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11,715,486 | 11,715,353 | 1 | 2 | 11,713,396 | train | <story><title>Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-08/why-u-s-infrastructure-costs-so-much</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; The first candidate I&#x27;d propose for the top slot is diffusion of responsibility stemming from a US obsession with localism<p>If it were <i>only</i> localism, there would be localities that were fantastic at investing in their own infrastructure. Responsibilities, even funding local schools, have been nationalizing slowly over the years without an explicit change in the U.S. Constitution. So the national government has to &#x27;hack&#x27; the system with grants and taxes to indirectly get national policies enacted. It&#x27;s a corruption of the system to work around the Constitutional protection of federalism.<p>One solution would be to amend the Constitution to make things like education national policy once and for all. Another would be for the national government to leave things like building roads and funding schools to the local governments.</text></item><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any love for NYC construction unions and their ridiculous work rules, but the fact that France -- France! where strikes shutting down the whole country is a national pastime -- does better means that can&#x27;t be the number one answer. Similarly we can rule out corruption because even Chicago is a piker compared to Shanghai. I think both unions and corruption play a part but not of the first rank.<p>The first candidate I&#x27;d propose for the top slot is diffusion of responsibility stemming from a US obsession with localism. An MTA project might well be paid for by: the federal government, NY state, NYC, and bonds to be paid back by a dedicated tax in 10 downstate counties. There are contracting rules imposed by each of those sources. And it is administered by the MTA board, a monstrosity with appointments from eight different sources. The buck stops nowhere.<p>The second candidate is, paradoxically, the progressive era procurement rules designed to rein in corruption. They leave too little discretion. In a two sided competitive game, if one side is hampered in by slow changing inflexible rules the other side is going to dominate. That&#x27;s exactly what happens. Government contractors play the system like a fiddle and there&#x27;s little the government negotiators even when they are supremely competent and diligent can do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imglorp</author><text>The feds could also do some easy, central infrastructure things that would reduce school and local govt funding needs in the first place. If the schools or localities want to buy their own, great. Three examples:<p>1. It seems every school uses a mishmash of Moodle, Schoology, and some Sharepoint abortion. If the feds would spend around the cost of 3 or 4 F-35 helmets ($1.6M) they could build and offer a decent school site. You know, homeworks, attendance. It could be the same software everywhere, even if you changed schools. Teachers wouldn&#x27;t need retraining and kids would have their stuff follow them.<p>2. Fund a decent central, unbiased curriculum with open source text books. Kansas can suck an egg. Localities really _don&#x27;t_ need their own curricula. The 3 R&#x27;s don&#x27;t need to vary with district.<p>3. Same as 1 but for local government operations software. Do they really all need their own?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-08/why-u-s-infrastructure-costs-so-much</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; The first candidate I&#x27;d propose for the top slot is diffusion of responsibility stemming from a US obsession with localism<p>If it were <i>only</i> localism, there would be localities that were fantastic at investing in their own infrastructure. Responsibilities, even funding local schools, have been nationalizing slowly over the years without an explicit change in the U.S. Constitution. So the national government has to &#x27;hack&#x27; the system with grants and taxes to indirectly get national policies enacted. It&#x27;s a corruption of the system to work around the Constitutional protection of federalism.<p>One solution would be to amend the Constitution to make things like education national policy once and for all. Another would be for the national government to leave things like building roads and funding schools to the local governments.</text></item><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any love for NYC construction unions and their ridiculous work rules, but the fact that France -- France! where strikes shutting down the whole country is a national pastime -- does better means that can&#x27;t be the number one answer. Similarly we can rule out corruption because even Chicago is a piker compared to Shanghai. I think both unions and corruption play a part but not of the first rank.<p>The first candidate I&#x27;d propose for the top slot is diffusion of responsibility stemming from a US obsession with localism. An MTA project might well be paid for by: the federal government, NY state, NYC, and bonds to be paid back by a dedicated tax in 10 downstate counties. There are contracting rules imposed by each of those sources. And it is administered by the MTA board, a monstrosity with appointments from eight different sources. The buck stops nowhere.<p>The second candidate is, paradoxically, the progressive era procurement rules designed to rein in corruption. They leave too little discretion. In a two sided competitive game, if one side is hampered in by slow changing inflexible rules the other side is going to dominate. That&#x27;s exactly what happens. Government contractors play the system like a fiddle and there&#x27;s little the government negotiators even when they are supremely competent and diligent can do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>If a transportation system crosses more than one jurisdiction than it doesn&#x27;t really matter if some localities are fantastic at investing in their own infrastructure. It is inherently a problem that can be solved optimally only at a different level. It might be possible to design a system such that metro areas are always a single jurisdiction, but given that such areas grow and shrink over time it wouldn&#x27;t be easy.<p>I don&#x27;t think that &quot;corruption of the system&quot; is a cause in and of itself of the high cost of infrastructure construction or repair. Whether or not the Constitution would need to be changed, that&#x27;s an implementation detail. First we need to figure out if diffusion of responsibility is actually a major problem (as I suggest), then get widespread agreement that that is the case, only then should we start worrying about what legal barters may or may not be in the way of mitigation strategies.</text></comment> |
25,755,728 | 25,755,703 | 1 | 2 | 25,752,000 | train | <story><title>U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/u-s-to-require-negative-covid-19-tests-for-international-air-passengers-sources-idUSKBN29H2KD</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text>&gt; The USA currently has nine million active cases. I actually think at this point if you have cold symptoms it may be more likely you have covid than a common cold.<p>Your intuition is wildly off-base here. Nearly all of us catch <i>at least</i> one cold a year, mostly during the winter months. There are, quite literally, hundreds of millions of colds a year. There&#x27;s also ~half a dozen viruses in circulation at any given time that cause cold-like symptoms, vs. one for SARS-CoV2.</text></item><item><author>mxcrossb</author><text>The USA currently has nine million active cases. I actually think at this point if you have cold symptoms it may be more likely you have covid than a common cold.<p>(Though maybe someone has data in cold cases to clarify the cross over point)</text></item><item><author>bigiain</author><text>&gt; There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn&#x27;t completely consistent with and expected from a cold<p>Unfortunately, I think these days symptoms of &quot;just a cold&quot; are enough reason to self isolate for long enough to reliably get through the Covid incubation period - which locally (Sydney .au) has been reported to occasionally be as long as 10 days or more.</text></item><item><author>nilkn</author><text>To be clear, the order of events was such that I did not have loss of smell&#x2F;taste at the time of the rapid tests. There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn&#x27;t completely consistent with and expected from a cold, and I even encountered resistance when I tried to get tested prior to the tell-tale loss-of-smell symptom appearing (hence the rapid tests only at that point). I had a mildly uncomfortable phone call with an urgent care center where they discouraged me from pursuing testing because they didn&#x27;t think I had enough symptoms.<p>I knew exactly from whom I had contracted whatever illness I had, and that person had also tested negative for COVID (upon further questioning, their test had also been a rapid one, and they too had not been informed of its unreliability for any negative determination).</text></item><item><author>Osmium</author><text>I&#x27;m glad the OP made the correct decision in this case and hope they get well soon.<p>&gt; the assumption I had a minor cold
&gt; the loss of smell was total<p>Since there does seem to be a messaging problem about the reliability of testing, I think it&#x27;s worth emphasizing: if someone has symptoms of COVID, they should proceed as-if they have COVID. CDC guidance[1] is to isolate if you have a positive test OR if you have symptoms.<p>To do otherwise is to gamble with the health and lives of the people they meet, and the people those people meet, and so on. It may prove almost impossible to show who caught COVID from whom, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that ignoring guidance won&#x27;t lead to deaths. A statistical death is still the death of a real person, even if we can&#x27;t put a name to them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;2019-ncov&#x2F;if-you-are-sick&#x2F;isolation.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;2019-ncov&#x2F;if-you-are-sick&#x2F;is...</a></text></item><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I have an interesting anecdote related to this.<p>As it happens, I currently have COVID. When I first noticed I was getting sick, I was scheduled to fly in the near future, so I got a rapid COVID test that delivers results in 15 minutes.<p>It was negative. I got another one, and it was negative too. I had thus intended to go ahead with the trip under the assumption I had a minor cold.<p>Later, a few days before I was to fly, I lost all smell and taste. Now I didn’t know what to think. I wasn’t particularly congested, and the loss of smell was total. I’d never experienced this before. Could both tests have been false negatives?<p>I delayed the flight (free of charge luckily, so no big deal) and got a test that had to be sent to a lab for analysis. A week later, the positive test result came back.<p>Take from this what you will. I&#x27;m not a scientist or a doctor and frankly there&#x27;s nothing remotely intelligent I can say about the various tests out there for COVID. But if the rapid tests are as unreliable in general as they were for me, it’s sort of no wonder COVID is spreading like wildfire. I was very, very close to boarding a plane with an active case of COVID, and I would have if I hadn’t acted out of an abundance of caution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>The steps we are taking to reduce COVID spread also reduce the spread of the cold. I would be absolutely shocked if we don&#x27;t end up having our lowest impact cold and flu season in decades this year. That isn&#x27;t to say the grandparent comment is correct, just that you can&#x27;t really use a comparison from prior years as an indication of how many people will get a cold this year.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/u-s-to-require-negative-covid-19-tests-for-international-air-passengers-sources-idUSKBN29H2KD</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text>&gt; The USA currently has nine million active cases. I actually think at this point if you have cold symptoms it may be more likely you have covid than a common cold.<p>Your intuition is wildly off-base here. Nearly all of us catch <i>at least</i> one cold a year, mostly during the winter months. There are, quite literally, hundreds of millions of colds a year. There&#x27;s also ~half a dozen viruses in circulation at any given time that cause cold-like symptoms, vs. one for SARS-CoV2.</text></item><item><author>mxcrossb</author><text>The USA currently has nine million active cases. I actually think at this point if you have cold symptoms it may be more likely you have covid than a common cold.<p>(Though maybe someone has data in cold cases to clarify the cross over point)</text></item><item><author>bigiain</author><text>&gt; There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn&#x27;t completely consistent with and expected from a cold<p>Unfortunately, I think these days symptoms of &quot;just a cold&quot; are enough reason to self isolate for long enough to reliably get through the Covid incubation period - which locally (Sydney .au) has been reported to occasionally be as long as 10 days or more.</text></item><item><author>nilkn</author><text>To be clear, the order of events was such that I did not have loss of smell&#x2F;taste at the time of the rapid tests. There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn&#x27;t completely consistent with and expected from a cold, and I even encountered resistance when I tried to get tested prior to the tell-tale loss-of-smell symptom appearing (hence the rapid tests only at that point). I had a mildly uncomfortable phone call with an urgent care center where they discouraged me from pursuing testing because they didn&#x27;t think I had enough symptoms.<p>I knew exactly from whom I had contracted whatever illness I had, and that person had also tested negative for COVID (upon further questioning, their test had also been a rapid one, and they too had not been informed of its unreliability for any negative determination).</text></item><item><author>Osmium</author><text>I&#x27;m glad the OP made the correct decision in this case and hope they get well soon.<p>&gt; the assumption I had a minor cold
&gt; the loss of smell was total<p>Since there does seem to be a messaging problem about the reliability of testing, I think it&#x27;s worth emphasizing: if someone has symptoms of COVID, they should proceed as-if they have COVID. CDC guidance[1] is to isolate if you have a positive test OR if you have symptoms.<p>To do otherwise is to gamble with the health and lives of the people they meet, and the people those people meet, and so on. It may prove almost impossible to show who caught COVID from whom, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that ignoring guidance won&#x27;t lead to deaths. A statistical death is still the death of a real person, even if we can&#x27;t put a name to them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;2019-ncov&#x2F;if-you-are-sick&#x2F;isolation.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;2019-ncov&#x2F;if-you-are-sick&#x2F;is...</a></text></item><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I have an interesting anecdote related to this.<p>As it happens, I currently have COVID. When I first noticed I was getting sick, I was scheduled to fly in the near future, so I got a rapid COVID test that delivers results in 15 minutes.<p>It was negative. I got another one, and it was negative too. I had thus intended to go ahead with the trip under the assumption I had a minor cold.<p>Later, a few days before I was to fly, I lost all smell and taste. Now I didn’t know what to think. I wasn’t particularly congested, and the loss of smell was total. I’d never experienced this before. Could both tests have been false negatives?<p>I delayed the flight (free of charge luckily, so no big deal) and got a test that had to be sent to a lab for analysis. A week later, the positive test result came back.<p>Take from this what you will. I&#x27;m not a scientist or a doctor and frankly there&#x27;s nothing remotely intelligent I can say about the various tests out there for COVID. But if the rapid tests are as unreliable in general as they were for me, it’s sort of no wonder COVID is spreading like wildfire. I was very, very close to boarding a plane with an active case of COVID, and I would have if I hadn’t acted out of an abundance of caution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I catch colds roughly 7-8 times per year. It sometimes feels like I have cold symptoms more days than I don’t. I currently have cold symptoms. If I had to isolate every day I had a cough, sore throat, congestion, or sneezing, I’d be under house arrest most of the year. I think it’s vitally important that we have accurate COVID tests that can definitively distinguish a case of the cold from a case of COVID.</text></comment> |
3,225,239 | 3,225,200 | 1 | 3 | 3,225,055 | train | <story><title>Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alterlife</author><text>Linux Mint has put Google custom search into the distribution in order to raise revenue. It's in firefox both from the address bar, the search box, and in the quick search from the 'start' menu. It's very annoying, and it isn't just a matter of opting out. Mint doesn't support an easy way to remove it from all three locations without getting technical.<p>I used mint for a couple of months, the custom search engine came back every time I updated a browser, and it was very annoying to reset settings. It was a deal breaker for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dchest</author><text>Also, this is absolutely unacceptable:<p><i>Our goal is to give users a good search experience while funding ourselves by receiving a share of this income. Search engines who do not share the income generated by our users, are removed from Linux Mint and might get their ads blocked.</i><p><a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851" rel="nofollow">http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alterlife</author><text>Linux Mint has put Google custom search into the distribution in order to raise revenue. It's in firefox both from the address bar, the search box, and in the quick search from the 'start' menu. It's very annoying, and it isn't just a matter of opting out. Mint doesn't support an easy way to remove it from all three locations without getting technical.<p>I used mint for a couple of months, the custom search engine came back every time I updated a browser, and it was very annoying to reset settings. It was a deal breaker for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SlipperySlope</author><text>What about if Google Chrome is one's preferred browser and Google search is one's preferred search engine. Would Mint's custom search still be as annoying?</text></comment> |
16,521,950 | 16,522,124 | 1 | 2 | 16,521,912 | train | <story><title>Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/dealbook/zagat-google-infatuation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buckhx</author><text>CTO of The Infatuation here. We&#x27;re excited to get rolling on this and have some really unique challenges ahead to extract Zagat from internal Google technology. Feel free to reach out with any questions.<p>If you want to help us tackle this, check out our openings on our Engineering team: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinfatuation.com&#x2F;careers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinfatuation.com&#x2F;careers</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/dealbook/zagat-google-infatuation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>This is interesting. What’s the data use agreement like on this sale? Does google get to retain all of Zagat’s historical data? Or is it sold to the Infatuation?<p>They just bought Zagat in 2011, so selling it so quickly seems odd. It’s an undisclosed amount, so I assume it’s at a loss from its $151M purchase. I hope it eventually becomes public knowledge through Google’s SEC filings.<p>If this is just a way to buy deep data sets, then this makes sense. $150M for likely the best training set for food review in existence makes sense and therefore isn’t Google stupidly investing in review sites. It would also explain the buy and sell technique used on Boston Dynamics, Moto, and others.</text></comment> |
36,902,886 | 36,902,802 | 1 | 3 | 36,889,251 | train | <story><title>How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success</title><url>https://www.vox.com/culture/23516638/cheesecake-factory-restaurant-menu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>Cheesecake Factory, similar to Costco, is the ultimate example of how you have to know the rules to break the rules.</i><p>I mean, it&#x27;s a themed casual dining experience along the lines of Rainforest Cafe, Buca di Beppo, Hard Rock Cafe, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., etc. What &quot;rules&quot; are they breaking?</text></item><item><author>shalmanese</author><text>Cheesecake Factory, similar to Costco, is the ultimate example of how you have to know the rules to break the rules. The entire company is fascinating because they holistically designed an entire system where every single part of it works in concert to deliver their unique experience.<p>Nobody can really copy them because you can’t do it unless you start from a truly ground up perspective. Others who seem superficially similar on the surface simply can’t deliver a comparable experience because of this.<p>Is there any good public writing going into detail about this? Lots has been written on how Costco is Costco but all my info on CCF has been from geeking out with insiders who are also passionate about system design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shalmanese</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsrmagazine.com&#x2F;slideshows&#x2F;26-casual-chains-earning-most-money-restaurant" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsrmagazine.com&#x2F;slideshows&#x2F;26-casual-chains-earn...</a><p>If you ignore the tiny chain at #1, look at the gap between CCF and their #2 competitor in sales per location. I think at some point I read that CCF was second only to Apple Store in revenue per square foot (I think in prime real estate corridors, excluding luxury or some similar criteria, it was a while ago).<p>Edit: first watch this video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=myRFzVmH1tg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=myRFzVmH1tg</a> . Best way to analogize it is that CCF is the Katie Ledecky of casual chain restaurants. Because people who write about business and tech don’t really go to casual chain restaurants, nobody appreciates their accomplishments like they do Costco or In-n-Out.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success</title><url>https://www.vox.com/culture/23516638/cheesecake-factory-restaurant-menu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>Cheesecake Factory, similar to Costco, is the ultimate example of how you have to know the rules to break the rules.</i><p>I mean, it&#x27;s a themed casual dining experience along the lines of Rainforest Cafe, Buca di Beppo, Hard Rock Cafe, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., etc. What &quot;rules&quot; are they breaking?</text></item><item><author>shalmanese</author><text>Cheesecake Factory, similar to Costco, is the ultimate example of how you have to know the rules to break the rules. The entire company is fascinating because they holistically designed an entire system where every single part of it works in concert to deliver their unique experience.<p>Nobody can really copy them because you can’t do it unless you start from a truly ground up perspective. Others who seem superficially similar on the surface simply can’t deliver a comparable experience because of this.<p>Is there any good public writing going into detail about this? Lots has been written on how Costco is Costco but all my info on CCF has been from geeking out with insiders who are also passionate about system design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>7thaccount</author><text>I&#x27;d also like to know. It seems like a lot of restaurants like BJ&#x27;s Brewhouse which has a menu longer than a dictionary (exaggerating of course, but it&#x27;s ridiculous). Of course nothing is THAT great.</text></comment> |
19,018,422 | 19,018,374 | 1 | 3 | 19,017,938 | train | <story><title>BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/buzzfeed-employees-demand-it-pay-out-earned-pto-to-all-laid-off-u-s-staffers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pinbenterjamin</author><text>I agree with the idea that all accrued PTO should be paid out, if the release of the employee was the decision of the company.<p>I also would like to add, that Buzzfeed did not simply throw these people out the door and into poverty, they did provide severance and benefits through April, which should be plenty of time to find another source of income (hopefully).<p>&quot;BuzzFeed’s laid-off employees received a severance of a minimum 10 weeks pay, and benefits through April. Taylor’s response to the petition’s organizers said the company wants to meet with staff to discuss the issue&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohyes</author><text>Pto is part of your compensation.<p>It goes on the books as a liability, which is why a lot of companies are doing ‘unlimited vacation’ now. (And why others don’t want to roll vacation from one year to the next). If they don’t owe you a certain amount of vacation, they don’t have to pay it out when you quit.<p>But if they do owe it, they do have to pay you.</text></comment> | <story><title>BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/buzzfeed-employees-demand-it-pay-out-earned-pto-to-all-laid-off-u-s-staffers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pinbenterjamin</author><text>I agree with the idea that all accrued PTO should be paid out, if the release of the employee was the decision of the company.<p>I also would like to add, that Buzzfeed did not simply throw these people out the door and into poverty, they did provide severance and benefits through April, which should be plenty of time to find another source of income (hopefully).<p>&quot;BuzzFeed’s laid-off employees received a severance of a minimum 10 weeks pay, and benefits through April. Taylor’s response to the petition’s organizers said the company wants to meet with staff to discuss the issue&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudul</author><text>Useful precision yes. 10 weeks is a very generous severance package, especially if it includes continuation of benefits.<p>They may have been clumsy there. They could have avoided this bad PR by just paying the PTO and giving 5 weeks of severance or something like that.</text></comment> |
11,406,821 | 11,404,974 | 1 | 3 | 11,404,590 | train | <story><title>Apple at 40: The forgotten founder who gave it all away</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35940300</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>There are so many things that might have happened but for one key decision. You can&#x27;t spend the rest of your life wondering &quot;what if?&quot;<p>But it can be tempting!<p>In my case, I had the opportunity to be the first programmer at Apple. I told the story on Reddit a few years ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IAmA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;h4n5w&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IAmA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;h4n5w&#x2F;</a><p>As you can imagine, I have wondered &quot;what if?&quot; more than a few times. :-)<p>But &quot;what if?&quot; can work both ways. I could have become a billionaire and one of the most famous people in Silicon Valley. Or Steve could have driven me from the mild depression I&#x27;d occasionally experienced into full-blown mental illness, as happened with one of Apple&#x27;s earliest employees. You just don&#x27;t know which way it could have turned out.<p>The other story on the front page today about Regis McKenna reminds me of one of the more remarkable coincidences I&#x27;ve encountered.<p>As I told in the Reddit story, when I walked out of Apple&#x27;s answering service in 1976 I thought to myself, &quot;Those guys are flakes! They&#x27;re never going to make it.&quot;<p>It was one of those things that sticks in your mind. I remember vividly to this day exactly where I was walking and the exact words that were in my head.<p>A couple of years ago I was reading Michael Moritz&#x27;s <i>Return to the Little Kingdom</i> and ran across this:<p><i>At first there was great uncertainty at the Regis McKenna Agency about Apple&#x27;s prospects. The account executive, Frank Burge, explained, &quot;People who knew Markkula and Apple wondered whether they would make it. We kept saying &#x27;These guys are flakes. They’re never going to make it.&#x27;&quot;</i><p>Other than &quot;these&quot; vs. &quot;those&quot;, it&#x27;s the <i>exact same words</i> I was thinking.<p>It was definitely a strange feeling to run across that quote!</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple at 40: The forgotten founder who gave it all away</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35940300</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CapitalistCartr</author><text>This is an excellent example of why startups are dominated by the young, single, affluent. They have nearly nothing to lose. The rest of us do.<p>&quot;If the company goes poof, we are individually liable for the debts,&quot; Wayne explained.
&quot;Jobs and Wozniak didn&#x27;t have two nickels to rub together. I had a house, and a bank account, and a car… I was reachable!&quot;</text></comment> |
16,599,372 | 16,598,486 | 1 | 2 | 16,597,626 | train | <story><title>Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/12536/our-interesting-call-with-cts-labs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is crazymaking. I posted the Trail of Bits technical summary earlier today:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16595184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16595184</a><p>Trail of Bits --- which has a reputation in the field approaching &quot;unimpeachable&quot; --- confirmed a series of serious vulnerabilities. Whether there are real findings involved in this report isn&#x27;t in question, and hasn&#x27;t been since the day of the announcement, when Dan Guido from Trail of Bits confirmed that they&#x27;d reviewed and confirmed the finding.<p>It&#x27;s ironic, or maybe it isn&#x27;t, that after CTS-Labs published their findings in a manner basically optimized for innuendo than Anandtech has run a story that is basically composed of innuendo. Given how charged people&#x27;s feelings about AMD seem to be, this is probably manna from heaven for them, and since CTS-Labs isn&#x27;t publishing the full technical details, it&#x27;ll be raining bread for them for many days to come.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t care, except that after the original monster thread about the CTS-Lab announcement, it&#x27;s become apparent that HN commenters have a very poor understanding of how vulnerability research actually works, and Anandtech is perpetuating some of those myths, like the idea that researchers invariably (or even routinely) arrange for CVE allocation when publishing new flaws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>You&#x27;re building a strawman (as you were in that announcement thread as well). The fact that they didn&#x27;t allocate a CVE or agree on an embargo is really the least of the issues. It&#x27;s clear that you personally don&#x27;t want to do that as a security researcher. That&#x27;s fine, I tend to agree with you.<p>But that&#x27;s really not the issue. The real problem is that their reveal was clearly meant to mislead. It&#x27;s was a direct attack on AMD and probably more specifically AMD&#x27;s stock. Technical details were hidden in the middle of a mediocre whitepaper, all the descriptions of the flaws appear much more critical than they really are. Meanwhile they took the time to make a fancy website and even a video so it&#x27;s clearly not because of a lack of time or resources. I don&#x27;t have any particular problem with them &quot;0-day&quot; the announcement but I do have many problems with this pretty obvious manipulation attempt.<p>Do you genuinely think that CTS-lab acted in good faith here and that the way they handled the disclosure was appropriate? Would you advise other security researchers to do the same thing, to make sure to reveal the vulnerabilities in a way that will cause as much damage as possible, even if it means resorting to good old FUD?</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/12536/our-interesting-call-with-cts-labs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is crazymaking. I posted the Trail of Bits technical summary earlier today:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16595184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16595184</a><p>Trail of Bits --- which has a reputation in the field approaching &quot;unimpeachable&quot; --- confirmed a series of serious vulnerabilities. Whether there are real findings involved in this report isn&#x27;t in question, and hasn&#x27;t been since the day of the announcement, when Dan Guido from Trail of Bits confirmed that they&#x27;d reviewed and confirmed the finding.<p>It&#x27;s ironic, or maybe it isn&#x27;t, that after CTS-Labs published their findings in a manner basically optimized for innuendo than Anandtech has run a story that is basically composed of innuendo. Given how charged people&#x27;s feelings about AMD seem to be, this is probably manna from heaven for them, and since CTS-Labs isn&#x27;t publishing the full technical details, it&#x27;ll be raining bread for them for many days to come.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t care, except that after the original monster thread about the CTS-Lab announcement, it&#x27;s become apparent that HN commenters have a very poor understanding of how vulnerability research actually works, and Anandtech is perpetuating some of those myths, like the idea that researchers invariably (or even routinely) arrange for CVE allocation when publishing new flaws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asimov42</author><text>According to Trail of Bits :<p>&quot;There is no immediate risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities for most users. Even if the full details were published today, attackers would need to invest significant development efforts to build attack tools that utilize these vulnerabilities. This level of effort is beyond the reach of most attackers (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;1401_08-12_mickens.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;1401_08-12_mickens.pdf</a>, Figure 1)<p>These types of vulnerabilities should not surprise any security researchers; similar flaws have been found in other embedded systems that have attempted to implement security features. They are the result of simple programming flaws, unclear security boundaries, and insufficient security testing.&quot;
- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;amd-flaws-technical-summary&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;amd-flaws-technical-...</a></text></comment> |
16,420,769 | 16,420,779 | 1 | 3 | 16,419,898 | train | <story><title>Facebook’s next project: American inequality</title><url>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevmo</author><text>We don&#x27;t need more big data studies to figure out what is causing poverty or how to fix it. Poverty in America is caused by:<p>- real wages decreasing since 1980<p>- the commoditizing of labor (e.g. janitorial companies, the &quot;sharing economy&quot;)<p>- ever-decreasing investment in infrastructure<p>- tying wealth to real estate prices<p>- an educational system that leaves many young people mired in debt<p>- tying healthcare to employment and the price of healthcare in general. The first kills labor mobility. The second either bankrupts or kills you.<p>- mass incarceration destroying families and individuals<p>- regulatory capture allowing big businesses to beat down all the small ones<p>- a monoculture that tremendously decreases resiliency</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stochastic_monk</author><text>I disagree with the comment below you claiming there&#x27;s no evidence to support your claims.<p>You don&#x27;t have citations in your post, that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s a summary. There are huge amounts of evidence backing up your claim.<p>A bigger issue than the uselessness of this initiative by facebook is the empty, bald-faced PR &quot;Hey, look over here!&quot; distraction that they&#x27;re using to cover their callous complicity in disinformation campaigns.<p>That bothers me more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook’s next project: American inequality</title><url>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevmo</author><text>We don&#x27;t need more big data studies to figure out what is causing poverty or how to fix it. Poverty in America is caused by:<p>- real wages decreasing since 1980<p>- the commoditizing of labor (e.g. janitorial companies, the &quot;sharing economy&quot;)<p>- ever-decreasing investment in infrastructure<p>- tying wealth to real estate prices<p>- an educational system that leaves many young people mired in debt<p>- tying healthcare to employment and the price of healthcare in general. The first kills labor mobility. The second either bankrupts or kills you.<p>- mass incarceration destroying families and individuals<p>- regulatory capture allowing big businesses to beat down all the small ones<p>- a monoculture that tremendously decreases resiliency</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harlanji</author><text>Accurate breakdown. If you looked at my life as a 14 year old, you wouldn&#x27;t have been able to picture me as a 28 year old. If you looked at me as a 28 year old, you wouldn&#x27;t have been able to picture me as a 33 year old. In the last 5 years I found the top of my game where people didn&#x27;t want a poor person there; got knocked down and it&#x27;s been interesting adjusting to being chronically impoverished with issues increasingly piling up--relatives now comparing me to my cousins who can&#x27;t hold down dish washing jobs. Meanwhile the tech giants are still trying to recruit me, and I know when I start work I&#x27;ll be knocked out again because, like my last several high salary jobs in the BA, I&#x27;ve entered $1000s in debt with several years of poverty, causing rejection by coworkers (poor attire, untraveled). Crazy... miracle or relocation seem to be needed. I&#x27;m optimistic these last years will be a hilarious memory that toughened me up (in typical ign&#x27;nt American fashion, temporarily embarrassed millionaire).</text></comment> |
12,456,042 | 12,455,949 | 1 | 2 | 12,454,634 | train | <story><title>It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-valley-s-job-hungry-say-we-re-not-to-old-for-this</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albertop</author><text>I find it fascinating that when there is a discussion about age discrimination, most commenters have &quot;advice&quot; for the old farts how to stay current, learn current hip tech, be willing to work longer hours etc. However, we we talk about women in computing, it is always sexism and the discussion is about how the corporations need to change to attract more women. Pretty asymmetrical, don&#x27;t you think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maerF0x0</author><text>Bang on. Discrimination by sex is not socially acceptable. Discrimination by other protected factors is sometimes socially ok. (not that it should be).<p>Edit to add: At a former company i became a bit of an outsider when I noted at a diversity meeting that diversity meant more than the big 3 that tend to get pushed around Gender, Orientation, Race. I noted that our office was young, had no parents, no ex convicts, no disabled people, few people who had not attended a top university (or no university for that matter) and few or no religious people... people basically said &quot;Why you against &lt;women, colored...&gt;?&quot; as though it was some kind of zero sum fight.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-valley-s-job-hungry-say-we-re-not-to-old-for-this</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albertop</author><text>I find it fascinating that when there is a discussion about age discrimination, most commenters have &quot;advice&quot; for the old farts how to stay current, learn current hip tech, be willing to work longer hours etc. However, we we talk about women in computing, it is always sexism and the discussion is about how the corporations need to change to attract more women. Pretty asymmetrical, don&#x27;t you think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donretag</author><text>My company is undergoing a big diversity initiative. Although the company is 75% female, the first task to is increase the number of women in tech. Race is also a factor. When asked about what is being done about age discrimination, there was a roundabout answer that did not address anything. Age diversity is not trendy.<p>EDIT: I should clarify that I have nothing against the diversity initiative in general, just pointing how despite all the work that is&#x2F;was done, age discrimination was not even considered.</text></comment> |
17,290,599 | 17,289,347 | 1 | 2 | 17,289,232 | train | <story><title>Invented at Duke, Financed in Beijing: Powerful Camera Shows China’s AI Ambition</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-powerful-spy-camera-invented-at-duke-ended-up-in-chinas-hands-1528714895</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>__blockcipher__</author><text>&gt; Mr. Brady, who remains Aqueti’s biggest shareholder, said he has no qualms about aiding China’s surveillance system, which critics claim leads to humans-rights abuses.<p>&gt; <i>“A government doesn’t need the hand of technology to be oppressive,”</i> he said.</text></comment> | <story><title>Invented at Duke, Financed in Beijing: Powerful Camera Shows China’s AI Ambition</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-powerful-spy-camera-invented-at-duke-ended-up-in-chinas-hands-1528714895</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fvdessen</author><text>Ironically the thick air pollution seems to drastically impair the performance of their surveillance solution.</text></comment> |
32,046,331 | 32,045,580 | 1 | 2 | 32,036,474 | train | <story><title>Is the smart grid all hot air?</title><url>https://austinvernon.site/blog/smartgrid.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iancarroll</author><text>&gt; Most utilities are switching customers to smart meters that allow remote disconnection of electricity.<p>I learned about this 3-6 months ago when PG&amp;E erroneously remotely disconnected a large number of people in the Bay Area, including my apartment. I walked outside my unit and the entire building had power except for me -- the maintenance team was mystified and said the meter specific to my apartment reported it had been remotely killed.<p>It was impossible to figure out what had happened, and after many hours of vague outage status messages, I was finally able to reach the billing department who said they had been fixing this issue all day, and they remotely reactivated my meter as I was still on the phone with them (they had a whole disclaimer about turning it on remotely too).<p>I got a vague letter and $100 statement credit a month later that admitted an issue accidentally cut off a lot of meters, but no further details on how or why. Very strange experience and made me question the whole smart meter thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is the smart grid all hot air?</title><url>https://austinvernon.site/blog/smartgrid.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Water tank and water pipe analogies fail pretty fast when it comes to thinking about electricity. Keeping grids energized by real-time management of supply and demand is not much like keeping water or gas flowing through pipes.<p>If you want to examine smart grids, it&#x27;s strange to ignore what&#x27;s been developed in Germany and NW Europe over several decades. A lot of this revolves around fast communication strategies and supply&#x2F;demand prediction algorithms:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.landisgyr.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;grid-control-the-future-of-the-smart-grid-made-in-germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.landisgyr.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;grid-control-the-future-of-the...</a><p>&gt; &quot;To be able to operate this complex solution infrastructure, Netze BW has applied a so called “traffic light concept”. The green light indicates that no congestion is predicted, while the yellow light is a sign of a potential bottleneck in the grid that might require certain restrictive measures by the market players. For example, a Virtual Power Plant operator would adjust the operating mode of its storage and generation assets to avoid predicted transformer overload. However, despite these actions taken during the yellow phase, the actual technical limits of the electricity network might still be violated in real time due to unforeseen events. In this case, the red light would call for immediate mitigation measures enabled automatically by the REMS system.&quot;</text></comment> |
28,313,158 | 28,313,128 | 1 | 3 | 28,309,885 | train | <story><title>Canistilluse.com</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/canistilluse.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swiley</author><text>If you&#x27;re that worried &quot;&lt;p&gt; hold shift to select more than one item.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;&quot; isn&#x27;t a whole lot extra to add and is something most people can handle.</text></item><item><author>cameronh90</author><text>It&#x27;s &quot;borderline unusable&quot; because the vast majority of people who use computers probably wouldn&#x27;t know how to select more than one item. There are no affordances and virtually nothing uses it any more.<p>Even in the early desktop era when it was popular, many non-enthusiasts probably just didn&#x27;t know how to use a UI control like that. It just didn&#x27;t cause a problem because most people didn&#x27;t use computers much.<p>I would bet that most internet users today have never even used a UI where that control is popular.</text></item><item><author>thristian</author><text>The browser select-multiple widget works like that because that&#x27;s how it&#x27;s worked in most desktop OSs since Macintosh System 1.0 in 1984 (at least). It&#x27;s been simple and predictable and easily learned for decades, calling it &quot;borderline unusable&quot; is just hyperbole.<p>Now, if you wanted to say that HTML&#x27;s standard widgets should be allowed to reflect the platform-native look-and-feel (for example, adding a &quot;selected&quot; checkbox on touch-screens, or supporting long-press to select items, or whatever) instead of being tied to Windows 95 appearance and behaviour by backwards-compatibility concerns, then yeah, I&#x27;d agree with that.</text></item><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame the UI elements built into HTML are so lacking, which I think is what ultimately drives people do things like this.<p>Look at &lt;select multiple&gt; for example—the browser built-in is borderline unusable. Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl&#x2F;cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user. Same goes for &lt;select&gt;s that need more advanced behaviour like filtering. There&#x27;s &lt;datalist&gt;, but it&#x27;s incredibly basic and pretty useless for most cases you&#x27;d want that sort of input.<p>The web is an app platform whether we like it or not, and I&#x27;d like to see a robust set of browser-native controls with mechanisms to customise styling and behaviour. It would improve accessibility, improve performance, reduce page sizes (because we wouldn&#x27;t be re-implementing the whole world in JS), and it would at least go a little way to offsetting the slow erosion of quality desktop software that web technologies are bringing.</text></item><item><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>May be risking a lot of downvotes, but I really want to work for somewhere that cares about a11y for very selfish reasons - I want to use semantic html and not have to do stupid shit like using a package that re-implements the select element with divs</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Personally, I think the web&#x2F;browsers has churned far too much, and if that stopped happening, perhaps we would get more accessible sites and browser diversity as people &quot;stop looking for new dogs and start teaching new tricks to the old ones.&quot; Of course, Google would try its hardest to never let that happen, since change is its weapon of monopoly.<p>Related: Stop Pushing the Web Forward (2015) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9961613" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9961613</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameronh90</author><text>You think people actually read what&#x27;s on the screen...?<p>Never done tech support I take it!</text></comment> | <story><title>Canistilluse.com</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/canistilluse.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swiley</author><text>If you&#x27;re that worried &quot;&lt;p&gt; hold shift to select more than one item.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;&quot; isn&#x27;t a whole lot extra to add and is something most people can handle.</text></item><item><author>cameronh90</author><text>It&#x27;s &quot;borderline unusable&quot; because the vast majority of people who use computers probably wouldn&#x27;t know how to select more than one item. There are no affordances and virtually nothing uses it any more.<p>Even in the early desktop era when it was popular, many non-enthusiasts probably just didn&#x27;t know how to use a UI control like that. It just didn&#x27;t cause a problem because most people didn&#x27;t use computers much.<p>I would bet that most internet users today have never even used a UI where that control is popular.</text></item><item><author>thristian</author><text>The browser select-multiple widget works like that because that&#x27;s how it&#x27;s worked in most desktop OSs since Macintosh System 1.0 in 1984 (at least). It&#x27;s been simple and predictable and easily learned for decades, calling it &quot;borderline unusable&quot; is just hyperbole.<p>Now, if you wanted to say that HTML&#x27;s standard widgets should be allowed to reflect the platform-native look-and-feel (for example, adding a &quot;selected&quot; checkbox on touch-screens, or supporting long-press to select items, or whatever) instead of being tied to Windows 95 appearance and behaviour by backwards-compatibility concerns, then yeah, I&#x27;d agree with that.</text></item><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame the UI elements built into HTML are so lacking, which I think is what ultimately drives people do things like this.<p>Look at &lt;select multiple&gt; for example—the browser built-in is borderline unusable. Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl&#x2F;cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user. Same goes for &lt;select&gt;s that need more advanced behaviour like filtering. There&#x27;s &lt;datalist&gt;, but it&#x27;s incredibly basic and pretty useless for most cases you&#x27;d want that sort of input.<p>The web is an app platform whether we like it or not, and I&#x27;d like to see a robust set of browser-native controls with mechanisms to customise styling and behaviour. It would improve accessibility, improve performance, reduce page sizes (because we wouldn&#x27;t be re-implementing the whole world in JS), and it would at least go a little way to offsetting the slow erosion of quality desktop software that web technologies are bringing.</text></item><item><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>May be risking a lot of downvotes, but I really want to work for somewhere that cares about a11y for very selfish reasons - I want to use semantic html and not have to do stupid shit like using a package that re-implements the select element with divs</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Personally, I think the web&#x2F;browsers has churned far too much, and if that stopped happening, perhaps we would get more accessible sites and browser diversity as people &quot;stop looking for new dogs and start teaching new tricks to the old ones.&quot; Of course, Google would try its hardest to never let that happen, since change is its weapon of monopoly.<p>Related: Stop Pushing the Web Forward (2015) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9961613" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9961613</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fermuch</author><text>Some users don&#x27;t know what key &quot;shift&quot; refers to.</text></comment> |
37,865,139 | 37,864,817 | 1 | 3 | 37,864,629 | train | <story><title>REI is Laying Off 275 Employees</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/REI/comments/176chas/rei_is_letting_go_275_employees_today/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>Is this really important news or at all related to hackers? Much larger layoffs happen all the time.<p>What&#x27;s the interesting angle of this story?</text></comment> | <story><title>REI is Laying Off 275 Employees</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/REI/comments/176chas/rei_is_letting_go_275_employees_today/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>Wow. Interesting discussion there.<p>I have spent a few thousand bucks at rei over the past 10 years. I rarely if ever ask for assistance. The value add for me is the return and warranty policy, and knowing if REI sells it it&#x27;s probably high quality.<p>The more experienced people are also the most natural and kind, where others seem less committed and less &quot;of the hobby&quot;.<p>Layoffs suck. Good luck to all of them.</text></comment> |
34,474,989 | 34,474,707 | 1 | 2 | 34,471,179 | train | <story><title>TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/19/tsmc-is-making-the-best-of-a-bad-geopolitical-situation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>I suspect the PRC won&#x27;t outright bomb much of Taiwan but instead go straight for the presidential palace in Taipei and try to force an ROC capitulation early.<p>I think they&#x27;re counting on the ruling class &#x2F; landowners &#x2F; capitalists to pressure the government to capitulate at fear of property destruction, which I also expect to be in line with reality. Doing capitalism in a country like taiwan is better than in the PRC, but doing it in the PRC is better than not being able to do it at all because all your assets were obliterated.<p>What I think none of these people are counting on is that there are rabidly anti CPC people here in Taiwan, leftist or otherwise, and some of these people engage in post-military service training and drilling. I suspect that if the above comes to pass and the CPC is successful in forcing an ROC surrender, the factories are burning one way or the other, due to &quot;self-sabotage&quot; by workers or guerillas.<p>Then the PLA gets to have fun for a decade chasing guerillas around the choking thick jungle and mountains that make up the majority of the landmass in Taiwan. Many of these will be indigenous who have lived in the mountains for generations and per capita by demographic make up more of the (non conscripted) military than any other demographic.<p>I don&#x27;t think any of this will come to pass though because I, like most people in Taiwan (including the usa consulate staff), believe the possibility of invasion is slim.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;<i>“Complete nonsense,” retorts Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research, a financial firm. tsmc has almost simultaneously launched a new fab in Taiwan, with four times the wafer capacity—and more advanced technology—than the two proposed Arizona foundries. Its bet on America is more of a long-term insurance policy than an immediate game-changer. It enables tsmc to start the tough job of recruiting a workforce and amassing suppliers in America, providing a baseline for expansion “if the Chinese are crazy enough to bomb Taiwan”. For the foreseeable future, though, most r&amp;d is likely to remain in Taiwan. So will at least four-fifths of tmsc’s capacity.</i><p>It is unfortunate the truth and decent analysts dont get enough press coverage because they dont fit the narrative of current trend.<p>- The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers&#x27; prejudices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>The old ‘capture the leadership and the country will surrender in a few days’ strategy. Works every time. The thing is I’m sure the PRC Intelligence service have done analyses of what would happen if Russia invaded Ukraine, and what would happen if China invaded Taiwan. I wonder what the first one said? If the credibility of the Taiwan scenario is tied in Xi’s mind to the credibility of the first, that would give us a rough idea of the likelihood he might go for it.<p>The other problem is that China is way more dependent on outside trade than Russia. They rely on food and energy imports too much, while Russia is self sufficient in both. The same sanctions as on Russia would bring China to its knees in months. In case anyone say “but everyone was saying the sanctions on Russia would cripple them too”, no, not everyone was saying that. The same magazine, The Economist, was explaining why that wasn’t going to happen right from the start.</text></comment> | <story><title>TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/19/tsmc-is-making-the-best-of-a-bad-geopolitical-situation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>I suspect the PRC won&#x27;t outright bomb much of Taiwan but instead go straight for the presidential palace in Taipei and try to force an ROC capitulation early.<p>I think they&#x27;re counting on the ruling class &#x2F; landowners &#x2F; capitalists to pressure the government to capitulate at fear of property destruction, which I also expect to be in line with reality. Doing capitalism in a country like taiwan is better than in the PRC, but doing it in the PRC is better than not being able to do it at all because all your assets were obliterated.<p>What I think none of these people are counting on is that there are rabidly anti CPC people here in Taiwan, leftist or otherwise, and some of these people engage in post-military service training and drilling. I suspect that if the above comes to pass and the CPC is successful in forcing an ROC surrender, the factories are burning one way or the other, due to &quot;self-sabotage&quot; by workers or guerillas.<p>Then the PLA gets to have fun for a decade chasing guerillas around the choking thick jungle and mountains that make up the majority of the landmass in Taiwan. Many of these will be indigenous who have lived in the mountains for generations and per capita by demographic make up more of the (non conscripted) military than any other demographic.<p>I don&#x27;t think any of this will come to pass though because I, like most people in Taiwan (including the usa consulate staff), believe the possibility of invasion is slim.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;<i>“Complete nonsense,” retorts Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research, a financial firm. tsmc has almost simultaneously launched a new fab in Taiwan, with four times the wafer capacity—and more advanced technology—than the two proposed Arizona foundries. Its bet on America is more of a long-term insurance policy than an immediate game-changer. It enables tsmc to start the tough job of recruiting a workforce and amassing suppliers in America, providing a baseline for expansion “if the Chinese are crazy enough to bomb Taiwan”. For the foreseeable future, though, most r&amp;d is likely to remain in Taiwan. So will at least four-fifths of tmsc’s capacity.</i><p>It is unfortunate the truth and decent analysts dont get enough press coverage because they dont fit the narrative of current trend.<p>- The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers&#x27; prejudices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt; instead go straight for the presidential palace in Taipei<p>Will that work if the politicians work from home?<p>On the recent Brazilian uprising, when the election losers stormed the capital they found out that it is a holiday and there’s no some special object in the government buildings which makes you the new leader once you physically obtain it.<p>All they ended up doing was vandalism.</text></comment> |
15,240,526 | 15,240,400 | 1 | 3 | 15,239,593 | train | <story><title>Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950</title><url>https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disconnected</author><text>Many of those shifts from a majority male workforce to a majority female workforce seem to happen quickly (or even abruptly) at around the 1960s&#x2F;1970s.<p>I&#x27;m not well versed in American history. Did anything significant happen then to cause this, or is it just an interesting anomaly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Among other things, it was influenced by ~2 million men leaving the civilian labor force temporarily because the government urgently required their services to fight a war.<p>The part would have been disproportionately true for jobs lower down the socioeconomic ladder because jobs higher on the socioeconomic ladder generally go to people who had more ability to licitly or illicitly avoid selection for military service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950</title><url>https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disconnected</author><text>Many of those shifts from a majority male workforce to a majority female workforce seem to happen quickly (or even abruptly) at around the 1960s&#x2F;1970s.<p>I&#x27;m not well versed in American history. Did anything significant happen then to cause this, or is it just an interesting anomaly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelleslie</author><text>More women entered the workforce at that time, and households with more than one breadwinner became more common due to wage stagnation in the 70s, but I imagine there&#x27;s more at play than just that.</text></comment> |
10,394,831 | 10,394,823 | 1 | 3 | 10,394,659 | train | <story><title>“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nlh</author><text>Funny - I had a conversation with a friend about this exact topic the other day.<p>Painting a few (old) walls in my apartment. I asked the original designer what color they were, and she confidently replied &quot;Swiss Coffee&quot;. Great! So I got to Lowes only to find out....there are about 35 different variations on Swiss Coffee.<p>We seem to have solved the color issue when it comes to programming - hex codes are (relatively) easy. Why are we still choosing our home paints based on horribly arbitrary names like &quot;Shadow Mist&quot; and &quot;Lily Pond&quot; ... ?<p>(And yes, I know the actual answer - branding! Why would you buy Brand A over Brand B if all the colors get commoditized into hex codes....the answer is...you wouldn&#x27;t. So? Fancy names for everyone!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>542458</author><text>It has been more or less solved - it&#x27;s called the Pantone Color system. That said, it doesn&#x27;t really work the way you&#x27;d expect. It&#x27;ll get you close (say, if you need a consistent color for your brand), but a pantone color on it&#x27;s own isn&#x27;t enough to define a material.<p>The issue with defining physical colour codes is that it gets really complicated when you consider finish. With screen color, you have only one finish, and that&#x27;s whatever the user&#x27;s monitor happens to have. With paints and plastics the finish (how glossy the surface is, how metallic it is, coated or uncoated, inclusions like metal flake, etc) really messes things up. This tends to &quot;break&quot; systems like Pantone, and means that it&#x27;s really hard to choose a few variables to absolutely define a color.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nlh</author><text>Funny - I had a conversation with a friend about this exact topic the other day.<p>Painting a few (old) walls in my apartment. I asked the original designer what color they were, and she confidently replied &quot;Swiss Coffee&quot;. Great! So I got to Lowes only to find out....there are about 35 different variations on Swiss Coffee.<p>We seem to have solved the color issue when it comes to programming - hex codes are (relatively) easy. Why are we still choosing our home paints based on horribly arbitrary names like &quot;Shadow Mist&quot; and &quot;Lily Pond&quot; ... ?<p>(And yes, I know the actual answer - branding! Why would you buy Brand A over Brand B if all the colors get commoditized into hex codes....the answer is...you wouldn&#x27;t. So? Fancy names for everyone!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyxley</author><text>Pantone uses coded colors (e.g. things like &quot;#106U Bright Yellow&quot;), with each having RGB and CMYK values, physical ink-mixing proportions for custom printing, paint standards, etc.<p>From what I understand it&#x27;s pretty popular with corporate marketing because it takes the hassle out of getting extremely consistent colors across different physical and digital media.</text></comment> |
23,210,262 | 23,210,343 | 1 | 2 | 23,208,704 | train | <story><title>Modern universities are an exercise in insanity (2018)</title><url>http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/01/modern-universities-are-exercise-in.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; But in the average public university most students you meet are just coasting through it as if it was high school, or as a way to delay real life.<p>Perhaps that&#x27;s an unintended consequence of it being free, just like high school.<p>If you&#x27;re paying the bill, it&#x27;s a lot less likely you&#x27;ll be coasting through.</text></item><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>I paid zero for my university since EU, but I still kind of feel scammed out of five years of my life. I got a degree only because I was young and family&#x2F;friends pushed me into it since &quot;that&#x27;s what everyone does&quot;.<p>The networking thing, meh. Maybe if you attend the top 1% of universities that have some barrier of entry for people who&#x27;re actually talented&#x2F;determined to achieve a goal and care about what they do. Or expensive private ones with industry connections. Which feels a bit like &quot;easy mode&quot; but whatever :)<p>But in the average public university most students you meet are just coasting through it as if it was high school, or as a way to delay real life. Professors just don&#x27;t care and they never have time. Even the job placement events, it&#x27;s all a bullshit perpetuating machine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzyz</author><text>European countries with free public universities also usually have private, paid colleges. In practice, those are where you <i>really</i> coast through.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modern universities are an exercise in insanity (2018)</title><url>http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/01/modern-universities-are-exercise-in.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; But in the average public university most students you meet are just coasting through it as if it was high school, or as a way to delay real life.<p>Perhaps that&#x27;s an unintended consequence of it being free, just like high school.<p>If you&#x27;re paying the bill, it&#x27;s a lot less likely you&#x27;ll be coasting through.</text></item><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>I paid zero for my university since EU, but I still kind of feel scammed out of five years of my life. I got a degree only because I was young and family&#x2F;friends pushed me into it since &quot;that&#x27;s what everyone does&quot;.<p>The networking thing, meh. Maybe if you attend the top 1% of universities that have some barrier of entry for people who&#x27;re actually talented&#x2F;determined to achieve a goal and care about what they do. Or expensive private ones with industry connections. Which feels a bit like &quot;easy mode&quot; but whatever :)<p>But in the average public university most students you meet are just coasting through it as if it was high school, or as a way to delay real life. Professors just don&#x27;t care and they never have time. Even the job placement events, it&#x27;s all a bullshit perpetuating machine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JadeNB</author><text>&gt; If you&#x27;re paying the bill, it&#x27;s a lot less likely you&#x27;ll be coasting through.<p>The fact that there&#x27;s a bill to pay doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s the students who are paying it. I think a significant number of students—most?—at expensive universities have their bills paid by family.</text></comment> |
7,961,346 | 7,960,981 | 1 | 2 | 7,960,779 | train | <story><title>Why I can’t stop using Vim</title><url>http://www.kornerstoane.com/2014/06/why-i-cant-stop-using-vim/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manish_gill</author><text>I spent this entire weekend setting up Evil mode for Emacs, in the Emacs Starter Kit package. It&#x27;s been decent so far. Evil mode is surprisingly good, and I really don&#x27;t think it could come any closer to vim emulation for Emacs. Took a lot of googling around to set up some basic plugins that I need - projectile for CtrlP etc. I think the only thing that I need atm is Magit integration with Evil and I&#x27;ll be good to go.<p>What has been amazing so far is that even after using vim for almost 3 years, I&#x27;d been sort of afraid of diving deep into the config system (I made do with copy-pasting some popular vimrc files) and it was good enough, but in the short span of 2 days, I&#x27;ve actually gotten to know more about emacs configuration style than I ever did about vim. And I suspect it will only get better as I start to learn Emacs Lisp.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I can’t stop using Vim</title><url>http://www.kornerstoane.com/2014/06/why-i-cant-stop-using-vim/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnuvince</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand the comment about etags; if you use ctags in Vim, you&#x27;ll get the same kind of functionality. If you want something more advanced, Emacs has support for cscope and GNU Global which give you more features. Considering that he&#x27;s interested in having something better than VimScript and wants org-mode, it seems that Emacs + Evil would really be the best fit for him.</text></comment> |
41,559,494 | 41,559,306 | 1 | 2 | 41,519,046 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?</title><text>It occurred to me that we often use colours in our terminals and code editors to highlight test failures, linting errors etc, but we don&#x27;t typically use sounds. Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>macos has the &quot;say&quot; binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>From [1] The story of PING:<p><pre><code> ping goodhost | sed -e &#x27;s&#x2F;.*&#x2F;ping&#x2F;&#x27; | vocoder
</code></pre>
<i>He wired the vocoder&#x27;s output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting &quot;Ping, ping, ping...&quot; once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that&#x27;s how he found the intermittent failure.</i><p>[1] &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&#x2F;~mike&#x2F;ping.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&#x2F;~mike&#x2F;ping.html</a>&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomel</author><text>I did something similar for finding which outlet a breaker went to. I connected my MacBook to the outlet, airplay to the TV so it was loud, then had it yell if the power was disconnected:<p><pre><code> while ! pmset -g batt | grep &#x27;discharging&#x27;; do; echo waiting; sleep 1; done; say disconnected</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?</title><text>It occurred to me that we often use colours in our terminals and code editors to highlight test failures, linting errors etc, but we don&#x27;t typically use sounds. Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>macos has the &quot;say&quot; binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>From [1] The story of PING:<p><pre><code> ping goodhost | sed -e &#x27;s&#x2F;.*&#x2F;ping&#x2F;&#x27; | vocoder
</code></pre>
<i>He wired the vocoder&#x27;s output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting &quot;Ping, ping, ping...&quot; once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that&#x27;s how he found the intermittent failure.</i><p>[1] &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&#x2F;~mike&#x2F;ping.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&#x2F;~mike&#x2F;ping.html</a>&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanmcbride</author><text>a billion years ago I piped say and some various noise files into ffmpeg to make audios that sounded like numbers stations, I don&#x27;t think it would run anymore but it was a lot of fun :D</text></comment> |
40,301,793 | 40,300,347 | 1 | 2 | 40,272,514 | train | <story><title>How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries</title><url>https://ifesunmola.com/how-to-use-the-foreign-function-api-in-java-22-to-call-c-libraries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thefaux</author><text>I am sort of surprised that there isn&#x27;t a widely used tool that uses codegen to generate jni bindings sort of like what the jna does but at build time. You could go meta and bundle a builder in a jar that looks for the shared library in a particular place and shells out to build and install the native library if it is missing on the host computer. This would run once pretty similar I think to bundling native code in npm.<p>I have bundled shared libraries for five or six platforms in a java library that needs to make syscalls. It works but it is a pain if anything ever changes or a new platform needs to be brought up. Checking in binaries always feels icky but is necessary if not all targets can be built on a single machine.<p>The problem with the new api is that people upgrade java very slowly in most contexts. For an oss library developer, I see very little value add in this feature because I&#x27;m still stuck for all of my users who are using an older version of java. If I integrate the new ffi api, now I have to support both it and the jni api.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries</title><url>https://ifesunmola.com/how-to-use-the-foreign-function-api-in-java-22-to-call-c-libraries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>What I&#x27;m missing is a model for building&#x2F;distributing those C libraries with a java application.<p>Every ffi example I&#x27;ve found seem to operate on the assumption that you want to invoke syscalls or libc, which (with possibly the exception of like madvise and aioring) Java already mostly has decent facilities to interact with even without native calls.</text></comment> |
17,687,927 | 17,687,464 | 1 | 2 | 17,682,440 | train | <story><title>The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-if-earth-were-made-of-blueberries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>V-2</author><text>At the risk of being the you-must-be-fun-at-parties guy - why would a planet &quot;made of blueberries&quot; be comprised of any air at all to begin with? :)<p><i>&quot;Releasing the air that had separated each berry from its neighbors&quot;</i> - the question, at least the way it&#x27;s phrased here, doesn&#x27;t say anything about any air. Made of blueberries means made of blueberries, period.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-if-earth-were-made-of-blueberries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Seems the original question on Stackexchange has been removed :(</text></comment> |
15,064,946 | 15,063,556 | 1 | 2 | 15,062,225 | train | <story><title>Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/ellen-pao-silicon-valley-sexism-reset-excerpt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to get hung up on the particulars of Pao&#x27;s story and get sidetracked into defending or judging her, but I feel that is besides the point. I am more interested in the wider notion of why she wrote this article: to point out that sexism in tech is a thing, and that it shouldn&#x27;t be.<p>I&#x27;m wondering though: is this just about sexism, or is it about professionalism and maturity? Getting hit on by someone higher up the hierarchy than you can make it impossible to do your job, so that behavior is clearly unprofessional. But getting yelled at by your boss for shipping a bug is also unprofessional, and can also make it a toxic work environment. I&#x27;m not saying the two are the same, just that both are examples of unprofessional behavior that many places will tolerate.<p>Isn&#x27;t it time we have conversations about what it means to be a professional in tech? Maybe other industries suffer less from these things because they have a longer history and have more guild-like working practices, where professional behavior is more clearly defined. In tech people get away with wildly unprofessional behavior as long as &quot;they get stuff done&quot;, and personally I never felt that was acceptable.<p>Maybe this stuff is also sort of everywhere. Plenty of industries have toxic working relationships. Why isn&#x27;t professionalism part of standard education tracks? I studied CS and I never learned about what it means to be a professional software developer. How do you have productive conversations with coworkers? How do you organize your work effectively? All of these things you&#x27;re supposed to figure out on your own, but looking around I can tell that mostly people never do, or only do so after decades of getting it wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine anything more unprofessional than raving about meeting a washed up porn star and then talking about sex workers in the company of people you are not intimately familiar with. Although you could say it was a &#x27;social&#x27; moment on the jet, not a professional meeting (as Pao seems to believe it was) where there should always be much more latitude on conversation topics, it&#x27;s still very distasteful.<p>I normally have a very high tolerance for talking about any topic but anyone who says that stuff in public and not in the small company of close friends has bigger issues than just
sexism.<p>As others have pointed out most of these situations sound like grown men acting like frat boys or teenagers, not adult males with a singular problem with how they treat women. These are men who need to learn how to act around other adults and how to treat people with respect in public. Or at a very minimum leave it for your off-time among close friends in private.<p>Software has largely confronted the &#x27;brogrammer&#x27; issue publicly, and I believe is working to improve itself, but it&#x27;s well known that finance is still heavily influenced by untamed frat boy culture. This is a culture where these immature boys don&#x27;t get their behaviour properly confronted and corrected. Especially when you throw personal wealth into the occassion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/ellen-pao-silicon-valley-sexism-reset-excerpt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to get hung up on the particulars of Pao&#x27;s story and get sidetracked into defending or judging her, but I feel that is besides the point. I am more interested in the wider notion of why she wrote this article: to point out that sexism in tech is a thing, and that it shouldn&#x27;t be.<p>I&#x27;m wondering though: is this just about sexism, or is it about professionalism and maturity? Getting hit on by someone higher up the hierarchy than you can make it impossible to do your job, so that behavior is clearly unprofessional. But getting yelled at by your boss for shipping a bug is also unprofessional, and can also make it a toxic work environment. I&#x27;m not saying the two are the same, just that both are examples of unprofessional behavior that many places will tolerate.<p>Isn&#x27;t it time we have conversations about what it means to be a professional in tech? Maybe other industries suffer less from these things because they have a longer history and have more guild-like working practices, where professional behavior is more clearly defined. In tech people get away with wildly unprofessional behavior as long as &quot;they get stuff done&quot;, and personally I never felt that was acceptable.<p>Maybe this stuff is also sort of everywhere. Plenty of industries have toxic working relationships. Why isn&#x27;t professionalism part of standard education tracks? I studied CS and I never learned about what it means to be a professional software developer. How do you have productive conversations with coworkers? How do you organize your work effectively? All of these things you&#x27;re supposed to figure out on your own, but looking around I can tell that mostly people never do, or only do so after decades of getting it wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s not about &quot;in tech&quot; though, as another commenter pointed out, this is a completely different world of private jets and deciding where to spend the hundreds of millions these people have on, betting on their 10 million investment becoming a billion. This is the &quot;snorting coke off a model&#x27;s ass for lunch&quot; world, not tech.</text></comment> |
25,189,253 | 25,185,608 | 1 | 2 | 25,185,584 | train | <story><title>Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM</title><url>https://www.play-lang.dev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RodgerTheGreat</author><text>As a reasonably fluent Forth programmer, I find the comparisons to Forth a source of confusion, at best.<p>In Forth a compiled word definition begins with : and ends in ; while Play definitions begin at :def, use : to separate signatures from word bodies, and appear to be implicitly terminated wherever the next definition begins. Forth definitions always appear in &quot;reading order&quot;- words are declared before they are used- but the very first example on the Play home page inverts this convention. It feels rather like reading pig-latin, or perhaps ML wearing a Forth-skin-suit.<p>Forth&#x27;s hybrid compiled&#x2F;interpreted nature is at the heart of its expressiveness; so far as I can tell, this is entirely absent from Play. How would I define a word like &quot;when:&quot;, &quot;def:&quot;, or &quot;[&quot;?<p>In my opinion it would be clearer and more accurate to describe Play as simply a concatenative functional language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM</title><url>https://www.play-lang.dev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Skinney</author><text>I&#x27;m the creator of the language, AMA.</text></comment> |
30,564,889 | 30,555,460 | 1 | 2 | 30,553,243 | train | <story><title>BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961286/bbc-news-blocked-in-russia-ukraine-invasion-shortwave-radio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mariojv</author><text>What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict?<p>Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be:<p>1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which gives an advantage to FM or weather radios.<p>2. Communicate with other regional survivors.<p>3. Global news, for which shortwave would be indispensable.<p>Maybe multiple radios that can receive on different frequencies would be best? I really know very little about this topic other than basic physical signal characteristics.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t &quot;prep,&quot; but I occasionally browse this website when doomscrolling, which has a few suggestions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprepared.com&#x2F;gear&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;emergency-radio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprepared.com&#x2F;gear&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;emergency-radio&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961286/bbc-news-blocked-in-russia-ukraine-invasion-shortwave-radio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iso1631</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t look like very sophisticated blocking, on MTS at least they seem to intercept DNS traffic and respond to www.bbc.com wtih their own<p>If you ignore the certificate warning you get a redirect to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blocked.mts.ru&#x2F;?host=www.bbc.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blocked.mts.ru&#x2F;?host=www.bbc.com</a><p>Which states (in Russian):<p>Access to the information resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 N 149-FZ &quot;On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection<p>If you override the DNS entry, it loads fine, at least for me on my MTS circuit.</text></comment> |
16,119,951 | 16,119,500 | 1 | 3 | 16,110,570 | train | <story><title>Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-announces-new-do-not-track-standard-web-browsing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treve</author><text>Even though it might in theory have been the best default for end-users, in practice they made DNT fail as a result because advertisers wanted users to make an explicit choice instead of getting opted out by default. It&#x27;s easy to blame the advertisers here, and sure.. you can argue that in this scenario they were the &#x27;more evil&#x27; ones, but had Microsoft not made this choice, we ultimately could have ended up with a respected DNT header, which later on could have become a default anyway.<p>So I don&#x27;t disagree that the decision might have come from a good place, but the end-result was not hard to predict and was ultimately not in the interest of users. It was incredibly dumb.</text></item><item><author>Fnoord</author><text>&gt; Microsoft, for marketing purposes<p>If Microsoft does something in the interest of their users it is suddenly &quot;for marketing purposes&quot;?<p>&gt; While I applaud the goal of assuming people don&#x27;t want tracking<p><i>Of course</i> people don&#x27;t want tracking. I&#x27;m not going to argue everyone agrees with GDPR, but that sets the trend further.<p>&gt; Because many users showing DNT settings had not explicitly meant to do so.<p>Just because someone doesn&#x27;t explicitly agree with something, doesn&#x27;t mean they disagree with that.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>In fairness, a leading cause of DNT&#x27;s failure is that Microsoft, for marketing purposes, chose to set DNT by default for a while. While I applaud the goal of assuming people don&#x27;t want tracking, it gave ad companies an excuse to dismiss DNT: Because many users showing DNT settings had not explicitly meant to do so.</text></item><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>The decision of the Internet advertising industry to ignore the original Do Not Track setting is a landmark in the cynicism of the industry. I mean users made an explicit request to not be tracked and companies like Google and Facebook were all &quot;lol, no, we&#x27;ll track you anyway&quot;. It&#x27;s one of the reasons I feel no remorse running an ad blocker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>The advertisers chosen to ignore DNT. It don&#x27;t matter if they decided to do so because they disliked the concept of DNT or if they did so because the OS manufactorers decided to change the opt-in to opt-out. The decision was made solely by the advertisers, and there the blame resides.<p>If Microsoft had not made this choice then the advertisers could still have made the same decision. We will never know, and it doesn&#x27;t really matter. Its a &quot;what if&quot; situation, and like many such &quot;what if&quot;s we are simply speculating about motives while not looking at the billions of dollar worth of obvious reasons why the advertisers wanted to ignore DNT.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-announces-new-do-not-track-standard-web-browsing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treve</author><text>Even though it might in theory have been the best default for end-users, in practice they made DNT fail as a result because advertisers wanted users to make an explicit choice instead of getting opted out by default. It&#x27;s easy to blame the advertisers here, and sure.. you can argue that in this scenario they were the &#x27;more evil&#x27; ones, but had Microsoft not made this choice, we ultimately could have ended up with a respected DNT header, which later on could have become a default anyway.<p>So I don&#x27;t disagree that the decision might have come from a good place, but the end-result was not hard to predict and was ultimately not in the interest of users. It was incredibly dumb.</text></item><item><author>Fnoord</author><text>&gt; Microsoft, for marketing purposes<p>If Microsoft does something in the interest of their users it is suddenly &quot;for marketing purposes&quot;?<p>&gt; While I applaud the goal of assuming people don&#x27;t want tracking<p><i>Of course</i> people don&#x27;t want tracking. I&#x27;m not going to argue everyone agrees with GDPR, but that sets the trend further.<p>&gt; Because many users showing DNT settings had not explicitly meant to do so.<p>Just because someone doesn&#x27;t explicitly agree with something, doesn&#x27;t mean they disagree with that.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>In fairness, a leading cause of DNT&#x27;s failure is that Microsoft, for marketing purposes, chose to set DNT by default for a while. While I applaud the goal of assuming people don&#x27;t want tracking, it gave ad companies an excuse to dismiss DNT: Because many users showing DNT settings had not explicitly meant to do so.</text></item><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>The decision of the Internet advertising industry to ignore the original Do Not Track setting is a landmark in the cynicism of the industry. I mean users made an explicit request to not be tracked and companies like Google and Facebook were all &quot;lol, no, we&#x27;ll track you anyway&quot;. It&#x27;s one of the reasons I feel no remorse running an ad blocker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>I put my money on that being an excuse and ultimately a fallacy by the advertisers. There are a lot of things in life which you don&#x27;t get to choose, and only get informed about when you look into them. There&#x27;s much worse examples which are far more nefarious for end users. EULAs come to mind!! Contracts in general as well because they&#x27;re so complex, you need a lawyer(bot) to understand.</text></comment> |
30,731,480 | 30,731,350 | 1 | 2 | 30,729,109 | train | <story><title>First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations</title><url>https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/first-photos-james-webb-telescope/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcadam</author><text>Any indication how many of those actuators they can lose and still maintain functionality (i.e., are any of those &quot;spares&quot;)?</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>I really and truly hope for longevity.<p>&quot;The Webb telescope will use 132 small motors (called actuators) to position and occasionally adjust the optics as there are few environmental disturbances of a telescope in space. Each of the 18 primary mirror segments is controlled by 6 positional actuators with a further ROC (radius of curvature) actuator at the center to adjust curvature (7 actuators per segment), for a total of 126 primary mirror actuators, and another 6 actuators for the secondary mirror, giving a total of 132. The actuators can position the mirror with 10 nanometer (10 millionths of a millimeter) accuracy.<p>&quot;The actuators are critical in maintaining the alignment of the telescope&#x27;s mirrors, and are designed and manufactured by Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies. Each of the 132 actuators are driven by a single stepper motor, providing both fine and coarse adjustments. The actuators provide a coarse step size of 58 nanometers for larger adjustments, and a fine adjustment step size of 7 nanometers.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_Webb_Space_Telescope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_Webb_Space_Telescope</a></text></item><item><author>MontagFTB</author><text>I really appreciate how NASA is handling the James Webb. Instead of waiting for everything to be _done_ done, they’re bringing us all along for the setup, giving us “alpha” and “beta” images (if you will), and in so doing keeping interest in the telescope. I know it’ll continue, and I’m all hype about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>The actuator is a genius flexure design that is both mechanically simple and accurate. <i>Breaking Taps</i> 3d-prints a working replica and describes the design. I highly recommend: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5MxH1sfJLBQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5MxH1sfJLBQ</a><p>The actuator breaking wasn&#x27;t as concerning after seeing the design.</text></comment> | <story><title>First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations</title><url>https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/first-photos-james-webb-telescope/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcadam</author><text>Any indication how many of those actuators they can lose and still maintain functionality (i.e., are any of those &quot;spares&quot;)?</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>I really and truly hope for longevity.<p>&quot;The Webb telescope will use 132 small motors (called actuators) to position and occasionally adjust the optics as there are few environmental disturbances of a telescope in space. Each of the 18 primary mirror segments is controlled by 6 positional actuators with a further ROC (radius of curvature) actuator at the center to adjust curvature (7 actuators per segment), for a total of 126 primary mirror actuators, and another 6 actuators for the secondary mirror, giving a total of 132. The actuators can position the mirror with 10 nanometer (10 millionths of a millimeter) accuracy.<p>&quot;The actuators are critical in maintaining the alignment of the telescope&#x27;s mirrors, and are designed and manufactured by Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies. Each of the 132 actuators are driven by a single stepper motor, providing both fine and coarse adjustments. The actuators provide a coarse step size of 58 nanometers for larger adjustments, and a fine adjustment step size of 7 nanometers.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_Webb_Space_Telescope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_Webb_Space_Telescope</a></text></item><item><author>MontagFTB</author><text>I really appreciate how NASA is handling the James Webb. Instead of waiting for everything to be _done_ done, they’re bringing us all along for the setup, giving us “alpha” and “beta” images (if you will), and in so doing keeping interest in the telescope. I know it’ll continue, and I’m all hype about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skykooler</author><text>None of them are spares per se; if any of them fail they will have to use the other four on that segment to point it away from the sensor and disable that segment.</text></comment> |
26,589,262 | 26,589,275 | 1 | 2 | 26,586,829 | train | <story><title>Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)</title><url>http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&#x27;ve said this multiple times over multiple years and I&#x27;ll say it again just because so many green developers get misled.<p>Object oriented programming is good. Not in absolutely every situation, but for most business applications it&#x27;s better than the alternatives. The reason it&#x27;s good is that it is productive. Objects map neatly to records, which pushes global state persistence and all the hairiness of locks to a good RDMS like Postgres. It&#x27;s naturally normalized, but can be denormalized without much work, and in exchange for bundling state with functions you get easier introspection which is especially helpful in debugging.<p>These conversations are better done with examples. Say you want to build a social network around videos, like YouTube. Say a user can block another user and, thus, stop them from commenting on their videos.<p>Would you rather type out this:<p><pre><code> user.blocked_by? other_user
</code></pre>
Or this<p><pre><code> is_blocked(user, other_user)
</code></pre>
When doing the check? Personally, seeing the the is_blocked? method on a user makes it easy for me to understand. Who has blocked whom is more natural to talk about when there is a primary object subjecting the other object to a test. For all the anti-OO stuff out there, it all boils down to the same thing in the end. For business logic, your functions need to know so much about the data that they are operating on that it&#x27;s pointless to try to avoid bundling the state. I&#x27;m never going to pass a cheeseburger into my is_blocked function so why on earth would I avoid bundling state and operation together? It&#x27;s like a map of a city trying to avoid listing shops since &quot;maps should be about roads and geography, not shops.&quot; A pointless dogma that doesn&#x27;t actually help programs get built. Most successful startups use OOP and there is a clear reason for that: It&#x27;s more productive.<p>Now, do I use OOP when I&#x27;m doing data science stuff? Mostly no. I don&#x27;t need it there. But where it works, it&#x27;s magic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geocar</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand you.<p><pre><code> is_blocked(user, other_user)
</code></pre>
seems like it’s still object-oriented to me. Oh sure it has terrible syntax, but we’re still designing our application with encapsulation and if this is CL and “is-blocked” is a generic then it’s how you would write this in an CLOS-style OOP — it would just be written (is-blocked user other-user)<p>On the other hand:<p><pre><code> other_user.id in user.blocks
</code></pre>
is what I would imagine a non-OOP version might look like, because it’s not dynamic and not encapsulated. If we were to write it:<p><pre><code> in(other_user.id, user.blocks)
</code></pre>
or:<p><pre><code> (in (other-user :id) (user :blocks))
</code></pre>
I also still think these functions are better than the object-oriented ones: they’re faster, and it’s clear to the reader if you can get the ids without the object (say by pushing this into your query) you will save a lot of runtime and programmer-time.<p>I also think if you make decisions based on what is popular (e.g. for startups), instead of actually thinking about it, you <i>are</i> subscribing to dogma. Maybe sometimes not-thinking is good, but it seems possible that what you think of as a “start up” has largely only existed in the short time period that object languages were in vogue. Why do you think this is causal? Do you think if go (for example) becomes popular we won’t have startups any more?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)</title><url>http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&#x27;ve said this multiple times over multiple years and I&#x27;ll say it again just because so many green developers get misled.<p>Object oriented programming is good. Not in absolutely every situation, but for most business applications it&#x27;s better than the alternatives. The reason it&#x27;s good is that it is productive. Objects map neatly to records, which pushes global state persistence and all the hairiness of locks to a good RDMS like Postgres. It&#x27;s naturally normalized, but can be denormalized without much work, and in exchange for bundling state with functions you get easier introspection which is especially helpful in debugging.<p>These conversations are better done with examples. Say you want to build a social network around videos, like YouTube. Say a user can block another user and, thus, stop them from commenting on their videos.<p>Would you rather type out this:<p><pre><code> user.blocked_by? other_user
</code></pre>
Or this<p><pre><code> is_blocked(user, other_user)
</code></pre>
When doing the check? Personally, seeing the the is_blocked? method on a user makes it easy for me to understand. Who has blocked whom is more natural to talk about when there is a primary object subjecting the other object to a test. For all the anti-OO stuff out there, it all boils down to the same thing in the end. For business logic, your functions need to know so much about the data that they are operating on that it&#x27;s pointless to try to avoid bundling the state. I&#x27;m never going to pass a cheeseburger into my is_blocked function so why on earth would I avoid bundling state and operation together? It&#x27;s like a map of a city trying to avoid listing shops since &quot;maps should be about roads and geography, not shops.&quot; A pointless dogma that doesn&#x27;t actually help programs get built. Most successful startups use OOP and there is a clear reason for that: It&#x27;s more productive.<p>Now, do I use OOP when I&#x27;m doing data science stuff? Mostly no. I don&#x27;t need it there. But where it works, it&#x27;s magic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>continuational</author><text>What you seem to like is infix syntax and overloading on the first argument.<p>I think this is really the most valuable part of OOP; it makes code read in the order that functions are applied, which is both natural and enables type driven autocompletion.<p>What bothers me about OOP is inheritance, subtyping and the emphasis on mutable state, which greatly complicate call chains, the type system and temporal reasoning.</text></comment> |
30,985,019 | 30,983,766 | 1 | 2 | 30,976,040 | train | <story><title>PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to detect side effects</title><url>https://reactjs.org/docs/strict-mode.html#detecting-unexpected-side-effects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyjojo</author><text>Outside of Vue, and maybe Angular, are there any other stable alternatives with a decent ecosystem? I&#x27;d love to hop off the React train, but I haven&#x27;t found anything that compares to the experience of just using create-react-app with Typescript support.</text></item><item><author>mhoad</author><text>Broadly speaking I think React is in a weird spot where they have painted themselves into a corner with no obvious way of fixing it by essentially forking the DOM and doing so many things independently of the wider web platform. That approach made a lot of sense when it was first released but is just a liability at this point.<p>If you’re deep in React land and it’s all you know I think 2022 might be a good time to expand your horizons a bit because the landscape around you has changed a lot in the past five years.</text></item><item><author>mbell</author><text>&gt; In React 17, React automatically modifies the console methods like console.log() to silence the logs in the second call to lifecycle functions. However, it may cause undesired behavior in certain cases where a workaround can be used.<p>I feel like when you&#x27;ve gotten to the point that something like this has been proposed and accepted as a good solution to a problem your framework is facing, it may be a good time to stop and reconsider the approach of the framework.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lf-non</author><text>Try solid.js [1]<p>I have been using it for a month now and love it. If you are coming from react the API is familiar enough that you can get productive in a day or two. Reliance on observables is a big plus for me (no virtual dom diffing) and the dom reconciliation is very similar to lit. Check out the author&#x27;s blog posts [2] for more details.<p>If are into jamstack, Astro [3] has good support for solidjs already and offers an easy way for selective hydration of dynamic parts of the UI.<p>The component ecosystem is a bit lacking compared to react&#x2F;vue, but it pairs well with pure css libraries like bulma&#x2F;daisyui or webcomponent libraries like ionic&#x2F;shoelace.<p>And you can also wrap your solid components as web components and use them in a larger app without converting it all to use solidjs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solidjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solidjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ryansolid.medium.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ryansolid.medium.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to detect side effects</title><url>https://reactjs.org/docs/strict-mode.html#detecting-unexpected-side-effects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyjojo</author><text>Outside of Vue, and maybe Angular, are there any other stable alternatives with a decent ecosystem? I&#x27;d love to hop off the React train, but I haven&#x27;t found anything that compares to the experience of just using create-react-app with Typescript support.</text></item><item><author>mhoad</author><text>Broadly speaking I think React is in a weird spot where they have painted themselves into a corner with no obvious way of fixing it by essentially forking the DOM and doing so many things independently of the wider web platform. That approach made a lot of sense when it was first released but is just a liability at this point.<p>If you’re deep in React land and it’s all you know I think 2022 might be a good time to expand your horizons a bit because the landscape around you has changed a lot in the past five years.</text></item><item><author>mbell</author><text>&gt; In React 17, React automatically modifies the console methods like console.log() to silence the logs in the second call to lifecycle functions. However, it may cause undesired behavior in certain cases where a workaround can be used.<p>I feel like when you&#x27;ve gotten to the point that something like this has been proposed and accepted as a good solution to a problem your framework is facing, it may be a good time to stop and reconsider the approach of the framework.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djbusby</author><text>RiotJS and SvelteJS get mentioned as alternates in my circles. I like Riot - but only done it on smaller projects.</text></comment> |
22,906,235 | 22,906,264 | 1 | 2 | 22,901,962 | train | <story><title>Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]</title><url>http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>I’m 36, had a recorded IQ at school in the 180s, and was refused acceleration until I “socially adapted” to my classmates, which was challenging, as their interests (eg. football, wrestling, lads mags, pop music, sport, sport, sport) barely intersected with mine (eg. sciences, philosophy, coding, art, jazz &amp; classical music). I was accelerated, eventually, but only by one year - at my prep school, I had been two years ahead, but I spent a regrettable year in the American “educational” system which meant I entered secondary school with my age cohort, as a commoner rather than a scholar, as scholarship exams were not available for overseas entrants at the time.<p>This was at boarding school. I was in detention incessantly, as I was bored out of my wits, and would do stuff like wandering out of an exam after 15 minutes, as I was done and damned if I was going to spend another three hours twiddling my thumbs, and I would disagree with teachers when they were flat-out wrong - that <i>really</i> pissed people off - I wasn’t such a blowhard as to vocally disagree over debatable or tenuous points, just factual error.<p>I would fake illnesses so I would end up in the sanatorium, where I would have time to read, and the opportunity to hang out with the several other bright kids from other houses who had established the same methodology for respite. Fond memories of hanging out in our dressing gowns, playing chess and having actual conversations with people I could relate to. Sadly, of the four of us, one is dead, one is in an institution, one is me, and the other survivor fled for the hills and writes children’s science books.<p>School was an education in contempt. I remain convinced that the majority of people are idiots, with the equivalent of a flickering strip lamp for a mind, and nothing I see in the world around me dispels that thought. I am somewhat socially isolated - I have precious few friends near my age, instead most of them being three or four decades my senior - as, in similar fashion to my experiences at school, I have little in common with my supposed peers - they have not started businesses, or travelled extensively (package holidays to Marbella do not count as travel - hiking to Turkmenistan does), or stopped to think about the human condition. Older people of moderately high intelligence have at least had the time to gain some experience and perspective, and I can relate to them - but this means my “in-group” is scattered to the winds, and I see them annually at best.<p>Anyway. This member of that group is doing ok - I struggle with depression and anxiety, but a hyperactive 15 years has allowed me to exit the bullshit-mill and live the life I want - in the countryside, learning new things about nature daily, with mountains of books, and <i>time</i> to do what I want.<p>As it happens, I made my escape with one of the few people I could relate to at school - moderately smart guy, somewhere in the 150s, but a hard graft type who brute forced his way to knowledge - admirable in his own way. We drifted apart after school, but fate or somesuch brought us to a nexus where starting a business together was practically inevitable.<p>In all honesty, if I hadn’t been able to escape the manufactured world, I don’t think I’d be writing this now, I would have killed myself by this point.<p>As to a support group - problematic. Part of the impact of being surrounded by idiots is to take your intellectual supremacy for granted. I find myself sparring with anyone remotely my equal, as my identity is inextricably tied to being the smartest guy in the room&#x2F;building&#x2F;city.<p>I do, of course, dissemble, and very, very rarely speak my mind as I have here - and I thoroughly expect this to be an unpopular post.<p>Prideful, no, but self-protective, yes - when there’s no other social identity available to you you take what you can get.</text></item><item><author>preston4tw</author><text>I&#x27;m currently 35 and I was ID&#x27;d as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There&#x27;s a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to skip grades or not, and my personal experience largely matches what is described for what would be my group, the nonaccelerands:<p>&quot;Several of the nonaccelerands have serious and ongoing problems with social relationships. These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because having been, to a large extent, socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice in their formative years in developing and maintaining social relationships. Six have had counseling. Of these, two have been treated for severe depression. If educators were made responsible to ethics committees, as are researchers, such developmentally inappropriate educational misplacement would never be permitted.&quot;<p>I wonder how this group is doing these days. I wonder if the runners of the study ever considered introducing members of this group to the others to form a support group.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>How can an attitude of intellectual superiority amount to any good? I too was identified gifted (and while I&#x27;ve never had an IQ test I was probably never in the 180s) and while I share your frustrations with normies, dwelling on my <i>perceived</i> intellectual differences with the world has done me no good. It certainly didn&#x27;t help win me any friends. Being intelligent isn&#x27;t all chess and quantum physics; there are lots of people in your ballpark that wouldn&#x27;t come anywhere near fitting your description of a like mind.<p>I&#x27;ve found life to be much more enjoyable by intentionally avoiding people like myself. For highminded intellectual stuff there is plenty conversation to be had here on the net. Befriending and hanging out with a diverse group of misfits from all manner of backgrounds has proven to be much more fulfilling and while, yes, sometimes they can be stupid, and sometimes it is hard to find things in common outside of the reasons the group stays together, I&#x27;ve learned to see it as opportunities for further interpersonal growth.<p>If someone dedicates their life to filling their head with obscure knowledge they&#x27;re just a nerd, no matter how much more intelligent they are than those around them. People may, collectively, be morons, but most individuals are surprisingly perceptive in at least a few areas, and while the prodigies in my life are indeed smart, I&#x27;ve spent enough time around them to know they would still be fish out of water for 90% of what life could possibly throw at them. I hope that your lamentations are formed <i>after</i> you&#x27;ve sussed these qualities out of the folks you lament.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]</title><url>http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>I’m 36, had a recorded IQ at school in the 180s, and was refused acceleration until I “socially adapted” to my classmates, which was challenging, as their interests (eg. football, wrestling, lads mags, pop music, sport, sport, sport) barely intersected with mine (eg. sciences, philosophy, coding, art, jazz &amp; classical music). I was accelerated, eventually, but only by one year - at my prep school, I had been two years ahead, but I spent a regrettable year in the American “educational” system which meant I entered secondary school with my age cohort, as a commoner rather than a scholar, as scholarship exams were not available for overseas entrants at the time.<p>This was at boarding school. I was in detention incessantly, as I was bored out of my wits, and would do stuff like wandering out of an exam after 15 minutes, as I was done and damned if I was going to spend another three hours twiddling my thumbs, and I would disagree with teachers when they were flat-out wrong - that <i>really</i> pissed people off - I wasn’t such a blowhard as to vocally disagree over debatable or tenuous points, just factual error.<p>I would fake illnesses so I would end up in the sanatorium, where I would have time to read, and the opportunity to hang out with the several other bright kids from other houses who had established the same methodology for respite. Fond memories of hanging out in our dressing gowns, playing chess and having actual conversations with people I could relate to. Sadly, of the four of us, one is dead, one is in an institution, one is me, and the other survivor fled for the hills and writes children’s science books.<p>School was an education in contempt. I remain convinced that the majority of people are idiots, with the equivalent of a flickering strip lamp for a mind, and nothing I see in the world around me dispels that thought. I am somewhat socially isolated - I have precious few friends near my age, instead most of them being three or four decades my senior - as, in similar fashion to my experiences at school, I have little in common with my supposed peers - they have not started businesses, or travelled extensively (package holidays to Marbella do not count as travel - hiking to Turkmenistan does), or stopped to think about the human condition. Older people of moderately high intelligence have at least had the time to gain some experience and perspective, and I can relate to them - but this means my “in-group” is scattered to the winds, and I see them annually at best.<p>Anyway. This member of that group is doing ok - I struggle with depression and anxiety, but a hyperactive 15 years has allowed me to exit the bullshit-mill and live the life I want - in the countryside, learning new things about nature daily, with mountains of books, and <i>time</i> to do what I want.<p>As it happens, I made my escape with one of the few people I could relate to at school - moderately smart guy, somewhere in the 150s, but a hard graft type who brute forced his way to knowledge - admirable in his own way. We drifted apart after school, but fate or somesuch brought us to a nexus where starting a business together was practically inevitable.<p>In all honesty, if I hadn’t been able to escape the manufactured world, I don’t think I’d be writing this now, I would have killed myself by this point.<p>As to a support group - problematic. Part of the impact of being surrounded by idiots is to take your intellectual supremacy for granted. I find myself sparring with anyone remotely my equal, as my identity is inextricably tied to being the smartest guy in the room&#x2F;building&#x2F;city.<p>I do, of course, dissemble, and very, very rarely speak my mind as I have here - and I thoroughly expect this to be an unpopular post.<p>Prideful, no, but self-protective, yes - when there’s no other social identity available to you you take what you can get.</text></item><item><author>preston4tw</author><text>I&#x27;m currently 35 and I was ID&#x27;d as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There&#x27;s a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to skip grades or not, and my personal experience largely matches what is described for what would be my group, the nonaccelerands:<p>&quot;Several of the nonaccelerands have serious and ongoing problems with social relationships. These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because having been, to a large extent, socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice in their formative years in developing and maintaining social relationships. Six have had counseling. Of these, two have been treated for severe depression. If educators were made responsible to ethics committees, as are researchers, such developmentally inappropriate educational misplacement would never be permitted.&quot;<p>I wonder how this group is doing these days. I wonder if the runners of the study ever considered introducing members of this group to the others to form a support group.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>So let&#x27;s get this straight, &quot;hiking to Turkmenistan&quot; means you&#x27;re a world-savvy individual but taking packaged tours means you&#x27;re pedestrian drivel?<p>It&#x27;s very hard to confirm if you&#x27;re trolling or if you truly belong to &#x2F;r&#x2F;im14andthisisdeep, but let&#x27;s assume the latter. Hiking to Machu pichu doesn&#x27;t make you smart. Either you don&#x27;t subscribe to personal responsibility towards global warming or you do but can&#x27;t see the irony in smoking a few tons of carbon in the name of &quot;enlightenment&quot; which apparently you can only find half way across the world. Both ways, the lack of sophistication in your part shines bright. How exactly is hiking in a forest in a poor country different from going to Bangkok to get salvation from ping pong balls?<p>Several of your comments are in similar vein - everyone is not stupid, they just don&#x27;t insticntually care about factual education; a good fraction of people are smarter than you in their own ways. Even if they&#x27;re not, it behooves us to respect the average human with some basic respect (which would likely include not comparing them to lamps).<p>Perhaps you&#x27;re a smart person and perhaps you&#x27;re trying to cure cancer as several of my similarly smart colleagues kept insisting for years when I was doing my PhD. However, they just couldn&#x27;t get their heads out of wherever to start seeing the bigger picture and I sincerely hope for your sake and the world&#x27;s sake that you do. We will all benefit if smart people start becoming that much more humble. Assuming you really are 180 smart, whatever the triangle-inside-square-puzzle-hell that means.</text></comment> |
40,611,229 | 40,611,538 | 1 | 3 | 40,610,435 | train | <story><title>Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>Your browsing history is unlikely to contain personal information, secrets, porn images etc. And if you use Chrome, they get your full browsing history by default.<p>I get your point, but Microsoft&#x27;s Recall can capture <i>anything</i> onscreen - emails, personal info, porn, passwords and the like. And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security.</text></item><item><author>herf</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to compare this to the Chrome&#x2F;Safari&#x2F;Edge browsing history, which is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database, and tracks what you do for the last 90 days. It&#x27;s just a bit less visual, Incognito&#x2F;Private modes work, and some users clear it more often.<p>But a <i>whole lot</i> of the surveillance attacks people imagine about Recall apply just the same to the browser. I think it&#x27;s the &quot;little brother&quot; casual attacks that are so well enabled by Recall - it makes it faster, easier, and way more visual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomel</author><text>&gt; that little thought has gone into privacy or security.<p>I think the thought is proportional to the amount of thought a non-tech customer will put into it. Nobody seems to care about or understands privacy these days. Everyone knows they&#x27;re being tracked everywhere they go physically and on the web. People use their real names, address, etc for every junk service they sign up for, without seeing any reason not to. If you tell people that their TV is tracking and taking screenshots of what they watch [1], they say &quot;yeah, Netflix knows too&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s literally, &quot;how it&#x27;s always been&quot; for any non tech person under 30.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;themarkup.org&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;themarkup.org&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;your-smart-tv-knows...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>Your browsing history is unlikely to contain personal information, secrets, porn images etc. And if you use Chrome, they get your full browsing history by default.<p>I get your point, but Microsoft&#x27;s Recall can capture <i>anything</i> onscreen - emails, personal info, porn, passwords and the like. And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security.</text></item><item><author>herf</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to compare this to the Chrome&#x2F;Safari&#x2F;Edge browsing history, which is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database, and tracks what you do for the last 90 days. It&#x27;s just a bit less visual, Incognito&#x2F;Private modes work, and some users clear it more often.<p>But a <i>whole lot</i> of the surveillance attacks people imagine about Recall apply just the same to the browser. I think it&#x27;s the &quot;little brother&quot; casual attacks that are so well enabled by Recall - it makes it faster, easier, and way more visual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>I think they actually did consider that - that&#x27;s why they emphasized it was all on device. They thought about it, they just didn&#x27;t think about how little we would trust that promise.</text></comment> |
34,673,947 | 34,671,868 | 1 | 2 | 34,669,124 | train | <story><title>Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/finlands-most-wanted-hacker-nabbed-in-france/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bawolff</author><text>I wish we would stop calling these types of people hackers and just call them extortionists. The fact a computer was used to commit the crime really changes nothing about the crime.<p>If he physically broke in we wouldn&#x27;t call him a nortorious lockpicker.</text></item><item><author>pasiaj</author><text>This was one nefarious operation by the hacker:<p>- He hacked the patient files of a psychotherapy center Vastaamo. This included therapy notes for more than 22.000 patients.<p>- First the hacker blackmailed the therapy center.<p>- Next he started blackmailing individual patients.<p>- Finally he released the files online revealing very private information on thousands of patients.<p>I can only imagine the horror felt by the people whose therapy notes were made public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfoof</author><text>For real, someone who has OpSec of his level (pack home directory to dark web) does not deserve to be named a hacker</text></comment> | <story><title>Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/finlands-most-wanted-hacker-nabbed-in-france/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bawolff</author><text>I wish we would stop calling these types of people hackers and just call them extortionists. The fact a computer was used to commit the crime really changes nothing about the crime.<p>If he physically broke in we wouldn&#x27;t call him a nortorious lockpicker.</text></item><item><author>pasiaj</author><text>This was one nefarious operation by the hacker:<p>- He hacked the patient files of a psychotherapy center Vastaamo. This included therapy notes for more than 22.000 patients.<p>- First the hacker blackmailed the therapy center.<p>- Next he started blackmailing individual patients.<p>- Finally he released the files online revealing very private information on thousands of patients.<p>I can only imagine the horror felt by the people whose therapy notes were made public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Manuel_D</author><text>The two are not mutually exclusive: A hacker that steals people&#x27;s banking info and drains their funds is a hacker and a financial fraudster. Hackers conducting ransomware attacks are hackers and extortionists. The fact that a computer was used to commit the crime is just a detail of how the extortion was carried out.</text></comment> |
34,480,595 | 34,480,622 | 1 | 2 | 34,479,806 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?</title><text>Life is pretty absurd and wonder more and more why we put so much stake into a job when the employer effectively doesn&#x27;t care about you.<p>Anyone taking some time to do cool stuff?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tester756</author><text>&gt;This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it will. What do you guys think?<p>I don&#x27;t think.<p>I cannot imagine companies doing GPU, CPUs, Windows, etc. with just 20-50ppl.</text></item><item><author>anthropodie</author><text>I am happy with my current employer but I always liked Paul Graham&#x27;s idea of not having a boss[0]. I had read it quite a while back but here&#x27;s the gist of it:<p>Paul mentions that we work best when we work in a group of 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do. Each member have their own roles and responsibilities and each individual contributes the well being and future security of the group. Such a group is optimal communication wise and it also offers greater incentive for it&#x27;s members to work harder as you are directly participating in your own growth unlike our current structure where people are helping other people get rich.<p>This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it might. What do you guys think?<p>0: You were not meant to have boss - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;boss.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;boss.html</a><p>Edit: rewording.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>space_fountain</author><text>Well you&#x27;d have to imagine a lot more collaboration between companies, so say company A just markets CPUs in the US nothing else, while company B works on just shipping logistics (to stores which handle the actual delivery to end customers). I think the real problem is that so many boundaries between disciplines make novel collaboration strategies between the parts much harder. It&#x27;s difficult for say a marketing person to suggest a change to the box design</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?</title><text>Life is pretty absurd and wonder more and more why we put so much stake into a job when the employer effectively doesn&#x27;t care about you.<p>Anyone taking some time to do cool stuff?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tester756</author><text>&gt;This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it will. What do you guys think?<p>I don&#x27;t think.<p>I cannot imagine companies doing GPU, CPUs, Windows, etc. with just 20-50ppl.</text></item><item><author>anthropodie</author><text>I am happy with my current employer but I always liked Paul Graham&#x27;s idea of not having a boss[0]. I had read it quite a while back but here&#x27;s the gist of it:<p>Paul mentions that we work best when we work in a group of 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do. Each member have their own roles and responsibilities and each individual contributes the well being and future security of the group. Such a group is optimal communication wise and it also offers greater incentive for it&#x27;s members to work harder as you are directly participating in your own growth unlike our current structure where people are helping other people get rich.<p>This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it might. What do you guys think?<p>0: You were not meant to have boss - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;boss.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;boss.html</a><p>Edit: rewording.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_gabe_</author><text>Valve would like to disagree with this sentiment ;)<p>Sure valve isn&#x27;t making GPUs or CPUs, but they did make the steam deck, in addition to the largest online game store, and several high quality AAA games, and the valve index. They apparently have around 250 people according to a quick Google search, but that still goes against the mindset that you need 10s of thousands of employees to make a successful large scale tech product (whether that&#x27;s software or hardware).</text></comment> |
27,222,274 | 27,222,402 | 1 | 2 | 27,219,759 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?</title><text>I&#x27;ve abandoned all faith in reviews online. But the HN crew can give good advice and are extremely unlikely to shill garbage. Consumer Reports is great for finding which manufacturer&#x2F;model to buy. But what product or service did you buy that you found really useful&#x2F;entertaining?<p>I&#x27;ll start: I caved and bought a robovac. Wow, unlike many techno-gadgets, this one really delivers. Real utility, not just taking up space. Low maintenance, runs while I sleep, and the floor is just cleaner.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptofistMonk</author><text>Airpods Pro.<p>Not traditionally an apple guy so didn&#x27;t expect to like them, but the guy talked us into them while we were upgrading my wife&#x27;s phone.<p>Wow. These things are just way better than any other earbuds and so much more convenient and comfortable than headphones. The Bluetooth just works even when switching between my Android and MacBook. The noise cancelling is great as well, way better than my Sennheisers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dinkleberg</author><text>They were such a game changer for me. I used to be a big “audiophile” and spent more than I’d care to admit on headphones.<p>AirPod pros sound very good. Not as good as a really good audio setup, but good enough for pretty much everyone out there. The noise cancelling is really good. And best of all they are so comfortable.<p>Idk if I’m gonna have some weird cancer in 40 years from wearing these all the time, but I love them so much.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?</title><text>I&#x27;ve abandoned all faith in reviews online. But the HN crew can give good advice and are extremely unlikely to shill garbage. Consumer Reports is great for finding which manufacturer&#x2F;model to buy. But what product or service did you buy that you found really useful&#x2F;entertaining?<p>I&#x27;ll start: I caved and bought a robovac. Wow, unlike many techno-gadgets, this one really delivers. Real utility, not just taking up space. Low maintenance, runs while I sleep, and the floor is just cleaner.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptofistMonk</author><text>Airpods Pro.<p>Not traditionally an apple guy so didn&#x27;t expect to like them, but the guy talked us into them while we were upgrading my wife&#x27;s phone.<p>Wow. These things are just way better than any other earbuds and so much more convenient and comfortable than headphones. The Bluetooth just works even when switching between my Android and MacBook. The noise cancelling is great as well, way better than my Sennheisers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>I am a traditionally an Apple guy. Sure some VMs for linux development, but the gear is all Apple stuff.<p>I had Beats Pro headphones that got damaged after a good amount of use so I replaced them with non-Pro Airpods and have hated it. I have to constantly worry about them falling out while I&#x27;m exercising and the case gets all gunky. The handoff between the MacBook Pro and iPhone isn&#x27;t reliable enough for me to trust it, so I always have to reconnect it if I&#x27;m at a quiet place like a co-working space. Also, within the first year one of them just randomly died and I had to send the whole thing back to Apple. Apple care covered it, but still.<p>I miss being able to do more with what&#x27;s on my head. With Beats I could easily change the volume, pause, skip, rewind and they almost never came off. The only thing that kinda sucked was in the summer the skin around them would sweat.<p>Shrug. At least my MacBook Pro has been great.</text></comment> |
23,058,993 | 23,059,077 | 1 | 3 | 23,058,147 | train | <story><title>Making Rust as Fast as Go</title><url>https://www.christianfscott.com/making-rust-as-fast-as-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molf</author><text>The Rust version uses `target.chars().count()` to initialise the cache, while the Go version counts up to `len(target)`. These are not equivalent: the Rust version counts Unicode code points, the Go version counts bytes.<p>I am confused by the implementations, although I have not spent any time testing them. Both versions contain a mix of code that counts bytes (`.len()` and `len(...)`) and Unicode code points (`chars()` and `[]rune(...)`). My guess is that the implementation might not work correctly for certain non-ASCII strings, but I have not verified this.<p>Of course, if only ASCII strings are valid as input for this implementation then both versions will be a lot faster if they exclusively operate on bytes instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eis</author><text>Yep.<p>Here a Go playground example showing that the result is indeed wrong:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.golang.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;vmctMFUevPc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.golang.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;vmctMFUevPc</a><p>It should output 3 but outputs 5 because each ö is two bytes, len(&quot;föö&quot;) = 5.<p>I would suggest using &quot;range&quot; to iterate over the unicode characters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Rust as Fast as Go</title><url>https://www.christianfscott.com/making-rust-as-fast-as-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molf</author><text>The Rust version uses `target.chars().count()` to initialise the cache, while the Go version counts up to `len(target)`. These are not equivalent: the Rust version counts Unicode code points, the Go version counts bytes.<p>I am confused by the implementations, although I have not spent any time testing them. Both versions contain a mix of code that counts bytes (`.len()` and `len(...)`) and Unicode code points (`chars()` and `[]rune(...)`). My guess is that the implementation might not work correctly for certain non-ASCII strings, but I have not verified this.<p>Of course, if only ASCII strings are valid as input for this implementation then both versions will be a lot faster if they exclusively operate on bytes instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxmcd</author><text>huh, yeah if I switch the rust version to target.len() the execution time drops by more than 10%<p>edit: and if I switch to source.bytes().enumerate() it drops by 20% more</text></comment> |
4,198,550 | 4,198,280 | 1 | 2 | 4,197,968 | train | <story><title>Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins </title><url>http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bobsy</author><text>I've given up. Considering how this is supposed to be a big announcement which is probably important for a number of reasons that may affect a lot of people. I am surprised he didn't start with:<p>"I know a lot of people are tuning in without degree's in Physic's. Let me break it down for you in Leymens terms. We are fairly certain we have discovered this. It is important because of that. Now let me get onto why we think this."<p>I get that this talk is not meant for me. However, it is important - apparently. Its on the front page of Guardian.<p>If this is an announcement of great importance and it is 98% mumbo jumbo aimed at high end Physicists or whatever then.. I don't know. Its another chance to get people interested in science that has been missed.<p>Note: I am not saying the whole talk should be dumbed down. I am just saying a 2-3 minute prefix for those who do not understand a single word for the first 20 minutes of the presentation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nagrom</author><text>I am a particle physicist. The most interesting point of this announcement for me is that this is a confirmation of predictions of a very exotic particle.<p>The properties of subatomic particles include something called 'spin' - that's a fundamental quantum mechanical property. The higgs boson is the first elementary (i.e. not made of other particles) spin-less particle that we've discovered; it's completely unlike anything that we've seen up until now.<p>That the model that we have constructed can accurately predict its existence and the way that it decays without having observed anything like that beforehand is a huge confirmation that we're in the right region of model space. Today seems to be a huge confirmation that out understanding of physics is not fundamentally broken.<p>That's why its important; the prediction is like attempting a 5-point dive and nailing it pretty much perfectly. It's an impressive confirmation of 50 years of theoretical work.<p>(The anarchist in me would have preferred them not to find anything, I must admit. That would have been <i>much</i> more interesting, as the standard model came tumbling down... :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins </title><url>http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bobsy</author><text>I've given up. Considering how this is supposed to be a big announcement which is probably important for a number of reasons that may affect a lot of people. I am surprised he didn't start with:<p>"I know a lot of people are tuning in without degree's in Physic's. Let me break it down for you in Leymens terms. We are fairly certain we have discovered this. It is important because of that. Now let me get onto why we think this."<p>I get that this talk is not meant for me. However, it is important - apparently. Its on the front page of Guardian.<p>If this is an announcement of great importance and it is 98% mumbo jumbo aimed at high end Physicists or whatever then.. I don't know. Its another chance to get people interested in science that has been missed.<p>Note: I am not saying the whole talk should be dumbed down. I am just saying a 2-3 minute prefix for those who do not understand a single word for the first 20 minutes of the presentation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drostie</author><text>Even the Guardian reporter has admitted that it goes over her head. Heck, I'm doing a Master's in condensed-matter physics and I don't understand much of the jargon.<p>What I <i>can</i> tell you is, the parts which sound the most intimidating are actually probably the simplest bits. CERN operates a particle accelerator -- this means that the LHC basically smacks subatomic particles into each other at absurdly high speeds to create infinitesimal explosions with tremendous amounts of energy (these are the TeV, GeV numbers that you see -- they're talking about the amount of energy that was concentrated in the explosion). The explosion essentially disrupts the underlying fields of the universe so much that new particles can be created or destroyed, but if you excite the Higgs field to its quantizing particle, it tends to immediately decay into other things.<p>The other things are subatomic particles, including quarks (the letters u, d, c, s, t, and b for up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom -- you may have heard him for example say 'bb') and bosons (he talked a bit about W W* and gamma-gamma; gamma rays are light while W bosons are, well, a little more complicated let's say).<p>All of the stuff he says about Monte Carlo and so on is about creating "expected" curves from the Standard Model. You want to have two curves, "expected" vs. "actual", so that you can compare them.<p>On the base axis usually there is energy -- this is the energy of the explosion. There are usually two curves from Monte Carlo which tell you what you expect to see. Then there are data points with error bars which tell you what's actually seen and what the statistical "counting" errors are, how weak the signal is. Usually there is then a follow-up graph where they have tried to "subtract out the noise" to see the signal more clearly.</text></comment> |
10,621,215 | 10,621,151 | 1 | 3 | 10,619,956 | train | <story><title>A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities</title><url>http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4834</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordanpg</author><text>Earlier this year, when I realized that all of the old Infocom games were in the public domain, I spent some time playing Zork I, Border Zone, and HHGTTG -- the ones I played most often when I was younger.<p>There was some sentimental fun to be had, but these games take a tremendous amount of time to play and are difficult in a way that modern games are not. Their puzzles are almost unsolvable in some cases, or can only be solved by combining every permutation of every verb with every noun in every place to get the right answer.<p>Relative to what&#x27;s available in the modern gaming realm as well as conventional fiction, I&#x27;ve also been pretty underwhelmed by what the Interactive Fiction community is putting out, especially the games that are purely web-based. There are some authors, Andrew Plotkin comes to mind, that have picked up the Infocom torch, but the feeling that you are using 0.1% of what your computer can do at about 5% of the rate your mind can work is difficult to shake for me in our modern era.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>Why do you need to need to be using the full capacity of your computer, if you are having fun?<p>One of the real advantages of interactive fiction in the modern era is that it can afford to take more risks, narratively, than a AAA title. Since it can be the work of a single person as a hobby or small business, rather than needing mass-market sales to repay for its development, you can try out different things, some of which may not work out but some of which can be fascinating.<p>Beside Andrew Plotkin, I&#x27;ve always loved the work of Emily Short, like Galatea which couldn&#x27;t even really be considered a game but is quite fascinating.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities</title><url>http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4834</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordanpg</author><text>Earlier this year, when I realized that all of the old Infocom games were in the public domain, I spent some time playing Zork I, Border Zone, and HHGTTG -- the ones I played most often when I was younger.<p>There was some sentimental fun to be had, but these games take a tremendous amount of time to play and are difficult in a way that modern games are not. Their puzzles are almost unsolvable in some cases, or can only be solved by combining every permutation of every verb with every noun in every place to get the right answer.<p>Relative to what&#x27;s available in the modern gaming realm as well as conventional fiction, I&#x27;ve also been pretty underwhelmed by what the Interactive Fiction community is putting out, especially the games that are purely web-based. There are some authors, Andrew Plotkin comes to mind, that have picked up the Infocom torch, but the feeling that you are using 0.1% of what your computer can do at about 5% of the rate your mind can work is difficult to shake for me in our modern era.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrob</author><text>None of the Infocom games are in the public domain. The copyright of most of them is held by Activision, which sells them as iOS ports.</text></comment> |
37,848,520 | 37,848,474 | 1 | 2 | 37,846,471 | train | <story><title>How to legally pirate every font</title><url>https://blog.willdepue.com/how-to-legally-pirate-all-fonts-in-an-afternoon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>Fun to think about, have personally gone down this rabbit hole before, but I&#x27;d be surprised if this was permitted by courts.<p>&gt; The key point here is that the shape of the glyphs themselves, for example, non-trademarked text posted on advertisements or products with printed text, are not copyrightable. So long as you’re not stealing the creative work, like the advertisement, itself, the shape of each letter is in the public domain.<p>There is a jump from this assertion to:<p>&gt; This got me thinking, as all things do, on whether I could simply scrape the internet for public, non-creative, non-trademarked use of fonts<p>The missing step here is that the glyphs for a webpage are not embedded in some sort of rendered image or physical medium. They&#x27;re _rendered from the copyrighted font file_ to the browser.<p>The font file is delivered to the browser and that copyrighted file is used to render the glyphs.<p>This pipeline might work for creating a font that is &quot;inspired by&quot; the available glyphs rendered in the credits of your favorite film.<p>But downloading the entire copyrighted font file, generating a character sheet from it and clipping the individual characters from that sheet? I can&#x27;t imagine how any sensible court system would not consider that a derivative work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>&gt; But downloading the entire copyrighted font file, generating a character sheet from it and clipping the individual characters from that sheet<p>That&#x27;s not what this project is doing. It&#x27;s extracting the characters from already published pictures, without touching the original font files at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to legally pirate every font</title><url>https://blog.willdepue.com/how-to-legally-pirate-all-fonts-in-an-afternoon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>Fun to think about, have personally gone down this rabbit hole before, but I&#x27;d be surprised if this was permitted by courts.<p>&gt; The key point here is that the shape of the glyphs themselves, for example, non-trademarked text posted on advertisements or products with printed text, are not copyrightable. So long as you’re not stealing the creative work, like the advertisement, itself, the shape of each letter is in the public domain.<p>There is a jump from this assertion to:<p>&gt; This got me thinking, as all things do, on whether I could simply scrape the internet for public, non-creative, non-trademarked use of fonts<p>The missing step here is that the glyphs for a webpage are not embedded in some sort of rendered image or physical medium. They&#x27;re _rendered from the copyrighted font file_ to the browser.<p>The font file is delivered to the browser and that copyrighted file is used to render the glyphs.<p>This pipeline might work for creating a font that is &quot;inspired by&quot; the available glyphs rendered in the credits of your favorite film.<p>But downloading the entire copyrighted font file, generating a character sheet from it and clipping the individual characters from that sheet? I can&#x27;t imagine how any sensible court system would not consider that a derivative work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abirch</author><text>I believe he&#x27;s downloading png files from Meta, converting them to SVG, then creating the glyphs. I&#x27;m not sure what the law is on this, but there&#x27;s no need for the font files to ever be on your computer. E.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;render.myfonts.net&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;font_rend.php?id=a6719376b92bdadcac7abeed4363c796&amp;rt=HackerNews" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;render.myfonts.net&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;font_rend.php?id=a6719376b9...</a></text></comment> |
22,620,673 | 22,620,158 | 1 | 2 | 22,617,684 | train | <story><title>Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster</title><url>https://ttt.io/anatomy-of-my-kubernetes-cluster</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfman123</author><text>More software engineers should build Kubernetes clusters like this at home...<p>So they don&#x27;t have to do it at their work.<p>(Unless they work at a large enough company to justify one.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster</title><url>https://ttt.io/anatomy-of-my-kubernetes-cluster</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>This is neat. I&#x27;ve been doing the same with Pi 1s and 2s for a few years (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;raspi-cluster" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;raspi-cluster</a>) but stopped short of upgrading to 3s and 4s because of heat&#x2F;power&#x2F;cost.<p>I&#x27;ve found that it is possible to run k3s on SD cards quite well if you&#x27;re patient, but that the Pi 2 master node spent a _lot_ of time just doing internal stuff even on an otherwise idle cluster, so I went back to Swarm.<p>(I also had quite a bit of trouble with setting up a container registry, which was hard and undocumented in the first few releases of k3s. Ingress was also a bit of a pain, it&#x27;s much easier to get traefik working in Swarm...)</text></comment> |
5,762,208 | 5,762,262 | 1 | 2 | 5,762,186 | train | <story><title>The Shortest Crashing C Program</title><url>http://llbit.se/?p=1744</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexanderDhoore</author><text>This reminds me of "A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux" [1]. The author tries to create the smallest possible elf executable possible. You would think it'd be easy... :) go read it. Very cool!<p>[1] <a href="http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Shortest Crashing C Program</title><url>http://llbit.se/?p=1744</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>femto</author><text>It depends on the definition. You can do better than this if you define a valid C program as anything that passes though the C compiler and generates an executable. Behold the zero length program:<p>$ touch a.c<p>$ gcc -c a.c<p>$ ld a.o<p>ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000400078<p>$ ./a.out<p>Segmentation fault</text></comment> |
15,714,049 | 15,714,063 | 1 | 2 | 15,713,505 | train | <story><title>Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/@EO/how-i-bootstrapped-my-side-project-to-6k-mo-hating-everything-it-stood-for-43c35faa25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>This literally happened to Max Howell, the guy behind homebrew.<p>&quot;Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en</a></text></item><item><author>jcadam</author><text>Depends... how fast can he implement an AVL binary search tree on a whiteboard?</text></item><item><author>stillsut</author><text>This guy: A.) makes stuff, B.) The stuff works and is useful to other people c.) Challenged himself to drill into the &quot;crass&quot; business side to make himself far more profitable.<p>But would anyone here in a cool startup hire him?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jliptzin</author><text>Something similarly hilarious happened to me. I sold an app I built to a company in the 6 figures. I was the sole developer on the app. The sale had already gone through and they (obviously) needed someone to help maintain the app. Rather than just offer me a job, they insisted I go in for a technical interview with their engineering manager -- after buying the app I had built 100% myself. That and a few other clues scared me away and I ended up working for a competitor which went on to become much much more successful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/@EO/how-i-bootstrapped-my-side-project-to-6k-mo-hating-everything-it-stood-for-43c35faa25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>This literally happened to Max Howell, the guy behind homebrew.<p>&quot;Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en</a></text></item><item><author>jcadam</author><text>Depends... how fast can he implement an AVL binary search tree on a whiteboard?</text></item><item><author>stillsut</author><text>This guy: A.) makes stuff, B.) The stuff works and is useful to other people c.) Challenged himself to drill into the &quot;crass&quot; business side to make himself far more profitable.<p>But would anyone here in a cool startup hire him?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guessmyname</author><text>It was clear from the very beginning that the decision was more on the &quot;culture fit&quot; side than the knowledge. His attitude shows this and then is confirmed after he quit Apple <i>(who hired him no long after Google&#x27;s rejection)</i> and he — himself — stated in a message via Twitter that Apple&#x27;s work environment was not for him.<p>Reversing a binary tree is not that difficult, and a good interviewer <i>(specially the ones at Google)</i> already know this, but if the interviewee shows an angry face out of frustration and doesn&#x27;t ask for help or doesn&#x27;t communicates his inability to proceed with such task, then what does the interviewer says? Rejection!<p>Interviewers also evaluate your communication skills.</text></comment> |
28,841,515 | 28,841,815 | 1 | 3 | 28,841,366 | train | <story><title>Nuclear Power in France</title><url>https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redm</author><text>&quot;Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m no expert on Nuclear power but it seems to me were going in the wrong direction. At a time when we&#x27;re investing so much money in other fuels, we could be investing that in better nuclear power, like Small Modular Reactors [1], Sodium Cooled Fission, Small Pellet reactors, etc. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;ne&#x2F;advanced-small-modular-reactors-smrs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;ne&#x2F;advanced-small-modular-reactors-sm...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;safer-nuclear-rea...</a><p>Edit:<p>I see France is investing in Small Reactors, but only 1 billion.<p>&quot;One billion euros is to be thrown into nuclear power: “We need to develop small, innovative nuclear reactors in France by 2030, with better waste management,&quot; Macron said.&quot;<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfi.fr&#x2F;en&#x2F;france&#x2F;20211012-hydrogen-nuclear-power-drive-macron-s-%E2%82%AC30bn-plan-to-reindustrialise-france-2030" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfi.fr&#x2F;en&#x2F;france&#x2F;20211012-hydrogen-nuclear-power...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear Power in France</title><url>https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicalmonster</author><text>&gt; However, 58% thought that nuclear power caused climate change while only 46% thought that coal burning did so<p>This raises some interesting thoughts about the nature and importance of democracy.</text></comment> |
10,353,725 | 10,353,684 | 1 | 2 | 10,352,960 | train | <story><title>FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-director-calls-lack-of-data-on-police-shootings-ridiculous-embarrassing/2015/10/07/c0ebaf7a-6d16-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeremysmyth</author><text><i>Heck, it doesn&#x27;t even suggest anything actionable.</i><p>Gun control is the elephant in this particular room. A cop who isn&#x27;t expecting his next public contact to shoot him is not going to pull a gun when he walks into the room, much less shoot first.</text></item><item><author>hga</author><text>Without, oh, comparing crime rates that&#x27;s useless. E.g. just starting with murder, with less than half the people California had 1,697 in 2014 and Germany 662 in 2011 per Wikipedia.<p>I fully believe there&#x27;s a problem with US and most certainly California cops, but this is not the way to approach the problem. Heck, it doesn&#x27;t even suggest anything actionable.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>Let me just throw these tangentially relevant facts into this thread:<p>Deaths by police<p>in California: about 100 p.a.<p>in Germany: 8 in 2014<p>Population:<p>California: 39 Million<p>Germany: 82 Million<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-in-california-killed-more-than-610-people-over-6-years&#x2F;407326&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-i...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rebootthesystem</author><text>The term &quot;gun control&quot; is thrown around without definition, which makes it difficult to have an intelligent discussion.<p>Let&#x27;s start with the assumption it is impossible to alter the constitution to remove or severely cripple the second amendment, which, I think, is a reasonable assumption.<p>How, specifically, would you define &quot;gun control&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-director-calls-lack-of-data-on-police-shootings-ridiculous-embarrassing/2015/10/07/c0ebaf7a-6d16-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeremysmyth</author><text><i>Heck, it doesn&#x27;t even suggest anything actionable.</i><p>Gun control is the elephant in this particular room. A cop who isn&#x27;t expecting his next public contact to shoot him is not going to pull a gun when he walks into the room, much less shoot first.</text></item><item><author>hga</author><text>Without, oh, comparing crime rates that&#x27;s useless. E.g. just starting with murder, with less than half the people California had 1,697 in 2014 and Germany 662 in 2011 per Wikipedia.<p>I fully believe there&#x27;s a problem with US and most certainly California cops, but this is not the way to approach the problem. Heck, it doesn&#x27;t even suggest anything actionable.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>Let me just throw these tangentially relevant facts into this thread:<p>Deaths by police<p>in California: about 100 p.a.<p>in Germany: 8 in 2014<p>Population:<p>California: 39 Million<p>Germany: 82 Million<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-in-california-killed-more-than-610-people-over-6-years&#x2F;407326&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-i...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>task_queue</author><text>If guns were illegal and cops still carried guns, they&#x27;d pull them when they walk into rooms. Why wouldn&#x27;t they?</text></comment> |
14,798,540 | 14,797,596 | 1 | 2 | 14,796,934 | train | <story><title>Build a burner phone with Twilio and Kotlin</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/07/building-a-fully-featured-burner-phone-with-kotlin.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kchr</author><text>You might want to use the term &quot;single-purpose number&quot; or something similar. Burner phone is colloquially used as a term for non-registered&#x2F;anonymous phones, which this isn&#x27;t. Sure it sounds cool but people might assume that&#x27;s what they are buying...</text></comment> | <story><title>Build a burner phone with Twilio and Kotlin</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/07/building-a-fully-featured-burner-phone-with-kotlin.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WisNorCan</author><text>The challenge for Twilio is that phone #s are a fixed quantity. The same #s have been circulating across lots of different companies including being used by spammers and in marketing campaigns and published across the Internet. Make sure to search the Internet for any phone # you acquire from Twilio before buying it. It may already have substantial call spam&#x2F;undesirable organic traffic associated with it.<p>On the flip side, there are already companies out there specializing in monetizing misdials. They specifically look for phone #s that have been retired recently with a lot of volume and then take those calls and resell as leads for cars, insurance, etc.</text></comment> |
3,520,159 | 3,520,154 | 1 | 2 | 3,518,059 | train | <story><title>How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify</title><url>http://www.webstartup.me/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Congrats on the launch. I think I speak for everyone on HN when I say, you're going about this the right way: learn enough to build applications for yourself, whether or not you're going to be a code committer over the long term.<p>Can I give you some quick advice? Don't take this the wrong way: Rails makes it easy to learn enough to be dangerous in 12 weeks. Some quick hits on obvious things you should look over in your application to ensure it isn't overtly insecure:<p>* Every model class should have an "attr_accessible" statement, and the attributes you expose through it should be minimal. A very common misconception: "the things in attr_accessible are the only attributes users can set". Not so! The things in attr_accessible are the only attributes users can set <i>automatically, through mass assignment</i>. You can expose things that aren't in attr_accessible by manually settings them with assignment statements. Assume anything that's in an "attr_accessible" list, and <i>every</i> attribute of a model without attr_accessible, can and will be set to the most hostile possible value, like "role=admin".<p>* Rails programming intros have a bad habit of introducing ActiveRecord finders in the context of the model class object --- in other words, "Post.find(params[:id])". This is exactly the wrong way to do it; it's so bad that you can literally generate a list of vulnerabilities on Rails projects by grepping app/controllers for "[A-Z][a-z]+]\.find". Instead, make sure all your finders work via associations, like "@current_user.posts.find(params[:id])".<p>* Use a popular plugin for file uploads. Rails doesn't do much of anything to defend against file upload/download vulnerabilities. If I was building a public-facing Rails application, I'd do whatever I could to keep the filesystem namespace out of my requests --- storing all files on Amazon S3 without explicitly storing them in temp files is a good way to do this.<p>* Don't enable the old-style wildcard route ("/:controller/:action/:id) or any of its variants ("/posts/:action/:id :controller =&#62; :posts); whether you declare methods "public" or "private" in a controller should have nothing to do with whether they're exposed to attackers.<p>* Have a "PreauthController" that inherits from "ApplicationController" and <i>disables</i> the is-logged-in check; in other words, every controller, particularly every controller generated by "rails generate", should be post-authentication <i>by default</i>. Set up the before_filter that checks for a valid user session right there in ApplicationController, then "turn it off" for the LoginController by having it inherit from PreauthController.
Similarly: if you can get away with not having an AdminController at all --- run a totally separate Rails app for admin that requires a VPN to get to --- do that; otherwise, have an abstract AdminOnlyController class with no methods in it that does nothing but set up a before_filter to check for admin privileges, and have every admin-only controller inherit from it.<p>* Pretend the backtic operator (the one that executes Unix commands) doesn't exist.<p>You may do all of these things already (in which case, good for you! you learned more in 12 weeks than a lot of Rails developers do in years). I just called them out because (a) not doing them will be tremendously painful down the road (individual XSS slipups are annoying but unlikely to kill you, but vulnerabilities that allow people to dump your whole database are something else) and (b) they are so easy to fix.<p>Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhartl</author><text>Teaching good security practices was one goal of the <i>Ruby on Rails Tutorial</i> (a resource mentioned in the OP). It uses attr_accessible for <i>every</i> model and uses find-through-association (emphasizing the security implications of both), and it most assuredly does <i>not</i> use the /:controller/:action/:id pattern or backticks. It punts image upload over to Gravatar, and recommends Paperclip for those who need custom uploads.<p>Having a PreauthController definitely sounds like a good idea, but it might be a bit obscure for beginning developers. I'll consider it for inclusion as an exercise in one of the chapters covering authorization, or maybe I'll include it in more advanced <i>Rails Tutorial</i> material down the road. Thanks for the tip.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify</title><url>http://www.webstartup.me/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Congrats on the launch. I think I speak for everyone on HN when I say, you're going about this the right way: learn enough to build applications for yourself, whether or not you're going to be a code committer over the long term.<p>Can I give you some quick advice? Don't take this the wrong way: Rails makes it easy to learn enough to be dangerous in 12 weeks. Some quick hits on obvious things you should look over in your application to ensure it isn't overtly insecure:<p>* Every model class should have an "attr_accessible" statement, and the attributes you expose through it should be minimal. A very common misconception: "the things in attr_accessible are the only attributes users can set". Not so! The things in attr_accessible are the only attributes users can set <i>automatically, through mass assignment</i>. You can expose things that aren't in attr_accessible by manually settings them with assignment statements. Assume anything that's in an "attr_accessible" list, and <i>every</i> attribute of a model without attr_accessible, can and will be set to the most hostile possible value, like "role=admin".<p>* Rails programming intros have a bad habit of introducing ActiveRecord finders in the context of the model class object --- in other words, "Post.find(params[:id])". This is exactly the wrong way to do it; it's so bad that you can literally generate a list of vulnerabilities on Rails projects by grepping app/controllers for "[A-Z][a-z]+]\.find". Instead, make sure all your finders work via associations, like "@current_user.posts.find(params[:id])".<p>* Use a popular plugin for file uploads. Rails doesn't do much of anything to defend against file upload/download vulnerabilities. If I was building a public-facing Rails application, I'd do whatever I could to keep the filesystem namespace out of my requests --- storing all files on Amazon S3 without explicitly storing them in temp files is a good way to do this.<p>* Don't enable the old-style wildcard route ("/:controller/:action/:id) or any of its variants ("/posts/:action/:id :controller =&#62; :posts); whether you declare methods "public" or "private" in a controller should have nothing to do with whether they're exposed to attackers.<p>* Have a "PreauthController" that inherits from "ApplicationController" and <i>disables</i> the is-logged-in check; in other words, every controller, particularly every controller generated by "rails generate", should be post-authentication <i>by default</i>. Set up the before_filter that checks for a valid user session right there in ApplicationController, then "turn it off" for the LoginController by having it inherit from PreauthController.
Similarly: if you can get away with not having an AdminController at all --- run a totally separate Rails app for admin that requires a VPN to get to --- do that; otherwise, have an abstract AdminOnlyController class with no methods in it that does nothing but set up a before_filter to check for admin privileges, and have every admin-only controller inherit from it.<p>* Pretend the backtic operator (the one that executes Unix commands) doesn't exist.<p>You may do all of these things already (in which case, good for you! you learned more in 12 weeks than a lot of Rails developers do in years). I just called them out because (a) not doing them will be tremendously painful down the road (individual XSS slipups are annoying but unlikely to kill you, but vulnerabilities that allow people to dump your whole database are something else) and (b) they are so easy to fix.<p>Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joeag</author><text>Those are awesome pointers - there should be a tool that you could upload all your applications files to, the tool would scan all the files for these errors and return a report on vulnerabilities found and instructions on correcting. Maybe this already exists? I am a beginner programmer as well, making my way through Rails Tutorial (chapter 10) and Learn Ruby the Hard Way (exercise 35) and Codecademy Code year.</text></comment> |
15,987,496 | 15,987,172 | 1 | 2 | 15,986,717 | train | <story><title>Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy and the laws change at the whim of the rulers. Read the journal of this blogger who got arrested there <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amp&#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amp&#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499</a>, the people(the foreign nationals) who were in jail with him...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_0w8t</author><text>The thing about Belarus is not that laws change at whim. They are not. According a lawyer I know from Belarus in courts small and not so small cases are considered rather fairly. One in principle can count that in a daily life rule of laws applies and the level of corruption is not that bad.<p>But the moment your case is perceived by authorities as political or somebody with power finds your business interesting, one gets BIG troubles. Now, by playing by the rules one can protect somewhat from the &quot;business&quot; interests, so the situation is better than, for example, in Russia. But political part is very unpredictable and it is impossible to know which action can cross the line.</text></comment> | <story><title>Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy and the laws change at the whim of the rulers. Read the journal of this blogger who got arrested there <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amp&#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amp&#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499</a>, the people(the foreign nationals) who were in jail with him...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceasarby</author><text>This blogger was arrested because Interpol issued warrant for his arrest. Belarus as law-abiding member of Interpol just complied with rules, he was extradited to the country that made request, afaik.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t trust the guy who broke the law on purpose. What he did is entered the territory using a fake passport, after he was specifically told by the government the he can&#x27;t do this. And he did it not for any valid reason, but just to create hype in his blog. Pretty idiotic thing to do.<p>Anyway situation with this blogger is totally irrelevant to the Decree of Digital Economy that was signed today.</text></comment> |
32,779,798 | 32,780,007 | 1 | 3 | 32,778,980 | train | <story><title>Letters about Soap (1997)</title><url>https://people.cs.ksu.edu/~schmidt/soap.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text>Part of me thinks this was faked&#x2F;exaggerated at the time, except...<p>Once on Amazon, I ordered an open tent. Basically, it is just an aluminum frame, 12 feet×12, 8 feet high, with canvas, to keep the sun off when presenting things at outdoor events.<p>The one I received took 5 weeks to arrive, and was supposed to be new.
But it was used, with scruff marks on the posts. I sent pics, and said &quot;Hey, this is supposed to be new! What gives!!&quot;<p>An immediate &quot;Sorry&quot; with a &quot;We have shipped a replacement.&quot; was the response. Really, all I wanted was a discount, mostly to compensate me for the paint I needed to buy.<p>But OK, I said thanks. And waited.<p>8 weeks later, I again contacted them. &quot;Where is my replacement? Do you have a tracking number? It has not arrived yet.&quot;<p>Another immediate response, &quot;We have shipped you a replacement...&quot;<p>Whatever, I think. Scam, I think.<p>1 week later, it arrives. I notice the ship date, and realise it was the original replacement.<p>Worried, I contact them, and explain that the first replacement had arrived, all is good, it was just late, can they cancel the replacement&#x27;s replacement?<p>I received a response &quot;We have shipped a replacement.&quot;<p>And yes, I now have 4 of the things. I did not try to contact them again, for fear of ending up with more.<p>They got 5 stars though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Letters about Soap (1997)</title><url>https://people.cs.ksu.edu/~schmidt/soap.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>Flashbacks of most long support threads I&#x27;ve been on...<p>&gt; Hi I&#x27;m $insertNewName and I&#x27;ll be taking over your case. Have you tried turning it off and on again?<p>Despite 10 other interactions suggesting the same thing :facepalm:<p>That and just finding whatever support article comes up when they stuff a few keywords into their search, no matter that the same document has been linked multiple times before in the thread.</text></comment> |
14,204,563 | 14,204,792 | 1 | 2 | 14,203,010 | train | <story><title>The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won’t Cut It</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/the-cheap-energy-revolution-is-here-and-coal-won-t-cut-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>I&#x27;m glad we&#x27;re leaving a lot of coal in the ground, but for different reasons. If society as a whole ever slides backwards (due to global war, horrific disease, etc), it leaves a lot of fairly easily extractable energy for the future generation that survives. Dark way of looking at it, I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>There are actually things like peat moss[1], which are a semi-renewable energy, which I see being far more useful in a &quot;dark age&quot; scenario.<p>Not to say, it&#x27;s not good to keep coal in the ground for the same reason. Just thought I would share another tid-bit lol<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sphagnum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sphagnum</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won’t Cut It</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/the-cheap-energy-revolution-is-here-and-coal-won-t-cut-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>I&#x27;m glad we&#x27;re leaving a lot of coal in the ground, but for different reasons. If society as a whole ever slides backwards (due to global war, horrific disease, etc), it leaves a lot of fairly easily extractable energy for the future generation that survives. Dark way of looking at it, I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>accountyaccount</author><text>Once we&#x27;re saturated enough with solar I can&#x27;t imagine there being an easier ad-hoc way to generate energy for small groups in the post-apocalypse. I think you&#x27;re right though that coal is the ultimate society at-scale fallback.</text></comment> |
31,710,699 | 31,710,004 | 1 | 2 | 31,709,394 | train | <story><title>Downtown S.F. on the brink: It’s worse than it looks</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sfnext-downtown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathanaldensr</author><text>How about <i>this</i> false dichotomy:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police, or it aggressively puts up taxes on businesses to cover the shortfall and drives them out of the city,&quot; he said.</i><p>It&#x27;s always &quot;we&#x27;ll have to slash spending on basic city functions!&quot; or &quot;we&#x27;ll have to raise your taxes!&quot; but <i>never</i> &quot;we&#x27;ll have to cut all these unsustainable social policies!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diogenescynic</author><text>SF spends literally hundreds of millions on the 7,000-8,000 homeless. If they need to cut programs, that should be the first. It&#x27;s not only excessive spending, but it&#x27;s totally unaccountable. They could just buy the homeless RVs in Bakersfield for less than they spend to leave a bunch of junkies on the street and still have overdoses that exceed COVID deaths.</text></comment> | <story><title>Downtown S.F. on the brink: It’s worse than it looks</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sfnext-downtown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathanaldensr</author><text>How about <i>this</i> false dichotomy:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police, or it aggressively puts up taxes on businesses to cover the shortfall and drives them out of the city,&quot; he said.</i><p>It&#x27;s always &quot;we&#x27;ll have to slash spending on basic city functions!&quot; or &quot;we&#x27;ll have to raise your taxes!&quot; but <i>never</i> &quot;we&#x27;ll have to cut all these unsustainable social policies!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>&gt;My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police<p>I don&#x27;t want this to turn into an ideological battle, but my understanding was that in SF, that is not an unpopular stance. Is this not the case?</text></comment> |
12,764,472 | 12,764,087 | 1 | 3 | 12,759,697 | train | <story><title>DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS</title><url>https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tim_armandpour</author><text>I wanted to provide an update on the PagerDuty service. At this time we have been able to restore the service by migrating to our secondary DNS provider. If you are still experiencing issues reaching any pagerduty.com addresses, please flush your DNS cache. This should restore your access to the service. We are actively monitoring our service and are working to resolve any outstanding issues. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and thank our customers for their support and patience. Real-time updates on all incidents can be found on our status page and on Twitter at @pagerdutyops and @pagerduty. In case of outages with our regular communications channels, we will update you via email directly.<p>In addition you can reach out to our customer support team at [email protected] or +1 (844) 700-3889.<p>Tim Armandpour, SVP of Product Development, PagerDuty</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfarnsworth</author><text>I had the privilege of being on-call during this entire fiasco today and I have to say I was really really disappointed. It&#x27;s surprising how broken your entire service was when DNS went down. I couldn&#x27;t acknowledge anything, and my secondary on-call was getting paged because it looked like I wasn&#x27;t trying to respond. I was getting phone calls for alerts that wasn&#x27;t even showing up on the web client, etc. Overall, it caused chaos and I was really disappointed.</text></comment> | <story><title>DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS</title><url>https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tim_armandpour</author><text>I wanted to provide an update on the PagerDuty service. At this time we have been able to restore the service by migrating to our secondary DNS provider. If you are still experiencing issues reaching any pagerduty.com addresses, please flush your DNS cache. This should restore your access to the service. We are actively monitoring our service and are working to resolve any outstanding issues. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and thank our customers for their support and patience. Real-time updates on all incidents can be found on our status page and on Twitter at @pagerdutyops and @pagerduty. In case of outages with our regular communications channels, we will update you via email directly.<p>In addition you can reach out to our customer support team at [email protected] or +1 (844) 700-3889.<p>Tim Armandpour, SVP of Product Development, PagerDuty</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>Sorry if this sounds dickish, but renting 3 servers @ $75 apiece from 3 different dedicated server companies in the USA, putting TinyDNS on them, and using them as backup servers, would have solved your problems hours ago.<p>Even a single quad-core server with 4GB RAM running TinyDNS could serve 10K queries per second, based on extrapolation and assumed improvements since this 2001 test, which showed nearly 4K&#x2F;second performance on 700Mhz PIII CPUs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.isc.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;bind-users&#x2F;2001-June&#x2F;029457.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.isc.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;bind-users&#x2F;2001-June&#x2F;029457....</a><p>EDIT to add: and lengthening TTLs temporarily would mean that those 10K queries would quickly lessen the outage, since each query might last for 12 hours; and large ISPs like Comcast would cache the queries for all their customers, so a single successful query delivered to Comcast would have (some amount) of multiplier effect.</text></comment> |
26,821,318 | 26,821,538 | 1 | 2 | 26,819,883 | train | <story><title>A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note</title><url>https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1382366931307565057</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>You know who else has to deal with these images - and <i>much</i> worse, real-world living cases? Law enforcement. Lawyers. Juries.<p>Do we just sit back and say &quot;let&#x27;s stop subjecting those poor officers from having to see evil things&quot;? Of course not. We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty. Not everyone who sees this stuff is scarred for life.<p>See also: Soldiers. Firefighters. Emergency medical workers.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d rather moderate gross things than, say, work in a coal mine. But that&#x27;s me. I don&#x27;t appreciate the insinuation that this makes me some sort of monster.</text></item><item><author>diamondhandle</author><text>People who comment on these moderator issues always overlook the huge huge mental red flag that these moderators always discuss: images of children being molested and tortured.<p>Endless images of young children. Being sexually assaulted, penetrated, made to do degrading things.<p>Think about how that statement makes you feel, and then imagine you’ve been tricked into looking at this stuff for money as a “content moderator.” It’s a form of cruel economic punishment.<p>Facebook wouldn’t have these problems if they weren’t obsessed with acquiring as many users as possible. They are the ones who should be forced to pay for the long term mental health of these workers.<p>California ballot initiative, anyone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>q3k</author><text>&gt; We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to have a strong sense of duty for the megacorp that doesn&#x27;t even bother to employ you directly, but pays another megacorp which then pays you peanuts. When you don&#x27;t even get to have the context of what you&#x27;re doing, don&#x27;t get to follow up on whether what you did was meaningful, whether the perp was caught and tried, whether the child was saved.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to have a strong stomach if you don&#x27;t see this as an occiasional element of your generally tame and meaningful work, but see hours upon hours, days upon days of some of the worst shit that the human race is capable of.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note</title><url>https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1382366931307565057</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>You know who else has to deal with these images - and <i>much</i> worse, real-world living cases? Law enforcement. Lawyers. Juries.<p>Do we just sit back and say &quot;let&#x27;s stop subjecting those poor officers from having to see evil things&quot;? Of course not. We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty. Not everyone who sees this stuff is scarred for life.<p>See also: Soldiers. Firefighters. Emergency medical workers.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d rather moderate gross things than, say, work in a coal mine. But that&#x27;s me. I don&#x27;t appreciate the insinuation that this makes me some sort of monster.</text></item><item><author>diamondhandle</author><text>People who comment on these moderator issues always overlook the huge huge mental red flag that these moderators always discuss: images of children being molested and tortured.<p>Endless images of young children. Being sexually assaulted, penetrated, made to do degrading things.<p>Think about how that statement makes you feel, and then imagine you’ve been tricked into looking at this stuff for money as a “content moderator.” It’s a form of cruel economic punishment.<p>Facebook wouldn’t have these problems if they weren’t obsessed with acquiring as many users as possible. They are the ones who should be forced to pay for the long term mental health of these workers.<p>California ballot initiative, anyone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&quot;We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty. Not everyone who sees this stuff is scarred for life.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends&#x2F;380329&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;police-...</a><p>&gt; Two studies have found that at least 40 percent of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10 percent of families in the general population. A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24 percent, indicating that domestic violence is two to four times more common among police families than American families in general.</text></comment> |
25,414,478 | 25,412,776 | 1 | 3 | 25,411,799 | train | <story><title>Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market</title><url>https://datamentary.net/psa-tesla-may-soon-be-as-big-as-all-other-automakers-combined/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RivieraKid</author><text>The stock price increased by 15x in 1.5 years on basically no major news. If you don&#x27;t include profits from regulatory credits, they&#x27;ve lost over $700M so far this year. Government money is not scalable or sustainable, so this an important indicator of how their finances are doing.<p>The intuition is that Tesla cars are like iPhones. I think it&#x27;s wrong. This is a low-margin business, where you increasingly compete with <i>all</i> of the goods and services people buy, like housing, education, healthcare. It&#x27;s not a &quot;buy a new phone for Christmas every 2 years&quot; business.<p>People are on the phone all the time, so paying $200 more for an improved experience for several hours per day is justified. But paying $5k or $10k more for an improved experience for 1 or 2 hours per day? If you&#x27;re rich, maybe. If not, why not move closer to your work instead, so you don&#x27;t have to use the car? Why not take a longer vacation, or eat out every day, or retire earlier, or pay for your kid&#x27;s college education?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Depends what you call news. We&#x27;re pretty spoiled when it comes to Tesla news; there&#x27;s been no shortage.<p>In the last year they&#x27;ve announced and built most of the Berlin factory. It seems on track to start producing next year. That&#x27;s on the home turf of Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW. Pretty big news. The same year also saw the announcement of the Texas factory where they are also executing rapidly. And that of course came on the back of the Chinese factory. The news for Tesla in the last few months has been of them executing extremely well. They&#x27;re growing production and turning profits in a market where all their competitors are shrinking production and losing money. There&#x27;s also been some minor news about them ramping up production of their in house designed batteries a few new models and model variants. The cyber truck announcement was only a year ago; so that counts as well and half a million reservations for such a thing is nothing to sneeze at. Then there was a minor thing called Corona which should have put the brakes on profits; except it didn&#x27;t in Tesla&#x27;s case.<p>Tesla&#x27;s valuation is based on their historic ability to execute and their competitors apparent struggle to do so. Turning profits in the middle of two major lock downs is pretty hard evidence that they are doing something right. So, maybe it&#x27;s not that irrational for investors to look at Tesla and see a strategy that while ballsy is apparently working and looking like it might be just the right strategy for the foreseeable future as well.<p>Your picking nits over government subsidies. Everybody else has that same advantage. In any case, without government subsidies, most of the Detroit based car manufacturers would have gone bust around the 2008 crisis already. I&#x27;d say 700M is peanuts compared to that probably; and they are still losing money. General Motors&#x27; losses alone this year exceed that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market</title><url>https://datamentary.net/psa-tesla-may-soon-be-as-big-as-all-other-automakers-combined/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RivieraKid</author><text>The stock price increased by 15x in 1.5 years on basically no major news. If you don&#x27;t include profits from regulatory credits, they&#x27;ve lost over $700M so far this year. Government money is not scalable or sustainable, so this an important indicator of how their finances are doing.<p>The intuition is that Tesla cars are like iPhones. I think it&#x27;s wrong. This is a low-margin business, where you increasingly compete with <i>all</i> of the goods and services people buy, like housing, education, healthcare. It&#x27;s not a &quot;buy a new phone for Christmas every 2 years&quot; business.<p>People are on the phone all the time, so paying $200 more for an improved experience for several hours per day is justified. But paying $5k or $10k more for an improved experience for 1 or 2 hours per day? If you&#x27;re rich, maybe. If not, why not move closer to your work instead, so you don&#x27;t have to use the car? Why not take a longer vacation, or eat out every day, or retire earlier, or pay for your kid&#x27;s college education?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fomine3</author><text>Agree with this. 15x in 1.5 years shows that the stock price is not only made by real value.</text></comment> |
25,183,579 | 25,183,531 | 1 | 3 | 25,182,786 | train | <story><title>Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/21/michael-j-fox-every-step-now-is-a-frigging-math-problem-so-i-take-it-slow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>interestica</author><text>&gt; It is believed that a combination of genetic and environmental factors, such as pesticides and pollution, may cause Parkinson’s; Fox later learned that at least four cast members of Leo &amp; Me, a Canadian TV show he starred in as a teenager, also developed early-onset Parkinson’s. “But believe it or not, that’s not enough people to be defined as a cluster, so there hasn’t been much research into that. But it is interesting. I can think of a thousand possible scenarios: I used to go fishing in a river near paper mills and eat the salmon I caught; I’ve been to a lot of farms; I smoked a lot of pot in high school when the government was poisoning the crops. But you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out.”<p>Completely unfounded speculation, but I always wondered what the effect of the absolutely grueling schedule of simultaneously filming Family Ties and Back to the Future was. (Sleeping in cars, working til 7am, just a couple hours of sleep a night).<p>&gt; Gale said that Fox&#x27;s youth meant he could cope with less sleep than usual.
(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Back_to_the_Future#Filming_with_Fox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Back_to_the_Future#Filming_wit...</a>)<p>They&#x27;d already filmed half the movie and brought Fox in as the replacement. With so much on the line, did he take more than just coffee to keep going? Drug-induced &#x27;Parkinsonism&#x27; is a thing. Having it progress like typical Parkinson&#x27;s is rare, but it happens. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkinsons.org.uk&#x2F;information-and-support&#x2F;types-parkinsonism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkinsons.org.uk&#x2F;information-and-support&#x2F;types-...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Sleep Disturbance as Potential Risk and Progression Factor for Parkinson’s Disease<p>Emerging evidence from the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research implicates sleep quality as an important factor underlying risk and disease progression in this disorder [2, 3]. There is also evidence that the presence of sleep disturbances may increase the risk of developing PD.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6700634&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6700634&#x2F;</a><p>Edit:<p>The mechanism is even partially established. Serious sleep deprivation is known to elevate the levels of two proteins that are known to be risk factors for certain kinds of dementia, one of which is Tau (I don&#x27;t recall the other):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6360494&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6360494&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/21/michael-j-fox-every-step-now-is-a-frigging-math-problem-so-i-take-it-slow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>interestica</author><text>&gt; It is believed that a combination of genetic and environmental factors, such as pesticides and pollution, may cause Parkinson’s; Fox later learned that at least four cast members of Leo &amp; Me, a Canadian TV show he starred in as a teenager, also developed early-onset Parkinson’s. “But believe it or not, that’s not enough people to be defined as a cluster, so there hasn’t been much research into that. But it is interesting. I can think of a thousand possible scenarios: I used to go fishing in a river near paper mills and eat the salmon I caught; I’ve been to a lot of farms; I smoked a lot of pot in high school when the government was poisoning the crops. But you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out.”<p>Completely unfounded speculation, but I always wondered what the effect of the absolutely grueling schedule of simultaneously filming Family Ties and Back to the Future was. (Sleeping in cars, working til 7am, just a couple hours of sleep a night).<p>&gt; Gale said that Fox&#x27;s youth meant he could cope with less sleep than usual.
(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Back_to_the_Future#Filming_with_Fox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Back_to_the_Future#Filming_wit...</a>)<p>They&#x27;d already filmed half the movie and brought Fox in as the replacement. With so much on the line, did he take more than just coffee to keep going? Drug-induced &#x27;Parkinsonism&#x27; is a thing. Having it progress like typical Parkinson&#x27;s is rare, but it happens. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkinsons.org.uk&#x2F;information-and-support&#x2F;types-parkinsonism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkinsons.org.uk&#x2F;information-and-support&#x2F;types-...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>influx</author><text>Hrrm, interesting theory:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;051214084800.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;051214084800.h...</a><p>&quot;Adults who abuse cocaine might increase their risk of developing Parkinson&#x27;s disease&quot;<p>It wouldn&#x27;t be too far out to imagine a young Hollywood star in the 80s might abuse illegal drugs to stay awake.</text></comment> |
39,841,446 | 39,841,325 | 1 | 2 | 39,840,286 | train | <story><title>Daniel Kahneman has died</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>The density of non-replicable results varies by chapter.<p>You can ignore anything said in chapter 4 about priming for example.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicationindex.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicationindex.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;a-meta-scientific-pe...</a> for more.</text></item><item><author>mistercow</author><text>It’s worth noting that many of the results in Thinking, Fast and Slow didn’t hold up to replication.<p>It’s still very much worth reading in its own right, but now implicitly comes bundled with a game I like to call “calibrate yourself on the replication crisis”. Playing is simple: every time the book mentions a surprising result, try to guess whether it replicated. Then search online to see if you got it right.</text></item><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>I&#x27;m not one to give an exaggerated eulogy nor rhapsodize about all those &quot;Books with a white cover and a weird picture&quot; -- but I will say I read thinking fast and slow for the first time last year, after decades of resisting, and felt it covered some generally profound ideas that still are relevant as ever and not widely understood.<p>(Though at some point, maybe the 2nd half of the book, drags on and you can skip most of those chapters. If you don&#x27;t have time for that, I&#x27;m sure chat GPT can give you a taste of the main premises and you can probe deeper from there.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>localhost</author><text>This is exactly the kind of task that I want to deploy a long context window model on: &quot;rewrite Thinking Fast and Slow taking into account the current state of research. Oh, and do it in the voice, style and structure of Tim Urban complete with crappy stick figure drawings.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Daniel Kahneman has died</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>The density of non-replicable results varies by chapter.<p>You can ignore anything said in chapter 4 about priming for example.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicationindex.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicationindex.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;a-meta-scientific-pe...</a> for more.</text></item><item><author>mistercow</author><text>It’s worth noting that many of the results in Thinking, Fast and Slow didn’t hold up to replication.<p>It’s still very much worth reading in its own right, but now implicitly comes bundled with a game I like to call “calibrate yourself on the replication crisis”. Playing is simple: every time the book mentions a surprising result, try to guess whether it replicated. Then search online to see if you got it right.</text></item><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>I&#x27;m not one to give an exaggerated eulogy nor rhapsodize about all those &quot;Books with a white cover and a weird picture&quot; -- but I will say I read thinking fast and slow for the first time last year, after decades of resisting, and felt it covered some generally profound ideas that still are relevant as ever and not widely understood.<p>(Though at some point, maybe the 2nd half of the book, drags on and you can skip most of those chapters. If you don&#x27;t have time for that, I&#x27;m sure chat GPT can give you a taste of the main premises and you can probe deeper from there.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amoshebb</author><text>is there a &#x27;thinking fast and slow: the reproducible bits&#x27; recut? I know with films there&#x27;s fan made edits.</text></comment> |
9,217,693 | 9,216,845 | 1 | 2 | 9,216,299 | train | <story><title>Resume in C</title><url>https://gist.github.com/klange/4042963</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aldo_MX</author><text>Wow, I didn&#x27;t know this was valid C code, it&#x27;s pretty convenient.<p><pre><code> school_t uiuc = {
.school = &quot;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign&quot;,
.location = &quot;Urbana, IL&quot;,
.program = &quot;BS Computer Science&quot;,
.started = 1251158400,
.left = 1336608000,
.accomplishments = {
&quot;Minor in International Studies in Engineering, Japan&quot;,
&quot;Focused on systems software courses&quot;,
NULL
}
};</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wschroed</author><text>I highly recommend &quot;21st Century C&quot; (<a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.oreilly.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;0636920025108.do</a>) as a tour of modern C programming, including use of C99 features. It goes over C tooling (profiling, debugging, testing, cross-platform deployment), and explores C99.</text></comment> | <story><title>Resume in C</title><url>https://gist.github.com/klange/4042963</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aldo_MX</author><text>Wow, I didn&#x27;t know this was valid C code, it&#x27;s pretty convenient.<p><pre><code> school_t uiuc = {
.school = &quot;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign&quot;,
.location = &quot;Urbana, IL&quot;,
.program = &quot;BS Computer Science&quot;,
.started = 1251158400,
.left = 1336608000,
.accomplishments = {
&quot;Minor in International Studies in Engineering, Japan&quot;,
&quot;Focused on systems software courses&quot;,
NULL
}
};</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cipher0</author><text>These are called desginated initializers, they&#x27;re part of C99.[0] This is a good read which discusses them and also devles into compound literals.[1]<p>[0] <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.gnu.org&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gcc&#x2F;Designated-Inits.html</a>
[1] <a href="https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2013/07/25/designated-initialization-with-pointers-in-c/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickdesaulniers.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;25&#x2F;designated...</a></text></comment> |
10,649,575 | 10,649,567 | 1 | 2 | 10,649,442 | train | <story><title>The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2015/11/the-secret-message-hidden-in-every.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>In the communist days the writers of letters (in sealed envelopes) would routinely greet the censor or wish them merry Christmas and stuff like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2015/11/the-secret-message-hidden-in-every.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>&quot;PRISM&quot; is obviously a reference to the surveillance program. HTTP&#x2F;2.0 developers were well aware and worried about it. For example see this mail from PHK on the httpbis mailing list: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;mail-archive&#x2F;web&#x2F;httpbisa&#x2F;current&#x2F;msg14288.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;mail-archive&#x2F;web&#x2F;httpbisa&#x2F;current&#x2F;msg142...</a></text></comment> |
27,717,274 | 27,709,181 | 1 | 2 | 27,705,631 | train | <story><title>Folk wisdom on visual programming</title><url>https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>&gt; I used LabVIEW extensively for a few months<p>I’m not sure that a few months is enough to understand the true pros and cons of a language. I’m using Elixir in my day job now and have used F# for side projects, and it’s not clear to me any one is faster to program in, especially for GUIs. LabVIEW actually shines, contrary to popular but inexperienced opinion, for large projects. I have used LabVIEW rather extensively, and it seems any project would have seen massive delays if I used something else, which is why I didn’t.<p>But I can indeed see an argument for strain when using the mouse so much. I have experienced that before and improved my ergonomic setup. As an aside, it is curious to me that many programmers are heavy PC gamers as the one true way to game and don’t complain about the mouse use there but will throw out all sorts of complaints when using it to program or use tools.<p>&gt; New ideas in graphical software require software intensive effort to try out.<p>This “problem” isn’t inherent to graphical programming though. It’s because legions of programmers are convinced that text=programming and have spent decades writing text-only tools. You see this friction when using LabVIEW with GitHub, whose tooling is incompatible with the diff and merge tools that come with LabVIEW, which makes GitHub look outdated and not LabVIEW.<p>I’m actually working on ideas to build a toolkit for graphical programming languages. There are certainly challenges though, such as the desktop GUI ecosystem being a mess and reliance upon graph data structures and algorithms (like automatic layout).<p>&gt; On the other hand, there does seem to be something about data flow programming (LabVIEW, Excel) that is attractive to beginners<p>Dataflow is attractive to advanced users as well, which is part of the draw to languages like F#, Elixir, Racket, Clojure, etc. Although, the dataflow in LabVIEW is actually more advanced, which is basically a multithreaded and branched version of the single threaded linear pipelines found in the languages I mentioned. Working in F# and Elixir with pipes can be pretty irritating sometimes given my knowledge of LabVIEW.</text></item><item><author>analog31</author><text>The author alludes to problems related to complexity, modularity, and formatting, of visual code. I think a hard problem for visual languages is the sheer physical labor of creating code using drawing tools.<p>I used LabVIEW extensively for a few months, and ended up with crippling wrist fatigue and eyestrain headaches from all of the fine mouse work and menu selections needed to write even small programs. This is an ergonomic problem with all graphical software, but is particularly acute with programming because of the amount of code that gets written.<p>Another problem is innovation. You can quickly spin up an experimental language and try it out because the infrastructure -- editor and command shell -- already exist. This is one reason why we enjoy such a proliferation of new language ideas. New ideas in graphical software require intensive effort to try out.<p>On the other hand, there does seem to be something about data flow programming (LabVIEW, Excel) that is attractive to beginners, that can&#x27;t be overlooked. Excel is probably the number-one programming tool in use right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkersten</author><text>&gt; But I can indeed see an argument for strain when using the mouse so much. I have experienced that before and improved my ergonomic setup. As an aside, it is curious to me that many programmers are heavy PC gamers as the one true way to game and don’t complain about the mouse use there but will throw out all sorts of complaints when using it to program or use tools.<p>I wonder also how using visual languages like LabVIEW compares to other mouse-heavy computer users like photo editors&#x2F;graphic designers, CAD users etc.<p>&gt; Dataflow is attractive to advanced users as well<p>I quite enjoyed using Max&#x2F;MSP a few years ago when I did some stuff with it for a few months. I&#x27;ve always wished I had it available as a general purpose language in my programming toolbox since. As for other advanced users who use (visual) dataflow, my go to example is Ansys&#x27; SCADE Suite[1][2][3], which is used for critical systems like trains, helicopters and power plants.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ansys.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;embedded-software&#x2F;ansys-scade-suite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ansys.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;embedded-software&#x2F;ansys-scade...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ansys.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;product&#x2F;embedded-software&#x2F;ansys-scade-suite&#x2F;ansys-scade-suite-2021-r2-datasheet.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ansys.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;product&#x2F;embedded-software&#x2F;...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5z0h-WeScqw&amp;list=PL0lZXwHtV6Ok5s-iSkBjHirM1fu53_Phv&amp;index=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5z0h-WeScqw&amp;list=PL0lZXwHtV6...</a> (the third video introduces the visual language)</text></comment> | <story><title>Folk wisdom on visual programming</title><url>https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>&gt; I used LabVIEW extensively for a few months<p>I’m not sure that a few months is enough to understand the true pros and cons of a language. I’m using Elixir in my day job now and have used F# for side projects, and it’s not clear to me any one is faster to program in, especially for GUIs. LabVIEW actually shines, contrary to popular but inexperienced opinion, for large projects. I have used LabVIEW rather extensively, and it seems any project would have seen massive delays if I used something else, which is why I didn’t.<p>But I can indeed see an argument for strain when using the mouse so much. I have experienced that before and improved my ergonomic setup. As an aside, it is curious to me that many programmers are heavy PC gamers as the one true way to game and don’t complain about the mouse use there but will throw out all sorts of complaints when using it to program or use tools.<p>&gt; New ideas in graphical software require software intensive effort to try out.<p>This “problem” isn’t inherent to graphical programming though. It’s because legions of programmers are convinced that text=programming and have spent decades writing text-only tools. You see this friction when using LabVIEW with GitHub, whose tooling is incompatible with the diff and merge tools that come with LabVIEW, which makes GitHub look outdated and not LabVIEW.<p>I’m actually working on ideas to build a toolkit for graphical programming languages. There are certainly challenges though, such as the desktop GUI ecosystem being a mess and reliance upon graph data structures and algorithms (like automatic layout).<p>&gt; On the other hand, there does seem to be something about data flow programming (LabVIEW, Excel) that is attractive to beginners<p>Dataflow is attractive to advanced users as well, which is part of the draw to languages like F#, Elixir, Racket, Clojure, etc. Although, the dataflow in LabVIEW is actually more advanced, which is basically a multithreaded and branched version of the single threaded linear pipelines found in the languages I mentioned. Working in F# and Elixir with pipes can be pretty irritating sometimes given my knowledge of LabVIEW.</text></item><item><author>analog31</author><text>The author alludes to problems related to complexity, modularity, and formatting, of visual code. I think a hard problem for visual languages is the sheer physical labor of creating code using drawing tools.<p>I used LabVIEW extensively for a few months, and ended up with crippling wrist fatigue and eyestrain headaches from all of the fine mouse work and menu selections needed to write even small programs. This is an ergonomic problem with all graphical software, but is particularly acute with programming because of the amount of code that gets written.<p>Another problem is innovation. You can quickly spin up an experimental language and try it out because the infrastructure -- editor and command shell -- already exist. This is one reason why we enjoy such a proliferation of new language ideas. New ideas in graphical software require intensive effort to try out.<p>On the other hand, there does seem to be something about data flow programming (LabVIEW, Excel) that is attractive to beginners, that can&#x27;t be overlooked. Excel is probably the number-one programming tool in use right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sideshowb</author><text>&gt; As an aside, it is curious to me that many programmers are heavy PC gamers as the one true way to game and don’t complain about the mouse use there but will throw out all sorts of complaints when using it to program<p>Are those definitely the same people? Mouse use is certainly one of the reasons I gave up gaming. (The other being that an X hour working day is quite enough time to spend in front of a computer already).</text></comment> |
40,909,702 | 40,909,397 | 1 | 2 | 40,908,855 | train | <story><title>How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-to-use-the-bitwarden-forwarded-email-alias-generator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ringz</author><text>It&#x27;s been like this for years. However, with one of my own domains and a catch all rule in the e-mail server. Why? From time to time, some services require that you send emails with exactly this e-mail address as the sender. And that doesn&#x27;t just work with most services. Because in such a case, you have to turn exactly this e-mail address into a real account with a mailbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>For me, the value of using aliases on my own domain isn&#x27;t anonymity, it&#x27;s provenance; I can tell where my email was obtained from based on the the prefix used. If I get an email sent to git@&lt;domain&gt;, I know that someone (or something) was looking at git logs to get it, if it&#x27;s sent to resume@&lt;domain&gt;, I know someone got it from my resume, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-to-use-the-bitwarden-forwarded-email-alias-generator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ringz</author><text>It&#x27;s been like this for years. However, with one of my own domains and a catch all rule in the e-mail server. Why? From time to time, some services require that you send emails with exactly this e-mail address as the sender. And that doesn&#x27;t just work with most services. Because in such a case, you have to turn exactly this e-mail address into a real account with a mailbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainNegative</author><text>In principle, someone seeing [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] in a dump might be able to infer that all of these belong to the same user with a catchall address (especially if they can verify that the domain is unpopular via dns caching or other tricks). Using a common service adds another partial layer of anonymity between the email addresses, making one harder to track.</text></comment> |
37,340,503 | 37,340,539 | 1 | 3 | 37,340,010 | train | <story><title>When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>&gt;<i>“I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?” Instead of “Why didn’t you do it this way?”</i><p>That crosses the line by lying, I think it would be better to say &quot;I think it would be better if you did it this way.&quot; It&#x27;s bad to call them stupid or make a superfluous claim of objectivity, but you don&#x27;t need to pretend to smile and praise.</text></item><item><author>gabereiser</author><text>&gt;Ask if it’s ok first…<p>This is very astute. Not everyone likes getting praise in public settings or they might not want their micromanaging manager to know they helped you outside the scope of their work. You should be cognizant of when praise should be given (i.e. when is it appropriate) and in what context as mentioned in the article.<p>That said, if you aren’t thanking and praising your colleagues for doing good work - YTA of the team. If you are calling out your colleagues for doing bad work, or not the way you would do it work, you should try to rephrase into praise w&#x2F; direction. “I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?” Instead of “Why didn’t you do it this way?”<p>*edit*
There’s a whole bunch of interesting information on why behavioral praise is better than outcome praise. Here’s a video about it I find sums it up perfectly (though it’s geared towards how it relates to children) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;59gx55bNunU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;59gx55bNunU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rqtwteye</author><text>“I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?”<p>I hate this because it’s usually just a shit sandwich. “Great work. Actually it sucked. Keep going.”</text></comment> | <story><title>When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>&gt;<i>“I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?” Instead of “Why didn’t you do it this way?”</i><p>That crosses the line by lying, I think it would be better to say &quot;I think it would be better if you did it this way.&quot; It&#x27;s bad to call them stupid or make a superfluous claim of objectivity, but you don&#x27;t need to pretend to smile and praise.</text></item><item><author>gabereiser</author><text>&gt;Ask if it’s ok first…<p>This is very astute. Not everyone likes getting praise in public settings or they might not want their micromanaging manager to know they helped you outside the scope of their work. You should be cognizant of when praise should be given (i.e. when is it appropriate) and in what context as mentioned in the article.<p>That said, if you aren’t thanking and praising your colleagues for doing good work - YTA of the team. If you are calling out your colleagues for doing bad work, or not the way you would do it work, you should try to rephrase into praise w&#x2F; direction. “I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?” Instead of “Why didn’t you do it this way?”<p>*edit*
There’s a whole bunch of interesting information on why behavioral praise is better than outcome praise. Here’s a video about it I find sums it up perfectly (though it’s geared towards how it relates to children) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;59gx55bNunU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;59gx55bNunU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gabereiser</author><text>Let’s break down your version: “I think it would be better if…” You start with an opinion. That’s going to cause any listener to put up their guard. It’s the beginning of any sort of confrontations. By saying “Thank you for the effort…” you are acknowledging the work they put into it and showing empathy by seeing their work they have done. If it isn’t correct, either it should have been course corrected by management or volunteer for the next one. If you think something should be done a certain away across the board, create a brown bag or lunch and learn where you evangelize it and get consensus.<p>You aren’t lying when you give praise about someone’s effort (unless they gave none, in which case why are you praising to begin with?), you would be lying if you said “You did a great job” when the solution is potentially tech debt for later. It’s a matter of communication and human behavior.<p>You wouldn’t praise someone by saying “I think it could be better”.</text></comment> |
27,051,816 | 27,049,610 | 1 | 2 | 27,048,587 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying?</title><text>Context: Recently I&#x27;ve noticed that almost every search ends with &#x27; reddit&#x27;. This is because msotly everything on google search shows either ads or content farm articles and listicles.<p>This is also slowly getting into more niche topics too.<p>Does anyone else feel the same?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>OtterGauze</author><text>Despite the consensus of Google from people who know about alternatives or ways to avoid it, Google is still the most mainstream and de-facto search engine in atleast the English speaking world, and is the top most visited website in the world.<p>I wish people would stop saying something is &quot;dying&quot; when they personally dont like it anymore or don&#x27;t use it as much, you don&#x27;t speak for the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traveler01</author><text>I tried to use another search engines for a while.
Tried Ectosia, tried Duckduckgo, even gave Bing a chance. Google just gives me better results...</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying?</title><text>Context: Recently I&#x27;ve noticed that almost every search ends with &#x27; reddit&#x27;. This is because msotly everything on google search shows either ads or content farm articles and listicles.<p>This is also slowly getting into more niche topics too.<p>Does anyone else feel the same?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>OtterGauze</author><text>Despite the consensus of Google from people who know about alternatives or ways to avoid it, Google is still the most mainstream and de-facto search engine in atleast the English speaking world, and is the top most visited website in the world.<p>I wish people would stop saying something is &quot;dying&quot; when they personally dont like it anymore or don&#x27;t use it as much, you don&#x27;t speak for the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcminter</author><text>Betteridge&#x27;s law tells us the answer is no. But there is a real phenomenon - Google is becoming less useful.<p>It used to be that a challenger would get no traction because why would one bother when Google always popped out good answers to searches. Now... I&#x27;d at least try something new to skip all the makeuseof, wikihow, and similar dross without having to explicitly constrain it to reddit.<p>So no, it&#x27;s not dying. But this is how it could die.</text></comment> |
26,995,900 | 26,995,775 | 1 | 2 | 26,989,563 | train | <story><title>Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards</title><url>https://coolgadget.substack.com/p/beginners-guide-to-mechanical-keyboards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MetaWhirledPeas</author><text>I&#x27;m not hatin&#x27;, but spend some time on r&#x2F;mechanicalkeyboards and you&#x27;ll quickly realize it&#x27;s just a fun hobby that&#x27;s 90% about aesthetics. For example, most users ignore backlighting because it limits the cute keycap sets they can use.</text></item><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>&gt; Mechanical keyboards are ideal for programmers and fast typists, while light users can also consider membrane keyboards since they do not often come across certain 3-key combinations&#x2F;shortcuts.<p>I&#x27;ve never encountered this sort of problem with ANY keyboard I&#x27;ve owned in 30 years, no matter how crappy.<p>&gt; A good mechanical keyboard can alleviate the fatigue of typing. Users who need to type for a long time can consider it.<p>This claim seems dubious.<p>&gt; In theory, a mechanical keyboard can last for 3 to 5 years.<p>I&#x27;ve yet to have a membrane keyboard actually wear out. I just had my daily driver Logitech solar wireless keyboard that I bought in 2014 finally die, but it was the solar charger circuit that failed, not the keys or membrane (although the paint on the wasd keys were getting pretty damn faded).<p>&gt; Keyboard wrist rest: some users may feel uncomfortable typing without a palm wrist. This depends on personal needs.<p>Wrist rests are actually one of the leading causes of RSI due to the extra compression stress they place upon the carpal tunnel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sundarurfriend</author><text>Imagine what kind of person regularly posts on a subreddit about a physical tool that doesn&#x27;t require much maintanence. Of course it&#x27;s going to be the people that take it up as a personal hobby that are going to post - that isn&#x27;t going to give you a representative sample of the average users. I&#x27;ve been using a mechanical keyboard for years now, and I&#x27;ve visited the sub maybe half a dozen times, and yet I enjoy the feel of my keyboards and they&#x27;ll continue to make a small but significant improvement to my interactions with computers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards</title><url>https://coolgadget.substack.com/p/beginners-guide-to-mechanical-keyboards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MetaWhirledPeas</author><text>I&#x27;m not hatin&#x27;, but spend some time on r&#x2F;mechanicalkeyboards and you&#x27;ll quickly realize it&#x27;s just a fun hobby that&#x27;s 90% about aesthetics. For example, most users ignore backlighting because it limits the cute keycap sets they can use.</text></item><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>&gt; Mechanical keyboards are ideal for programmers and fast typists, while light users can also consider membrane keyboards since they do not often come across certain 3-key combinations&#x2F;shortcuts.<p>I&#x27;ve never encountered this sort of problem with ANY keyboard I&#x27;ve owned in 30 years, no matter how crappy.<p>&gt; A good mechanical keyboard can alleviate the fatigue of typing. Users who need to type for a long time can consider it.<p>This claim seems dubious.<p>&gt; In theory, a mechanical keyboard can last for 3 to 5 years.<p>I&#x27;ve yet to have a membrane keyboard actually wear out. I just had my daily driver Logitech solar wireless keyboard that I bought in 2014 finally die, but it was the solar charger circuit that failed, not the keys or membrane (although the paint on the wasd keys were getting pretty damn faded).<p>&gt; Keyboard wrist rest: some users may feel uncomfortable typing without a palm wrist. This depends on personal needs.<p>Wrist rests are actually one of the leading causes of RSI due to the extra compression stress they place upon the carpal tunnel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hereforphone</author><text>I&#x27;m sure a lot of this is out there, especially for young keyboard users. I&#x27;m middle age and I learned in grad school that a good mechanical keyboard could save my fingers. I personally went from finger pain to no finger pain, and have been good since. YMMV of course</text></comment> |
37,178,834 | 37,178,103 | 1 | 3 | 37,174,758 | train | <story><title>Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/worldcoin-in-kenya/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I&#x27;m very happy that Uber broke the law that protected the cab cartel. Now I can conveniently get a ride wherever I want and never have to deal with a sleazy incompetent cab company ever again. When I travel to other countries I never have to deal with their shitty taxi scams.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; It invariably ends badly in the long run<p>Not invariably, sadly. Uber, for example, didn&#x27;t seem to be overly hurt by their lawbreaking.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The law is not for tech bros, they just see it as a signpost that you can pretend not to have read or be aware of. It invariably ends badly in the long run and in the short term everybody else suffers. Highly annoying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>I would absolutely prefer a cab to Uber now. The pricing was better, the service was better, we weren&#x27;t expected to mutually review each other, and I could flag one down on the street. If I walked to a taxi stand, it was instant satisfaction.<p>The only things that improved with Uber were price and coverage, and they tried to fool us into seeing other improvements that didn&#x27;t exist, largely by painting cab drivers as scary, stinky, subhuman swindlers and implying people that drove Uber were all part timers who usually worked at <i>real</i> jobs. Now the prices are sky high and the things take as long or longer as cabs did to show up.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s room for an Uber in tiny places that don&#x27;t need cab companies or even full time cabbies, but everywhere else, they&#x27;ve just added another layer of rentseeking over a familiar experience. We could have gotten rid of the medallion system without replacing it with this thing. Let&#x27;s make gigwork illegal so Uber will have to contract with local companies, or reduce themselves to people they&#x27;re willing to employ.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/worldcoin-in-kenya/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I&#x27;m very happy that Uber broke the law that protected the cab cartel. Now I can conveniently get a ride wherever I want and never have to deal with a sleazy incompetent cab company ever again. When I travel to other countries I never have to deal with their shitty taxi scams.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; It invariably ends badly in the long run<p>Not invariably, sadly. Uber, for example, didn&#x27;t seem to be overly hurt by their lawbreaking.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The law is not for tech bros, they just see it as a signpost that you can pretend not to have read or be aware of. It invariably ends badly in the long run and in the short term everybody else suffers. Highly annoying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;the ends justify the means&quot; arguments are terribly persuasive, personally. And any company or person who is willing to break the law to succeed is not trustworthy enough to be comfortable doing business with.<p>They may be good now, but the instant that they see a method of increasing their profit by screwing someone, including customers, over then that&#x27;s what they&#x27;ll do.</text></comment> |
37,392,867 | 37,392,510 | 1 | 2 | 37,390,941 | train | <story><title>Mastering curl: interactive text guide</title><url>https://antonz.org/mastering-curl/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Karellen</author><text>&gt; Curl automatically expands glob expressions in URLs into multiple specific URLs.<p>&gt; For example, this command requests three different paths (al, bt, gm), each with two different parameters (num=1 and num=2), for a total of six URLs:<p><pre><code> curl --output-dir &#x2F;tmp -o &quot;out_#1_#2.txt&quot; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;httpbin&#x2F;anything&#x2F;{al,bt,gm}?num=[1-2]
</code></pre>
Note that it&#x27;s not just curl that does glob expansion. So do some shells. Try:<p><pre><code> echo http:&#x2F;&#x2F;httpbin&#x2F;anything&#x2F;{al,bt,gm}?num=[1-2]
</code></pre>
Bash does &quot;brace expansion&quot; on `{al,bt,gm}` to create 3 separate params before they are given to curl&#x2F;echo. (Although other, stricter bourne shells, like `dash`, do not perform this expansion.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Mastering curl: interactive text guide</title><url>https://antonz.org/mastering-curl/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bloopernova</author><text>In the linked article, all the examples use a hostname of &quot;httpbin&quot;. To run the examples locally, I had to replace that with httpbin.org.<p>Is that a standard test host? I&#x27;m curious about why it&#x27;s named httpbin - is it a docker hostname?<p>Sorry for a weird offtopic question :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
19,009,281 | 19,008,813 | 1 | 2 | 19,008,032 | train | <story><title>The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?</title><url>https://diginomica.com/2019/01/25/the-china-conundrum-are-we-headed-for-a-supply-chain-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rrggrr</author><text>We are in process moving a product line from China to Canada as result of the 25% tariff. Fact is, the product was migrating to North America anyway as prices from China increased, and product innovation has not kept pace. It difficult to fully state how the lack of foreign competition, protection, and subsidy has created inefficiencies and other problems across large sections of Chinese goods. Youtube bloggers ADVChina and serpentza are good places to start in understanding the scope of difficulty.<p>I have one former Chinese partner in China, now far too successful to care anymore, who described it to me this way... You have farmers and one generation down from farmers managing the largest and arguably most complex political-economic situation in the world. The expertise is simply not there at the highest provincial and central levels, where its desperately needed. The political will isn&#x27;t there to rebalance.<p>The meltdown won&#x27;t just be the supply chain. China&#x27;s military will impact the nature and breadth of the decline.</text></comment> | <story><title>The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?</title><url>https://diginomica.com/2019/01/25/the-china-conundrum-are-we-headed-for-a-supply-chain-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evenequator</author><text>&gt; That’s why global CEOs and business leaders need to deal with the China Conundrum now.<p>They are. They are:<p>- 37 percent have moved production out of China in the past 12 months, while 33 percent plan to move in the next 6-12 months.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.usnews.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-01-17&#x2F;job-jitters-mount-as-chinas-factories-sputter-ahead-of-lunar-new-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.usnews.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-01-17&#x2F;...</a><p>- Apple Is Moving Some High-End iPhone Production to India<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fool.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;apple-is-moving-some-high-end-iphone-production-to.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fool.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;apple-is-moving-so...</a><p>- China’s Xi Jinping &#x27;most dangerous&#x27; to free societies, says George Soros<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-46996116" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-46996116</a></text></comment> |
4,706,201 | 4,706,238 | 1 | 2 | 4,706,105 | train | <story><title>Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application</title><url>http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php?</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>Already filled this in.<p>2 Problems with it:<p>For some reason in chrome on ubuntu all of the text inside the select boxes is white on white so you have to select options to read them.<p>They specify that they are looking for "experience linux users" so if you want to game the survey you can answer the "how many years have you used linux?" dishonestly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application</title><url>http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php?</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>secure</author><text>For the people without a steam account: They are asking about several hardware details (CPU, GPU, resolution, amount of monitors, RAM) and will notify "selected people" in a few days.</text></comment> |
16,053,827 | 16,052,466 | 1 | 2 | 16,049,642 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How can we improve the world via creative, compassionate new ventures?</title><text>How can we...<p>• improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side?<p>• strengthen and expand non-profits or charities?<p>• educate or help the working conditions of labor (people who work for wages)?<p>• improve the ecological sustainability and environmental impact of supply chains?<p>• Expand access and convenience of healthy foods and diets?<p>• Improve democracy at the organization or government level?<p>If you&#x27;re already part of an organization focusing on these things, tell us about it!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>SethRich</author><text>There is never a situation in which it&#x27;s a good idea to give every employee an equal vote. Employees of various seniority and talent provide varying levels of value to the enterprise.<p>1. Why should the newly hired janitor have equal voting rights to the CTO that envisioned and built the product or the Machine Learning PHD whose education cost him 10 years and half a million dollars?<p>2. Personnel counts grow at an exponential rate. If you double your personnel count over a year as plenty of startups do, what&#x27;s stopping all the new employees from mutinying and kicking out the early employees that have been been working on the business for 5 years?<p>3. Where&#x27;s the incentive for founders who face disproportionate risk in the startup stage to build an enterprise that they may eventually own 0.1% of?<p>If you have ever even thought of starting a business on your own, you would not think this is a good idea.</text></item><item><author>Robotbeat</author><text>Start a cooperative enterprise, owned by the workers at all levels, not just the techno-elite founders. With all given an equal vote. Establish small limits on pay disparities (say, never more than 2:1 to compensate for different schooling&#x2F;certification requirements for doctors or the like).<p>I second the open source suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kiliantics</author><text>1. No co-op works this way. New hires almost never have the same privileges and voting rights as original members. There is usually a kind of &quot;vesting&quot; period for voting rights since members need to be sure everyone is committed to the mission of the co-op.<p>2. See my point on 1. In the long term however, the kind of mutiny you suggest could be a good and necessary thing. In a co-op, you are not starting &quot;your&quot; company, but a cooperative. The whole point is that it is owned and run by everyone, it&#x27;s not the founder&#x27;s special baby. If the founder can&#x27;t see what&#x27;s best for the company and its workers while everyone else can, then they should definitely be overruled.<p>3. The incentive is to be founding something that can change the exploitative nature of the economy we live in. You&#x27;re not starting a co-op to get rich off the work of others in implementing your amazing idea for an ice-cream delivery app. You&#x27;re making a product that a community is invested in, both in the production and consumption, where everyone truly benefits because they all have a share of power over the project. A co-op couldn&#x27;t buy up entire city blocks because one small board decided on it, or pollute a water supply because one small group of investors didn&#x27;t give a fuck. That is why we need co-ops.<p>I&#x27;ve been involved with starting businesses and I think co-ops are great.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How can we improve the world via creative, compassionate new ventures?</title><text>How can we...<p>• improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side?<p>• strengthen and expand non-profits or charities?<p>• educate or help the working conditions of labor (people who work for wages)?<p>• improve the ecological sustainability and environmental impact of supply chains?<p>• Expand access and convenience of healthy foods and diets?<p>• Improve democracy at the organization or government level?<p>If you&#x27;re already part of an organization focusing on these things, tell us about it!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>SethRich</author><text>There is never a situation in which it&#x27;s a good idea to give every employee an equal vote. Employees of various seniority and talent provide varying levels of value to the enterprise.<p>1. Why should the newly hired janitor have equal voting rights to the CTO that envisioned and built the product or the Machine Learning PHD whose education cost him 10 years and half a million dollars?<p>2. Personnel counts grow at an exponential rate. If you double your personnel count over a year as plenty of startups do, what&#x27;s stopping all the new employees from mutinying and kicking out the early employees that have been been working on the business for 5 years?<p>3. Where&#x27;s the incentive for founders who face disproportionate risk in the startup stage to build an enterprise that they may eventually own 0.1% of?<p>If you have ever even thought of starting a business on your own, you would not think this is a good idea.</text></item><item><author>Robotbeat</author><text>Start a cooperative enterprise, owned by the workers at all levels, not just the techno-elite founders. With all given an equal vote. Establish small limits on pay disparities (say, never more than 2:1 to compensate for different schooling&#x2F;certification requirements for doctors or the like).<p>I second the open source suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Robotbeat</author><text>&gt; There is never a situation in which it&#x27;s a good idea to give every employee an equal vote. Employees of various seniority and talent provide varying levels of value to the enterprise.
&gt;1. Why should the newly hired janitor have equal voting rights to the CTO...?<p>The reason why a single vote per person is fine is that more senior employees also have more influence in the organization just naturally. They can and will be able to persuade people, as long as they&#x27;re doing their job effectively. Also, there can be a fairly long (months or years) on-boarding process where employees learn the culture and values of the organization.<p>If you are doing such a crappy job that you can&#x27;t even convince the janitor that you know what you&#x27;re doing, then I fail to see why you deserve a bunch of extra votes.<p>...and if your machine learning PhD cost you half a million dollars, I suggest you should get a refund. That&#x27;s ridiculous.</text></comment> |
27,773,010 | 27,772,519 | 1 | 3 | 27,772,183 | train | <story><title>Video tutorials now on PeerTube</title><url>https://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=3756&tt=1625649760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we&#x27;re willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control?<p>In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product...<p>The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that we didn&#x27;t pay for changes, or in some other cases just tries to turn a profit &#x2F; be sustainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wintermutestwin</author><text>I would pay a sub for YouTube due to the value provided if they, in turn, paid me for the data they have stolen from me. Of course, if I get to name my price in this &quot;free market,&quot; they would be paying me far more than they could reasonably charge for YT. And really, why would I want to give money to an abusive company?<p>I keep hearing this lament that everyone just wants stuff for free. I think it is a distraction from the current wild west where these surveillance companies are the ones getting high value data for petty baubles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Video tutorials now on PeerTube</title><url>https://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=3756&tt=1625649760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we&#x27;re willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control?<p>In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product...<p>The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that we didn&#x27;t pay for changes, or in some other cases just tries to turn a profit &#x2F; be sustainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numpad0</author><text>HTTP 402 being left unimplemented only seemed natural to me just a decade ago; today looks an incredibly stupid decision. How things change……</text></comment> |
22,470,920 | 22,470,843 | 1 | 2 | 22,470,540 | train | <story><title>Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised SXSW hasn&#x27;t cancelled yet. That&#x27;s a huge gathering starting in less than 2 weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orliesaurus</author><text>It would crush the Austin economy, there are businesses in the downtown which rent out their &quot;space&quot; for the 2&#x2F;3 weeks of SXSW and make more money in this period of time, than they would otherwise do all year long!<p>&quot;The annual festival increased its economic impact to the City of Austin to $355.9 million in 2019, according to an analysis by Greyhill Advisors and South by Southwest.&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kxan.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;austin-business-owners-call-for-cancellation-of-sxsw-citing-coronavirus-concerns&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kxan.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;austin-business-owners...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised SXSW hasn&#x27;t cancelled yet. That&#x27;s a huge gathering starting in less than 2 weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dman</author><text>Would be reckless to still go ahead with it.</text></comment> |
15,035,892 | 15,036,011 | 1 | 2 | 15,028,374 | train | <story><title>More on Dota 2</title><url>https://blog.openai.com/more-on-dota-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lvoudour</author><text>I know it has been mentioned a lot the past few days, but since the articles keep flowing about it I&#x27;ll mention it again:<p>It&#x27;s a great feat and kudos to the openai team, but it is VERY unfair for the human players who rely on a sensory interface vs a direct API connection. That&#x27;s unlike chess or go where the interface isn&#x27;t important. The really impressive feat will be an AI that uses the same sensory information to make decisions (and I really hope that&#x27;s where the openai will head next)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BaronSamedi</author><text>I completely disagree. An API is software&#x27;s natural input mechanism just like the senses are a human&#x27;s natural input mechanism. Having the AI use human senses unfairly handicaps it. More importantly, however, is that this is not the key problem.<p>The key problem is teaching the AI strategy and tactics. What heroes to pick? Where to lane them? When to rotate? What items to buy? What spells to level up? What enemies to target with which spells and in which order? These are the hard problems and they are very hard indeed. A 5v5 AI will have to become expert at risk calculation, Pareto optimization, basic military principles, and many more things. Compared to these problems, the choice of input mechanism is trivial.</text></comment> | <story><title>More on Dota 2</title><url>https://blog.openai.com/more-on-dota-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lvoudour</author><text>I know it has been mentioned a lot the past few days, but since the articles keep flowing about it I&#x27;ll mention it again:<p>It&#x27;s a great feat and kudos to the openai team, but it is VERY unfair for the human players who rely on a sensory interface vs a direct API connection. That&#x27;s unlike chess or go where the interface isn&#x27;t important. The really impressive feat will be an AI that uses the same sensory information to make decisions (and I really hope that&#x27;s where the openai will head next)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>The goal of this project is to make progress in reinforcement learning. Having an AI plan and learn strategies to play a game. This is a separate problem from machine vision, which is being worked on by tons of other people. Adding a machine vision requirement wouldn&#x27;t help them with their goal and would take 100x more computing resources.<p>OpenAI could probably afford to do it, but it no smaller researchers or hobbyists would be able to compete.</text></comment> |
11,591,683 | 11,591,823 | 1 | 3 | 11,591,142 | train | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Gets to Control Facebook a While Longer</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zuckerberg-gets-to-control-facebook-a-while-longer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhi3</author><text>This is new information, earlier things were like this:<p><i>If Mr. Zuckerberg were to leave us or if his employment with us were to be terminated for &quot;cause,&quot; under the Current Certificate, he would not be required to relinquish majority voting control. Moreover, under the Current Certificate, Mr. Zuckerberg would be able to pass along his shares of Class B common stock (and potentially his majority voting control depending on sales or transfers by Mr. Zuckerberg, as well as changes in our share count) to his descendants after his death, thus leading to potential multi-generational majority voting control of the company.<p>The Special Committee and the board of directors believe that attracting a qualified chief executive officer to succeed Mr. Zuckerberg would be significantly more difficult if Mr. Zuckerberg, our founder and (in that event) former chief executive officer, continued to retain majority voting control of us in such a circumstance. The Special Committee and the board of directors also believe that the quality of a chief executive officer who would step into the role under these circumstances is likely to be significantly lower than it would be if we were no longer controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, which could result in the potential loss of significant value for us and our shares of Class A common stock.</i><p>But after this deal Mark cannot retain voting control if he leaves or is fired for cause. He also cannot pass on his current voting rights if he sells is shares or his kids inherit them.<p>Seems like FB did get something in return.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazaroclapp</author><text>The more interesting part here, is that Zuckerberg being 31 years old, and having a life expectancy of 82.3 years, means the people who insisted on this agreement believe there is a significant chance of Facebook still being around 51 years from now. By comparison Yahoo is 20 years old and not precisely in its prime, and Sun Microsystems existed only for 28 years.<p>That said, it means investors are betting on FB being a long lived (software) company, such as Oracle (39 years and counting), Apple (40), Microsoft (41) or, in the extreme, IBM (105).</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Gets to Control Facebook a While Longer</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zuckerberg-gets-to-control-facebook-a-while-longer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhi3</author><text>This is new information, earlier things were like this:<p><i>If Mr. Zuckerberg were to leave us or if his employment with us were to be terminated for &quot;cause,&quot; under the Current Certificate, he would not be required to relinquish majority voting control. Moreover, under the Current Certificate, Mr. Zuckerberg would be able to pass along his shares of Class B common stock (and potentially his majority voting control depending on sales or transfers by Mr. Zuckerberg, as well as changes in our share count) to his descendants after his death, thus leading to potential multi-generational majority voting control of the company.<p>The Special Committee and the board of directors believe that attracting a qualified chief executive officer to succeed Mr. Zuckerberg would be significantly more difficult if Mr. Zuckerberg, our founder and (in that event) former chief executive officer, continued to retain majority voting control of us in such a circumstance. The Special Committee and the board of directors also believe that the quality of a chief executive officer who would step into the role under these circumstances is likely to be significantly lower than it would be if we were no longer controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, which could result in the potential loss of significant value for us and our shares of Class A common stock.</i><p>But after this deal Mark cannot retain voting control if he leaves or is fired for cause. He also cannot pass on his current voting rights if he sells is shares or his kids inherit them.<p>Seems like FB did get something in return.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsod</author><text>How can he be fired if he has majority control?</text></comment> |
9,834,227 | 9,834,053 | 1 | 3 | 9,833,581 | train | <story><title>A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom</title><url>http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mfm/a_year_of_spaced_repetition_software_in_the/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>I used to be very excited about spaced repetition, but haven&#x27;t taken it as seriously in several years. Yes, it is superior to more ordinary methods of quizzing vocabulary, and I would still use it if I had to pass a vocabulary&#x2F;fact test on a subject I didn&#x27;t care about.<p>As a method of developing real competency in a subject or practice, though, it offers none of the benefits of immersion as it keeps the student just on the edge of full engagement (and if we add immersion, we lose the time-savings that spaced repetition offers.) It introduces a fragility into the student&#x27;s schedule that make lapses in &#x27;discipline&#x27; more likely (not everyone has a teacher and regular subject periods to keep them on task.) For anything beyond basic key-value learning, it requires too many contortions and restatements of the subject -- to fit the format -- to be feasible for many students&#x2F;subjects. The packaged decks available online help but usually don&#x27;t meet the needs of the specific course or subject concentration the student requires. We can introduce variability to space how to solve a problem instead of a &#x27;what&#x27; answer, but then we need to consider muscle memory, developing intuition and other things that the spaced repetition model does not address.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom</title><url>http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mfm/a_year_of_spaced_repetition_software_in_the/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cJ0th</author><text>I overestimated the effect of spaced repetition. For six months, I used Anki every day to recap Chinese characters. At the end of the term I was perfectly prepared for the test. Afterwards, I didn&#x27;t study my flash cards again. Only a few weeks later I found out that I&#x27;ve forgotten most characters or at least some of their details. I expected that after six months of daily practice (about 20 minutes per day) I would have stored at least some characters in my long term memory.</text></comment> |
29,465,672 | 29,465,285 | 1 | 3 | 29,464,080 | train | <story><title>In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns</title><url>https://www.saferleftturns.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>The closest calls I&#x27;ve ever had with pedestrians were on left turns. IMO the problem with modern cars is the airbags in the A-pillar. The pillars have gotten so wide that you have to consciously bob your head around back and forth (like a fighter pilot, of course...) to look around both sides of it. Otherwise people can easily vanish into that blind spot. I think a lot of people just forget that there&#x27;s a big blind spot there because they&#x27;re used to just looking on either side and inferring what&#x27;s not visible -- which is usually fine with something as big as a car. But on a left turn, a pedestrian walking the same direction you are driving can be completely hidden as you turn because their motion will be synchronized with the blind spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theluketaylor</author><text>Modern A-pillar thickness has become a real problem. My biggest fear when driving my modern cars is losing track of a pedestrian, especially in the A-pillar. It&#x27;s likely time for legislation on the field of view offered by modern A-pillars as many of the thickest pillars are to use lower grade steel to save costs while still meeting rollover and crush requirements. More expensive high strength steel and more compact airbags can bring A-pillar widths back into safer territory. I&#x27;m a lot less safe driving my vintage car around, but there isn&#x27;t any chance I&#x27;ll miss a pedestrian since the greenhouse is so great.<p>Ottawa, Ontario just published a guide to building protected intersections: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;documents.ottawa.ca&#x2F;sites&#x2F;documents&#x2F;files&#x2F;protectedintersection_dg_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;documents.ottawa.ca&#x2F;sites&#x2F;documents&#x2F;files&#x2F;protectedi...</a><p>A lot of these changes are not particularly expensive and can have a huge impact on safety by limiting how much time a pedestrian is vulnerable and forcing cars to fully turn so pedestrians are in direct vision rather than peripheral.<p>For higher speed intersections we should be using a lot more roundabouts and things like diverging diamond to eliminate conflict between different travel modes and keep traffic flowing in a single direction.</text></comment> | <story><title>In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns</title><url>https://www.saferleftturns.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>The closest calls I&#x27;ve ever had with pedestrians were on left turns. IMO the problem with modern cars is the airbags in the A-pillar. The pillars have gotten so wide that you have to consciously bob your head around back and forth (like a fighter pilot, of course...) to look around both sides of it. Otherwise people can easily vanish into that blind spot. I think a lot of people just forget that there&#x27;s a big blind spot there because they&#x27;re used to just looking on either side and inferring what&#x27;s not visible -- which is usually fine with something as big as a car. But on a left turn, a pedestrian walking the same direction you are driving can be completely hidden as you turn because their motion will be synchronized with the blind spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ozgune</author><text>I&#x27;ve been driving in the US for 16 years. The &quot;left turn on green&quot; is still the most non-intuitive part about driving here.<p>As a driver, when you have a green light, you need to pay attention to giving priority to incoming traffic and pedestrians crossing the street, while also maintaining your calm with cars lining up behind you. It&#x27;s way more intuitive that when you have a green, you can go.</text></comment> |
30,392,292 | 30,387,261 | 1 | 3 | 30,385,421 | train | <story><title>Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots</title><url>https://twitter.com/seanhecht/status/1493432613628825600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bourgoin</author><text>A couple of years ago, I was attacked by a Kiwi bot near a UC campus. This is my story.<p>The bot and I were moving towards each other on a sidewalk, and when I came close it stopped, as they do when sensing an object in front of them. But there was an awkward moment as I tried to go around it and it repeatedly jerked forward an inch as its motor kicked on and off. Maybe I was walking around the very edge of its radius. In any case, my behavior must have triggered some pathfinding bug, because it turned and drove right into my legs, after which it stopped and sat stationary. Luckily they&#x27;re small and move slowly so it wasn&#x27;t a big deal, but that memory stuck with me. Articles about Tesla pathfinding issues always bring it back to the surface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DamnableNook</author><text>Kiwi bots aren&#x27;t (weren&#x27;t?) actually AI controlled. They had human drivers in South America that controlled them remotely. If one attacked you, it was either the human driver going agro, or just a problem with the latency of the camera -&gt; cell network -&gt; streamed to South America -&gt; driver inputs command -&gt; sent back to the US -&gt; over the cell network -&gt; back to the bot. And the cameras they have were pretty bad (the ordering app would show you the camera view when the bot was nearing its destination.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots</title><url>https://twitter.com/seanhecht/status/1493432613628825600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bourgoin</author><text>A couple of years ago, I was attacked by a Kiwi bot near a UC campus. This is my story.<p>The bot and I were moving towards each other on a sidewalk, and when I came close it stopped, as they do when sensing an object in front of them. But there was an awkward moment as I tried to go around it and it repeatedly jerked forward an inch as its motor kicked on and off. Maybe I was walking around the very edge of its radius. In any case, my behavior must have triggered some pathfinding bug, because it turned and drove right into my legs, after which it stopped and sat stationary. Luckily they&#x27;re small and move slowly so it wasn&#x27;t a big deal, but that memory stuck with me. Articles about Tesla pathfinding issues always bring it back to the surface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>when I came close it stopped, as they do when sensing an object in front of them</i><p>The security robots at one of the big skyscrapers down the street from me <i>do not stop</i> for people. My wife got knocked into by one when we were standing in the plaza looking up something on her phone. (They&#x27;re not little delivery robots. They&#x27;re about five feet tall.)<p>Good thing she was confused by what happened, because she&#x27;s also the type who would have knocked the robot over and asked me to shove it into traffic if she had her wits about her.</text></comment> |
13,949,705 | 13,949,438 | 1 | 2 | 13,945,689 | train | <story><title>Angular 4.0.0 Now Available</title><url>http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2017/03/angular-400-now-available.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azurelogic</author><text>Try Vue.js. It&#x27;s what Angular 2 could have been, if they had taken proper advantage of ES2015 and virtual DOM. Another way of looking at it: Angular 1 and React had a baby, and they named it Vue.js.<p>Vue has HTML templates like Angular and virtual DOM like React. It is faster than both of them. It has a smaller file size than both of them. It has a clever single file component concept that makes developing components much easier. It uses a one-way data flow concept like React+Flux. Vue even has it&#x27;s own competitor to redux&#x2F;mobX called Vuex, and what makes it easier is that Vue is cognizant of Vuex&#x27;s existence. There are really solid dev tools for Chrome as well (Vue and Vuex are aware of the dev tools as well).<p>I run a dev meetup, and I had planned to give a talk there on Angular 2. I even gave talks on JS tooling a year ago and TS last summer in preparation. Instead, I gave a talk on Vue this month, and people loved it. Here are the slides if you want to check it out (there are even embedded Vue apps!): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azurelogic.github.io&#x2F;vue-js-2.x-talk&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azurelogic.github.io&#x2F;vue-js-2.x-talk&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ssijak</author><text>Hmm. I see that Angular is getting aaaaalot of hate here. I really tried to understand why but have not found really valid reasons, just preferences. I have used Angular 1.x a lot and have just tried Angular 2. It really enables me (somebody who comes from primarily strong backend dev experience) to work on frontend SPA apps productively and fast.<p>It does not &#x27;feel&#x27; heavyweight or that it gets in my way too much, but the contrary is true. Of course, it has it`s quirks, as every larger lib have, but it`s pluses outweigh minuses by far for me.<p>Preferences aside, does Angular make you less productive than other options? Do you feel that you fight the framework? Can you finish non trivial frontend apps, involving 5+ team members, &#x27;better&#x27;, with cleaner code and much faster with other options?<p>This are just honest questions. I wanted to start some pet project in angular2 soon, but would listen to alternatives, maybe it is a right moment to try some of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xj9</author><text>i&#x27;ve built large applications in both Vue and Angular 2 and i still prefer Angular. don&#x27;t get me wrong, Vue 2 is really nice, but i strongly prefer TypeScript over any JavaScript revision. Flow is helpful, and Vue 2 has typings, but it isn&#x27;t quite as powerful as working with a TypeScript framework building a TypeScript app.<p>to each their own, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Angular 4.0.0 Now Available</title><url>http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2017/03/angular-400-now-available.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azurelogic</author><text>Try Vue.js. It&#x27;s what Angular 2 could have been, if they had taken proper advantage of ES2015 and virtual DOM. Another way of looking at it: Angular 1 and React had a baby, and they named it Vue.js.<p>Vue has HTML templates like Angular and virtual DOM like React. It is faster than both of them. It has a smaller file size than both of them. It has a clever single file component concept that makes developing components much easier. It uses a one-way data flow concept like React+Flux. Vue even has it&#x27;s own competitor to redux&#x2F;mobX called Vuex, and what makes it easier is that Vue is cognizant of Vuex&#x27;s existence. There are really solid dev tools for Chrome as well (Vue and Vuex are aware of the dev tools as well).<p>I run a dev meetup, and I had planned to give a talk there on Angular 2. I even gave talks on JS tooling a year ago and TS last summer in preparation. Instead, I gave a talk on Vue this month, and people loved it. Here are the slides if you want to check it out (there are even embedded Vue apps!): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azurelogic.github.io&#x2F;vue-js-2.x-talk&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azurelogic.github.io&#x2F;vue-js-2.x-talk&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ssijak</author><text>Hmm. I see that Angular is getting aaaaalot of hate here. I really tried to understand why but have not found really valid reasons, just preferences. I have used Angular 1.x a lot and have just tried Angular 2. It really enables me (somebody who comes from primarily strong backend dev experience) to work on frontend SPA apps productively and fast.<p>It does not &#x27;feel&#x27; heavyweight or that it gets in my way too much, but the contrary is true. Of course, it has it`s quirks, as every larger lib have, but it`s pluses outweigh minuses by far for me.<p>Preferences aside, does Angular make you less productive than other options? Do you feel that you fight the framework? Can you finish non trivial frontend apps, involving 5+ team members, &#x27;better&#x27;, with cleaner code and much faster with other options?<p>This are just honest questions. I wanted to start some pet project in angular2 soon, but would listen to alternatives, maybe it is a right moment to try some of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeppebemad</author><text>Coming from Angular 1, having tried and enjoyed React, Vue is godsend! I&#x27;ve been working with it for a few weeks and my productivity has skyrocketed. Debugging is amazing and their webpack templates just work. The learning curve with an angular background is almost flat, and the ecosystem is surprisingly mature already.<p>I don&#x27;t care about templates being &quot;bad&quot; a as long as it works for us. I&#x27;m sold.</text></comment> |
9,810,398 | 9,809,730 | 1 | 2 | 9,809,249 | train | <story><title>FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-court-rules-nsa-can-resume-bulk-data-collection.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fru2013</author><text>I personally think that creating laws to prevent government surveillance is a pointless endeavor. The NSA has ignored and broken laws in the past, why would we expect them to follow new ones that are passed?<p>The only way to prevent surveillance is with a technical solution (encryption), not a legal solution (more laws).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0x5f3759df-i</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry but no.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;538&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;538&#x2F;</a><p>You need both. By that same logic do you think the constitution and bill of rights is a pointless endeavor? Our government has violated these rights many times in our history. I could just as easily say that the constitutional amendments passed after the civil war were pointless because there was still institutionalized discrimination and racism for another hundred years.<p>How much did encryption help Lavabit? The court forced them to hand over the encryption keys anyway.<p>We need to change the laws and place proper oversight over the NSA and other intelligence agencies with real penalties for the violation of our rights. Encryption alone is not enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-court-rules-nsa-can-resume-bulk-data-collection.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fru2013</author><text>I personally think that creating laws to prevent government surveillance is a pointless endeavor. The NSA has ignored and broken laws in the past, why would we expect them to follow new ones that are passed?<p>The only way to prevent surveillance is with a technical solution (encryption), not a legal solution (more laws).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>If the NSA&#x27;s domestic spying is illegal, it&#x27;s only on a technicality. Congress explicitly authorizes it, and the Supreme Court explicitly finds that the 4th amendment doesn&#x27;t protect 3rd party records. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s violated some specific regulations here and there, but on the whole, spying on everything everyone says and does is <i>not illegal</i>.<p>Which is insane. It <i>absolutely</i> should be.</text></comment> |
17,151,357 | 17,151,154 | 1 | 2 | 17,150,858 | train | <story><title>Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-mode-sped-up-before-hitting-truck-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cynix</author><text>The same way traditional cruise control reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the accelerator pedal using your leg&#x2F;foot, Autopilot reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms&#x2F;hands.</text></item><item><author>abalone</author><text>Help me understand. How does it lower the strain of driving if you have to remain 100% as attentive anyway? Or are you actually less than 100%.</text></item><item><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>After talking to quite a few drivers and driving thousands of miles on Auotopilot myself, I don’t think people are confused by the name. It is pretty clear very quickly what the car can or can’t do. I think people are poor at estimating risk and we would have these accident whatever you call these semi-autonomous features. The interesting thing for me is that despite the shortcomings of the current Autopilot, I wouldn’t go back to a car without. It lowers the strain of driving sufficiently to really be worth it. And I am a driver with a hand on the wheel and eyes on the traffic, all the time.</text></item><item><author>tobyhinloopen</author><text>Tesla has no autopilot or self driving capabilities. It is just something called Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Assist in other vehicles with some minor additions. Tesla’s marketing gives the impression that it is much more, but it isn’t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>234998234</author><text>&gt;allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms&#x2F;hands.<p>This is not the benefit of autopilot because this task requires virtually no effort to begin with and you still need your hands on the wheel anyway. The real strain in driving is the mental strain, and that is why people turn it on.<p>The reality is that Telsa is using humans to iron out the bugs in their fully autonomous vehicles and legal clauses to get them out of the fact that they are killing people.<p>I have a car with all of those new safety features like warnings about cars to your side as you change lanes, warnings about cars driving past as you reverse out of a car park and so on. The reality is that you stop performing the roles that the car starts performing. You stop looking as much when you reverse out of a car park because you trust the beeping noise will occur if a car is coming along, and so on.<p>It is just human nature to start relying on something that works every time you use it. I don&#x27;t really feel sorry for anyone driving a tesla though. They are the ones choosing to be Tesla&#x27;s bug testers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-mode-sped-up-before-hitting-truck-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cynix</author><text>The same way traditional cruise control reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the accelerator pedal using your leg&#x2F;foot, Autopilot reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms&#x2F;hands.</text></item><item><author>abalone</author><text>Help me understand. How does it lower the strain of driving if you have to remain 100% as attentive anyway? Or are you actually less than 100%.</text></item><item><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>After talking to quite a few drivers and driving thousands of miles on Auotopilot myself, I don’t think people are confused by the name. It is pretty clear very quickly what the car can or can’t do. I think people are poor at estimating risk and we would have these accident whatever you call these semi-autonomous features. The interesting thing for me is that despite the shortcomings of the current Autopilot, I wouldn’t go back to a car without. It lowers the strain of driving sufficiently to really be worth it. And I am a driver with a hand on the wheel and eyes on the traffic, all the time.</text></item><item><author>tobyhinloopen</author><text>Tesla has no autopilot or self driving capabilities. It is just something called Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Assist in other vehicles with some minor additions. Tesla’s marketing gives the impression that it is much more, but it isn’t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>I find the benefit of cruise control is that in normal situations in country driving (over 90% of my driving) I can now <i>completely</i> ignore the speedometer, and consequently the entire dashboard, and don’t need to worry about adjusting my foot on the accelerator pedal to match the speed limit. Cruise control thus allowed me to focus more fully on the road, and increased my perceived safety.</text></comment> |
18,847,697 | 18,846,976 | 1 | 3 | 18,844,863 | train | <story><title>Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-06/before-the-electric-car-takes-over-someone-needs-to-reinvent-the-battery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenrose</author><text>The article begins by contradicting itself: &quot;To deliver an electric vehicle that’s cheaper, safer and capable of traveling 500 miles on a single charge ...&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not a &quot;car&quot;. A &quot;car&quot;, as driven by a billion people every day, takes trips whose distances have a power-law distribution falling off from ~2 miles down to 150 miles, by which point you are looking at &lt; 0.1% of trips. A large fraction of cars have never been driven on a 500 mile trip.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>They&#x27;ll probably never sell a 500mi EV just like they don&#x27;t sell cars that go 500mi on a tank. EPA range on most cars will touch 400mi but that&#x27;s about it. If anything, gas tanks are getting smaller as fuel efficiency goes up. Gas tanks take space, carry a heavy fuel that, in turn, reduces fuel economy, and so on. Batteries cost money. The only reason to make an EV with a greater range than most gas cars is if recharging is slow. The range then offsets charge time on the rare roadtrip. If you can charge your car quickly, suddenly there&#x27;s not even a reason to have more than 200mi range. Already the 310mi range on our Tesla 3 seems a bit excessive when I&#x27;ve only had to supercharge it twice, and mostly I just get home and don&#x27;t bother plugging it in because it doesn&#x27;t NEED a charge every day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-06/before-the-electric-car-takes-over-someone-needs-to-reinvent-the-battery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenrose</author><text>The article begins by contradicting itself: &quot;To deliver an electric vehicle that’s cheaper, safer and capable of traveling 500 miles on a single charge ...&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not a &quot;car&quot;. A &quot;car&quot;, as driven by a billion people every day, takes trips whose distances have a power-law distribution falling off from ~2 miles down to 150 miles, by which point you are looking at &lt; 0.1% of trips. A large fraction of cars have never been driven on a 500 mile trip.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>&gt; A large fraction of cars have never been driven on a 500 mile trip.<p>Consumers base buying decisions on the <i>longest</i> trip they expect to take.<p>Even if 360 days a year they commute for 10 miles, and then for 4th of July &#x2F; Thanksgiving &#x2F; winter holidays they take an extended 300+ mile road trip, they will consider a car capable of traveling 300+ miles.</text></comment> |
22,187,174 | 22,187,198 | 1 | 3 | 22,186,569 | train | <story><title>Home Price-to-Income Ratios</title><url>https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/home-price-income-ratios</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thundergolfer</author><text>In late 1980s Melbourne, Australia my dad and his best friend were accountants and bought their houses for ~$40,000AUD, ~3 times their annual income. According to the best friend, this was considered a lot to pay for a home.<p>In 2020, those houses are around ~$1.8-2M, so ~22.5-25 times the annual income of someone that has their job today. In Melbourne and Sydney generally, housing is 10 and ~13x annual income. Above 6-8 is already considered _extremely unaffordable_. Sydney is 2nd only to Hong Kong in housing un-affordability.<p>It&#x27;s a profound change across a generation. Among my college-educated friends, the only one&#x27;s thinking of buying property are either high income (doctors, investment bankers) or buying in markedly worse (thus cheaper) areas than they lived in as children.</text></comment> | <story><title>Home Price-to-Income Ratios</title><url>https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/home-price-income-ratios</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaygles</author><text>I almost don&#x27;t want to buy property as a protest to the horrible policies we have regarding basic necessities. Why should property owners be entitled to a major portion of my productivity&#x2F;success? I&#x27;ll rent the cheapest apartment I can find until the next housing crash or we have some sensible policy put through that negates the investment aspect of housing.</text></comment> |
25,695,009 | 25,695,230 | 1 | 2 | 25,694,586 | train | <story><title>FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-college-certification-congress/card/rghQKMAF2ju2wkrUlcj1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>Let’s be blunt... because white people.<p>This is the same thing that happened in Charlottesville and the after action review of Charlottesville made that clear. No one listened.<p>The need here isn’t more police or more training or more gear. Any of those things would just be used to harm people of color and low income communities.<p>What needs to happen is people stop being taken in by bad faith arguments about “free speech” and “both sides” and take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously. It is the most frequent type of terrorism in this country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisburbansky</author><text>Worse than that, the FBI has known for a decade and a half that white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement was and would continue to be a huge problem. [1]<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oversight.house.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;democrats.oversight.house.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;White_Supremacist_Infiltration_of_Law_Enforcement.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oversight.house.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;democrats.oversight.house....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-college-certification-congress/card/rghQKMAF2ju2wkrUlcj1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>Let’s be blunt... because white people.<p>This is the same thing that happened in Charlottesville and the after action review of Charlottesville made that clear. No one listened.<p>The need here isn’t more police or more training or more gear. Any of those things would just be used to harm people of color and low income communities.<p>What needs to happen is people stop being taken in by bad faith arguments about “free speech” and “both sides” and take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously. It is the most frequent type of terrorism in this country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leppr</author><text>&quot;White&quot; US activists have been labeled terrorists and dealt with swiftly for decades[1]. Shifting the focus to pure racism is a trendy oversimplification, but misses the more complex political aspects to this story.<p>If a random group of white Americans decided to invade the Capitol, do you have any doubt that they&#x27;d have been stopped dead in their tracks before being able to put a foot inside?<p>As comforting a viewpoint as that may be, allies and enemies of the US state aren&#x27;t decided based on their skin color.<p>[1] e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sovereign_citizen_movement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sovereign_citizen_movement</a></text></comment> |
20,294,591 | 20,294,790 | 1 | 3 | 20,293,887 | train | <story><title>The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone</title><url>https://david-smith.org/blog/2019/06/24/the-popularity-of-the-4-dot-7-inch-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robohoe</author><text>Prices is a big deal these days. Most iPhones X derivitives are hitting $1000 real fast. For those of us that don’t want to pay $29.99&#x2F;mo just to rent a phone for 2 years and would prefer to buy outright that’s cost prohibitive.<p>Also all the big phones barely fit in pants pockets. For males, maybe, but for females, forget about it - 50% of the phone sticks out of the back pocket.<p>5.5” and more phones are too big to be a phone, and too small to be a useable tablet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>I mean. It’s not cost that makes me choose my SE; I would pay $1000 for a good 4&quot; phone.<p>Apple seems to believe its cost that keeps the SE relevant, and tried to tap the market with the XR... but very few budged it seems.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone</title><url>https://david-smith.org/blog/2019/06/24/the-popularity-of-the-4-dot-7-inch-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robohoe</author><text>Prices is a big deal these days. Most iPhones X derivitives are hitting $1000 real fast. For those of us that don’t want to pay $29.99&#x2F;mo just to rent a phone for 2 years and would prefer to buy outright that’s cost prohibitive.<p>Also all the big phones barely fit in pants pockets. For males, maybe, but for females, forget about it - 50% of the phone sticks out of the back pocket.<p>5.5” and more phones are too big to be a phone, and too small to be a useable tablet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>Women more often have hand bags to carry the phones in. If I carried a purse I&#x27;d probably like a bigger phone too.</text></comment> |
5,397,085 | 5,397,015 | 1 | 3 | 5,396,813 | train | <story><title>EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-steps-down-larry-probst-becomes-executive-chairman/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kylekramer</author><text>Any attempt to link to this to SimCity would be a severe case of trying to fit a simple solution to something much more complex. You don't push out a guy who has been a top guy there for 15 years over that. Especially since people having been bitching about EA (Origin, DRM, etc.) for years.</text></comment> | <story><title>EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-steps-down-larry-probst-becomes-executive-chairman/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josh2600</author><text>Looks like he finally grew a pair of balls.<p>All kidding aside, John is one of the Co-Founders of Elevation partners, and so I doubt he was forced out in any way. He's got some serious clout, and he's been at or near the head of EA since 1997.<p>That being said, EA has become a real tyrannical monstrosity in recent years; I'd welcome some change.<p>Maybe get back to a little more of something like this: <a href="http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776fffc6970c-pi" rel="nofollow">http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776...</a></text></comment> |
36,071,524 | 36,070,892 | 1 | 2 | 36,068,850 | train | <story><title>How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset</title><url>https://lightning.ai/pages/blog/how-to-finetune-gpt-like-large-language-models-on-a-custom-dataset/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>&gt; I can use smthg like GPT-4 to label data and then use that as a train set for my own LLM, right?<p>Yes, almost all improved LLama models are tuned exactly that way (trained on examples of questions and answers from say GPT 4). If OpenAI stole copyrighted works to train their models it is morally fair game to do the same to them regardless of their TOS. It&#x27;s not like they can prove it anyway.<p>Plus there&#x27;s the other point where they also say that everything generated by their models is public domain, so which one is it eh?</text></item><item><author>artembugara</author><text>Have a question to the Generative AI experts here.<p>So, I can use smthg like GPT-4 to label data and then use that as a train set for my own LLM, right?<p>EDIT: adding this from OpenAI Restriction TOS: &quot;(iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI;&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Use of copyrighted material in such a way that it’s aggregated into statistical properties is almost certainly fair use. Use of the model to produce reproductions of copyrighted material then consuming or distributing it is almost certainly violating the copyright. But it was the facsimile of the material that’s the violation, not the abstract use of it to generate an aggregate model.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset</title><url>https://lightning.ai/pages/blog/how-to-finetune-gpt-like-large-language-models-on-a-custom-dataset/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>&gt; I can use smthg like GPT-4 to label data and then use that as a train set for my own LLM, right?<p>Yes, almost all improved LLama models are tuned exactly that way (trained on examples of questions and answers from say GPT 4). If OpenAI stole copyrighted works to train their models it is morally fair game to do the same to them regardless of their TOS. It&#x27;s not like they can prove it anyway.<p>Plus there&#x27;s the other point where they also say that everything generated by their models is public domain, so which one is it eh?</text></item><item><author>artembugara</author><text>Have a question to the Generative AI experts here.<p>So, I can use smthg like GPT-4 to label data and then use that as a train set for my own LLM, right?<p>EDIT: adding this from OpenAI Restriction TOS: &quot;(iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI;&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrm4</author><text>I&#x27;m a lawyer so one should never break the law.<p>Nonethless, I can observe and predict that non-consensual &quot;open sourcing&quot; of these models would likely end up probably the best and safest way to do all of this stuff.</text></comment> |
26,990,330 | 26,990,312 | 1 | 2 | 26,989,185 | train | <story><title>A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252705424</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>I had a user report exactly this on my site this week (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cycle.travel&#x2F;map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cycle.travel&#x2F;map</a>), but iOS 14.5 rather than MacOS. I upgraded my iPad and could reproduce it trivially.<p>The cause was calling focus&#x2F;setSelectionRange on a textfield within a click handler. When I commented these out then the problem disappeared.<p>Not a rare combination and I’d have thought beta-testing should have flushed this out, but there you go.<p>Edit:<p>If you want to try reproducing this, go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cycle.travel&#x2F;map&#x2F;mobile?debug=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cycle.travel&#x2F;map&#x2F;mobile?debug=1</a> , and click within the &#x27;From&#x27; or &#x27;To&#x27; field. It crashes every time on my iPad running iOS 14.5.</text></comment> | <story><title>A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252705424</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe the recommended solution is &quot;backup and reinstall your operating system&quot;.<p>A browser shouldn&#x27;t be so integral, that if it breaks the only option is to wipe your computer and start again.</text></comment> |
36,159,317 | 36,159,170 | 1 | 2 | 36,157,287 | train | <story><title>Usenet over NNCP</title><url>https://www.complete.org/usenet-over-nncp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>There&#x27;s a Matrix room for NNCP <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.to&#x2F;#&#x2F;#nncp:matrix.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.to&#x2F;#&#x2F;#nncp:matrix.org</a> that&#x27;s also bridged to #nncp on irc.oftc.net. It&#x27;s pretty small and there isn&#x27;t a lot of frequent activity there, but it&#x27;s a good place to ask questions about the project or see what others use it for. jgoerzen hangs out there too!</text></comment> | <story><title>Usenet over NNCP</title><url>https://www.complete.org/usenet-over-nncp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>I thought this was about this NNCP:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;nncp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;nncp&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
16,805,084 | 16,803,089 | 1 | 2 | 16,802,420 | train | <story><title>CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/cointracker-raises-1-5m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chanfest22</author><text>(co-founder of CoinTracker here). CoinTracking is indeed a great tool. That said we have also made a lot of progress over the last several weeks and now support unlimited free tracking with auto-syncing (no yearly fee!). We&#x27;d love for you to take another look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cointracker.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cointracker.io</a> and see how we can improve further.</text></item><item><author>_fs</author><text>I tried it before and found <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cointracking.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cointracking.info&#x2F;</a> much more useful in nearly all comparisons. Better tax info and preperation, better syncing, more supported sync targets, faster updates, more tracked coins, and better stats pages. And this is all on the free version of coointracking. If you pay the yearly fee, the auto syncing and auto-wallet sync is a huge standout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>You still don&#x27;t support Bitcoin Cash local wallets, and you still don&#x27;t support any kind of local wallet that is more than a single address. Come on guys, it&#x27;s been months, this is basic stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/cointracker-raises-1-5m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chanfest22</author><text>(co-founder of CoinTracker here). CoinTracking is indeed a great tool. That said we have also made a lot of progress over the last several weeks and now support unlimited free tracking with auto-syncing (no yearly fee!). We&#x27;d love for you to take another look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cointracker.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cointracker.io</a> and see how we can improve further.</text></item><item><author>_fs</author><text>I tried it before and found <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cointracking.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cointracking.info&#x2F;</a> much more useful in nearly all comparisons. Better tax info and preperation, better syncing, more supported sync targets, faster updates, more tracked coins, and better stats pages. And this is all on the free version of coointracking. If you pay the yearly fee, the auto syncing and auto-wallet sync is a huge standout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeonVice</author><text>Can we please get xpub import? I use a trezor and importing each wallet address is a pain.<p>Thanks for a great service. I used it for my taxes this year.</text></comment> |
35,718,890 | 35,718,943 | 1 | 2 | 35,713,042 | train | <story><title>The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36993403/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feoren</author><text>&gt; processed foods<p>&gt; whole ingredients<p>These are utterly meaningless terms. You &quot;process&quot; food by cutting and cooking it. Everything is processed. Everything is GMO -- have you seen what corn looked like before humans bred it? Everything is organic. Everything is &quot;whole&quot;. Nutrition is too complicated and too individualized for these nonsense labels.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m getting the maximum amount of nutrients from my food<p>This is utter nonsense. <i>Some</i> processing steps remove <i>some</i> nutrients from <i>some</i> foods. Other processing steps <i>add</i> nutrients that you need. Plenty of foods have nutrients that are completely unavailable for your body until you cook it (many veggies) -- PROCESSING! Other nutrients are destroyed by too much cooking (Vitamin C, I believe). You better be glad the salt you eat is &quot;processed&quot; by adding iodine to it. The water you drink is &quot;processed&quot; by adding fluoride to it. Those last 2 are some of the biggest public health successes in human history.<p>I&#x27;m glad you&#x27;re feeling better, but it&#x27;s 100% from paying attention to what you&#x27;re eating, and 0% from this bullshit about &quot;whole&quot; or &quot;unprocessed&quot; foods with &quot;maximum nutrients&quot;. Stop spreading this bullshit.</text></item><item><author>stronglikedan</author><text>I improved mine significantly by just cutting out processed foods. Almost everything I eat is made from whole ingredients, and no artificial or &quot;diet&quot; anything. I&#x27;m in much better shape, both mentally and physically, because of it. It also helps with portion control, since I&#x27;m getting the maximum amount of nutrients from my food, so I don&#x27;t &quot;feel hungry later&quot;.</text></item><item><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>&gt; I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p>I’m just an average joe trying to figure out how to improve a diet, but I haven’t found much of a consensus regarding fats vs proteins vs carbohydrates.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;After the diet change, we observed significant changes in measures of anxiety, well-being and happiness, and without changes in gut microbiome diversity. We found strong correlations between greater consumption of fat and protein to lower anxiety and depression, while consuming higher percentages of carbohydrates was associated with increased stress, anxiety, and depression.&quot;
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I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p><pre><code> &quot;We also found strong negative correlations between total calories and total fiber intake with gut microbiome diversity without correlations to measures of mental health, mood or happiness.... inversely correlated with gut microbiome diversity.&quot;
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I kept reading this second paragraph trying to understand the &quot;without correlations&quot; part. And also the negative correlations part. And then the full-text has this, which helped I think:<p><pre><code> &quot;Furthermore, total calories and fiber had a negative correlation with gut microbiome diversity, and anxiety and depression decrease as the gut diversity increases.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snapcaster</author><text>What a weird hill to die on. I think you might be reading more &quot;woo&quot; into the comment you&#x27;re responding to than is necessary. It&#x27;s fine if you keep eating your microwaveable factory slop and keep convincing yourself it&#x27;s identical to cutting a carrot or cooking vegetables but I&#x27;m skeptical you&#x27;ll convince many people of this</text></comment> | <story><title>The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36993403/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feoren</author><text>&gt; processed foods<p>&gt; whole ingredients<p>These are utterly meaningless terms. You &quot;process&quot; food by cutting and cooking it. Everything is processed. Everything is GMO -- have you seen what corn looked like before humans bred it? Everything is organic. Everything is &quot;whole&quot;. Nutrition is too complicated and too individualized for these nonsense labels.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m getting the maximum amount of nutrients from my food<p>This is utter nonsense. <i>Some</i> processing steps remove <i>some</i> nutrients from <i>some</i> foods. Other processing steps <i>add</i> nutrients that you need. Plenty of foods have nutrients that are completely unavailable for your body until you cook it (many veggies) -- PROCESSING! Other nutrients are destroyed by too much cooking (Vitamin C, I believe). You better be glad the salt you eat is &quot;processed&quot; by adding iodine to it. The water you drink is &quot;processed&quot; by adding fluoride to it. Those last 2 are some of the biggest public health successes in human history.<p>I&#x27;m glad you&#x27;re feeling better, but it&#x27;s 100% from paying attention to what you&#x27;re eating, and 0% from this bullshit about &quot;whole&quot; or &quot;unprocessed&quot; foods with &quot;maximum nutrients&quot;. Stop spreading this bullshit.</text></item><item><author>stronglikedan</author><text>I improved mine significantly by just cutting out processed foods. Almost everything I eat is made from whole ingredients, and no artificial or &quot;diet&quot; anything. I&#x27;m in much better shape, both mentally and physically, because of it. It also helps with portion control, since I&#x27;m getting the maximum amount of nutrients from my food, so I don&#x27;t &quot;feel hungry later&quot;.</text></item><item><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>&gt; I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p>I’m just an average joe trying to figure out how to improve a diet, but I haven’t found much of a consensus regarding fats vs proteins vs carbohydrates.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;After the diet change, we observed significant changes in measures of anxiety, well-being and happiness, and without changes in gut microbiome diversity. We found strong correlations between greater consumption of fat and protein to lower anxiety and depression, while consuming higher percentages of carbohydrates was associated with increased stress, anxiety, and depression.&quot;
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I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p><pre><code> &quot;We also found strong negative correlations between total calories and total fiber intake with gut microbiome diversity without correlations to measures of mental health, mood or happiness.... inversely correlated with gut microbiome diversity.&quot;
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I kept reading this second paragraph trying to understand the &quot;without correlations&quot; part. And also the negative correlations part. And then the full-text has this, which helped I think:<p><pre><code> &quot;Furthermore, total calories and fiber had a negative correlation with gut microbiome diversity, and anxiety and depression decrease as the gut diversity increases.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor_cz</author><text>&quot;Stop spreading this bullshit.&quot;<p>Looking at the entirety of your comment, you should really apply this advice to yourself.<p>Highly processed or ultra-processed food is absolutely a meaningful term. The United Nations published so-called NOVA food classification which divides food into four categories by the amount of processing it received.<p>Category 4 is what OP was talking about. Industrially processed stuff full of preservatives, artificial coloring, hydrogenated oils, protein isolate, maltodextrin, invert sugar etc. Unlike the other three categories, this sort of industrial processing is a relative newcomer, it wasn&#x27;t even a thing 100 or 150 years ago, so it is entirely plausible that our guts and our gut biome may not be happy about it.</text></comment> |
37,364,649 | 37,364,559 | 1 | 2 | 37,363,035 | train | <story><title>Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’</title><url>https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russia-scientist-mushroom-poison/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chongli</author><text>How many millions of people go mushroom hunting?</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>It&#x27;s like few cases per season per million people eating wild shrooms.</text></item><item><author>hunson_abadeer</author><text>It is not common at all. You have maybe several people dying every year, which is in the &quot;hit by lightning&quot; territory. It&#x27;s very well-publicized whenever it happens, which probably helps keep the numbers low. But this is a <i>very</i> unusual way to die.</text></item><item><author>renegade-otter</author><text>This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise.<p>In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it.<p>If you can&#x27;t relate - think of all the &quot;gun people&quot; who think they are experts on gun safety and then they end up shooting themselves by accident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcme</author><text>Probably many millions? It&#x27;s a pretty popular thing to do in Eastern Europe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’</title><url>https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russia-scientist-mushroom-poison/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chongli</author><text>How many millions of people go mushroom hunting?</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>It&#x27;s like few cases per season per million people eating wild shrooms.</text></item><item><author>hunson_abadeer</author><text>It is not common at all. You have maybe several people dying every year, which is in the &quot;hit by lightning&quot; territory. It&#x27;s very well-publicized whenever it happens, which probably helps keep the numbers low. But this is a <i>very</i> unusual way to die.</text></item><item><author>renegade-otter</author><text>This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise.<p>In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it.<p>If you can&#x27;t relate - think of all the &quot;gun people&quot; who think they are experts on gun safety and then they end up shooting themselves by accident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>Given approximately everyone&#x27;s heard of it, and warnings about it, but also that I don&#x27;t personally know anyone who tells me that they personally do this, my guess is in the order of 1% of the population. Might be more, might be less.<p>1% of Russia would be 1.5 million (and given this thread, 412k for Ukraine).</text></comment> |
14,554,478 | 14,554,102 | 1 | 3 | 14,552,616 | train | <story><title>The Hidden Cost of Privatization</title><url>https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-business-of-government</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subverter</author><text>The problem in Keynes thinking on &quot;social services&quot; is that it&#x27;s impossible to gather all of the knowledge necessary to ascertain what those would be. That knowledge is dispersed among ~320m citizens (in the U.S.) who each have particular wants and needs. And even if you could somehow attain that knowledge in one place, the likelihood of finding consensus on how a particular &quot;social service&quot; should be offered is next to zero. The end result? Nearly everyone disagrees with some of what government implements, which breeds resentment and causes gridlock much like we&#x27;re seeing today in the U.S.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be that way. By decentralizing decision making down to a level closer to the individual (if not the individual), more people get what they want. For example, right now there&#x27;s a federal mandate for health insurance. Not everyone agrees with this mandate, so why not <i>at least</i> push it down a level to the states? California can still have a mandate for health insurance, and Alabama can decide not to. And then, why not push it to the city&#x2F;county level? If you don&#x27;t agree with San Francisco&#x27;s mandate for health insurance, simply move to Oakland. You don&#x27;t even have to move states, let alone countries.<p>Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the &quot;social services&quot; offered (or not)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the &quot;social services&quot; offered (or not)?<p>Because it creates collective action problems. Countries can exercise their sovereign powers to control commerce and the flow of people so as to reinforce their chosen social welfare systems. If they offer universal healthcare, for example, they can control immigration to manage the burden on their system (and keep out people who only move in when they get sick or to retire). U.S. states are precluded by the Constitution from doing that. Say Marylanders decide to pay higher taxes to support generous social services, and Virginians decide to stick to lower taxes and no service. There is nothing Maryland can do about free-loading Virginians who cross the border as soon as they get sick.[1] Likewise, say Virginia decides to reintroduce child labor, which gives Virginia a competitive advantage in producing cheap consumer goods. There is nothing Maryland can do to stop the flow of trinkets from Virginia undermining good Maryland companies whose prices are higher because they don&#x27;t use child labor.<p>It&#x27;s helpful to view the Constitution&#x27;s Commerce Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause as a two-pronged economic construct. One prong says that the U.S. is a totally free market internally for goods and labor. The other says that the federal government can intervene to address any collective problem actions that creates. To the extent that the provision of social services has knock-on economic effects (and it has major knock-on effects), it comports with the Constitution&#x27;s design for those things to get kicked up to the Federal government.<p>[1] See: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-srv&#x2F;national&#x2F;longterm&#x2F;supcourt&#x2F;stories&#x2F;court051899.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-srv&#x2F;national&#x2F;longterm&#x2F;supco...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hidden Cost of Privatization</title><url>https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-business-of-government</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subverter</author><text>The problem in Keynes thinking on &quot;social services&quot; is that it&#x27;s impossible to gather all of the knowledge necessary to ascertain what those would be. That knowledge is dispersed among ~320m citizens (in the U.S.) who each have particular wants and needs. And even if you could somehow attain that knowledge in one place, the likelihood of finding consensus on how a particular &quot;social service&quot; should be offered is next to zero. The end result? Nearly everyone disagrees with some of what government implements, which breeds resentment and causes gridlock much like we&#x27;re seeing today in the U.S.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be that way. By decentralizing decision making down to a level closer to the individual (if not the individual), more people get what they want. For example, right now there&#x27;s a federal mandate for health insurance. Not everyone agrees with this mandate, so why not <i>at least</i> push it down a level to the states? California can still have a mandate for health insurance, and Alabama can decide not to. And then, why not push it to the city&#x2F;county level? If you don&#x27;t agree with San Francisco&#x27;s mandate for health insurance, simply move to Oakland. You don&#x27;t even have to move states, let alone countries.<p>Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the &quot;social services&quot; offered (or not)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matchbok</author><text>Because if you don&#x27;t mandate insurance, then the entire system falls apart. Sick people need it, healthy people don&#x27;t want to pay for it. You need everyone to pay to make it affordable.</text></comment> |
8,373,939 | 8,373,525 | 1 | 3 | 8,372,329 | train | <story><title>Use Python in Excel without add-ins</title><url>http://xlwings.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattfrommars</author><text>Might be irrevelant but anyone know best source to learn VB macros?</text></item><item><author>pge</author><text>This is fantastic - I am going to start testing it now. I write a fair amount of VB macros, and would much prefer to be able to use Python.<p>And, if they could create a plugin that allowed Libre Office to do the same, they could solve one of the last remaining major interoperability issues with LO and Excel: the inability to run VB macros in LO. That would be huge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Speaking specifically about Excel, the most important thing to learn is the Range object, no matter what book you&#x27;re using:<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838238%28v=office.15%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;library&#x2F;office&#x2F;ff838238%28v=...</a><p>Close behind are Collections and UDTs. The best thing to level up after you&#x27;re comfortable is with &#x27;Implements&#x27; for interfaces.<p>I found that search engines are as good as any book for this stuff. It&#x27;s smeared all over the internet.<p>The <i>best</i> place I know of to get a good understanding is <a href="http://www.cpearson.com/excel/MainPage.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpearson.com&#x2F;excel&#x2F;MainPage.aspx</a>, but it&#x27;s not a tutorial.<p>edit: that&#x27;s what I get for keeping this window open too long:) That&#x27;s 2 votes for cpearson.com.</text></comment> | <story><title>Use Python in Excel without add-ins</title><url>http://xlwings.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattfrommars</author><text>Might be irrevelant but anyone know best source to learn VB macros?</text></item><item><author>pge</author><text>This is fantastic - I am going to start testing it now. I write a fair amount of VB macros, and would much prefer to be able to use Python.<p>And, if they could create a plugin that allowed Libre Office to do the same, they could solve one of the last remaining major interoperability issues with LO and Excel: the inability to run VB macros in LO. That would be huge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>When I had to spend a large amount of intimate time with VBA I used to go to<p><a href="http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Topic.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpearson.com&#x2F;Excel&#x2F;Topic.aspx</a><p><a href="http://www.ozgrid.com/VBA/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ozgrid.com&#x2F;VBA&#x2F;</a><p>Old websites but in my case I dealt with Office &lt;= 2003</text></comment> |
18,688,541 | 18,688,593 | 1 | 2 | 18,673,605 | train | <story><title>The True Cost of Rewrites</title><url>https://8thlight.com/blog/doug-bradbury/2018/11/27/true-cost-rewrites.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>A good rewrite is done bit-by-bit releasing the rewritten work immediately. This forces you to focus on deliverable chunks rather than code-for-code&#x27;s-sake and to test your assumptions instantly. If you do not release your work there is a very large chance that it will all be for nothing.<p>A good rewrite happens so subtly that end-users and operators will never really realize that a rewrite is underway.<p>There are only very rare cases where a rewrite in big-bang fashion is indicated and even then the bulk of those will be incompetence on the part of the tech crew because they see no way to turn the job into an incremental one (or do not want to see a way).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TimJYoung</author><text>This is 100% correct. We&#x27;re in the process of doing this now with our products (and our internal systems, also), and it works well.<p>When you have products and systems that have been around for a decade or more, major portions of them become outdated and need to be rewritten (or largely rewritten, the two are synonymous to me). Best practices in crypto change, operating systems and hardware improve&#x2F;change, etc., and if you want to keep generating value, you had better change along with it. You can see where organizations <i>don&#x27;t</i> do this: the developers force weird constraints on IT like needing to use old, obsolete versions of operating systems because the software won&#x27;t run on newer versions.<p>Along these lines, one of the problems that I think exists with the software industry today is an inability among developers to recognize that software sticks around a lot longer than one might originally envision. And this phenomenon only gets worse (better, for the end user) as the value provided by the software increases. It&#x27;s a bit of a Faustian bargain: everyone wants their software to be used and provide value, but often don&#x27;t realize the &quot;soft commitments&quot; being made in the background that can tie you (or the business) to the code for years (or decades).</text></comment> | <story><title>The True Cost of Rewrites</title><url>https://8thlight.com/blog/doug-bradbury/2018/11/27/true-cost-rewrites.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>A good rewrite is done bit-by-bit releasing the rewritten work immediately. This forces you to focus on deliverable chunks rather than code-for-code&#x27;s-sake and to test your assumptions instantly. If you do not release your work there is a very large chance that it will all be for nothing.<p>A good rewrite happens so subtly that end-users and operators will never really realize that a rewrite is underway.<p>There are only very rare cases where a rewrite in big-bang fashion is indicated and even then the bulk of those will be incompetence on the part of the tech crew because they see no way to turn the job into an incremental one (or do not want to see a way).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>It makes me think of a dual of modular system design, a rewrite should aim at finding or validating minimal interfaces so a subsystem can be rewritten (the goal of modules I believe) at minimal cost and uncertainty.</text></comment> |
30,374,549 | 30,374,456 | 1 | 3 | 30,371,604 | train | <story><title>AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button</title><url>https://www.cyclic.sh/posts/aws-s3-why-sometimes-you-should-press-the-100k-dollar-button</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asim</author><text>The AWS horror stories never cease to amaze me. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re banging our heads against the wall expecting a different outcome each time. What&#x27;s more frustrating, the AWS zealots are quite happy to tell you how you&#x27;re doing it wrong. It&#x27;s the users fault for misusing the service. The reality is, AWS was built for a specific purpose and demographic of user. It&#x27;s now complexity and scale makes it unusable for newer devs. I&#x27;d argue, we need a completely new experience for the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure any sizable group is banging their head against a wall. Yes, AWS is complex. Yes, AWS has cost foot guns. These are natural outcomes of removing friction from scaling.<p>Sure we could start with something simpler, but as you may have noticed, even the more basic hosting providers like DigitalOcean and Linode have been adding S3-compatible object storage because of its proven utility.<p>In terms of making something meaningfully simpler, I think Heroku was the high water mark. But even though it was a great developer experience, the price&#x2F;performance barriers were a lot more intractable than dealing with AWS.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button</title><url>https://www.cyclic.sh/posts/aws-s3-why-sometimes-you-should-press-the-100k-dollar-button</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asim</author><text>The AWS horror stories never cease to amaze me. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re banging our heads against the wall expecting a different outcome each time. What&#x27;s more frustrating, the AWS zealots are quite happy to tell you how you&#x27;re doing it wrong. It&#x27;s the users fault for misusing the service. The reality is, AWS was built for a specific purpose and demographic of user. It&#x27;s now complexity and scale makes it unusable for newer devs. I&#x27;d argue, we need a completely new experience for the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmbyrro</author><text>What do you see missing or not well explained in AWS documentation that newer devs wouldn&#x27;t understand?<p>I started using S3 early in my career and didn&#x27;t see this problem. I always thought in data retention during design phase.<p>My opinion is that lazy, careless or under time pressure developers will not, and then will get bitten. But it would happen to any tool. Maybe a different problem, but they&#x27;ll always get bitten hard ...</text></comment> |
31,482,592 | 31,482,916 | 1 | 2 | 31,481,347 | train | <story><title>Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?</title><url>https://dynomight.net/traitorous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>Almost every serious non-partisan legal scholar agrees that Roe v. Wade is on tenuous legal footing. It&#x27;s purely a logical argument, and it doesn&#x27;t follow very well from the Constitution. We have a very simple mechanism to rectify this: amend the Constitution. But that ship has long sailed, and the problem now is <i>stare decisis</i>†, which complicates things further. So there&#x27;s a very real justification for keeping Roe in spite of its shortcomings. But that&#x27;s neither here nor there.<p>The issue isn&#x27;t that people don&#x27;t understand arguments, it&#x27;s that they misrepresent them. A rational, reasoned, mature, back-and-forth debate on abortion won&#x27;t get you views and clicks, so of course no one does it. <i>Panem et circenses.</i><p>† And of course Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corrral</author><text>The fundamental problem, which isn&#x27;t going to get addressed short of the country falling apart, most likely, is that our particular system of government is <i>a bit shit</i>, and keeps getting worse the better everyone gets at gaming it.<p>Its very shittiness is why we can&#x27;t realistically fix it. We&#x27;ve been relying on courts <i>really</i> stretching reasoning on the constitution to its breaking point, just to be able to have a mostly-modern state &amp; economy, in terms of function and outcomes, and it&#x27;s been like that for most of a century. Maybe it would&#x27;ve been better if the courts hadn&#x27;t done that and had instead forced us to a crisis point much sooner, so we&#x27;d have to actually fix our governmental system, but who knows what suffering that might have caused.<p>Concerted attempts to change the course of the courts might finally bring us that crisis, though. We&#x27;ll see. If they&#x27;re maximally successful, I think it&#x27;ll have to, because the US is gonna go downhill <i>fast</i> if kinda-shaky 20th century rulings supporting broadened federal power are wiped out <i>en masse</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?</title><url>https://dynomight.net/traitorous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>Almost every serious non-partisan legal scholar agrees that Roe v. Wade is on tenuous legal footing. It&#x27;s purely a logical argument, and it doesn&#x27;t follow very well from the Constitution. We have a very simple mechanism to rectify this: amend the Constitution. But that ship has long sailed, and the problem now is <i>stare decisis</i>†, which complicates things further. So there&#x27;s a very real justification for keeping Roe in spite of its shortcomings. But that&#x27;s neither here nor there.<p>The issue isn&#x27;t that people don&#x27;t understand arguments, it&#x27;s that they misrepresent them. A rational, reasoned, mature, back-and-forth debate on abortion won&#x27;t get you views and clicks, so of course no one does it. <i>Panem et circenses.</i><p>† And of course Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swearwolf</author><text>We do have a simple method, in amending the Constitution, but that’s been incredibly difficult to do for pretty much the entire history of the United States. For an issue like this one, it’s basically impossible.<p>The true simple solution would have been to codify the right to an abortion in federal law, as candidate Obama promised to do but President Obama failed to even attempt. Recently I’ve been introduced to the hypothetical that maybe the Democrats didn’t really want to do that because fear mongering about Republicans overturning Roe was such an effective fundraising tool. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.</text></comment> |
10,294,571 | 10,293,358 | 1 | 2 | 10,291,777 | train | <story><title>Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SEJeff</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely not sure why they are trying to compete with the likes of Mesos or Kubernetes, or what they are really trying to achieve here. There is simply no way they&#x27;ll build a community around nomad 1&#x2F;2 as big as either of the aforementioned even if the software is really good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpitman</author><text>This one is interesting to me. I&#x27;ve been a big proponent of Hashicorp&#x27;s other tooling, but this seems like an area that other projects are already addressing (and doing well in). Choice is great, but I think I would have preferred if they joined up with Kubernetes&#x2F;Mesos&#x2F;etc.<p>Also, their messaging seems a little ingenious. Otto talks about how important it is to support microservice development and deployment, but Nomad lists as a con that Kubernetes has too many separately deployed and composed services.<p>PS, I do work for Red Hat, so maybe I&#x27;m a little biased.</text></comment> |
17,493,920 | 17,494,040 | 1 | 2 | 17,493,712 | train | <story><title>Saudi Aramco’s $2T Zombie IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-07/saudi-aramco-s-2-trillion-zombie-ipo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>The Aramco ipo is less urgent after MBS extracted well over 100 billion from his tribal cohort <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hindustantimes.com&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;saudi-arabia-says-it-has-arranged-to-seize-over-100-billion-in-financial-settlements-in-corruption-purge&#x2F;story-VvVp2MxksGSqLXx1thXNdI.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hindustantimes.com&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;saudi-arabia-says-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Saudi Aramco’s $2T Zombie IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-07/saudi-aramco-s-2-trillion-zombie-ipo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>startupdiscuss</author><text>Just to underscore the argument that they want to diversify the economy, about 45B of SoftBank&#x27;s massive fund is from SA&#x27;s Public Investment Fund.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;09&#x2F;how-softbanks-100b-fund-is-in-a-league-all-its-own&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;09&#x2F;how-softbanks-100b-fund-is...</a><p>That&#x27;s a lot of money even for SA. ($100B is a nice round number, approximately equal to the amount they would raise in the IPO, the amount they &quot;extracted&quot; during their corruption drive, and the amount of Softbank&#x27;s total fund.)</text></comment> |
12,323,248 | 12,322,925 | 1 | 2 | 12,321,608 | train | <story><title>'Flash Boys' IEX stock exchange opens for business</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-capital-group-iex-20160815-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>This is the thing when I see wall street, and specifically high frequency trading vilified. Income inequality, the plight of the middle class, etc has almost nothing to do with that kind of financial maneuvering. Getting rid of high speed trading won&#x27;t affect the average person really at all - but yet it&#x27;s constantly vilified.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>If you&#x27;re wondering what IEX becoming a full blown exchange means to you, well it probably doesn&#x27;t matter at all.<p>They have been operating for some time already as an ATS, today they are now part of the RegNMS protected quote, meaning that up until today, brokers did not have to route orders to them.<p>it also allows them to have companies &quot;list&quot; on their exchange, though I don&#x27;t know of any companies that are planning on listing with IEX currently.<p>They bring 4 unique things to the market<p>- their built in delay of 350 micro seconds on each incoming and out going message, ie they delay order&#x27;s coming in and they delay fill notifications going out.<p>- they have a patented dynamic peg algo that will allow a user to place an order that the exchange will dynamically price. This order type was a bit contentious as the exchange doesn&#x27;t delay quote changes when updating these orders, ie these orders are blessed in the sense that they don&#x27;t obey the 350 microsecond delay.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iextrading.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;dpeg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iextrading.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;dpeg&#x2F;</a><p>- they aren&#x27;t currently allowing co-location<p>- they don&#x27;t participate in the maker taker model. They charge, I think, 9 cents on dark orders and nothing for lit orders.<p>Maybe the most interesting thing that IEX has brought to the US market is that the NYSE is now filing to add their own discretionary PEG order.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyse.com&#x2F;network&#x2F;article&#x2F;nyse-order-types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyse.com&#x2F;network&#x2F;article&#x2F;nyse-order-types</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmodahl</author><text>The technology put a lot of people out of work and at the same time eliminated a loophole that wealthy people had to take advantage of the markets.<p>That is a recipe for vilification.<p>Think of the wrath of the unemployed truck and taxi drivers that will be aimed at the evil computer programmers and engineers who perfect self-driving cars and trucks. The headlines will be amazing.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Flash Boys' IEX stock exchange opens for business</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-capital-group-iex-20160815-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>This is the thing when I see wall street, and specifically high frequency trading vilified. Income inequality, the plight of the middle class, etc has almost nothing to do with that kind of financial maneuvering. Getting rid of high speed trading won&#x27;t affect the average person really at all - but yet it&#x27;s constantly vilified.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>If you&#x27;re wondering what IEX becoming a full blown exchange means to you, well it probably doesn&#x27;t matter at all.<p>They have been operating for some time already as an ATS, today they are now part of the RegNMS protected quote, meaning that up until today, brokers did not have to route orders to them.<p>it also allows them to have companies &quot;list&quot; on their exchange, though I don&#x27;t know of any companies that are planning on listing with IEX currently.<p>They bring 4 unique things to the market<p>- their built in delay of 350 micro seconds on each incoming and out going message, ie they delay order&#x27;s coming in and they delay fill notifications going out.<p>- they have a patented dynamic peg algo that will allow a user to place an order that the exchange will dynamically price. This order type was a bit contentious as the exchange doesn&#x27;t delay quote changes when updating these orders, ie these orders are blessed in the sense that they don&#x27;t obey the 350 microsecond delay.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iextrading.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;dpeg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iextrading.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;dpeg&#x2F;</a><p>- they aren&#x27;t currently allowing co-location<p>- they don&#x27;t participate in the maker taker model. They charge, I think, 9 cents on dark orders and nothing for lit orders.<p>Maybe the most interesting thing that IEX has brought to the US market is that the NYSE is now filing to add their own discretionary PEG order.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyse.com&#x2F;network&#x2F;article&#x2F;nyse-order-types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyse.com&#x2F;network&#x2F;article&#x2F;nyse-order-types</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modoc</author><text>As a mostly lay person, for me it&#x27;s vilified because my understanding of it is that HFT has a significant advantage over my own personal trading, and that through this advantage HFTs are able to make &quot;more&quot; profits than would be possible without HFT. My brain tells me that some of these profits are likely at my own trades&#x27; expense, and that while markets and economies rise and fall, my own profits are negatively impacted by HFT.<p>That may not be accurate, but that&#x27;s why I personally feel uncomfortable with HFT.</text></comment> |
7,469,645 | 7,469,753 | 1 | 2 | 7,469,237 | train | <story><title>Oculus Joins Facebook</title><url>http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/oculus-joins-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c0ur7n3y</author><text>Oculus just went from something incredibly amazing that I couldn&#x27;t wait to be a part of to something that I want nothing to do with. I suspect I&#x27;m not alone. Humans are emotional creatures, not always driven by strict rationality. Maybe I&#x27;ll feel differently in a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgrove</author><text>Amen, and I don&#x27;t really know why. I was on the fence about ordering one of the new Crystal Cove based devkits. Now I certainly won&#x27;t. I&#x27;ll wait to see how it shakes out; to see if low latency panels now take a backseat to an onboard camera for that special &quot;social experience&quot;.<p>I guess it&#x27;s because I was excited about the gaming and &quot;new experience&quot; potential, and the hope that a young company full of smart people would excel in that space. Unfortunately, the only association I can muster between gaming and Facebook is the spamfest Farmville. The biggest experience I can think of is the data mining.<p>VR is one of the few upcoming tech changes I can actually see adding &quot;delight&quot; to my computing experience. Alas, I&#x27;ve never experienced any delight with Facebook; at best, I&#x27;ve managed grudging tolerance. I think I&#x27;m sad at the loss of what might have been.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oculus Joins Facebook</title><url>http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/oculus-joins-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c0ur7n3y</author><text>Oculus just went from something incredibly amazing that I couldn&#x27;t wait to be a part of to something that I want nothing to do with. I suspect I&#x27;m not alone. Humans are emotional creatures, not always driven by strict rationality. Maybe I&#x27;ll feel differently in a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cracell</author><text>It is rationale to not trust a company owned by Facebook. Facebook has a horrid record and we have no reason to trust them or anything they own.</text></comment> |
41,751,032 | 41,750,804 | 1 | 2 | 41,749,655 | train | <story><title>Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/popular-gut-probiotic-completely-craps-out-in-randomized-controlled-trial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waihtis</author><text>&gt; my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe<p>Its because a lot of the weird artificial junk that are allowed to be put into your food is illegal in Europe. Even things like popular sweeteners have been shown to have a negative effect on your gut health.</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>There’s two different effects hidden in that statement<p>&gt; living in France<p>I have had similar experience where my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe. I was eating the same foods and somehow it was better.<p>&gt; Eating stinky raw cheeses and different fermented foods<p>Raw and fermented foods in cultures across the world are linked to better gut health. However, industrial fermentation and packaging won’t help you as much because the diversity of microbes drops and packaging often kills most of them. We need to bring back the culture of home fermentation.</text></item><item><author>the_sleaze_</author><text>Best gut related health I ever had was living in France and eating stinky raw cheeses and different fermented foods. Like clockwork.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azinman2</author><text>Europe puts plenty of E numbers in their food (the US just spells it out versus hiding it under a number). There are things illegal in the US that are used in food in Europe. A lot of the time, at least for things like pesticides, the different is country of origin of manufacturer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/popular-gut-probiotic-completely-craps-out-in-randomized-controlled-trial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waihtis</author><text>&gt; my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe<p>Its because a lot of the weird artificial junk that are allowed to be put into your food is illegal in Europe. Even things like popular sweeteners have been shown to have a negative effect on your gut health.</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>There’s two different effects hidden in that statement<p>&gt; living in France<p>I have had similar experience where my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe. I was eating the same foods and somehow it was better.<p>&gt; Eating stinky raw cheeses and different fermented foods<p>Raw and fermented foods in cultures across the world are linked to better gut health. However, industrial fermentation and packaging won’t help you as much because the diversity of microbes drops and packaging often kills most of them. We need to bring back the culture of home fermentation.</text></item><item><author>the_sleaze_</author><text>Best gut related health I ever had was living in France and eating stinky raw cheeses and different fermented foods. Like clockwork.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sroussey</author><text>The preservatives in flour &#x2F; bread &#x2F; etc are illegal in Europe. My sister is allergic and can’t have any bread in the USA. But can in France and Italy.</text></comment> |
3,123,282 | 3,120,858 | 1 | 3 | 3,120,510 | train | <story><title>Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackboard/Moodle </title><url>http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>A free service from Google? Is the source code available or are institutions going to be screwed if/when it gets canned?<p>For those who have forgotten: Code Search, Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Browser Sync, City Tours, Click-to-Call, Google Dashboard Widgets, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Mashup Editor, Google Directory, GOOG-411, Joga Bonito, Aardvark, Lively, Music Trends, Ride Finder, Google Shared Stuff, Sidewiki, FastFlip, Google Translate API, Writely, Google Health, PowerMeter, Google University Search, U.S. Government Search, Slide products (Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, Photovine, Slideshow, SuperPoke! Pets), Google Pack, Image Labeller and Google Dictionary. I'm sure I have missed a few things, but you get the idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wslh</author><text>You missed the Google Search API :-) deprecated twice:<p>- <a href="http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-earned-retirement-for-soap-search.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-earned-retiremen...</a><p>- <a href="http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/11/fall-housekeeping.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/11/fall-houseke...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackboard/Moodle </title><url>http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>A free service from Google? Is the source code available or are institutions going to be screwed if/when it gets canned?<p>For those who have forgotten: Code Search, Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Browser Sync, City Tours, Click-to-Call, Google Dashboard Widgets, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Mashup Editor, Google Directory, GOOG-411, Joga Bonito, Aardvark, Lively, Music Trends, Ride Finder, Google Shared Stuff, Sidewiki, FastFlip, Google Translate API, Writely, Google Health, PowerMeter, Google University Search, U.S. Government Search, Slide products (Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, Photovine, Slideshow, SuperPoke! Pets), Google Pack, Image Labeller and Google Dictionary. I'm sure I have missed a few things, but you get the idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ytNumbers</author><text>The code appears to be open source. You can checkout the code using git as described here:<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/openclass/source/checkout" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/openclass/source/checkout</a></text></comment> |
14,072,196 | 14,067,607 | 1 | 3 | 14,067,003 | train | <story><title>Saltpack – A modern crypto messaging format</title><url>https://saltpack.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnwatson</author><text>This is classic young-person-fails-to-understand-venerable-standard-so-he-reimplements-half-of-it.<p>Messagepack is schemaless and noncanonical. What that means is that a lot of the bounds&#x2F;field checking is pushed up to the application layer. I wouldn&#x27;t encode crypto with that (and I love Messagepack).<p>All the hate for ASN.1, yet it is among the most battle-tested specifications out there. Blaming ASN.1 for the shitty ASN.1 parsers written in the 80&#x27;s and 90&#x27;s is like blaming libsocket for all the network attacks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Saltpack – A modern crypto messaging format</title><url>https://saltpack.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floatboth</author><text>MessagePack should be replaced with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cbor.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cbor.io</a> everywhere, as CBOR is an actual IETF RFC. Even if that kills the naming pun opportunity.</text></comment> |
14,827,985 | 14,827,540 | 1 | 3 | 14,827,182 | train | <story><title>Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-22/japan-pictures-likely-show-melted-fukushima-fuel-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Boothroid</author><text>A common response from defenders of nuclear when concerns are raised is to point to the impact of other energy sources, and say that nuclear is better in those terms. But I just cannot get away from the thought that whilst in aggregate those other forms of energy (fossil fuels, etc) might be provably worse than well managed nuclear within a particular analysis, humanity does not seem capable of this good management of nuclear, and when things do go wrong with fossil fuels they don&#x27;t have the same potential to go quite so spectacularly bad. Yes an oil spill can affect a large area, but you don&#x27;t get harmful particles washing up on the coast of the US from a spill in Japan in the same way, for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-22/japan-pictures-likely-show-melted-fukushima-fuel-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marze</author><text>I still don&#x27;t see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots.<p>A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They&#x27;d need to burn a few holes, but none of the reactor vessels are intact so that wouldn&#x27;t allow additional radioactive material to escape.<p>I&#x27;m surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn&#x27;t made more news.</text></comment> |
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