorities then you can treat your interrupt service routines as the highest priority tasks. As an example lets imagine a drone controller which has two functions it needs to perform in real time: it needs to vary the PWM signal to the motor controller and it needs to acknowledge radio packets. An interrupt is raised when the accelerometer has new data and another is raised when the radio has received a packet. You could write ISRs which just queues the accelerometer data and radio packets so they can be dealt with by a flight control task and a radio task respectively. Alternatively, you could run the whole of the flight controller inside the accelerometer ISR. This reduces copying of data and context switches. Because the accelerometer ISR now takes longer you need to use the radio ISR to acknowledge the radio packets itself. You split the radio task into two tasks: a low priority task for processing commands and the ISR task which does the acknowledgements.<p>&gt; Avoid blocking function calls<p>This can be rewritten as never call functions that block on an action of a lower priority task. It leads to priority inversion in normal tasks and deadlocks in ISRs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nsajko</author><text>&gt; I disagree. If you have interrupt priorities then you can treat your interrupt service routines as the highest priority tasks. ...<p>I think &quot;Keep ISRs small&quot; is still a good guideline for most cases. Big interrupt handlers require more system-wide knowledge to verify (e.g., stack space, maximal latency, priority problems, ...). They introduce more coupling into the system, in other words.<p>Of course, this should not be some hard rule, rather just a rule of thumb. I wouldn&#x27;t like it if some policy like this prevented you from choosing the optimal solution in a case like you suggested.</text></comment> |
23,898,346 | 23,892,751 | 1 | 2 | 23,890,415 | train | <story><title>Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/07/01/coronavirus-treatment-drug-contracts-trump/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>Here is an idea: anyone can make a generic drug if an independent FDA lab cannot tell the difference between unlabeled samples from the new manufacturer and unlabeled identically packaged samples from a currently approved manufacturer.<p>You would need to do this testing continuously at random, so the FDA could just charge a fee for this. It would be way cheaper than full regulatory compliance.</text></item><item><author>javajosh</author><text>I tend to agree that gov needs to step in, however the libtertarian in me also wants to know: why doesn&#x27;t someone start a business selling this drug for, say, $200 instead of $540? If the answer to that is that the regulatory burden is basically insurmountable thanks to decades of regulatory capture, then yeah, government needs to act. Presumably such a company doesn&#x27;t need to do any research, or get new approvals! They just need to make the thing and distribute it.</text></item><item><author>jostmey</author><text>I see two issues being conflated here. The first issue is the outrageous prices for generic drugs. The second issue is the true cost of research.<p>Drug prices have been rising out of control even for generic drugs (think epipens). It seems that competition is not driving down prices of generics. Perhaps it is time for government to break up &quot;big parhma&quot;. Perhaps the FDA sets quality requirements so high that competitors cannot meet it, allowing that single manufacture to control prices.<p>The other issue is the true cost of research. The production cost is a fraction of the true cost. Research is expensive. There would be no Remdesivir if we only paid production costs. As a biomedical researcher, I am always on the fence about jumping jobs for something that will pay better. Many investors and techies vastly underestimate the cost of scientific research BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvaldes</author><text>&gt; anyone can make a generic drug if an independent FDA lab cannot tell the difference<p>I see a few problems with this plan<p>1) Makers would lose interest in research of simple drugs easy to clone or, more probably,...<p>They would fight back introducing additives in the mix, useless except for the sake of making the recipe much more difficult to copy, or to aim for a product recognizable for the public (i.e viagra must be &quot;blue pills&quot; not green pills, etc, but the blue colorant is in fact useless except for marketing purposes).<p>2) Because an increase in additives the number of crossed interactions with other medicines would raise exponentially and would be much more complicated to predict in multiple treatments<p>3) Potential collateral effects and allergies could increase also.<p>And it creates a system prone to corruption, of course (The makers can be blackmailed by the independent lab).</text></comment> | <story><title>Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/07/01/coronavirus-treatment-drug-contracts-trump/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>Here is an idea: anyone can make a generic drug if an independent FDA lab cannot tell the difference between unlabeled samples from the new manufacturer and unlabeled identically packaged samples from a currently approved manufacturer.<p>You would need to do this testing continuously at random, so the FDA could just charge a fee for this. It would be way cheaper than full regulatory compliance.</text></item><item><author>javajosh</author><text>I tend to agree that gov needs to step in, however the libtertarian in me also wants to know: why doesn&#x27;t someone start a business selling this drug for, say, $200 instead of $540? If the answer to that is that the regulatory burden is basically insurmountable thanks to decades of regulatory capture, then yeah, government needs to act. Presumably such a company doesn&#x27;t need to do any research, or get new approvals! They just need to make the thing and distribute it.</text></item><item><author>jostmey</author><text>I see two issues being conflated here. The first issue is the outrageous prices for generic drugs. The second issue is the true cost of research.<p>Drug prices have been rising out of control even for generic drugs (think epipens). It seems that competition is not driving down prices of generics. Perhaps it is time for government to break up &quot;big parhma&quot;. Perhaps the FDA sets quality requirements so high that competitors cannot meet it, allowing that single manufacture to control prices.<p>The other issue is the true cost of research. The production cost is a fraction of the true cost. Research is expensive. There would be no Remdesivir if we only paid production costs. As a biomedical researcher, I am always on the fence about jumping jobs for something that will pay better. Many investors and techies vastly underestimate the cost of scientific research BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Sounds good to me, but I don&#x27;t think it would fly. It&#x27;s too reactive. The FDA needs to be able to take proactive steps to avoid mistakes. So, I take your idea and raise you:<p>Put cameras everywhere in your lab&#x2F;factory, and give the FDA inspectors 24x7 access to every feed. This is in addition to allowing onsite random inspections, of course.<p>I mean, as a consumer, this would make me feel warm and fuzzy about buying drugs from that company. I mean, you could even allow the public access to those feeds, as a marketing tool!</text></comment> |
29,247,610 | 29,247,017 | 1 | 2 | 29,239,587 | train | <story><title>I hate password rules</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/why-i-hate-password-rules.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>A few years back, on day 1 of my new job I was given root access to one of the development boxes.<p>So I ask: &quot;Okay, how do I log in?&quot;<p>The IT guy: &quot;What do you mean, you just log in using your personal domain account and then sudo su -. You know what sudo is?&quot; (followed by loud sigh)<p>Me: &quot;You mean like production domain, same that we use for our desktop?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;Of course! What do you mean, what other domain would you like?&quot;<p>Me: &quot;Can I at least change my password to something else just for the dev environment? Can I log in with SSH key?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;No, no, no. Per our <i>SECURITY</i> policy, SSH keys are disabled and you have to use our domain login and password&quot;. (another sigh... of course)<p>Me: &quot;Are you aware that when somebody has root access to the box they can do whatever they want including intercepting passwords of all users that log in to that box? In this case, every single developer that ever needs access to dev environment?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;That&#x27;s not true. SSH is encrypted protocol and it is not possible to access passwords&quot;.<p>Me: after many tries to explain this to various people from IT, I gave up and set out to intercept all passwords of all IT employees. After I had passwords of almost everybody, I put them all in an excel and sent to IT for &quot;verification&quot;.<p>There were a lot of angry people that day wanting me fired... fortunately they came to their senses.<p>Unfortunately, my development box access privileges were revoked.</text></item><item><author>bsuvc</author><text>A few years back, not too long ago, I started working on a new contract assignment at a medium size aerospace manufacturer.<p>I show up and check in with IT department. The system administrator shows me to my desk, and hands me a post it note with my password. Well pass phrase is more like it. It was something like “sliding down the tall building”.<p>I was quite impressed that they encouraged the use of long pass phrases instead of short cryptic passwords that are hard to remember (think “correct horse battery staple”). This place really is serious about security, I thought.<p>I thanked the system admin and causally said “I’ll be sure to change this to an equally secure pass phrase”.<p>“Oh no,” he said, “we don’t allow people to change their passwords here. You see, we need to be able to log into anyone’s computer if they go on vacation or are out of the office, so we keep an Excel worksheet with everyone’s username and password. So please don’t change your password.”<p>He turns and walks away, and I just sit there stunned, wondering if this was some kind of practical joke.<p>Sadly he was completely serious. I kept the password they gave me for the 3 months I was there, as I was asked to do, knowing that at any time someone could log in as me and do something illegal or unethical. It really did give me a bit of anxiety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otagekki</author><text>I think even if you were fired, you&#x27;d have dodged not a bullet but a cannonball there.<p>Sometimes being the nice guy full of good faith doesn&#x27;t pay. Literally</text></comment> | <story><title>I hate password rules</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/why-i-hate-password-rules.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>A few years back, on day 1 of my new job I was given root access to one of the development boxes.<p>So I ask: &quot;Okay, how do I log in?&quot;<p>The IT guy: &quot;What do you mean, you just log in using your personal domain account and then sudo su -. You know what sudo is?&quot; (followed by loud sigh)<p>Me: &quot;You mean like production domain, same that we use for our desktop?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;Of course! What do you mean, what other domain would you like?&quot;<p>Me: &quot;Can I at least change my password to something else just for the dev environment? Can I log in with SSH key?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;No, no, no. Per our <i>SECURITY</i> policy, SSH keys are disabled and you have to use our domain login and password&quot;. (another sigh... of course)<p>Me: &quot;Are you aware that when somebody has root access to the box they can do whatever they want including intercepting passwords of all users that log in to that box? In this case, every single developer that ever needs access to dev environment?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;That&#x27;s not true. SSH is encrypted protocol and it is not possible to access passwords&quot;.<p>Me: after many tries to explain this to various people from IT, I gave up and set out to intercept all passwords of all IT employees. After I had passwords of almost everybody, I put them all in an excel and sent to IT for &quot;verification&quot;.<p>There were a lot of angry people that day wanting me fired... fortunately they came to their senses.<p>Unfortunately, my development box access privileges were revoked.</text></item><item><author>bsuvc</author><text>A few years back, not too long ago, I started working on a new contract assignment at a medium size aerospace manufacturer.<p>I show up and check in with IT department. The system administrator shows me to my desk, and hands me a post it note with my password. Well pass phrase is more like it. It was something like “sliding down the tall building”.<p>I was quite impressed that they encouraged the use of long pass phrases instead of short cryptic passwords that are hard to remember (think “correct horse battery staple”). This place really is serious about security, I thought.<p>I thanked the system admin and causally said “I’ll be sure to change this to an equally secure pass phrase”.<p>“Oh no,” he said, “we don’t allow people to change their passwords here. You see, we need to be able to log into anyone’s computer if they go on vacation or are out of the office, so we keep an Excel worksheet with everyone’s username and password. So please don’t change your password.”<p>He turns and walks away, and I just sit there stunned, wondering if this was some kind of practical joke.<p>Sadly he was completely serious. I kept the password they gave me for the 3 months I was there, as I was asked to do, knowing that at any time someone could log in as me and do something illegal or unethical. It really did give me a bit of anxiety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>I once decided to show the vulnerability of SMTP protocol by sending an email as a higher-up. (Too young, too naive, don&#x27;t ask why I did that.) Created a massive firestorm. I did successfully convert them to use SPF and DKIM and showed everyone the need to never trust an email. Some even adopted PGP signatures after that.</text></comment> |
25,339,905 | 25,336,187 | 1 | 3 | 25,335,367 | train | <story><title>14 nations commit to protect oceans</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2020/12/in-rare-show-of-solidarity-14-key-nations-commit-to-protect</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Danieru</author><text>Since no one has mentioned the elephant in the room: this appears to be a lobby of countries not happy with the current absolute ban on whaling. Norway never signed, Canada has always had natives continuing to hunt, and Japan dislikes how the treaty meant to restore whale populations has become a treaty to forever ban. Thus we see the world&#x27;s pro whaling group. Plus the smaller nations who can be bought to the table.<p>One should expect sustainable whaling to be top of this groups agenda.</text></comment> | <story><title>14 nations commit to protect oceans</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2020/12/in-rare-show-of-solidarity-14-key-nations-commit-to-protect</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ClosedPistachio</author><text>&gt;The 14 members are Australia, Canada, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Portugal, and the island nations of Fiji, Jamaica, and Palau.</text></comment> |
3,396,323 | 3,395,929 | 1 | 3 | 3,395,557 | train | <story><title>The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/12/the-coming-retail-apocalypse-s.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zipdog</author><text>This might be relevant:<p>In Scott Adams' The Dilbert Future (1997), he introduced the word confusopoly. The word is a portmanteau of confusion and monopoly (or rather oligopoly), defining it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse customers instead of competing on price". Examples of industries in which confusopolies exist (according to Adams) include telephone service, insurance, mortgage loans, banking, and financial services. [from wiki]<p>The central idea is that if companies made it easy to compare their products, then those companies would be forced in to a detrimental competition on price. So instead, if each company offers a slightly different package, with different feautres and prices, then simple comparison doesn't exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/12/the-coming-retail-apocalypse-s.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>Airline ticket pricing is not a good general example: The airlines get away with arcane pricing in part because they have successfully outlawed arbitrage by prohibiting the resale or transfer of tickets away from the original buyer, in the name of "security".<p>I'm dubious that this practice is going to work so well for, say, socks. There is no law against trading socks on the secondary market.</text></comment> |
41,607,235 | 41,606,923 | 1 | 2 | 41,606,530 | train | <story><title>Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/20/iphone-16-repair-manual/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text>&gt; Compared to prior iPhone models, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are easier to repair. Apple is using an electric battery removal process, and the steps for accessing a battery to replace it are outlined in a separate support document &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;120642" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;120642</a>&gt;. Per Apple&#x27;s instructions, a 9-volt battery and 9-volt battery clips can be applied to the iPhone 16 battery to remove the adhesive that holds it in place.<p>&quot;Easier&quot; is relative I guess:<p><i>Here’s every tool you’ll need to replace the iPhone 16’s battery</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;heres-every-tool-youll-need-to-replace-the-iphone-16s-battery&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;heres-every-tool-youll-need-t...</a><p>* 9-volt battery<p>* 9-volt battery clips (923-10726)<p>* Battery press (923-02657)<p>* Ethanol wipes or isopropyl alcohol (IPA) wipes<p>* Nylon probe (black stick) (922-5065) or suction cup<p>* Safety glasses with side shields<p>* Sand<p>* Sand container<p>By contrast, the Treo 650 battery replacement took a few seconds and zero tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yalok</author><text>Removing a battery attached with previous type of adhesive is torture - the elastic tab frequently tears off, and I ended up a few times having to bend the old battery a lot, to get it out (very unsafe, it starts heating).<p>So, to me, this is a huge progress. Plus, don’t you normally have 9v battery and some connectors for it already?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/20/iphone-16-repair-manual/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text>&gt; Compared to prior iPhone models, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are easier to repair. Apple is using an electric battery removal process, and the steps for accessing a battery to replace it are outlined in a separate support document &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;120642" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;120642</a>&gt;. Per Apple&#x27;s instructions, a 9-volt battery and 9-volt battery clips can be applied to the iPhone 16 battery to remove the adhesive that holds it in place.<p>&quot;Easier&quot; is relative I guess:<p><i>Here’s every tool you’ll need to replace the iPhone 16’s battery</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;heres-every-tool-youll-need-to-replace-the-iphone-16s-battery&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;heres-every-tool-youll-need-t...</a><p>* 9-volt battery<p>* 9-volt battery clips (923-10726)<p>* Battery press (923-02657)<p>* Ethanol wipes or isopropyl alcohol (IPA) wipes<p>* Nylon probe (black stick) (922-5065) or suction cup<p>* Safety glasses with side shields<p>* Sand<p>* Sand container<p>By contrast, the Treo 650 battery replacement took a few seconds and zero tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbsks</author><text>Don’t forget that first you need to remove the back glass, which requires:<p>Torque driver (blue, 0.65 kgf cm) (923-0448)<p>Torque driver (green, 0.45 kgf cm) (923-00105)<p>Security bit (923-0247)<p>Micro stix bit (923-01290)<p>Nylon probe (black stick) (922-5065)<p>ESD-safe tweezers<p>Adhesive removal tool (923-09176)<p>Adhesive cutter (923-01092)<p>Ethanol wipes or isopropyl alcohol (IPA) wipes<p>6.1-inch repair tray (923-10712)<p>Camera cap (923-10716)<p>Display press (661-08916)<p>Cut-resistant gloves. Gloves may vary by region.<p>Heat-resistant gloves. Gloves may vary by region.<p>Safety glasses with side shields<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;120638" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;120638</a></text></comment> |
8,794,871 | 8,794,682 | 1 | 2 | 8,794,256 | train | <story><title>Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information</title><url>http://slur.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fabulist</author><text>This is really disappointing and almost seems engineered to proliferate Bitcoin&#x27;s reputation as a technology to service criminals.<p>I also think that they misunderstand the needs of their potential customers. They are trying to introduce a public, crowd-funded service to a market for covert information without any sense of irony. In broad strokes, a third of the value of a stolen secret is in knowing it; another third is having exclusive access; and the last third is that your competition does not know they&#x27;ve been robbed. When they realize that you have their IP, they will pour money into R&amp;D. Since they are already familiar with their work -- and you are not yet -- they are likely to beat you to market.<p>For that reason I&#x27;m skeptical this venture can compete with existing black markets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information</title><url>http://slur.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olefoo</author><text>How are they going to enforce the exclusive sale model?<p>I can think of three or four ways to defeat even a relatively sophisticated attempt to do so in an automated manner. And if you&#x27;re going to make money off selling secrets, what could be better than selling the same thing to a dozen purchasers each of whom thinks that they have an exclusive on the deal.</text></comment> |
39,152,206 | 39,150,743 | 1 | 2 | 39,148,681 | train | <story><title>iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/26/ios-17-app-stores-and-more-ipad-changes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>Apple&#x27;s really been acting in bad faith with moves like this and the 27% fee on external payments. Regulators took these actions for a reason, and Apple&#x27;s doing its best to just barely comply, at the cost of bringing even more attention to itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/26/ios-17-app-stores-and-more-ipad-changes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>For anyone interested, EU has started an investigation on iPadOS despite not meeting the threshold: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;commission&#x2F;presscorner&#x2F;detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;ip_23_4328" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;commission&#x2F;presscorner&#x2F;detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;ip_23_...</a><p>The investigation should be completed within 12 months.</text></comment> |
31,506,790 | 31,494,472 | 1 | 3 | 31,490,515 | train | <story><title>Bing contract prohibits DuckDuckGo from completely blocking Microsoft tracking</title><url>https://twitter.com/shivan_kaul/status/1528879590772338689</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lapcat</author><text>DuckDuckGo feels like just a front for Microsoft at this point. I once looked into buying search ads on DuckDuckGo, only to discover to my horror that DDG didn&#x27;t have its own ad business. DDG is entirely reliant on Microsoft&#x27;s advertising system. You have to sign up for a Microsoft account to even put ads on DDG! And it&#x27;s difficult — maybe impossible IIRC? — to specifically target DDG in those ads, without also targeting other MS properties.<p>Until DuckDuckGo separates itself from Microsoft and becomes truly independent, especially in its business model, you have to question why DDG even exists.<p>DDG was founded 14 years ago. I can understand initially bootstrapping on MS ads, but what&#x27;s the excuse now? How about separating yourself from Microsoft first, before making a web browser that gives special exemptions to Microsoft?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerevarthelame</author><text>I totally agree. It seems DDG exists at Microsoft&#x27;s leisure and has little leverage in the relationship. In addition to serving Microsoft ads and this new special arrangement to allow Microsoft tracking, they also serve almost exclusively Bing search results. It seems like they&#x27;re all but a subsidiary at this point.<p>As a consumer if you&#x27;re happy with DDG&#x27;s results this may not be relevant, but it doesn&#x27;t seem like a great long-term strategy for DDG.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bing contract prohibits DuckDuckGo from completely blocking Microsoft tracking</title><url>https://twitter.com/shivan_kaul/status/1528879590772338689</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lapcat</author><text>DuckDuckGo feels like just a front for Microsoft at this point. I once looked into buying search ads on DuckDuckGo, only to discover to my horror that DDG didn&#x27;t have its own ad business. DDG is entirely reliant on Microsoft&#x27;s advertising system. You have to sign up for a Microsoft account to even put ads on DDG! And it&#x27;s difficult — maybe impossible IIRC? — to specifically target DDG in those ads, without also targeting other MS properties.<p>Until DuckDuckGo separates itself from Microsoft and becomes truly independent, especially in its business model, you have to question why DDG even exists.<p>DDG was founded 14 years ago. I can understand initially bootstrapping on MS ads, but what&#x27;s the excuse now? How about separating yourself from Microsoft first, before making a web browser that gives special exemptions to Microsoft?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qiskit</author><text>&gt; Until DuckDuckGo separates itself from Microsoft and becomes truly independent, especially in its business model, you have to question why DDG even exists.<p>DDG exists to make money for itself. It doesn&#x27;t exist to protect your privacy.<p>From google to github to mozilla to everything, you would think the tech idealism would have died already. People working in tech, especially the elite, are some of the slimiest and greediest people on earth. Where money goes, so go the greedy slimeballs. It&#x27;s pretty much a law of nature.</text></comment> |
24,108,340 | 24,108,356 | 1 | 3 | 24,099,167 | train | <story><title>GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree</title><url>https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTechTree.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>The text uses the words &quot;culture&quot;, &quot;human history&quot;, and &quot;the world&#x2F;our world&quot;. But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean &quot;the English culture&quot; of US + UK. That&#x27;s a bit of a shame IMHO.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree</title><url>https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTechTree.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>indy</author><text>It&#x27;s strange that they&#x27;ve omitted video-games which are the intersection of software and culture these days.</text></comment> |
20,841,486 | 20,841,469 | 1 | 3 | 20,841,088 | train | <story><title>Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates</title><url>https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2019/release-of-13-reasons-why-associated-with-increase-in-youth-suicide-rates.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhcom2</author><text>We know for a fact access to firearms increases the chance of a successful suicide. That suggests a clear change that could help save lives and limits to the 2nd Amendment have already been settled as constitutional.<p>&quot;Focus on helping&#x2F;loving them&quot; is not a policy change, to me it&#x27;s nothing but &quot;thoughts and prayers&quot;. Rhetoric that might make us feel better but will help nothing.</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>The scary thing is that both this article and the example you cited are used as reasons to limit constitutional freedoms:<p>Limit second amendment more to prevent mass shootings.<p>Limit first amendment more to prevent suicides.<p>Really though, we should be focusing on the root cause: lonely&#x2F;sad&#x2F;broken people. Focus on helping&#x2F;loving them and I bet suicide&#x2F;mass shooting rates drop significantly.</text></item><item><author>aphextim</author><text>Same reason that when they show the shooter&#x27;s face all over the media and they give them tons and tons of attention, it typically spawns more copycats who are just lonely&#x2F;sad&#x2F;broken teens looking for the same attention.<p>In the show, this teen&#x27;s suicide was portrayed to have had an impact on many students&#x2F;families&#x2F;teachers etc for a very long time after the incident. It almost glorified the suicide and the methods of leaving tapes behind.<p>Real suicide is not so glorious and does not leave a much of an impact as you would think, other than on the immediate family.<p>For example, when my mother committed suicide, my sister, grandparents and myself were impacted severely for a bit, but outside of our family circle it didn&#x27;t have as much of an impact.<p>When I was in high school, we had a student commit suicide, which we ended up having 1 school meeting regarding it, but after about a week it had been forgotten by most and swept under the rug as everyone moved on to the next thing.<p>I guess I am biased based on my two experiences with suicide, however glorifying it in any way will only lead to more incidents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_law</author><text>&gt;We know for a fact access to firearms increases the chance of a successful suicide.<p>We also know poverty and financial stress leads to increased suicide, in fact close to 20% are directly related.<p>and yet, while the stock market is at record highs, companies are more profitable than ever, workers are more efficient than ever, inequality and debt has skyrocketed to historical highs.<p>The real question is what would come first: gun regulation(s) or some reforms to our economy so people are not living hand to mouth, indebted their entire lives, and have access to healthcare which includes mental health. My guess is neither. People in the US will continue to offer hopes and prayers (over social media no less for the virtue signaling and likes) but the vast majority wouldn&#x27;t piss on you if you were on fire.</text></comment> | <story><title>Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates</title><url>https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2019/release-of-13-reasons-why-associated-with-increase-in-youth-suicide-rates.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhcom2</author><text>We know for a fact access to firearms increases the chance of a successful suicide. That suggests a clear change that could help save lives and limits to the 2nd Amendment have already been settled as constitutional.<p>&quot;Focus on helping&#x2F;loving them&quot; is not a policy change, to me it&#x27;s nothing but &quot;thoughts and prayers&quot;. Rhetoric that might make us feel better but will help nothing.</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>The scary thing is that both this article and the example you cited are used as reasons to limit constitutional freedoms:<p>Limit second amendment more to prevent mass shootings.<p>Limit first amendment more to prevent suicides.<p>Really though, we should be focusing on the root cause: lonely&#x2F;sad&#x2F;broken people. Focus on helping&#x2F;loving them and I bet suicide&#x2F;mass shooting rates drop significantly.</text></item><item><author>aphextim</author><text>Same reason that when they show the shooter&#x27;s face all over the media and they give them tons and tons of attention, it typically spawns more copycats who are just lonely&#x2F;sad&#x2F;broken teens looking for the same attention.<p>In the show, this teen&#x27;s suicide was portrayed to have had an impact on many students&#x2F;families&#x2F;teachers etc for a very long time after the incident. It almost glorified the suicide and the methods of leaving tapes behind.<p>Real suicide is not so glorious and does not leave a much of an impact as you would think, other than on the immediate family.<p>For example, when my mother committed suicide, my sister, grandparents and myself were impacted severely for a bit, but outside of our family circle it didn&#x27;t have as much of an impact.<p>When I was in high school, we had a student commit suicide, which we ended up having 1 school meeting regarding it, but after about a week it had been forgotten by most and swept under the rug as everyone moved on to the next thing.<p>I guess I am biased based on my two experiences with suicide, however glorifying it in any way will only lead to more incidents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mieseratte</author><text>&gt; and limits to the 2nd Amendment have already been settled as constitutional.<p>What change(s) as relates to limiting the 2A would help to reduce suicide?</text></comment> |
22,139,609 | 22,139,114 | 1 | 2 | 22,137,279 | train | <story><title>We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/article/we-wasted-50k-on-google-ads-so-you-dont-have-to-355a425b27</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>Don&#x27;t get too fancy with your taglines. People don&#x27;t have time to understand what you are saying. People don&#x27;t like fancy terminologies except for what is popular.</i><p>It&#x27;s worse than that. And it&#x27;s my pet peeve about many startup landing pages these days. It&#x27;s not like people don&#x27;t have time to understand - <i>there&#x27;s nothing there to understand</i>! &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; is a near-meaningless phrase. It can be construed to mean just about anything. It would fit just as well on a logistics company page, or on a sticker on the side of an ICBM.<p>I wish people would just say what they actually do.</text></item><item><author>shripadk</author><text>Left a comment on the IndieHackers page. Keeping a copy here for those who aren&#x27;t reading the comments section. I have noticed this a lot in various websites I have helped in ad campaigns. Their biggest problem is their landing page. Just like this article uses lots of jargons to explain simple concepts, their landing page reflects the same. For those of you wanting to know more about landing page optimization just watch Isaac Rudansky&#x27;s excellent videos on Udemy. One of the most important rules is the 5 second test. Show your landing page to your colleagues&#x2F;friends&#x2F;family depending on your target audience. If they can&#x27;t understand what your business proposition is in 5 seconds you have failed landing page optimization. As simple as that.<p>The comment I posted on the IndieHackers page:<p>------------------<p>The landing page is too complex. Like what does &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; even mean? I am sure 90% of your paid visitors are just bouncing because that landing page tagline is alien to them. Dumb it down. Make it simple.<p>Surprisingly, the description in the Indiehackers page makes so much more sense than the one you put up: &quot;File-system-as-a-service that does uploads, storage, and media processing for Web and mobile apps, so you can ship products faster and scale them painlessly&quot;<p>If you told me that the first time I would have understood your value proposition. Don&#x27;t get too fancy with your taglines. People don&#x27;t have time to understand what you are saying. People don&#x27;t like fancy terminologies except for what is popular. There are too many jargons already. Don&#x27;t complicate it further.<p>Instead of &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; just try: &quot;File-system-as-service&quot;. Instead of &quot;Serve ultimate UX with better images on any website. One script to rule them all.&quot; just have: &quot;Ship products faster with better images on any website&quot;. That&#x27;s it. You will get 50+% higher conversion rates with just this one change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>&gt; &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; is a near-meaningless phrase. It can be construed to mean just about anything. It would fit just as well on a logistics company page, or on a sticker on the side of an ICBM.<p>I personally wonder if they used the Startup Generator in earnestness. [1]<p>But yeah, I&#x27;m a senior techie, and often involved in potential procurement discussions, and sweet Jesus, if you want us to give you money, give us some goddamned concrete facts. You synergise enterprise cloud offerings?Oh, you mean you have a templating language that tries to generify Terraform and CloudFormation and does both badly.<p>I sometimes feel like people in ticket clipping businesses like this (their CDN offering is, um, Akamai, but you can make pictures grayscale using their DSL because that&#x27;s easier than using a photo editor?) are scared of saying what they actually do because then you&#x27;ll realise that they don&#x27;t do much for the money they&#x27;re asking.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiffzhang.com&#x2F;startup" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiffzhang.com&#x2F;startup</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/article/we-wasted-50k-on-google-ads-so-you-dont-have-to-355a425b27</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>Don&#x27;t get too fancy with your taglines. People don&#x27;t have time to understand what you are saying. People don&#x27;t like fancy terminologies except for what is popular.</i><p>It&#x27;s worse than that. And it&#x27;s my pet peeve about many startup landing pages these days. It&#x27;s not like people don&#x27;t have time to understand - <i>there&#x27;s nothing there to understand</i>! &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; is a near-meaningless phrase. It can be construed to mean just about anything. It would fit just as well on a logistics company page, or on a sticker on the side of an ICBM.<p>I wish people would just say what they actually do.</text></item><item><author>shripadk</author><text>Left a comment on the IndieHackers page. Keeping a copy here for those who aren&#x27;t reading the comments section. I have noticed this a lot in various websites I have helped in ad campaigns. Their biggest problem is their landing page. Just like this article uses lots of jargons to explain simple concepts, their landing page reflects the same. For those of you wanting to know more about landing page optimization just watch Isaac Rudansky&#x27;s excellent videos on Udemy. One of the most important rules is the 5 second test. Show your landing page to your colleagues&#x2F;friends&#x2F;family depending on your target audience. If they can&#x27;t understand what your business proposition is in 5 seconds you have failed landing page optimization. As simple as that.<p>The comment I posted on the IndieHackers page:<p>------------------<p>The landing page is too complex. Like what does &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; even mean? I am sure 90% of your paid visitors are just bouncing because that landing page tagline is alien to them. Dumb it down. Make it simple.<p>Surprisingly, the description in the Indiehackers page makes so much more sense than the one you put up: &quot;File-system-as-a-service that does uploads, storage, and media processing for Web and mobile apps, so you can ship products faster and scale them painlessly&quot;<p>If you told me that the first time I would have understood your value proposition. Don&#x27;t get too fancy with your taglines. People don&#x27;t have time to understand what you are saying. People don&#x27;t like fancy terminologies except for what is popular. There are too many jargons already. Don&#x27;t complicate it further.<p>Instead of &quot;Full stack adaptive delivery&quot; just try: &quot;File-system-as-service&quot;. Instead of &quot;Serve ultimate UX with better images on any website. One script to rule them all.&quot; just have: &quot;Ship products faster with better images on any website&quot;. That&#x27;s it. You will get 50+% higher conversion rates with just this one change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryguytilidie</author><text>I do recruiting consulting and it blows my mind how every time I ask a startup how they differentiate from other startups and what specific advantages they want me to discuss, they give me a bunch of meaningless phrases. Its like founders are being taught a different language that they think provides value but makes no fucking sense.</text></comment> |
9,161,454 | 9,160,317 | 1 | 3 | 9,159,510 | train | <story><title>Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text><p><pre><code> We don’t want the state-run telcos in Saudi, Iran, Bahrain,
Belarus, China, Egypt, Cuba, USA, etc… to have direct access
to the metadata of TextSecure users in those countries or
anywhere else.
</code></pre>
Sad to see that the &#x27;land of the free&#x27; has become bundled (in a relatively short period of time) into a category of oppressive states that have little or no respect for the privacy of its citizens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackbravo</author><text>Lack of GCM was one of their primary reasons for not providing an APK for TextSecure for users who don&#x27;t use Google Play (like users with CyanogenMod).<p>- <a href="https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;TextSecure&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127</a>
- <a href="http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/articles/1476204-why-do-i-need-google-play-installed-to-use-textsecure-on-android" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.whispersystems.org&#x2F;customer&#x2F;portal&#x2F;articles&#x2F;1...</a><p>Hopefully that option will be available soon.</text></comment> |
29,709,362 | 29,708,031 | 1 | 3 | 29,707,104 | train | <story><title>The state of external retina displays</title><url>https://www.caseyliss.com/2021/12/7/monitor-liss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>querulous</author><text>the problem with the apple xdr display isn&#x27;t just the price though. it&#x27;s not a good monitor for a lot of users. it&#x27;s limited to 60hz, it&#x27;s response time is really poor, it suffers from really obvious blooming and bleed at high brightness and it has bad off axis color accuracy and brightness. sure, if you care deeply about color accuracy and 6k resolution it&#x27;s pretty good. these aren&#x27;t the only metrics on which monitors are judged though<p>apple does a really poor job of supporting external displays. there&#x27;s virtually no good options if you want something with high refresh, good latency and reasonable pixel density and color reproduction</text></item><item><author>urthor</author><text>&gt; Ridiculous Option: Apple Pro Display XDR<p>I&#x27;ll admit, a monitor that costs more than my first car is beyond affordable for 99% of the population.<p>But saying that, many of the people reading this are pulling truly exotic salaries right now. After devoting untold hours to reaching the top of their profession.<p>Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re a professional earning $300k plus in software.<p>You&#x27;re often working 100% remote, using your monitor 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, <i>just for work</i>. Plus untold hours of HackerNews (strictly after 5pm of course).<p>I just find that&#x27;s truly not an unlikely situation to be in.<p>Without reference to the technical merits of the Apple Display, I don&#x27;t think dropping $5000 on a monitor is outlandish for any professional in the situation I&#x27;ve described.<p>My hairdresser for example has a $4000 pair of <i>scissors</i>. He uses the damn things every day, and he sharpens them twice a day.<p>Whilst it&#x27;s not <i>essential</i>, taking pride and investing in the tools of your trade is not a thing to frown upon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BoorishBears</author><text>I go into more detail below but I completely disagree with your take.<p>If anything for most users this thing is amazing (but expensive), and for the few users who were &quot;tricked&quot; into thinking this is a $5000 reference monitor it&#x27;s not good...<p>-<p>Bleed is non-existent, right off the bat. In fact it doesn&#x27;t make sense it&#x27;d have bloom and backlight bleeding, aggressive HDR produces bloom... so the same aggressive HDR would hide BLB.<p>Bloom is also a complete non-issue for most users. I use this monitor primarily to consume text and casual media... I got <i>weeks</i> at a time before remembering this monitor had HDR enabled full-time when some super thin loading spinner or something appears on a completely black background while the brightness is cranked to max but the room is kind of dark... it essentially takes a torture test to get the FALD to be problematic<p>Off-axis color accuracy, again, complete non-issue for most users. If I was producing Avatar 2 it might be an issue, but compared to any &quot;normal&quot; monitor it&#x27;s a complete non-issue, especially when the trade off is exactly 0 backlight bleed, which is 100 times more annoying.<p>For &quot;most users&quot; there&#x27;s no better productivity monitor. Even a $20,000 reference monitor would be useless for us since we&#x27;re not going to be able to drive or configure it...</text></comment> | <story><title>The state of external retina displays</title><url>https://www.caseyliss.com/2021/12/7/monitor-liss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>querulous</author><text>the problem with the apple xdr display isn&#x27;t just the price though. it&#x27;s not a good monitor for a lot of users. it&#x27;s limited to 60hz, it&#x27;s response time is really poor, it suffers from really obvious blooming and bleed at high brightness and it has bad off axis color accuracy and brightness. sure, if you care deeply about color accuracy and 6k resolution it&#x27;s pretty good. these aren&#x27;t the only metrics on which monitors are judged though<p>apple does a really poor job of supporting external displays. there&#x27;s virtually no good options if you want something with high refresh, good latency and reasonable pixel density and color reproduction</text></item><item><author>urthor</author><text>&gt; Ridiculous Option: Apple Pro Display XDR<p>I&#x27;ll admit, a monitor that costs more than my first car is beyond affordable for 99% of the population.<p>But saying that, many of the people reading this are pulling truly exotic salaries right now. After devoting untold hours to reaching the top of their profession.<p>Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re a professional earning $300k plus in software.<p>You&#x27;re often working 100% remote, using your monitor 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, <i>just for work</i>. Plus untold hours of HackerNews (strictly after 5pm of course).<p>I just find that&#x27;s truly not an unlikely situation to be in.<p>Without reference to the technical merits of the Apple Display, I don&#x27;t think dropping $5000 on a monitor is outlandish for any professional in the situation I&#x27;ve described.<p>My hairdresser for example has a $4000 pair of <i>scissors</i>. He uses the damn things every day, and he sharpens them twice a day.<p>Whilst it&#x27;s not <i>essential</i>, taking pride and investing in the tools of your trade is not a thing to frown upon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>urthor</author><text>Fair enough, I wrote the above knowing absolutely nothing about the Apple&#x27;s specs. I&#x27;m just speaking in generalities.</text></comment> |
13,124,434 | 13,124,409 | 1 | 2 | 13,123,802 | train | <story><title>Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and&#x2F;or implement them.<p>It&#x27;s not just the ad hoc unintuitive &quot;solution&quot; they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It&#x27;s a lot of things: their inept response to spam&#x2F;vote brigading&#x2F;other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I&#x27;m constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clamprecht</author><text>Redditor of 11 years here. I don&#x27;t want another filter bubble that only shows me what it thinks I want to read (like Facebook). I want to see what other people are seeing, and not just like-minded people either. For that I can find subreddits and subscribe to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and&#x2F;or implement them.<p>It&#x27;s not just the ad hoc unintuitive &quot;solution&quot; they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It&#x27;s a lot of things: their inept response to spam&#x2F;vote brigading&#x2F;other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I&#x27;m constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>&gt; “At one point I just ask him, ‘how’s the data science team at Reddit?’ And [Ohanian] said, ‘what data science team?’” Weiner recounts to me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;reddit-cto-marty-weiner-on-building-a-home-for-the-internets-wildest-community&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;reddit-cto-marty-weiner-on...</a></text></comment> |
16,148,144 | 16,146,974 | 1 | 2 | 16,146,132 | train | <story><title>Skia: an open source 2D graphics library</title><url>https://skia.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tony</author><text>Aseprite switched to Skia a year or so ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;aseprite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;aseprite</a>).<p>Regret it. Google doesn&#x27;t care to maintain CMake support for it, so there goes pulling it in via source and building as a library dependency. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1598#issuecomment-341869884" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1598#issuecommen...</a><p>You may ask, &quot;why don&#x27;t you just write your own CMake module like everyone else?&quot; I&#x27;ve tried. I think the build system changed a bit since, but back when I last tried, it required grabbing depot tools, checking out a source tree and a ton of other dependencies.<p>I am the original person that got Aseprite building on FreeBSD - but now I can&#x27;t build it on any platform at all. Skia has too many points of failure in the build process. (Here&#x27;s another issue where I spend hours trying to figure out what&#x27;s going on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1081" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;aseprite&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1081</a>)<p>Every other graphics library (SDL2, Allegro, SFML) can work with CMake.<p>Another pain point: Skia isn&#x27;t on any package managers to my knowledge. Here&#x27;s the debian RFP <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;818180" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;818180</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Skia: an open source 2D graphics library</title><url>https://skia.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guessmyname</author><text>With all the fuss with &quot;modern&quot; text editors built on top of web engines, I feel the need to remind you all that one of the fastest graphical code editors that I have ever used — SublimeText — was built using Skia for the rendering. I believe many people have noticed how smooth the interface and most of the operations feel, a very good selling point if you want to build a GUI in the future.</text></comment> |
32,517,443 | 32,516,375 | 1 | 3 | 32,515,928 | train | <story><title>Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?</title><url>https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-08-18-why-openbsd-documentation-is-good.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgang42</author><text>My perspective is skewed since I only get the questions that the documentation <i>doesn’t</i> answer, but I support someone who uses OpenBSD and the documentation is far from perfect. Some complaints that spring immediately to mind:<p>The man pages sometimes document things only by implication, or with confusing wording, such that if you already <i>know</i> the answer it makes sense, but if you don’t it’s near-impossible to find out. (To be fair, this affliction is definitely not exclusive to OpenBSD’s manpages.)<p>From what I can figure out, their &#x27;ksh&#x27; is a vendored copy that they forked and made a bunch of changes to without ever updating the version string, so despite claiming to be “PD KSH v5.2.14 99&#x2F;07&#x2F;13.2” it’s got 20 years of patches added on top and won’t match any ksh you’ll find anywhere else. This is not explained anywhere that I could find.<p>There are some questions in the installer about 802.11 setup which are terse to the point of incomprehensibility and AFAICT entirely undocumented. (I had to go rummaging around in the source code and read the installer script to figure out what it was trying to get me to do.)<p>A particular peeve is that the sh and ksh manpages are completely different, despite documenting the same program. (They’re the same binary, with the non-POSIX bits left out of the sh manpage.) It’s particularly frustrating that there are some things documented well in one but poorly in the other, so once you’ve found the same documentation on both sides you still have to figure out what’s actual differences and what’s just bad phrasing.<p>OpenBSD’s maintainers also seem very insular and their mailing lists have a reputation for being very abrasive, so it’s also very intimidating to propose improvements; as a result these papercuts stick around (not being very obvious to the developers, who already know how these things work and so miss them) and continue to mar the polish.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?</title><url>https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-08-18-why-openbsd-documentation-is-good.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>It really, really is.<p>The comprehensive and well-written man-pages are one of the reasons why OpenBSD feels so &quot;complete&quot;. In German, you&#x27;d say &quot;aus einem Guss&quot;, which almost literally translated means &quot;from a single mold&quot;.<p>Linux often feels like a bunch of different things thrown together (which it always was), and the quality, or even just existence, of the documentation differs accordingly.</text></comment> |
16,305,990 | 16,305,857 | 1 | 2 | 16,304,899 | train | <story><title>Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure</title><url>http://github.com/arogozhnikov/python3_with_pleasure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>re</author><text>I&#x27;ve been toying around with Python 3 and using it for most of my personal&#x2F;hack projects, but I somehow missed the unpacking improvements: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;peps&#x2F;pep-0448&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;peps&#x2F;pep-0448&#x2F;</a><p>In particular, being able to create an updated copy of a dict with a single expression is pretty cool:<p><pre><code> return {**old, &#x27;foo&#x27;: &#x27;bar&#x27;}
# Old way
new = old.copy
new[&#x27;foo&#x27;] = [&#x27;bar&#x27;]
return new</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>est</author><text><p><pre><code> return {**old, &#x27;foo&#x27;: &#x27;bar&#x27;}
# Old way
return dict(old, foo=&#x27;bar&#x27;)
</code></pre>
Not much difference if you ask me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure</title><url>http://github.com/arogozhnikov/python3_with_pleasure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>re</author><text>I&#x27;ve been toying around with Python 3 and using it for most of my personal&#x2F;hack projects, but I somehow missed the unpacking improvements: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;peps&#x2F;pep-0448&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;peps&#x2F;pep-0448&#x2F;</a><p>In particular, being able to create an updated copy of a dict with a single expression is pretty cool:<p><pre><code> return {**old, &#x27;foo&#x27;: &#x27;bar&#x27;}
# Old way
new = old.copy
new[&#x27;foo&#x27;] = [&#x27;bar&#x27;]
return new</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miracle2k</author><text>My mind is blown. Ever since JavaScript added this, I&#x27;ve been wanting it in Python... and somehow it was there all along. It works for lists too!<p><pre><code> [*a, *b, *c]</code></pre></text></comment> |
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